Charles Goodyear

Charles Goodyear

male, deceased (1860)
Charles Spencer Goodyear (December 29, 1800 - July 1, 1860) was the first American to vulcanize rubber, a process which he discovered in 1839 and...
Martin Cooper

Martin Cooper

male, 81 years old
Dr. Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928 in Chicago) is considered the inventor of the cell phone. Cooper is the CEO and founder of ArrayComm, a...

James

male, deceased (2001)
James M. Scott (1911 - 2001), an author, inventor, and Senior Olympian, was born in Wisdom, Missouri, on May 28, 1911, to James Baker Scott and...
Chester Carlson

Chester Carlson

male, deceased (1968)
Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 - September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington....
Alessandro Volta

Alessandro Volta

male, deceased (1827)
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (February 18, 1745 - March 5, 1827) was an Italian physicist known especially for the development...
Antonio Meucci

Antonio Meucci

male, deceased (1896)
Antonio Meucci (April 13, 1808-October 18, 1889) was an Italian inventor. He developed some form of voice communication apparatus in 1857. Antonio...
John Harrison

John Harrison

male, deceased (1776)
John Harrison was an English clockmaker who revolutionised and extended the possibility of safe long distance sea travel in the Age of Sail by...

David Brooks

male
David Brooks was an Philadelphia, Pennsylvania inventor, remembered for an innovative insulator for telegraph lines in 1864 and 1867. He patented...
Ward Cunningham

Ward Cunningham

male, 60 years old
Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is the American computer programmer who invented the wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and...
Elias Howe

Elias Howe

male, deceased (1867)
Elias Howe was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer. He was born in Spencer, Massachusetts. Contrary to popular belief, he did not...