Famous Inventors and New Inventors

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. He soon founded the American...

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 courtesy of the...

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. He...

James 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 under the...

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 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...