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Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor of the piano. The first appearance of the piano It was thought for some time that the earlier mention of the piano is from a diary of Francesco...

Bette Claire Graham (23 March 1924 – 12 May 1980) was an American typist, commercial artist, the inventor of Liquid Paper, and mother of musician and producer Michael Nesmith. Graham was born Bette Claire McMurray in Dallas, Texas to Jesse McMurray, an automotive supply company manager, and...

  Cai Lun (ca. 50 AD  121), courtesy name Jingzhong , was a Chinese eunuch. He is traditionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper (as opposed to Egyptian papyrus). Although paper existed in China before Cai Lun (since...

Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Armstrong was the inventor of modern frequency modulation (FM) radio. Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in New York City, New York, in 1890. He studied at Columbia University and later...

Ernest Beaux (December 8, 1881 – June 9, 1961), was a Russian and French perfumer best known for creating Chanel No. 5, perhaps the world’s most famous perfume. Joseph Robert was the chief perfumer at Chiris and since there were little prospects of promotion for Beaux, he tried to use his...

Hovhannes (Ivan) Abgari Adamian ( 5 February 1879, Baku – 12 September 1932, Leningrad) was an Armenian engineer, an author of more than 20 inventions. The first experimental color television was shown in London in 1928 based on Adamian’s tricolor principle, and he is recognized as one of...

Josephine Cochrane ( March 8, 1839, Ashtabula County, Ohio – August 3, 1913) made the first practical mechanical dishwasher in 1886, in Shelbyville, Illinois., although a washing machine device was patented in 1850 by Joel Houghton (see Dishwasher, History). Mrs. Cochrane was a rich woman...

László József Bíró (Hungarian: Bíró László József; Spanish: Ladislao José Biro) (September 29, 1899 – November 24, 1985) was the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen. Bíró (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbiːroː]) was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1899....

Mary Anderson (1866–1953) was a real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor of the windshield wiper blade. In November 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled inside the car, called the windshield wiper. In a visit to...

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Neil Arnott (b. Arbroath, May 15, 1788; d. March 2, 1874 in London) was a Scottish physician. Neil Arnott FRS was a distinguished graduate of Marischal College, University of Aberdeen (AM, 1805; MD 1814) and subsequently learned in London under Sir Everard Home (1756-1832), through whom he obtained,...

Nicolas Appert (17 November 1749 Châlons-en-Champagne, Marne– 1 June 1841 Massy), was the French inventor of airtight food preservation. Appert, known as the “father of canning”, was a confectioner. He was a confectioner and chef in Paris from 1784 to 1795. In 1795, he began experimenting...

Nils Ivar Bohlin (July 17, 1920 – September 26, 2002) was a Swedish inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo. Born in Härnösand, Sweden, he received a diploma in mechanical engineering from Härnösand Läroverk in 1939. In 1942 he started working...

Prof. Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS (born 9 January 1950 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity...

Ralph H. Baer (born March 8, 1922) is an American video game pioneer, inventor, engineer, known as “The Father of Video Games”,who is noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry. In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology for inventing the home console...

Robert Adler (December 4, 1913 – February 15, 2007) was an Austrian-born American inventor who held numerous patents. The invention Adler is best known for is the wireless remote control for televisions. While not the first remote control, its underlying technology was a vast improvement over...