Inventor Archive

Nuclear physicist Hans Geiger, whose surname is know

Heinz Joseph Gerber was born in 1924 in Vienna, Austria. By the age of eight, he was building motors and radios.

A.C. Gilbert was one of the most multi-talented inventors of all time.

Lillian Moller Gilbreth had good reason to improve the efficiency and convenience of household items.

At the last turn of the century, King Gillette founded what would become a corporate giant, based on a simple yet essen

Rube Goldberg was an inventor of the absurd, a social critic who used cartoons to point out the plight of people caught

Peter Carl Goldmark was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1906.  He studied physics at the University of Vienna, where

Kids love to draw with crayons, but when these ever-popular writing tools break into small pieces or when they’ve been

Through years of research and a single stroke of luck, Charles Goodyear saved the doomed rubber industry by inventing a

Breathable yet waterproof.

Gordon Gould was born in New York City in 1920. As a child, he idolized Thomas A.

For over thirty years, Meredith C.

Typists who are prone to making mistakes when using old-fashioned typewriters or word processors have Bette Nesmith Gra

Temple Grandin is our nation’s most expert designer of humane facilities fo

To grow up in Maine is to know cold weather.

A 1996 Gallup poll found that two thirds of American teenagers would like to found a company.  K-K Gregory, a nint