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Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the U.S. Navy.
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American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States.
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American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
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American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.
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American tinsmith and the patentee of the metal screw-on lid for fruit jars that have come to be known as Mason jars.
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American business magnate, game pioneer and publisher, credited by many with launching the board game industry.
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Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite.
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Promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco, USA. This was the world's first practical cable car system.
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American inventor, businessman, and chemist. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum.
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American mechanical engineer, inventor and the founder of Crown Holdings, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. He most notably invented the crown cork bottle cap and bottle opener.
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Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system.
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John Kellogg was an advocate of vegetarianism for health and is best known for the invention of the breakfast cereal known as corn flakes with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg.
