Erastus Brigham Bigelow

Erastus Brigham Bigelow was an American inventor of weaving machines. American industrialist, noted as the developer of the power loom for making lace and many types of carpet. At the age of 23 he invented his first loom for making coach lace in 1837. Bigelow followed this with other power looms for weaving a variety of figured fabrics, tapestry carpeting, and ingrain carpeting. He obtained a pate.....

Walter Chrysler

Walter Percy Chrysler was an American automotive industry executive and founder of Chrysler Corporation, now a part of Stellantis Walter Chrysler built his company through superior management and engineering. Chrysler was born in Wamego, Kansas in 1875. His father was a locomotive engineer, which undoubtedly influenced Chrysler’s decision to enroll in a four-year machinist apprenticeship at age .....

Benjamin Outram

Benjamin Outram was an English civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist. He was a pioneer in the building of canals and tramways English civil engineer and industrialist who was a pioneer builder of canals. His commissions included becoming engineer for the Nottingham Canal in 1792, and the Derby Canal in 1793. For the latter, he erected the world's first cast iron navigable aquaduct , the 44-f.....

Shivakumara Swami

Shivakumara Swami was an Indian supercentenarian, humanitarian, spiritual leader and educator. He was a Lingayat religious figure, he joined the Siddaganga Matha in 1930 Karnataka and became head seer from 1941. He also founded the Sri Siddaganga Education Society. Before his death at the age of 111 years, 295 days, he was one of the oldest people living in India. In 2015, he was awarded by the G.....

Sir Dugald Clerk

Sir Dugald Clerk KBE, LLD FRS was a Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878 and patented it in England in 1881. He was a graduate of Anderson's University in Glasgow, and Yorkshire College, Leeds. Clerk studied science at Andersonian College, Glasgow, and Yorkshire College, Leeds. He built a gasengine in 1876 and in 1881 patented his two-stroke engine.....

Benjamin Baker

Sir Benjamin Baker KCB KCMG FRS FRSE was an eminent English civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era. He helped develop the early underground railways in London with Sir John Fowler, but he is best known for his work on the Forth Bridge. He was born in Keyford, to Benjamin Baker family and who was a , principal assistant at Tondu Ironworks and, at the age of 16, became an apprentic.....

Jethro Tull

English writer and agronomist who invented a horse-drawn drill around 1701. He promoted sowing seeds in rows rather than broadcast so that weeds could be controlled by hoeing regularly between the rows. For this purpose, he devised his seed drill, which could planted three rows at the same time. A blade cut a groove in the ground to receive the seed, and the soil was turned over to cover the sewn.....

Ingvar Kamprad

Feodor Ingvar Kamprad was a Swedish billionaire business magnate best known for founding IKEA in 1943, a multinational and largest retail company specialising in furniture. He lived in Switzerland from 1976 to 2014 Kamprad displayed entrepreneurial skills as a boy when he began selling matches to neighbours. In 1943, at age 17, he founded a company called IKEA, the name based on his own initials......

Elihu Thomson

Elihu Thomson was an English-born American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France English-American engineer and inventor whose discoveries in the field of alternating current phenomena led to the development of successful alternating current motors. Thomson invented electric welding and other impo.....

Sam Walton

Samuel Moore Walton was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. grew to be the world's largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world. For a period of time, Walton was the richest man in America Walmart Today For the fiscal year ending in Janaury 2020, Walmart's total revenue wa.....

Steve Ballmer

Steven Anthony Ballmer is an American billionaire businessman and investor who served as the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. Steven Anthony Ballmer as of December 2020, Forbes estimates his personal wealth at US$74.3 billion, ranking him as the 10th richest person in the world. Bal.....

Sir Joseph Bazalgette

Sir Joseph was a 19th-century English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames. He was also the designer of the Hammersmith Bridge.After working on projects in Northern Ireland, B.....

John R. Pierce

Pierce was influential in the development of microwaves and radar during WW II, then began working on the theory of satellite communication in 1954. His writings, which detailed the use of satellites in beaming radio signals around the world, were largely ignored. However, he convinced NASA to convert the Echo balloon satellite into a radio wave reflector. His successful experiments with Echo in 1.....

Henry Royce

Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE was an English engineer famous for his designs of car and aeroplane engines with a reputation for reliability and longevity. With Charles Rolls and Claude Johnson, he founded Rolls-Royce. English industrialist who, having met Charles Rolls, in May 1904, found they shared a common interest to manufacture and market the finest cars. Together, in 1906 they .....

Othmar Ammann

Othmar Hermann Ammann was a Swiss-American civil engineer whose bridge designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge. He also directed the planning and construction of the Lincoln Tunnel. George Washington bridge is the longest single span in the world. In 1904 Ammann immigrated to the United States, where he helped design railroad bridges. Joining the.....

Lawrence Edward Page

Lawrence Edward Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of the co-founders of Google along with Sergey Brin. Page, whose father was a professor of computer science at Michigan State University, received a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan and entered into the doctorate program at Stanford, where he met Brin. The two were.....

Vasant Gowarikar

Vasant Ranchhod Gowarikar was an Indian scientist. He was a director in Indian Space Research Organization and also the scientific advisor to the Prime Minister of India in 1991–1993. Gowarikar made valuable contributions to the fields of space research, weather and population......

Norman Borlaug

Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Father of the Green Revolution The expression "the green revolution" is permanently linked to Norman Borlaug's name. He obtained a PhD in plant protection at the age of 27, and worked in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s to m.....

Satyendra Prasanna Sinha

Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha, was a prominent lawyer and statesman in British India. He was the first Governor of Bihar and Orissa, first Indian Advocate-General of Bengal, first Indian to become a member of the Viceroy's executive Council and the first Indian to become a member of the British ministry. He is sometimes also referred as Satyendra Prasanno Sinha or Satyendra Prasad Sinh.....

Joseph Priestley

Priestley,born in to a dissenting family of church, remained a influential religious free thinker throughout his whole life . Priestley initially became a minister and a teacher. He then became interested in electricity and after encouragement from the visiting Benjamin Franklin began experiments on what he considered unanswered questions in the field. Priestley went on to discover 10 new gases in.....

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