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Who Was Reynold Johnson? Born in 1906, Reynold Johnson was a remarkable American inventor, one of IBM’s most prolific inventors, […]
The first man who was flashed upon to use electricity for calculation purposes, was probably a German mechanic, showman, […]
James White Much of the scarce information, available about the life of James White, a civil engineer and author of […]
On 6 November 1894, Horace David Hicks, an employee of Brown’s Lumber Company, Whitefield, New Hampshire, USA, got a […]
Konrad Zuse Konrad Zuse was born on 22 June 1910, in Berlin (Wilmersdorf), the capital of Germany, in the family […]
Alessandro Volta Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was born was born in Como, Lombardy, duchy of Milan, on 18 […]
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo Leonardo Torres y Quevedo was born on 28 December 1852, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, […]
Who Was George Stibitz George Stibitz was an American inventor and computer pioneer. He is best known for his time […]
Who was Ramon Verea? Ramón Silvestre Verea Aguiar y García was a Spanish-born Hispanic inventor and author. Early Life Born December 11th, 1833, […]
Who was Leonard Stowe? Leonard Stowe was born on March 11, 1837, in Trolly Hall. This is a large townhouse […]
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: Who was Shohe Tanaka Tanaka Shohe was a Japanese scientist, music theorist, and inventor who lived from May 15, […]
Charles Stanhope The British statesman and versatile scientist Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope and Viscount Mahon, was born in London […]
Chaim Zelig Slonimski Chaim Zelig Slonimski (also known by many name variations through Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, and the Russian version […]
Who was Eduard Selling Eduard Selling was a German mathematician and an inventor of calculating machines. Early life Eduard Selling was born […]
Who Was Pehr-Georg Scheutz? Pehr-Georg Scheutz, born on September 23, 1785, was a Swedish inventor, translator, and lawyer, popularly known […]
Few know of James Ritty, but he is a man who has influenced the life of virtually everyone who […]
David Roth The Austrian Jew David Roth was born in 1808 in Cassovia (now Košice in Slovakia, but then it […]
Who Was Jean-Baptiste Schwilgue? Born Jean-Baptiste Sosime Schwilgue in December 1776, Jean-Baptiste Schwilgue was the original architect of the third […]
Wilhelm Schickard Early Life Wilhelm Schickard (see the calculating machine of Schickard) was born in the morning at half past seven […]
Giovanni Poleni Giovanni Poleni was born on 23 August, 1683, in Venice, Italy, to Jacopo (Giacomo) Poleni (1655-1737) and Elisabetta […]
Fawcett Plumb was born on 10 December 1834, in Andover, Ohio, to Frances Merrill Plumb (1806-1899) and Laura Mary Hyde […]
Following a period spent at the University of Erlangen studying theology, Johann Reichold left to work as a private […]
Charles Felton Pidgin Charles Felton Pidgin was born on 11 November 1844, in a house in Felton Place at Boston Highlands, […]
Who Was Solomon Pool? Solomon Pool was a famous educator, the University of North Carolina’s fourth president, and clergyman. His […]
Jacob-Rodrigues Pereira Jacob-Rodrigues Pereira, better known as Pereire, was born in Berlanga, Extremadura, Spain (or in Peniche, Portugal, according to […]
Claude Perrault Claude Perrault (see the calculating machine of Perrault) was born in Paris on 25 September 1613, in the […]
Who Was Blaise Pascal? Blaise Pascal was a famous French mathematician and philosopher. As a converter to Christianity, Pascal’s beliefs […]
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La Verne Noyes La Verne W. Noyes was born on 7 January 1849, in Genoa, New York, in the house […]
Who Was Maxwell Newman? Originally called Hermann Alexander Neumann before applying for a change of surname, Maxwell Newman was a […]
Who Was Robert Noyce? Robert Noyce was an American inventor, engineer, and businessman. He made a massive impact on the […]
Who Was John Ballou Newbrough? John Ballou Newbrough is a 33rd-degree Mason, vegetarian, and an avid student of the world’s […]
John Napier John Napier (John Napier frequently signed his name “Jhone Neper, Fear of Merchiston”, but later on we can […]
Johann Helfrich von Muller Johann Helfrich von Müller was born in Cleve (a town in the northwest of North Rhine-Westphalia […]
Who Was John Mauchly? John William Mauchly was an American physicist who designed the ENIAC. ENIAC is popularly regarded as […]
Who was Samuel Morland? Samuel Morland was an English academic, inventor, mathematician, diplomat, and spy. He lived in the 17th […]
Fabrizio Mordente Fabrizio Mordente Fabrizio Mordente was born in 1532 in Salerno, a town in Campania (southwestern Italy). Until 1552 he studied […]
Who Was Newman Marshman? Newman Marshman was the inventor of the modern typewriter. As an African-American inventor, Marshman’s achievement is […]
Some people learn to develop skills as inventors, scientists, mathematicians, or mechanical engineers over years of schooling and training. […]
Leonardo da Vinci The Uomo Universale of the Italian Renaissance and possibly the most brilliantly creative man in European history—Leonardo […]
Athanasius Kircher The Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher was an authentic scientific superstar in his time, honored with the title “master […]
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: Charles Labofish It seems Charles Schachan Labofish was from a German Jewish family, but he was born in Odessa, Russian […]
: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr Baron von Leibniz (the inventor of the Stepped Reckoner and a dreamer for a […]
: Heinrich Kummer The information for Kummer in Russian sources is very scanty. It is mentioned only that he was a […]
Wolfgang von Kempelen What is behind the person, who created two hotly debated technical sensations from the late XVIII century — […]
: William Hopkins William Wallace Hopkins was born on 16 November 1850, in Boone County, Indiana, USA, to Albert Hopkins (1818-1905) […]
: Who was Jack Kilby? Jack Kilby, an engineer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for physics (along with Robert Noyce) […]
: Lewis Montgomery Hosea Lewis Montgomery Hosea was born on 16 December 1842, in Montgomery, Alabama, to Robert Hosea (1811-1906), a […]
: Who was Karel Čapek? Karel Čapek was a critic, playwright, and novelist who wrote science fiction before it was officially a […]
: Who was Thomas Hill? Thomas Hill was an inventor, clergyman, scientist, educator, and university professor. From the halls of Harvard […]
: Henry Alonzo House Henry Alonzo House was a prolific American inventor and businessman who developed machinery and processes that have […]
