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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.
Heron (c. 10–70), Roman Egypt – usually credited with invention of the aeolipile, although it may have been described a century earlier; John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer; Harry Houdini (1874–1926) U.S. – flight time illusion; Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Germany – radio telegraphy ...
2005: YouTube, the first popular video-streaming site, was founded; 2007: Netflix debuted the first popular video-on-demand service; 2007: Apple Inc. released the iPhone; 2007: The Bank of Scotland develops the world's first banking app; 2007: SoundCloud, the first on-demand service to focus on music is debuted
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 ...
Finally, various rankings were re-ordered, although no one listed in the top ten changed their position. [3] The book was first published in 1978 as imprint from "Hart Publishing Company". [1] [2] According to the Calgary Herald, at least 60,000 copies were sold. [12] The book has since been translated into many languages. [13]
One of two independent inventors of the concept of digital packet switching used in modern computer networking including the Internet. [9] [10] Published a series of briefings and papers about dividing information into "message blocks" and sending them over distributed networks (1960–1964). [11] [12] 1874 Baudot, Émile
Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC) – polymath, inventor of the screw pump; Richard Arkwright (1733–1792) – credited with inventing the spinning frame but most notable for contributions to the modern factory system; William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810–1900) – hydraulic power pioneer, founder of Armstrong Whitworth