Famous Inventors

 JOHN BARDEEN, American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics , The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of convectional superconductivity known as the BCS theory. The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry, allowing... » more details

STEPHANIE KWOLEK, American chemist who discovered poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide—better known as Kevlar 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 from Margaret Morrison Carnegie College (the coordinate women's college for Carnegie Mellon University) in 1946 with a B.S. in General Science (Chemistry).  She originally hoped to go to medical school. However, she lacked the money and instead took a job as a research chemist with DuPont in 1946, specializing in low-temperature... » more details

CAI LUN, the inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper 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 modern times as paper (as opposed to Egyptian papyrus). Although paper existed in China before Cai Lun (since the 2nd century BC), he was responsible for the first significant improvement and standardization of papermaking by adding essential new materials into its composition.  Life Cai Lun... » 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 15 years old. Born by a large family of prosperous farmers and small shopkeepers in the small town of Valcourt, not too far from Sherbrooke, southeast of Montreal in the province of Quebec. Bombardier's brothers were later to help him out in several aspects of running what would eventually become a large mechanical engineering concern, leaving him free to concentrate on... » more details

LOUIS BRAILLE,Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them. Louis Braille Born January 4, 1809(1809-01-04) Coupvray, France Died January 6, 1852 (aged 43) Paris, France Burial place Panthéon, Paris 48°50′46″N 2°20′45″E / 48.84611, 2.34583 Louis Braille (pronounced  in English, in French; 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 is read by passing the fingers over characters made up of an arrangement... » more details