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Oliver Evans was an american inventor who pioneered the high-pressure steam engine
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Robert Fulton was an American inventor, engineer, and artist who brought steamboating from the experimental stage to commercial success.
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Cyrus McCormich was an American industrialist and inventor who is generally credited with the development of the mechanical reaper.
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John Ericsson was a Swedish-born American naval engineer and inventor who built the first armored turret warship and developed the screw propeller.
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Walter Hunt was a mechanic from New York who invented the safety pin while he was twisting a piece of wire, trying to think of something that would help him pay off a fifteen dollar debt
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Elisha Graves Otis was an American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails.
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George Pullman was an American industrialist and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, a luxurious railroad coach designed for overnight travel
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Alfred was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist, who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives and who also founded the Nobel Prizes.
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Lewis Edson Waterman was the inventor of the capillary feed fountain pen and the founder of Ideal Pen Company and Waterman Pen Company.
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Inventor and Engineer Jesse Wilford Reno invented the first working escalator in 1891 (patented March 15, 1892), that was known as the "inclined elevator"
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William Painter was an 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 engineer Guglielmo Marconi developed, demonstrated and marketed the first successful long-distance wireless telegraph and in 1901 broadcast the first transatlantic radio signal
