B04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
B04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
B04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
B04071860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
B04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
B04091919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of first electronic computer (ENIAC)
B04131852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
B04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, factotum
B04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
B04191877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible
B04251908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
B04261900 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.
B04271791 Samuel F. B. Morse
B04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
B04301777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematician of all time.
B08011770 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis.
B08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator.
B08041755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil.
B08061881 Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin
B08071783 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery
B08071886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne circuit, making commercial radio possible.
B08081763 Charles Bullfinch, first US professional architect
B08081922 Rudi Gernreich, designed first women's topless swimsuit & the miniskirt
B08131655 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet.
B08161884 Hugo Gernsback, responsible for science fiction becoming an independent literary form.
B08161892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant", known for it's fine drawing and historical detail.
B08191785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks.
B08211660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote first book on bridge building.
B08241886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed the Liberty ships
B08261873 Lee De Forest, invented the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube).
B08271882 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker
B08301797 Mary Shelley, wrote Frankenstein
B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records.
B12061822 John Eberhard, built first large scale pencil factory in US.
B12081861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp.
B12101851 Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries
B12121805 Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.
B12141546 Tycho Brahe, astronomer
B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, invented first auto to be built and operated in US.
B12161863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist.
B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
B12181890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM).
B12191849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie.
B12201805 Thomas Graham, the father of colloid chemistry
B12231790 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
B12271571 Johannes Kepler, discovered planets travel in eliptical orbits.
B12291800 Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber
B02051840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.
B02071804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
B02081906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
B02111847 Thomas Alva Edison, who lit up your life
B02121809 Charles Darwin
B02151564 Galileo Galilei
B02161884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.
B02171844 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business.
B02181745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery.
B02181848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
B02191473 Nicolaus Copernicus
B02261852 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry.
B02261866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
B02291860 Herman Hollerith, invented first electric tabulating machine.
B01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
B01041643 Sir Issac Newton
B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
B01091870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
B01101877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers.
B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
B01181779 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard
B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
B01181813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented first commercially useable barbed wire
B01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell.
B01191736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
B01211743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
B01211813 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US
B01211815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
B01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built first rocket-powered aircraft.
B01281855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
B01291850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite
B01291901 Allen B DuMont, perfected first commercially practical cathode ray tube
B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker
B07051810 P.T. Barnum
B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
B07081839 John D. Rockefeller
B07091802 Thomas Davenport, invented first commercially successful electric motor
B07121854 George Eastman, created the Kodak camera
B07121895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome
B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory.
B07191814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver.
B07221844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms'
B07241898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder
B07301863 Henry Ford
B06031864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto manufacturer.
B06051900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography)
B06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer
B06081869 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder
B06091781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive.
B06111867 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere
B06111910 Jacques Cousteau
B06121915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker
B06191623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician.
B06231846 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone.
B06231912 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory.
B06241839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co.
B06251894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics.
B06261819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball
B06261913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers.
B06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, social contractor
B06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal
B03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame)
B03061812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
B03061937 Valentina Tereshkova, first woman cosmonaut
B03071849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder
B03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery
B03081879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
B03091824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford Univ.
B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, first man into space
B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
B03141879 Albert Einstein
B03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
B03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer
B03181858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine.
B03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.
B03201904 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism.
B03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
B03231912 Werner von Braun, rocketeer
B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.
B03311596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was
B03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine.
B05061818 Karl Marx
B05061870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
B05071909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid)
B05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
B05081828 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.
B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen
B05091882 Henry J. Kaiser,  built Liberty Ships, Jeeps
B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
B05151859 Pierre Curie, physicist
B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of the ionosphere, used to reflect radio waves.
B05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co.
B05201913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
B05211860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph
B05211878 Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer
B05221828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology
B05221920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory of the universe.
B05241686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer
B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher
B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
B05271907 Rachel Carson, ecologist
B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
B11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
B11071867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium.
B11081656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit.
B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the first transatlantic cable.
B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
B11141765 Robert Fulton, built first commercial steamboat
B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
B11181789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
B11181923 Alan Sheppard, first American into space.
B11201602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump
B11211694 Voltaire, thinker
B11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded first regular Atlantic steamship line
B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz
B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian
B11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
B11271701 Anders Celsius
B11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
B11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
B11301810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
B10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company.
B10031803 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration
B10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry
B10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US.
B10071885 Niels Bohr, physicist & Nobel laureate, expanded quantum physics.
B10081869 J. Frank Duryea, with his brother, invented first auto built & operated in the US.
B10111844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company
B10141857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first US autos
B10151829 Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos
B10161708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology
B10201632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, greatest English architect of his time, built many of the cathedrals in London.
B10201812 Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in US heart research
B10211833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, created dynamite and Peace Prizes.
B10271728 Captain James Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands.
B10271811 Issac Merrit Singer, invented first practical home sewing machine
B10281914 Dr. Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past.
B09031856 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture.
B09061766 John Dalton, developed the atomic theory of matter
B09061811 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington
B09071914 James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts.
B09121818 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun
B09131755 Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine.
B09131851 Walter Reed, who proved mosquitos transmit yellow fever.
B09151881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder
B09211756 John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt)
B09221791 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of the electric motor.
B09231852 William Stewart Halsted, established first surgical school in US
B09241870 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light.
B09251725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built first automobile.
B04261785 John James Audubon, birdwatcher
