252 people found
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John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman
Alexander Graham Bell
Scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
Antonio Meucci
An Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi
Leander J. McCormick
American businessman and philanthropist
Sam Loyd
American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician
Charles Grafton Page
American scientist
John Ernst Worrell Keely
American inventor
Ambrose Burnside
Soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, United States
P. G. T. Beauregard
Confederate Army general
Hiram Stevens Maxim
American-born British inventor
Cyrus McCormick
Inventor, businessman
Samuel Colt
American inventor and industrialist
Gail Borden
U.S. inventor, surveyor, and publisher, and was the inventor of condensed milk
David Edward Hughes
Welsh-American scientist and musician
Gottfried Schloemer
American coopersmith, mechanical engineer, and inventor
George Westinghouse
19th century American inventor and businessman
Isaac Singer
American businessman, inventor of the Singer sewing machine
Zeth (Seth) Wheeler
American entrepreneur and inventor
Isaac Adams Jr.
American inventor
William Edenborn
American businessman
Birdsill Holly
American inventor
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian
Octave Chanute
French-American aviation pioneer
Stephen Decatur Engle
American inventor
George Crompton
American inventor
John Stevens
American miller and inventor in wisconsin
Elias Howe
American inventor
Joshua Rose
American engineer/engineering journalist/early American writer on management
Nels Johnson
American clockmaker
Robert Benjamin Lewis
American author and inventor
Charles Goodyear
American inventor
Henry Alonzo House
American businessman
Albon Man
Nineteenth century American lawyer and inventor
Seth Green
American businessman and pioneer in fish farming
Christopher Latham Sholes
American politician
John A. Dahlgren
United States Navy admiral
Isaac Dripps
American machinist and inventor
Thomas Jackson Rodman
American artillerist, inventor, ordnance specialist, and career United States Army officer
Whitcomb L. Judson
American machine salesman, mechanical engineer and inventor