Inventor Biographies

Building a successful hair-care business and becoming one of America’s first self-made women millionaires.

Discovering how electricity and magnetism work together and helping create electric motors

He helped create the system of alternating current (AC) electricity that powers homes and cities.

Helping invent and fly the world’s first successful powered airplane with his brother Wilbur.

He helped create modern chemistry and discovered Boyle’s Law about gases.

Helping develop the telegraph and Morse code

Leading the Soviet space program and helping send the first satellite and first human into space

Co-founding Google and helping create one of the world’s most popular search engines

Founder of Honda Motor Company and a pioneer of cars and motorcycles

Co-founding Apple and helping create the first popular personal computers

Inventing and improving useful devices like the electric light bulb and the phonograph that changed everyday life

Inventing the World Wide Web so people everywhere can share information online

Helping invent and fly the first successful airplane with his brother Orville Wright