Elias Howe

Elias Howe

male, deceased (1867)
buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Green-Wood Cemetery, United States Civil War, spencer, Royalties, patent
Elias Howe was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer. He was born in Spencer, Massachusetts. Contrary to popular belief, he did not...

Ronald A. Katz

male
inventor, patent, American, Call Center, invention
Ronald A. Katz (born in 1935 or 1936) is an inventor and president of Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing LP. His inventions are primarily in the...

John Wright

male
inventor, surgeon, patent, electroplating, surgery, From Birmingham, England
John Wright was a surgeon from Birmingham, England who invented a process of electroplating involving potassium cyanide. The process was patented...

Thomas Johnson

male
industry, inventor, patent, industrial revolution, textile, English
Thomas Johnson was the mechanic of William Radcliffe. Radcliffe was an English inventor who created the dressing frame-one of the key technological...

David Levy

male
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, American, inventor, patent, manhattan beach, MIT
David Levy - inventor with over a dozen patents, he also served as "Inventor in Residence" to Arthur D. Little Consulting. He received his B.S.,...
James Young

James Young

male, deceased (1883)
Boghead, cannel coal, paraffin wax, paraffin oil, patent, shale
James Young, a Scottish chemist, was born in Glasgow, the son of a joiner and carpenter. At the age of 19 he began to attend evening classes at the...
Bruce Lehman

Bruce Lehman

male, 64 years old
library of congress, United States Department of Commerce, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, trademark, Copyright activist, intellectual property law…patent, patent law
Bruce A. Lehman (born September 19, 1945) served from August 5, 1993 through 1998 as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of...
Samuel Hopkins

Samuel Hopkins

male, deceased (1803)
United States Secretary of War, quaker, Pearlash, Pearl ash, Steve Simpleton, potash…United States Patent and Trademark Office, patent, patent office
Samuel Hopkins was an American inventor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On July 31, 1790 he was granted the first U.S. patent, under the new U.S....
Artur Fischer

Artur Fischer

male, 90 years old
ARTUR FISCHER Inventorprice, German, inventor, black forest, patent, Fischertechnik
Artur Fischer (born 1919 in Tumlingen, Black Forest Germany) is an inventor. He has 1080 patents and invented fischertechnik.
Gordon Gould

Gordon Gould

male, deceased (2005)
laser, patent, Columbia University alumni, Yale University alumni, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Sigma Chi brother…United States Patent and Trademark Office
Gordon Gould was an American physicist who is widely (but not universally) credited as the inventor of the laser. He is best known for his...