Douglas Engelbart was an internet and computer pioneer. A visionary, Engelbart is responsible for many of the internet and computer products that we use extensively today, including the computer mouse ...

Samuel J. Webb (1862-1909) was a businessman and prolific inventor from Minden, Louisiana. He invented more than 200 devices (for many of them he obtained patents), and the most popular of them was ...

Little is known about René Grillet de Roven (see the calculating machine of René Grillet), Sieur Grillet Maistre Horlogeur, as he was titled. As it is clear from his name (also spelled René Grilliet), ...

Who Was Salomon de Caus? Born in 1576, Salomon de Caus was a French scientist and engineer with various amazing skills, including designing, architecture, hydraulic engineering, and inventing. As a ...

Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, codebreaker, and philosopher known for his Turing Test, an imitation game. He is best known, however, for his 1936 paper on the ...

The book Curiositez mathematiques de l’invention du Sr Grillet horlogeur a Paris of Grillet Five years later, in 1678, in the earliest scientific journal published in Europe—the french Le Journal des ...

While many of the greatest inventors of the 19th century are known only for what’s on their patent, the truth is that they had lives and careers outside of what they invented that sadly tended to get ...

Jack Kilby, an engineer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for physics (along with Robert Noyce) is largely responsible for creating the modern integrated circuit (also called a microchip), as well as ...

Who Was Pehr-Georg Scheutz? Pehr-Georg Scheutz, born on September 23, 1785, was a Swedish inventor, translator, and lawyer, popularly known for his pioneering influence in the advancement of computer ...