Science Experiments for Kids

Inventors & Inventions

 The Earliest Inventions

 Archimedes (287 B.C. - 212 B.C.)

 Hero of Alexandria (1st Century A.D.).....................................................................................

 Medieval Inventions

 Johann Gutenberg (c.1397 - 1468)

 Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

 Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594)

 Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1695)

 Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

 Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

 Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

 Antoine van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723)

 Thomas Newcomen (1663 - 1729)

 Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

 Richard Arkwright (1732 - 1792)

 James Watt (1736 - 1819)

 The Montgolfier Brothers (Joseph: 1740 - 1810) (Jacques: 1745 - 1799)

 Antoine Lavoisier (1743 - 1794)

 Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823)

 Alessandro Volta (1745 - 1827)

 Baron von Drais von Sauerbronn (1785 - 1851)......................................................................

 Charles Babbage (1792 - 1871)

 Charles Macintosh (1766 - 1843)

 Joseph Nicéphore Niepce (1765 - 1833)

 George Stephenson (1781 - 1848) & Robert Stephenson (1803 - 1859)

 Samuel Morse (1791 - 1872)

 Samuel Colt (1814 - 1862)

 Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867)

 Etienne Lenoir (1822 - 1900)

 I.K. Brunel (1806 - 1859)

 Elisha Otis (1811 - 1861)

 Edwin Drake (1819 - 1899)

 Alfred Nobel (1833 - 1896)......................................................................................................

 Joseph Lister (1827 - 1912)

 Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931)

 Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)

 Karl Benz (1844 - 1929) & Gottlied Daimler (1834 - 1900)

 The Lumiére Brothers (Auguste: 1862 - 1954) (Louis: 1864 - 1948)

 The Wright Brothers (Wilbur: 1867 - 1912) (Orville: 1871 - 1948)