Famous inventors
person that devises a new device, method, composition, or process
697 people
James Naismith
1861
– 1939
· Age 78
Deceased
Ernő Rubik
1944
· Age 81
Alive
James Dewar
1842
– 1923
· Age 80
Deceased
John Muir
1838
– 1914
· Age 76
Deceased
David Brewster
1781
– 1868
· Age 86
Deceased
Alberto Santos-Dumont
1873
– 1932
· Age 59
Deceased
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Abbas Ibn Firnas
0810
– 0887
· Age 77
Deceased
Peter Mansfield
1933
– 2017
· Age 83
Deceased
Denis Papin
1647
– 1713
· Age 66
Deceased
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
1863
– 1944
· Age 81
Deceased
Mario Capecchi
1937
· Age 88
Alive
Richard Trevithick
1771
– 1833
· Age 62
Deceased
Louis Blériot
1872
– 1936
· Age 64
Deceased
James Gosling
1955
· Age 70
Alive
George Westinghouse
1846
– 1914
· Age 67
Deceased
Emil Lenz
1804
– 1865
· Age 60
Deceased
Eadweard Muybridge
1830
– 1904
· Age 74
Deceased
René Laennec
1781
– 1826
· Age 45
Deceased
Charles Goodyear
1800
– 1860
· Age 59
Deceased
Lee de Forest
1873
– 1961
· Age 87
Deceased
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Thomas Newcomen
1663
– 1729
· Age 66
Deceased
al-Jazari
1164
– 1206
· Age 42
Deceased
Leo Baekeland
1863
– 1944
· Age 80
Deceased
Hermann Oberth
1894
– 1989
· Age 95
Deceased
Ignacy Łukasiewicz
1822
– 1882
· Age 59
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q205375