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Elon Musk b. 1971Technology & InventionEngineer and entrepreneur whose companies have advanced electric vehicles, reusable rockets, and neural interfaces.
Orville Wright 1871–1948Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the first successful powered airplane, achieving human flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.
Wilbur Wright 1867–1912Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the first successful powered airplane and pioneer of aeronautical engineering.
Nikola Tesla 1856–1943Technology & InventionSerbian-American inventor who developed alternating current electrical systems and numerous electrical innovations.
Steve Wozniak b. 1950Technology & InventionCo-founder of Apple who designed the Apple I and Apple II computers, sparking the personal computer revolution.
Claude Shannon 1916–2001Technology & InventionMathematician and engineer who founded information theory, the basis of all digital communication.
Robert H. Goddard 1882–1945Technology & InventionBuilt and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket and patented foundational rocket propulsion methods.David Packard 1912–1996Technology & InventionBuilt Hewlett-Packard into a corporation and wrote the management code Silicon Valley copied.
Vannevar Bush 1890–1974Technology & InventionBuilt the differential analyzer and directed U.S. wartime research while proposing the Memex concept.
Vint Cerf b. 1943Technology & InventionCo-designer of the TCP/IP protocols that form the foundation of the internet.
Philo Farnsworth 1906–1971Technology & InventionDemonstrated the first fully electronic television system using his image dissector tube.
Frederick Terman 1900–1982Technology & InventionStanford dean and provost who built the first university industrial parkWilliam Hewlett 1913–2001Technology & InventionDesigned HP's first product and the pocket calculator that ended the slide rule.
Jack Kilby 1923–2005Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the integrated circuit, a foundational innovation that made modern electronics possible.
Douglas Engelbart 1925–2013Technology & InventionEngineer who invented the computer mouse and demonstrated interactive computing in 1968.
Willis Carrier 1876–1950Technology & InventionEngineer who invented modern air conditioning, transforming industry, architecture, and daily life.
Margaret Hamilton b. 1936Technology & InventionDirected development of the Apollo onboard flight software and popularized the term software engineering.
Granville Woods 1856–1910Technology & InventionPatented induction telegraph and electrical systems that improved railway communication and safety.
Edwin Howard Armstrong 1890–1954Technology & InventionInvented the regenerative and superheterodyne circuits and frequency modulation radio.
Lee de Forest 1873–1961Technology & InventionInvented the Audion triode tube that enabled electronic signal amplification and early radio broadcasting.
Bob Kahn b. 1938Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols alongside Vint Cerf, enabling modern digital communication.
John Mauchly 1907–1980Technology & InventionCo-inventor of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.
Lisa Su b. 1969Technology & InventionCEO of AMD who transformed the semiconductor company into a major competitor to Intel and NVIDIA.
Dean Kamen b. 1951Technology & InventionInventor of the Segway, insulin pump, and water purification systems for the developing world.
Lewis Howard Latimer 1848–1928Technology & InventionPatented a durable carbon filament process and drafted key electrical patents for Bell and Edison.
Robert Metcalfe b. 1946Technology & InventionCo-invented Ethernet at Xerox PARC and founded 3Com to commercialize local area networking.
J. Presper Eckert 1919–1995Technology & InventionCo-inventor of ENIAC and pioneer of electronic computing alongside John Mauchly.
Federico Faggin b. 1941Technology & InventionLed design of the Intel 4004 microprocessor and later co-founded Zilog.
Radia Perlman b. 1951Technology & InventionDesigned the spanning tree protocol that made large bridged Ethernet networks practical.Clifford Berry 1918–1963Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the first electronic digital computing device.