Inventor
264 famous people found
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Joseph SAXTON
American inventor
1799 - 1873 -
George Washington Gale FERRIS
American engineer
1859 - 1896 -
Jean Baptiste ESTIENNE
French general of artillery and a specialist in military engineering
1860 - 1936 -
Paul HEROULT
French scientist
1863 - 1914 -
Elias HOWE
American inventor and sewing machine pioneer
1819 - 1867 -
H. B. REESE
American inventor known for creating Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and founding the H. B. Reese Candy Company
1879 - 1956 -
Benoit FOURNEYRON
French engineer
1802 - 1867 -
Franklin Leonard POPE
American engineer, explorer, and inventor
1840 - 1895 -
Douglas SHEARER
Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director
1899 - 1971 -
Will Keith KELLOGG
American industrialist in food manufacturing, best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company
1860 - 1951 -
Buckminster FULLER
American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist
1895 - 1983 -
Harvey Samuel FIRESTONE
American businessman, and the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
1868 - 1938 -
Geoffrey DE HAVILLAND
British aviation pioneer and aircraft engineer
1882 - 1965 -
Lee DEFOREST
American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit
1873 - 1961 -
Robert ESNAULT-PELTERIE
Pioneering French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist
1881 - 1957 -
Gail BORDEN
American inventor, surveyor, and publisher, and the inventor of condensed milk in 1853
1801 - 1874 -
Henri CHAPRON
French automobile coachbuilder
1886 - 1978 -
Pierre Marie Jérôme TRESAGUET
French engineer
1717 - 1796 -
Philippe DE GIRARD
French engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame
1775 - 1845 -
Edouard BELIN
Invented a phototelegraphic apparatus called the Bélinographe, a system for sending photographs over telephone and telegraphic networks
1876 - 1963