Open Directory - Society: History: By Topic: Science: Engineering and Technology: Biography
Armstrong, Edwin H (2) Babbage, Charles @ (8) Baird, John Logie @ (3) Bell, Alexander, Graham (4) Berliner, Emile (1) Bessemer, Henry (5) Brunel, Isambard Kingdom @ (11) Colt, Samuel @ (9) Crompton, Samuel @ (2) Edison, Thomas Alva (9) Franklin, Benjamin @ (19) Goodyear, Charles @ (4) Guillotin, Joseph Ignace @ (4) Hackworth, Timothy (1) Heron of Alexandria (5) Holland, John (0) Kay, John @ (3) Lake, Simon (3) Marconi, Guglielmo (2) Meucci, Antonio Santi Giuseppe (2) Morse, Samuel Finley Breese (5) Murdoch, William (2) Phelps, George @ (2) Pope, Frank (2) Strauss, Josef @ (7) Telford, Thomas (3) Tesla, Nikola @ (13) Trevithick, Richard (2) Watt, James (8) Westinghouse, George (2) Whitney, Eli @ (6) Whitworth, Sir Joseph (1) Wright Brothers @ (5)
See also: - The inventor of the tubeless radio used an unknown solid-state effect, which was never rediscovered. - An early pioneer in the invention of the artificial manufacture of ice. - The inventor of the steam boat. Full text of thus 1857 publication by Thompson Westcott. - Created a semi-automatic key to help prevent telegrapher paralysis, created by the daily abuse of manipulating a manual Morse telegraph key. Includes biography and the spread of this invention across the United States. - Information from the official Nobel Prize site. - Images, biography, works, references and links.
