Top 100 inventors since Leonardo DaVinci
- Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468) - Printing press.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) - Numerous inventions and studies.
* **Johannes Kepler** (1571–1630) - Laws of planetary motion.
* **Robert Hooke** (1635–1703) - Elasticity theory (Hooke's law).
* **Isaac Newton** (1643–1727) - Laws of motion, calculus.
* **John Harrison** (1693–1776) - Marine chronometer.
* **Benjamin Franklin** (1706–1790) - Lightning rod, bifocals.
* **James Hargreaves** (1720–1778) - Spinning jenny.
* **Richard Arkwright** (1732–1792) - Water frame spinning machine.
* **James Watt** (1736–1819) - Steam engine improvements.
* **Antoine Lavoisier** (1743–1794) - Modern chemistry.
* **Edmund Cartwright** (1743–1823) - Power loom.
* **Alessandro Volta** (1745–1827) - Electric battery.
* **Edward Jenner** (1749–1823) - Vaccination.
* **Eli Whitney** (1765–1825) - Cotton gin.
* **Michael Faraday** (1791–1867) - Electromagnetic induction.
* **Charles Babbage** (1791–1871) - Concept of a programmable computer.
* **Samuel Morse** (1791–1872) - Telegraph, Morse code.
* **William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)** (1824–1907) - Thermodynamics.
* **Louis Pasteur** (1822–1895) - Pasteurization, vaccines.
* **Gregor Mendel** (1822–1884) - Genetics.
* **Niklaus Otto** (1832–1891) - Internal combustion engine.
* **Gottlieb Daimler** (1834–1900) - High-speed petrol engine.
* **James Clerk Maxwell** (1831–1879) - Electromagnetic theory.
* **Karl Benz** (1844–1929) - Automobile.
* **Thomas Edison** (1847–1931) - Light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera.
* **Alexander Graham Bell** (1847–1922) - Telephone.
* **Charles Goodyear** (1800–1860) - Vulcanized rubber.
* **Ferdinand von Zeppelin** (1838–1917) - Rigid airships (Zeppelin).
* **George Washington Carver** (1864–1943) - Crop rotation, peanut products.
* **Guglielmo Marconi** (1874–1937) - Radio.
* **Marie Curie** (1867–1934) - Radioactivity research.
* **Max Planck** (1858–1947) - Quantum theory.
* **Alexander Fleming** (1881–1955) - Penicillin.
* **Niels Bohr** (1885–1962) - Atomic structure, quantum mechanics.
* **Ernest Rutherford** (1871–1937) - Nuclear physics.
* **John Logie Baird** (1888–1946) - Television.
* **Edwin Hubble** (1889–1953) - Expanding universe theory.
* **James Chadwick** (1891–1974) - Neutron discovery.
* **Norbert Wiener** (1894–1964) - Cybernetics.
* **Otto Hahn** (1879–1968) - Nuclear fission.
* **Claude Shannon** (1916–2001) - Information theory.
* **John von Neumann** (1903–1957) - Computer architecture, game theory.
* **J. Robert Oppenheimer** (1904–1967) - Nuclear bomb.
* **Philo Farnsworth** (1906–1971) - Television.
* **Konrad Zuse** (1910–1995) - First programmable computer (Z3).
* **William Shockley** (1910–1989) - Transistor.
* **Grace Hopper** (1906–1992) - COBOL programming language.
* **Alan Turing** (1912–1954) - Computer science, artificial intelligence.
* **Robert Noyce** (1927–1990) - Integrated circuit.
* **Jack Kilby** (1923–2005) - Integrated circuit.
* **Hedy Lamarr** (1914–2000) - Frequency-hopping spread spectrum.
* **Leon Theremin** (1896–1993) - Electronic musical instrument (theremin).
* **John Bardeen** (1908–1991) - Transistor, superconductivity.
* **Hans Bethe** (1906–2005) - Nuclear fusion.
* **Richard Feynman** (1918–1988) - Quantum electrodynamics.
* **Frederick Sanger** (1918–2013) - DNA sequencing.
* **Arthur C. Clarke** (1917–2008) - Geostationary satellite.
* **Ralph Baer** (1922–2014) - Video games.
* **Douglas Engelbart** (1925–2013) - Computer mouse.
* **Paul Baran** (1926–2011) - Packet switching, early Internet development.
* **Gordon Moore** (1929–2023) - Moore's Law, semiconductors.
* **Stanley Cohen** (1935–2020) - Genetic engineering.
* **Herbert Boyer** (1936– ) - Genetic engineering.
* **Andrew Grove** (1936–2016) - Intel, semiconductors.
* **Masaru Ibuka** (1908–1997) - Sony, consumer electronics.
* **Akio Morita** (1921–1999) - Sony, consumer electronics.
* **Vinton Cerf** (1943– ) - Internet protocols (TCP/IP).
* **Masatoshi Shima** (1943– ) - Microprocessor.
* **Federico Faggin** (1941– ) - Microprocessor.
* **Steve Wozniak** (1950– ) - Personal computer.
* **Tim Berners-Lee** (1955– ) - World Wide Web.
* **Steve Jobs** (1955–2011) - Personal computer, smartphone.
* **Elon Musk** (1971– ) - Electric cars, space exploration.
* **Larry Page** (1973– ) - Internet search engine (Google).
* **Sergey Brin** (1973– ) - Internet search engine (Google).
* **Mark Zuckerberg** (1984– ) - Social networking (Facebook).
* **Craig Venter** (1946– ) - Human genome project.
* **Rosalind Franklin** (1920–1958) - DNA structure.
* **Rosalind Franklin** (1920–1958) - DNA structure.
* **Frederick Sanger** (1918–2013) - DNA sequencing.
* **Fritz Haber** (1868–1934) - Synthetic ammonia.
* **Carl Bosch** (1874–1940) - Synthetic ammonia.
* **Michael Faraday** (1791–1867) - Electromagnetic induction.
* **Charles Darwin** (1809–1882) - Evolution theory.