Famous Inventors and Their Inventions

Famous Inventors and Their Inventions
This article gives you a list of some of the famous inventors and their inventions. Read ahead to learn more about them.
When you feel hot, you switch on the fan or the cooler; when its too dark to see, you switch on the light bulb; you can also talk to your friend miles away using the telephone; you can also fly places in a plane, and there are so many things that you can do today because of some of the famous inventors and their inventions. I wonder what the world or our lives would have been like if these great people had not invented some of the necessities of our lives. Simply unthinkable! There are so many of these great scientists that its difficult to list all of them. A concise list is included in the following paragraphs.

Inventors and Inventions

Given below are the names of some inventors. While using certain things, its best that you know whom to give the credit to.

Inventor Inventions Year Country
Johannes Gutenberg Printing Press 1440 Germany
Heinrich Rudolph Hertz Electromagnetic theory of light and electromagnetic waves. Radio and electrical frequencies (Hz) 1880s Germany
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Electro Magnetic Radiations or X-Ray 1895 Germany
Alfred Nobel Dynamite 1867 Sweden
Eli Whitney Milling machine and cotton gin 1793 America
Mary Anderson Windshield wipers 1903 America
Wilber and Orville Wright (Wright Brothers) Airplanes 1903 America
Archimedes Archimedes screw, a device used to raise the water level, explained the principle behind levers, Archimedes principle, accurate value of the pi, and many more 3rd century B. C. Greece
Richard G. Drew Adhesive tape 1923 America
Peter Henlein Pocket watch 1504-1508 Germany
Sir Isaac Newton