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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).
Gitanjali Rao is an American inventor, author, social activist, and a STEM student and advocate.. Rao won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in 2017 [1] [2] and was recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30 for her innovations. [3]
George Edward Alcorn Jr. (born March 22, 1940) was an American physicist, engineer, inventor, and professor. He taught at Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia, and worked primarily for IBM and NASA. He has over 30 inventions and 8 patents resulting in his induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2015.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...
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 ...
Kálmán Tihanyi (1897–1947), Hungary – co-inventor of cathode-ray tube and iconoscope, infrared video camera, plasma display Mikhail Tikhonravov (1900–1974), Russia – co-developer of Sputnik 1 (the first artificial satellite) together with Korolyov and Keldysh , designer of further Sputniks
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. Main article: Child prodigy This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. John von Neumann as a child In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a ...
List of African educators, scientists and scholars; List of Argentine scientists; List of Armenian scientists and philosophers. List of African-American inventors and scientists