John Logie Baird,

Braid was a Scottish Engineer and inventor of the world’s first 

practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and 

also the world’s first fully electronic colour television tube. 

Braid’s early successes demonstrating working television 

broadcasts and his colour and cinema television work earned 

him a prominent place in televisions invention.

Born: August 13, 1888, Helensburgh, United Kingdom Died: June 14, 1946, Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom

Guglielmo Marconi,

Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long

distance radio transmission and for his development of 

Marconi’s law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is credited 

as the inventor of Radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in 

physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun “in recognition of their 

contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy” 

Born: April 25, 1874, Bologna, Italy Died: July 20, 1937, Rome, Italy

Samuel Morse,

Samuel Morse was an American painter and inventor who is best 

remembered today for his invention of single- wire telegraph 

system and the co-inventor of the Morse Code – method of 

translating textual information as a series of on and off tones. His 

discovery changed the way the messages are sent and received in 

the entire world, and even today Morse Code is still in use in various 

areas of radio communications.

Born: April 27, 1791, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Died: April 2, 1872, New York City, New York, United States

Konrad Zuse,

Konrad Zuse built Z1, world's first program-controlled 

computer. Despite certain mechanical engineering problems it 

had all the basic ingredients of modern machines, using the 

binary system and today's standard separation of storage and 

control. Zuse completes Z3, world's first fully 

functional programmable computer in 1941.

Born: June 22, 1910, Berlin, Germany Died: December 18, 1995, Hünfeld, Germany

Edwin Herbert Land,

The co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation was the first who 

came up with low-cost filters for polarizing light (useful 

system of in-camera instant photography). His most popular 

invention, Polaroid instant camera, was officially launched 

in late 1948 and allowed users to take and develop a picture in 

just under 60 seconds.

Born: May 7, 1909, Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States Died: March 1, 1991, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Frederick Banting,

Initially Banting was dedicated to politics but later decided to 

shift to medicine. In 1916 he completed his MD and during the 

World War I worked as a doctor. He was very interested in 

diabetes and continuously worked on a cure for it. Banting 

searched for cure for diabetes together with Dr. Charles Best. 

In 1923 the researcher was awarded with the Nobel Prize for 

discovering insulin.

Born: November 14, 1891, Alliston, Canada Died: February 21, 1941, Dominion of Newfoundland

Fritz Pfleumer,

The German-Austrian engineer is the inventor of the 

magnetic tape used for recording sound. Pfleumer decided 

to grant the right of use to the AEG, a German 

manufacturer of electrical equipment. The event took place 

on December 1, 1932. Based on Pfleumer's magnetic tape, 

the German firm created the world's first practical tape 

recorder dubbed Magnetophon K1.

Born: March 20, 1881, Salzburg, Austria Died: August 29, 1945, Radebeul, Germany

Sir Alexander Fleming,

During the World War I Fleming worked as an army medical 

doctor. He is the inventor of penicillin that prevented a lot of 

soldiers from being infected. The discovery of penicillin 

managed to significantly boost the evolution of medicine 

industry.

Born: August 6, 1881, Lochfield Died: March 11, 1955, London, United Kingdom

Albert Einstein,

One of the greatest scientists of the 20th century is the creator 

of numerous inventions and theories that transformed a lot of 

concepts linked to space and time, with the most important 

discovery being the theory of relativity. Other discoveries of 

Einstein include the photoelectric effect and the Einstein 

calculator.

Born: March 14, 1879, Ulm, Germany Died: April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel,

Being a mechanical engineer, Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel 

managed to discover the diesel engine.

The German inventor was also a well-known thermal engineer, a 

polyglot, an expert in arts, and a social theorist.

Born: March 18, 1858, Paris, France Died: September 29, 1913, English Channel

Alexander Graham Bell,

During the experiments he carried out with the telegraph, 

Bell came up with the idea of the telephone.

The inventor of one of the most popular devices today 

thought that the telephone was intruding, that is why he did 

not have one in his workplace.

Born: March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Died: August 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada

Emile Berliner,

The German-born Jewish American scientist became known for

his disc record gramophone (in the United States known as 

phonograph or record player). Used for recording and 

reproducing sounds on a gramophone record, vinyl record, the 

device (with certain modifications made once in a while) was 

popular until 1980s.

Born: May 20, 1851, Hanover, Germany Died: August 3, 1929, Washington, D.C., United States

Thomas Edison,

He has made a large number of inventions, but the most well-known one is the electric bulb. Among other discoveries of 

Thomas Edison there are telegraph devices, phonograph, 

carbon transmitter, direct current generator, universal electric 

motor, and more.

Born: February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio, United States Died: October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey, United States

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen,

The famous German physicist Röntgen is the one who 

discovered the X-rays (also known as Röntgen rays).

This invention allowed the German scientist to win the first 

Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

Born: March 27, 1845, Remscheid, Germany Died: February 10, 1923, Munich, Germany

Charles Babbage,

Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor 

and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable 

computer. Considered as “Father of Computers”, Babbage is credited 

with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to 

more complex designs.

Bron: December 26, 1791, London, United Kingdom Died: October 18, 1871, Marylebone, United kingdom

Ferdinand Verbiest,

Verbiest was an astronomer and a mathematician. He was the
one to invent the world's first automobile. The inventor came
up with the idea to create an automobile while visiting China as
a missionary. His automobile was powered by steam, but could
not carry humans.

Bron: October 9, 1623, Pittem, Belgium Died: January 28, 1688, Beijing, China

Evangelista Torricelli,

The famous Italian physicist and mathematician is the inventor of
the barometer (scientific tool used in the field of meteorology to
estimate atmospheric pressure), built in 1643. It would be
interesting to note that a number of Italian Navy submarines
were named after the inventor.

Born: October 15, 1608, Faenza, Italy Died: October 25, 1647, Florence, Italy