Science Experiments for Kids

Inventors & Inventions  The Earliest Inventions  Archimedes (287 B.C. - 212 B.C.)  Hero of Alexandria (1st Century A.D.). ...

 Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937)  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857 - 1935)  Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  John Logie Baird (188 ...

A  Bruno Abakanowicz, (1852–1900) spirograph  Vitaly Abalakov, (1906–1986) Russia – camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thr ...

 Abi Bakr of Isfahan, (c. 1235) calendar analog computer  Donat Banki, (1859–1922) Hungary – inventor of the carburetor  Vlad ...

 Katharine B. Blodgett, (1898–1979) UK – nonreflective glass  Alan Blumlein, (1903–1942) England – stereo  Nils Bohlin, (1920 ...

 Wallace Carothers, (1896–1937)  George Washington Carver, (1864–1943)  Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, (fl.1630–1632) Turkey – artifi ...

 Leonardo da Vinci, (1452–1519) Italy – conceptualized a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, the double hull. Relativ ...

E  George Eastman, (1854–1932)  J. Presper Eckert, (1919–1995) U.S. – ENIAC - the first general purpose programmable digital c ...

 Tommy Flowers, (1905–1998) England – Colossus an early electronic computer.  Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, (1819– 1868 ) France ...

 Richard Hall Gower, (1768–1833) England – ship's hull and rigging  Boris Grabovsky, (1901–1966) Russia – cathode commutator, ...

 George de Hevesy, (1885– 1966 ) Hungary – radioactive tracer  Rowland Hill, (1795–1879)  Maurice Hilleman, (1919–2005) – vac ...

reciprocating piston suction pump, geared and hydropowered water supply system, programmable humanoid robots, robotics, hand was ...

 Charles F. Kettering, (1876–1958) U.S. – invented automobile self-starter ignition, Freon ethyl gasoline and more  Kaldi, (fl ...

 Raymond Kurzweil, (1948–) Optical character recognition; flatbed scanner  Stephanie Kwolek, (1923–)  John Howard Kyan (1774– ...

 Yury Lomonosov, (1876–1952) Russia/United Kingdom – first successful mainline diesel locomotive  Aleksandr Loran, (1849 – aft ...

 Dmitri Mendeleev, (1834–1907) Russia – Periodic table, pycnometer, pyrocollodion, also credited with determining the ideal vod ...

N  Alexander Nadiradze, (1914–1987) Georgia/Russia – first mobile ICBM (RT-21 Temp 2S), first reliable mobile ICBM (RT-2PM Topo ...

P  Larry Page, (1973–) U.S. – with Sergey Brin invented Google web search engine  Alexey Pajitnov, (born 1956)  Helge Palmcra ...

 Valdemar Poulsen, (1869–1942) Denmark – magnetic wire recorder, arc converter  Joseph Priestley, (1733–1804) England – soda w ...

 Ernő Rubik, (1944–) Hungary – Rubik's cube, Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Clock  Ernst Ruska, (1906–1988) Germany – electron micr ...