Inventors

Technology

Thomas Edison

Prolific American inventor of the phonograph, practical light bulb and motion-picture camera

1847 – 1931

Science

Nikola Tesla

Serbian-American inventor of the alternating-current induction motor

1856 – 1943

Technology

Samuel Morse

Painter turned inventor who developed the electric telegraph and Morse code

1791 – 1872

Science

Alexander Graham Bell

Scottish-born inventor credited with the first practical telephone

1847 – 1922

Technology

Lee de Forest

Inventor of the Audion triode vacuum tube

1873 – 1961

Technology

Joseph Engelberger

“Father of robotics” who co-created the first industrial robot

1925 – 2015

Technology

John Logie Baird

Scottish inventor who gave the first public demonstration of television

1888 – 1946

Technology

Vladimir Zworykin

Russian-American engineer who developed electronic television at RCA

1888 – 1982

Technology

Rudolf Diesel

German engineer who invented the diesel engine

1858 – 1913

Technology

Ralph Baer

German-American inventor of the first home video-game console

1922 – 2014

Technology

Philo Farnsworth

Farm boy who invented the first fully electronic television system

1906 – 1971

Technology

James Dyson

British inventor of the bagless cyclonic vacuum cleaner and founder of Dyson

Born 1947

Technology

Dean Kamen

Inventor of the Segway and founder of the FIRST robotics competition

Born 1951

Technology

Edwin Howard Armstrong

Inventor of FM radio and the superheterodyne receiver

1890 – 1954