The Inventors of all time

You may have heard of these guys, but you know just how much they contributed to humanity. Each man on this list is a true inventor. Their work either directly result-ed in a number of important technological leaps or their ideas allowed thousand of other scientists to bring us to modern times. In short, these men are the scientific giants. And now, impact is still being felt today. Who are they? Read on:

Thomas Edison
(February 11,1847 October 8, 1931)
Edison’s invention had such a great effect on the world. It’s easy to focus on the light bulb when we think of Edison, but his real insight came with the power to make light bulb work in 1882, Edison gave the world its first power distribution company, sending electric to 59 cus-tomers in lower Manhattan. Backed by JP Morgan and the Vanderbilts, Edison also used his know-ledge to give the world an early version of stock ticker.
Cool fact it’s a good thing that Edison didn’t put his knowledge to work an the field of human science for the last year of his life he followed o popular fad diet that required him to drink nothing but a pint of milk every three hours.
Johannes Gutenberg
1398-February 3, 1468
Johannes Gutenberg put all the pieces together when he made a practical printing press that used moveable type. His idea might seem small but actually his press started the information revolution. In truth, the Chinese had been using moveable type for centuries, but Gutenberg was the first to print his type in books, not silk. That innovation made knowledge available to a wider class of people and give birth to the Age of Enlightenment. As an inno-vator, Gutenberg was superior, but as a business-man, he was a failure. His printing press changed the world, but failed to make him a profit and he lost the rights to his invention in a lawsuits against his financier.
Cool fact: In debt and battling alcoholism, Gutenberg spent the later years of his life working for the Archbishop of Mainz, who paid him in food and lodging to control his drinking habit.




James Watt
January 19,1736- August 19 1819
Steam in not energy source today. Anyway, back in the early days of the industrial. Revolution steam was so very important. James Watt contributed big time with an improved working steam engine that powered the world forward.
James Watt didn’t invent the steam engine, but he did make it work. In fact, his innovation helped turn on the world from agrarian to industrial. Fitting of a man who contributed so much to power and engines, Watt did manage to take credit for inventing the rotating engines and a device known as the flyball, which controls the speed of an engine automatically.
Cool fact: The electrical unit of measurement ~The Watt~ is named in of honor James Watt, who many consider to be greatest engineer of all time.
Benjamin Franklin
January 17,1706-April 17,1790
Franklin was a extraordinary inventor. Among his many crea-tions were the lightning rod, the glass armonica, the Franklin stove, bifocal glasses, and flexible urlnary catheter. Yup, Benjamin Franklin made some pretty important contributions to science. Still, remember drawing of him flying a kite in a storm? The experiment taught Franklin a lot about electricity and gave us the lightening rod. Cool fact, inventor and stud often used to describe the same guy. But with Benjamin Franklin, you need to make an exception, he was the ultimate ladies man of his time and his popularity with the French women certainly helped the American cause.






Howard Hughes, Jr
Dec 24,1905-April 1976
Howard Hughes, Jr didn’t invent the airplane, but he basically wrote the book on airlines as the father of TWA. That airlines in now gone, but air travel remains thanks to Mr. Hughes. Known as trade industrialist, aviator, engineer, and movie producer, he introduce a number of design innovation to the airplanes. He redesigned the H-1 Racer to have retractable landing geer and all rivets and joints to be set flush into the body of plane to reduce drag. These enhancement influenced the design of a number of World War II fighter airplanes. Hughes came from inventor’s family. His father, Howard Senior, invented a drill bit that enable oil rigs to tap previously inaccessible source. Late in life, he was known as a recluse, but in his heyday he set out to conquer the worlds of aviation and Hollywood. He was widely known as a playboy and one of the wealthiest people in the world.
Cool fact in 1972, Howard Hughes was re-cruitted provide cover for a CIA covert opera-ion. The mission, cordenamed” project Jennifer, was to raise a sunken soviet submarine off the coast of Hawaii. Unfortunately, only met with limited success and a 1975 burglary exposed some of Hughes’ secret papers, bringing his involvement with the CIA to light.
Isaac Newton
4 January 1643-31 march 1727
If you struggled through advance-ed math course, you’re probably
not a big fan of Isaac Newton. Yup, he invited calculus. If you study physic today, you still start with the work of Isaac Newton, whether you’re talking about gravity, to the principles of lights and optic. Newton was the first to ague that light was composed of particles, which enable him to develop his own reflecting telescope. Newton also made contribu-tions by studying the principles of sound and heat.
Cool fact: it’s easy to think of scientist as socially incompetent lab rats; Newton has certainly an exception. For nearly two years, Newton worked as an attorney for the king of England, prosecuting counterfeiters. By the end of his period in the law, Newton had 10 men facing execution for their crimes.






Alexander Bell
March 3,1847-August 2, 1922
Today phone is not strange. Did you know that the work Scottishborn Alexander Gra-ham Bell made the first and most powerful phone company possi-ble? But bell whose mother and wife were deaf, wasn’t first a wonder in one field, his ideas ranged frobtain conditioning (he actually set up a primitive system for use in his home) to the hydrofoil to a concept whereby information could be stored on a magnets (which led to an Innovation Bell never lived to see the computer).
Cool fact: Bell has credit fore inventing the world’s first metal detector, a device that he put together to find a bullet lodged in President James Garfield. The metal detector worked, but it was unable to locate the bullet because the President was laying on a metal-framed bed while being examined.
Alessandro Volta
February 18, 1745- March 5 1827
Volta didn’t discovery elec-tricity, but he had a good idea on how to make it portable. The Voltaic Pike was the prototype to the modern electric battery. Alessandro Volta was busy with all things electric, he invented the electrophorus (a single plate capacitor that produced an electric charge). A year later, he turned his attention to experiments or ignite gases in closed vessels to produce energy. In the process Volta discovered methane, a gas commonly used today to heat homes. But it was the Voltaic Pile that really make Volta famous. Quite literally, it was pile of alternating zinc and copper disc with pieces of salt water soaked cloth in between to increase conductivity. The crude battery showed the world how to generate an electric charge out of metal/ chemical combination.
Cool fact: to honor this great Italian inventor, Napoleon Bonaparte made him a Count in1810. but the honors didn’t stop there, in 1881, the Volt (an electronic unit) was named after him.




Nikola Tesla
1856-1943
Although he didn’t get credit for it while was alive, the Supreme Coure enventually upheld his patent application and recognized Nikola Tesla, not Guglielmo Mar-coni, as the inventor radio. Believing that women would become the domain sex in the future, Tesla was about as eccentric as they come. He invented a method of transmitting electricity known as alter-nating current, which is still use today. But his main focus was on the theoretical application of electri-city, many of which are still theories. Tesla, who often made his own equipment, worked on a range of ideas from X-rays to an earthquake machine.
Cool fact: Near the end of his life, Tesla was working on a death ray. While that nation might sound like the work of science fiction, the FBI certainly didn’t find it entertaining, and J. Edgar Hoover ordered Tesla’s papers seized and declarat-ed “top secret”.
Leonardo Da Vinci
April 15,1472-May 2, 1519
When you’re talking about Leo-nardo da Vinci, the best question is: what didn’t he invent? His journals illustrated practical design for so many things, but the most noteworthy of all has to be a calculator. Imagine where science would be without the ability to perform simple and complex mathematics. Leonardo Da Vinci was the ideal Re-naissance man. He could paint (the Monalisa, The Last Supper). He could sculpt and he could invent. His notebooks continue to fascinate the world to this day. They have outlines and sketches of every-thing from the human body a helicopter to a tank.
Cool fact: da Vinci’s famous notebooks consist of over 13,000 pages and continue to influence science to this day. In 2005, a British surgeon used da Vinci’s design repair damaged hearts, an amazing feat in it’s own right, but truly awesome when you realize that da Vinci had to concept how the body’s circulatory system worked.