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10 Most Famous Inventors of all Times


 

Inventing is the act of coming up with something that has never been seen before. The invention process involves engineering and more product development.

According to history, the first invention in human technology was the stone tools which were done by evolving human beings about 2.6 million years ago.

The universe is currently working efficiently in all areas, from manual work to machinery work. There have been developments day after day.

The inventions that have been done since 200 AD, have been undergoing improvements to be made better.

Some countries like Russia and the United States have made it to the space for astronomical studies. The ideas initially came from the inventors who realized that there are more bodies in space other than Earth.

Some of the greatest inventions in the last 1000 years are inclusive of engineering fields like printing machines, physics fields like electric light and automobiles, biological inventions like coming up with medicines to cure diseases, among others.

All that the world is enjoying each and every day is what the inventors brought to life, ranging from technology to mechanics.

The following is a list of the most famous inventors of all time who were behind the development of various products of different fields.

1. Thomas Alva Edison

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Edison was an American inventor who was active in the 1800s and 1900. He was born on the 11th of February, 1847, and died on the 18th of October, 1931.

Edison can be granted a title of contributing to the best part of the current modern technology for he was the man behind inventions like the incandescent light bulb.

Other inventions were the phonograph, the motion picture camera as well as helping improve the telegraph and telephones. We live Thomas A. Edison’s invention as we require all that he invented in our day-to-day lives.  

2. Archimedes of Syracuse

Archimedes of Syracuse, Italy was born in 287 BC and died in 212 BC at about 75 years of age. He was and is well known for being a physicist, mathematician, engineering, and astronomer.

Many of us will recall Archimedes due to his scientific inventions in physics more so the Archimedes principle, areas of a circle, and the Archimedes palimpsest. He remains to be the greatest scientist of his time.

3. Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin was born on the 17th of January, 1706 in Massachusetts, the United States of America, and died on the 17th of April 1790 in Pennsylvania.   He is also referred to as the founding father of the United States.

A writer, scientist, printer, publisher, statesman, diplomat, political philosopher, and inventor. Amongst his inventions, he came up with swimming fins, Pennsylvania stove, lightning rod, flexible catheter, bifocals, and others.

The contribution he made towards improving the 24 hours three-wheel clock by making it simpler than the other designs.

In appreciation, Benjamin was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and the Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) awards.

4. Alexander Flemings

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Alexander Flemings was born in the United Kingdom, Darvel, on the 6th of august, 1881, and later died on the 11th of March, 1995 in London.

He was a Scottish physician and a microbiologist. Flemings was the man behind the invention of penicillin, which later led to the discovery of antibiotics that helped deaths reduction from infectious diseases.

He once said that the unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity. His body was laid in St. Paul’s cathedral in London, United Kingdom.

5. Clément Ader

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Clément Ader was born in Muret, France on the 2nd of April, 1842, and died on the 3rd of May, 1925.

He was a French self-taught inventor, engineer, and aeronautical pioneer. He was passionate and determined under mechanical flight and is well remembered for his pioneering inventions in aviation.

Clément came up with his first fly machine after resigning from the administration of bridges and roads. He also invented telephony and other communication devices inclusive of microphones and public address machines.

6. Nikola Tesla

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Tesla was a Serbian-American, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He was born on the 10th of July, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia, and died on the 7th January, 1943 in New York, United States.

Nikola Tesla invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed the AC generation as well as transmission technology.

His IQ estimation scored 160 to 310. He designed and invented the world wireless system, which was a telecommunication and electrical power delivery system.

7. Auguste Lumiere

Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas was born in Besancon in France on the 19th of October, 1862, and died on the 10th of April, 1954.

He was a French industrialist, biologist, and illusionist. He and his brother’s invention is depended on by the world of communication, be it print or electronic mediums.

They developed the first animated photographic camera and a projection device. They brought to life the error of cinematography.

8. Sir Timothy John Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is one of the living inventors who was born on the 8th of June, 1955, currently at the age of 66 years.

Berners-Lee is the man who developed the World Wide Web (WWW), web browser, the hypertext transfer protocol among others.

His invention granted him several rewards like the millennium technology prize, the president’s medal, Japan prize, among others.

He is a computer scientist by profession who is a professorial fellow in the oxford university computer science department and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of technology.

9. Albert Einstein

Einstein A. was born on the 14th of March, 1879 in Ulm, Germany, and died on the 18th of April, 1955 in New Jersey United States.

A theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity and played a good role in contributing to quantum mechanics development.

His death was a result of the bursting of his blood vessels near the heart. He had a chance of living if surgery was done but he turned down the chance claiming that it is tasteless to prolong life artificially.

10. Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gensfleisch Zur Laden Zum Gutenberg was born on the 24th of June, 1400 in Mainz Germany, and died on the 3rd of February, 1468. He was a printer, publisher, goldsmith, and inventor.

In the year 1439, he developed the movable-type printing press. The evolution of printing machines that are a backbone to print media is a result of Johannes’ invention.

The inventions made by the above people are acting as a world backbone for we could not be where we are without the inventions.

All the above famous inventors played a very important role in the process of shaping the world to its current state. As a result, some of the inventors were awarded in appreciation.

With reference to history, we can see and tell that from the time of the early man’s inventions to the 1900s invention, the world is adding value day in day out with their help.

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