Category: Inventors & Inventions

The man and his significance: Nikola Tesla, a prolific inventor, electrical and mechanical engineer and physicist, is best known for his futuristic vision and significant contribution to modern science and technology. Tesla invented dozens of …

Ajit Narayanan, founder, chairman and managing director of Invention Labs, has invented India’s first alternative communication device Avaz to help children and people with speech impairities including autism, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, and aphasia. Narayanan …

Widely acclaimed as the ‘Father of Fiber Optics’ and ‘Silicon Valley Legend’ Narinder Singh Kapany is pioneering figure of one the most significant scientific contributions to the world of physics – Fiber Optics without which …

Some years ago, product designing engineers Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves were asked if it was technically possible to build a light for less than $10 to replace kerosene and sun-powered lamps. The idea was …

An India-born engineer-scientist Arogyaswami J Paulraj has been honored with prestigious 2014 Marconi Prize (considered equivalent to ‘Nobel’ prize for technology initiators or pioneers) for his subsequent contribution in developing the theory and applications of …

Indian-American businessman Chet Kanojia is founder and CEO of pioneering online TV platform Aereo, for which he has embroiled himself in a widespread legal battle with more than 17 network broadcasters including ABC, NBC and …

Niko Klansek, CEO and founder of FlyKly, has literally changed the face of transportation by means of cycling. With his team of highly skilled designers, engineers, software developers and bicycle cultural researchers, he has introduced …

Austro-American silver screen megastar Hedy Lamarr was best known for her great exotic beauty and significant invention of the Frequency-hopping spread-spectrum. She was born on 9 November 1913 as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, …

British innovator and industrial designer Sir James Dyson is best known for inventing Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner and founder of the Dyson Company. The Sunday Times Rich List 2013 reports his net worth to …

“The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.” ~Earl Tupper Earl Silas Tupper is best known as the founder of Tupperware (1948), the most popular name …

17 February 1905 – 16 February 1977 Rózsa Péter, a Hungarian mathematician, is widely acclaimed for her most significant work on recursion theory. In 1922, Péter attended the Eötvös Loránd University to study chemistry but …

Born: February 10, 1883 – Died: October 29, 1959 Edith Clarke was world’s first female electrical engineer, first woman to accomplish an electrical engineering graduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the …