John Boyd Dunlop

John Boyd Dunlop

male, deceased (1921)
John Boyd Dunlop (February 5, 1840 - October 23, 1921), born in Scotland, was inventor who founded the rubber company that bears his name, Dunlop...

David Hanson

male
David Hanson is an American robotics designer and researcher, resposible for the creation of a series realistic humanoid robots.

Robert William Thomson

male, deceased (1873)
Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) was the Scottish inventor of the pneumatic tyre. Born in Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Robert was the eleventh of...
Henry Mill

Henry Mill

male, deceased (1771)
Henry Mill (c. 1683 - 1771) was a British inventor who patented the first typewriter in 1714.
Frederick McKinley Jones

Frederick McKinley Jones

male, deceased (1961)
Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1892 - February 21, 1961) was an African-American inventor who patented several products in the field of...
Theobald Boehm

Theobald Boehm

male, deceased (1881)
Theobald Boehm (April 9, 1794- November 25, 1881) was a Bavarian inventor and musician, who perfected the modern flute and its improved fingering...

William Church

male, deceased (1863)
William Church (circa 1778 - 1863) was an American inventor who patented a typesetting machine in 1822, generally considered the first. While...
Humphrey Gainsborough

Humphrey Gainsborough

male, deceased (1776)
Humphrey Gainsborough, a non-conformist minister, engineer and inventor. Humphrey Gainsborough was pastor to the Independent Church in...
Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel

Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel

male, deceased (1826)
Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel was the inventor of the first successful metronome. Winkel was born in Amsterdam, and in 1812, while experimenting with...
Anatol Josepho

Anatol Josepho

male
Anatol M. Josepho (1894-?) was a socialist Siberian immigrant to the United States of America, who in 1925 invented and patented the photo booth....