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Anna Mangin (1844–1931) – American inventor, educator, caterer and women's rights campaigner; Charles Mantoux (1877–1947), France – Mantoux test (tuberculosis) Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), Italy – radio telegraphy; Gheorghe Marinescu (1863–1938), Romania – first science films in the world in the neurology clinic in Bucharest ...
The 100 known most prolific inventors based on worldwide utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it may include utility patents granted by other countries, as noted by the source references for an inventor.
However, other inventors before Bell had worked on the development of the telephone and the invention had several pioneers. [431] 1877: Thomas Edison invents the first working phonograph. [432] 1878: Henry Fleuss is granted a patent for the first practical rebreather. [433] 1878: Lester Allan Pelton invents the Pelton wheel.
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
Inventors by nationality (81 C, 1 P) A. Albanian inventions (1 C, 7 P) American inventions (18 C, 827 P) Argentine inventions (2 C, 10 P) Armenian inventions (13 P)
Public Domain. Henry Ford is known for many things — the most prominent being mass-manufactured cars and paying workers respectable wages. But his first automobile, made in 1896, was powered by ...
The Chinese invention of woodblock printing, at some point before the first dated book in 868 (the Diamond Sutra), produced the world's first print culture. According to A. Hyatt Mayor, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "it was the Chinese who really invented the means of communication that was to dominate until our age."
The Greatest American Inventions of the Past 50+ Years. Andrew Lisa. June 27, 2022 at 4:00 AM. ... Michael Hart forever changed the world with the invention of the e-book.