Invention

Inventors and their creations.

People in Invention

12 profiles

Inventor

Nikola Tesla

Developing motors and systems for alternating-current electricity.

Inventor

Thomas Edison

Developing the phonograph and practical electric-lighting systems.

Inventor

Alexander Graham Bell

Developing and patenting an early practical telephone.

Engineer

Ferdinand Porsche

Designing influential cars, including the Volkswagen prototype.

Inventor

Alfred Nobel

Inventing dynamite and leaving the fortune that established the Nobel Prizes.

Actor

Hedy Lamarr

Co-inventing a frequency-hopping communications system while working as a Hollywood film star.

Engineer

Karl Benz

Building and patenting a pioneering practical petrol-powered automobile.

Physicist

Robert Noyce

Co-inventing the integrated circuit and co-founding Intel

Physicist

George E. Smith

Co-inventing the CCD image sensor

Engineer

Godfrey Hounsfield

Developing practical X-ray computed tomography.

Engineer

Nick Holonyak

Developing a semiconductor device that emitted visible red light.

Engineer

Jack Kilby

Co-inventing the integrated circuit.