Trevor G. Baylis (born May 13, 1937 in Kilburn, London) is an English inventor. He is best known for inventing a wind-up radio. Rather than using batteries or external electrical… » more details

Stephanie Kwolek (born July 31, 1923) is an American chemist who discovered poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide—better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania She graduated… » more details

Karl Friedrich Benz (November 25, 1844, Karlsruhe, Germany – April 4, 1929, Ladenburg, Germany) was a German engine designer and automobile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered… » more details

Cai Lun (ca. 50 AD–121), courtesy name Jingzhong (¾´ÖÙ), was a Chinese eunuch, who is conventionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in… » more details

Johannes  Gutenberg (c. 1400 – February 3, 1468) was a German goldsmith and printer who is credited with inventing movable type printing in Europe around 1439, and mechanical printing globally.… » more details

Archimedes of Syracuse  (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded… » more details

Marvin Camras (1916-1995) was an electrical engineer and inventor who was widely influential in the field of magnetic recording. Camras built his first recording device, a wire recorder, in the… » more details

Joseph-Armand Bombardier (April 16, 1907 - February 18, 1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman, and was the founder of Bombardier. He made his first snowmobile prototype when he was… » more details

Louis Braille ( January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor of braille, a world-wide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. Braille… » more details

Sir James Dewar  (September 20, 1842 – March 27, 1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is probably best-known today for his invention of the Dewar flask, which he… » more details