| Startup Advice: Advice from Experts to Start | | | | Eli Whitney (1765-1825) invented the cotton gin in |
| your own Business By Howard Schwartz | | | | 1794. The cottongin is a machine that separates |
| Who are the most Famous Investors in History? | | | | seeds, hulls and other unwantedmaterials from |
| New Invention Website: Who-Invented.org New | | | | cotton after it has been picked. |
| survey reviewing the most famous inventors | | | | Johannes Gutenberg (1394-1468) was a German |
| inthe world. | | | | goldsmith and inventorbest known for the |
| The top ten most famous inventors and their | | | | Gutenberg press, an innovative printing |
| inventions are asfollows: | | | | machinethat used movable type. |
| Thomas Edison (1847-1931), the first great | | | | John Logie Baird (1888-1946) is remembered as |
| invention developed by | | | | the inventor ofmechanical television. Baird also |
| Thomas Edison was the tin foil phonograph. A | | | | patented inventions related toradar and fiber |
| prolific producer, | | | | optics. |
| Edison is also known for his work with light bulbs, | | | | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) invented the |
| electricity,film and audio devices, and much more. | | | | lightning rod, the ironfurnace stove or Franklin |
| Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1869), in 1876, at | | | | Stove, bifocal glasses, and the odometer. |
| the age of 29, | | | | Henry Ford (1863-1947) improved the "assembly |
| Alexander Graham Bell invented his telephone. | | | | line" for automobilemanufacturing, received a |
| Among one of his firstinnovations after the | | | | patent for a transmission mechanism, |
| telephone was the photo phone, a device | | | | andpopularized the gas-powered car with the |
| thatenabled sound to be transmitted on a beam | | | | Model-T. |
| of light. | | | | James Naismith (1861-1939) was a Canadian |
| George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an | | | | physical educationinstructor who invented |
| agricultural chemist whoinvented three hundred | | | | basketball in 1891. |
| uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses | | | | Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) invented a |
| forsoybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes and | | | | punch-card tabulationmachine system for |
| changed the history ofagriculture in the south. | | | | statistical computation. |