FAMOUS INVENTORS AND NEW INVENTORS

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton is considered to be one of the greatest minds of all time. His achievements spanned across many fields including physics, optics, chemistry, mathematics and philosophy. His findings contributed towards the laws of calculus, motion, gravitational theory and theories of colour – all theories which are used extensively in the modern world. Newton was born on January 4th, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was introduced to the farming industry at an early age 

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur was born on 27 December 1822 in Dole in the Jura region of France. His father was a tanner. In 1847, he earned a doctorate from the École Normale in Paris. After several years research and teaching in Dijon and Strasbourg, in 1854, Pasteur was appointed professor of chemistry at the University of Lille. Part of the remit of the faculty of sciences was to find solutions to the practical problems of local industries, particularly the manufacture of alcoholic drinks. 

Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on December 8th, 1765. Throughout his spell at Yale University he worked on making and repairing machines to fund his own education. Graduating in 1792, he traveled to Savannah, Georgia, planning to study law and also to teach. Whitney met Phineas Miller, who managed a plantation owned by the widow of American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. Whitney was offered employment by Catherine Greene to battle various mechanical issues.

Heinrich Hertz

Heinrich Hertz was at the heart of many technological developments stemming from his theory that electricity could be transmitted in electromagnetic waves. This made possible the inventions of radio, television and radar. Hertz elaborated on the idea first put forward by Maxwell by describing the electromagnetic theory of light, and demonstrating this in practice using a set of apparatus which produced and detected VHF / UHF radio waves. Hertz had the honour of having his name associated.

Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was born on 15th February, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. Famous for his role in the fields of astronomy and physics, it was his father, Vincenzo, who encouraged his son to become a doctor. At 17 years of age, Galileo began his medicine studies at the University of Pisa, where so soon realised that he had a talent for mathematics. He convinced his father to let him leave the university to become a tutor in mathematics, before becoming a professor in the field. 

Albert Einstein

Born in Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany on March 14th 1879, Albert Einstein and his family soon moved to Munich where Einstein started his education - at the Luitpold Gymnasium. He continued his education in Aarau, Switzerland before entering the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich where he trained to become a teacher in the fields of physics and mathematics. At the turn of the century he earned his diploma, and obtained Swiss citizenship, but failed to find a teaching position

Tim Berners Lee

Tim Berners Lee has invented something which affects us all on a daily basis, and something which we take for granted, despite being a relatively new concept. Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web. Born on June 8th, 1955 in London, England, Tim was the child of two computer-mad parents, who both met whilst working on a computer to be commercially sold for the first time. This passion rubbed off on Tim as he matured, encouraging him to think logically and innovatively. 

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver was an American in nationality. He was loyal entire his life for exploring the developments linked mainly to the cultivating pattern of the southern most regions. The crops he obtained initially modernized the financial system of the South. The invigorating reliance by discovering cottonseeds from soybean, peanuts and other ground seeds was a history created in the South. George Washington Carver strategized the technique of rotating crops on the field 

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg was born in the year 1398. He was a German goldsmith. He is the first European to have used movable type printing and also the inventor of the first mechanical printing press. His book, the Gutenberg Bible was one of the most popular books of all times. Gutenberg invented a mass-producing movable type. He used an oil-based ink and a wooden printing press that was much similar to the wine presses of that period. By combining all these elements, he introduced a very...

Henry Ford

Born in Greenfield, Michigan on the 30th July, 1863, Henry Ford began his historic life journey. Leaving school at 15, he worked on his father's farm, before moving to Detroit in 1879 becoming an apprentice in a machinery shop. Despite a poor salary, he managed to compensate by fixing clocks and watches in his spare time during most evenings. His father offered him 40 acres of land back in Greenfield, which enticed Ford back to the farming world. 

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage born in 1791. He originally belonged to England, from a small place called Teignmouth. Charles Babbage was famous in inventing calculators. He completed his high school from Cambridge. Almost all his life was used up to plan different machines that could be helpful for calculating. He was the first to formulate logarithmic tables. This achievement encouraged him to manufacture a much more advanced instrument. The contribution of Charles Babbage to Britain is remarkable. 

Wright Brothers

Early age man had invented numerous things. Today, the invention has reached a new level. Fire, food, clothes and many other necessities were prepared for living a better life. Many great scientists and inventors have made it easier for us to get new inventions, which are efficient for our use. The invention of plane has contributed a lot towards comfort for ourselves. The Wright brothers had invented airplane and created history. 

Marie Curie

Marie Sklodowska Curie, is a winner of noble prize in physics and chemistry. The world knows Madam Curie for her contribution in the field of science. She along with her husband Pierre Curie discovered two elements - Radium and Polonium. They also discovered that the X-rays generated from new discovered elements also had the strength to destroy the tumors. This discovery turned out to be very useful in the field of medical science. 

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, (1706 - 1970), was a newspaperman, scientist, philosopher, inventor and diplomat. Growing up in Boston, Franklin began an apprenticeship with his brother James in the newspaper field, and soon began to offer essays to the newspaper under a variety of aliases. When he was 17, Franklin moved to Philadelphia to launch his very own newspaper named the Pennsylvania Gazette. This newspaper became the most successful newspaper in the region. 

Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith was a German-American statistician who lived from February 29, 1860 until November 17, 1929. The founder of IBM, Hollerith developed a mechanical tabulator which worked using punched cards, allowing a quick tabulation of statistics from millions of amounts of data. Hollerith spent his childhood in his birth town, Buffalo, New York. In 1875 he enlisted at the City College of New York and soon after graduated with an Engineer of Mines degree in 1879 

John Logie Baird

Watching television is something that we all take for granted. In fact in the last 15 years televisions have changed dramatically in shape and size and are due to change even more this year with the release 3D television sets. However this is all thanks to one man – John Logie Baird. Baird was a Scottish engineer born in August 1888 who invented the very first working television system. He was born in Argyll, Scotland educated at the Larchfield School before going onto college.

James WattJames Watt, born in 1736 in Greenock, Scotland was a thin child with a passion for mathematics. He also learned carpentry from his father in his early years. His father predominantly worked in shipbuilding and he taught James about quadrants, compasses and telescopes and various other equipment which could be found on ships. From this knowledge, stemmed the desire to become an instrument maker. In 1754, Watt travelled to Glasgow, Scotland to undertake specialist training .

Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor (February 11th, 1847 - October 18th, 1931) who invented the phonograph, motion picture camera, and most famously a practical, durable light bulb. Given the title of The Wizard if Menlo Park, by one newspaper, he was among the first of inventors who included, and made use of a large team in the invention process. Edison has also been commonly recognized as the creator of the first industrial research

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell first invented the telephone at the age of 29, in 1877. The following year, the Bell Telephone Company was established, during which time he married Mabel Hubbard and setting off on a honeymoon across Europe for an entire year. Alexander Graham Bell's fame is attached to the success of the telephone, but in fact bell embarked upon several other projects. He remained an ambitious and creative man throughout his life, during which he would continue to learn, create