1 - 78 of 78 famous, important and notable inventors ranked by their popularity on On This Day.
1. Thomas Edison
2. Alexander Graham Bell
3. Robert Fulton
4. Charles Strite
5. Dmitri Mendeleev
6. Louis-Jacques Daguerre
7. George Gallup
8. Al Gross
9. Karl Benz
10. Guglielmo Marconi
11. Ferdinand von Zeppelin
12. Gottlieb Daimler
13. Hedy Lamarr
14. Samuel Morse
15. Michael Faraday
16. Charles Babbage
17. Momofuku Ando
18. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
19. Alessandro Volta
20. Christopher Latham Sholes
21. George Eastman
22. Leó Szilárd
23. Edwin Land
24. James Naismith
25. Samuel Colt
26. Ignacy Łukasiewicz
27. James Watt
28. Cyrus McCormick
29. Mikhail Kalashnikov
30. Alexander Cartwright
31. John Logie Baird
32. George Washington Carver
33. Eugene Stoner
34. Otto Frederick Rohwedder
35. Eli Whitney
36. Chester Greenwood
37. Peter Carl Goldmark
38. King C. Gillette
39. Alfred Carlton Gilbert
40. Johannes Gutenberg
41. Elisha Otis
42. Richard Arkwright
43. Elijah McCoy
44. Werner von Siemens
45. Peter Mark Roget
46. George Nissen
47. Richard Jordan Gatling
48. Isaac Pitman
49. Ray Kurzweil
50. John Wesley Hyatt
51. Clarence Birdseye
52. Charles Goodyear
53. Cluny MacPherson
54. Thomas Elkins
55. John Pemberton
56. David Edward Hughes
57. Elias Howe
58. Gail Borden
59. Rowland Hill
60. Louis Braille
61. Hugo Eckener
62. Ernő Rubik
63. Archimedes
64. James Franklin Hyde
65. Claude Niépce
66. Vladimir Zworykin
67. Walter Hunt
68. John Ericsson
69. Harry Ferguson
70. Jeffrey Hawkins
71. Georgios Papanicolaou
72. Gustaf Dalén
73. Nicéphore Niépce
74. John Harrison
75. Ray Dolby
76. Hobart "Hobie" Alter
77. Samuel Morey
78. Felix Hoffmann