Thomas Mensah Inventions Information

Thomas O. Mensah (born around 1950) is a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor, who contributed to the development of fiber opti...

Michael Joseph Owens Inventions Information

Michael Joseph Owens (January 1, 1859 – December 27, 1923) was an inventor of machines to automate the production of glass bottles. He was ...

Mark S. Humayun Inventions Information

Mark S Humayun is an ophthalmologist, engineer, scientist, inventor and academic – the only ophthalmologist ever to be elected a member of ...

Mary Dixon Kies Inventions Information

Mary Dixon Kies (March 21, 1752 – 1837) was an American inventor. On May 5, 1809, her patent for a new technique of weaving straw with silk...

Robert S. Munger Inventions Information

Robert Sylvester Munger (July 24, 1854 – April 20, 1923) and his wife Mary Collett Munger (1857–1924) invented the system cotton gin. Afte...

Jack Roeser Inventions Information

John Otto Roeser (August 31, 1923 – June 13, 2014) was an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, businessman and more recently a civic ...

L. Rafael Reif Inventions Information

Leo Rafael Reif (born August 21, 1950) is a Venezuelan-American electrical engineer, writer and academic administrator. He is the president...

Austin F. Cushman Inventions Information

Austin F. Cushman (June 18, 1830 – November 29, 1914) invented the self-centering Cushman universal chuck in 1862; his father-in-law, Simon...

Elmer L. Gaden Inventions Information

Elmer L. Gaden Jr. (1923 – 10 March 2012) has been described as "the father of biochemical engineering". A graduate of Columbia U...

Richard H. Lufkin Inventions Information

Richard H. Lufkin (Charlestown, 1851- Roxbury, 1922) was a Massachusetts inventor of a piece of shoemaking machinery, the vamp folding mach...