James Gosling

James Gosling

male, 54 years old (California, United States)
Sun Microsystems, java programming language, computer scientist, Emacs user, Java, Officer of the Order of Canada…inventor
James Gosling is a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several...
Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor

male, deceased (1979)
physicist, 1900-1979, Futurologist, FRS, Nobel Prize in Physics, Fellow of the Royal Society…inventor, Inventor of holography
Dennis Gabor, FRS, (June 5, 1900, Budapest - February 9, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist and inventor, most notable for inventing...
Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse

male, deceased (1995)
computer, deutsches museum, z3, civil engineer, algorithmic, algol…inventor
Konrad Zuse was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the completion of the first functional program-controlled...
Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick

male, deceased (1833)
steam engines, Dartford, British, cornish, mineral, steam locomotive…inventor, prolific inventor
Richard Trevithick was a British inventor, engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive. He was born at Tregajorran (in the...
Adolphe Sax

Adolphe Sax

male, deceased (1894)
musician, Clarinetist, Antoine-Joseph 'Adolphe' Sax, saxophone, saxon, belgian…inventor
Antoine-Joseph 'Adolphe' Sax (November 6, 1814 - February 4, 1894) was a Belgian musical instrument designer and musician (clarinetist), best known...
Elijah McCoy

Elijah McCoy

male, deceased (1929)
ypsilanti, Afro-Canadian, Michigan Central Railroad, railroads, Black Canadian, locomotive…inventor
Elijah J. McCoy(May 2 1843 - October 10, 1929) was a Afro-Canadian inventor. McCoy had wanted to work as an engineer but was repeatedly frustrated...

Robert Cade

male
University of Florida faculty, University of Florida, Dr. James Robert Cade, From Gainesville, Florida, Gatorade, American…inventor
Dr. James Robert Cade (born 1927) is a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Florida who invented Gatorade. Dr. Cade patented...
Leon Scott

Leon Scott

male, deceased (1879)
librarian, inventor, French, Printer, phonograph, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville
Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville (1817 - April 26, 1879) was a French printer, librarian, and bookseller who lived in Paris. He invented the...
Cyrus McCormick

Cyrus McCormick

male, deceased (1884)
buried at Graceland Cemetery, Cyrus Hall McCormick, leander, inventor, National Inventors Hall of Fame, william
Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15 1809 - May 13 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which...
John Stevens

John Stevens

male, deceased (1838)
Columbia University, Phoenix, Hoboken, from New York City, inventor, Columbia University alumni
Col. John Stevens, III (1749 - March 6 1838) was an American lawyer, engineer, and an inventor. Born in New York, New York, the son of John Stevens...