• Thumbnail for John Stevens (inventor, born 1749)
    Col. John Stevens, III (June 26, 1749 – March 6, 1838) was an American lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive,...
    13 KB (1,302 words) - 05:16, 18 September 2024
  • John Stevens may refer to: John Stevens (inventor, born 1749) (1749–1838), American engineer who developed the multitubular boiler engine and the screw...
    4 KB (583 words) - 21:37, 27 May 2024
  • Phillip Stevens (1861–1941), Australian wireless experimenter and public servant John Stevens (inventor, born 1749) (1749–1838), U.S. inventor, recipient...
    14 KB (1,787 words) - 08:29, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Edwin Augustus Stevens
    establish the Stevens Institute of Technology. Stevens was born at Castle Point, Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Colonel John Stevens III (1749–1838) and...
    9 KB (927 words) - 23:42, 16 December 2024
  • This is a list of notable inventors. Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References Vitaly Abalakov (1906–1986), Russia...
    107 KB (12,077 words) - 16:43, 7 December 2024
  • the treatment of neurological disease Federico Faggin (born 1941) - physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur; best known for designing the first commercial...
    47 KB (5,607 words) - 00:53, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert R. Livingston
    daughter of Continental Congressman John Stevens and sister of the inventor John Stevens III. Following their marriage, he built a home south of Clermont...
    25 KB (2,115 words) - 20:12, 27 December 2024
  • Augustus Stevens (1795–1868), engineer, inventor and entrepreneur Colonel John Stevens (1749–1838), inventor; founder of Hoboken John Cox Stevens (1785–1857)...
    55 KB (6,489 words) - 06:53, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees
    included 22 inventors.John Fitch was the earliest born inventor inducted into the NIHF (1743), while Luis von Ahn is currently the most recently born (1978)...
    251 KB (14,627 words) - 17:02, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Alexander (lawyer)
    daughter Elizabeth, he was the grandfather of John Stevens III (1749–1838), a lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive...
    18 KB (1,825 words) - 16:17, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Old Abingdonians
    antiquary and Jacobite Sir John D'Oyly, 4th Baronet (1702–1773), 4th baronet of Chislehampton William Horton (c.1708–1749), leading military aide and...
    21 KB (2,093 words) - 02:52, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mary Alexander
    daughter Elizabeth, she was the grandmother of John Stevens III (1749–1838), a lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive...
    14 KB (1,277 words) - 21:40, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1792
    adventurer (b. 1741) April 30 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (b. 1718) May 10 – John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental...
    26 KB (2,799 words) - 01:00, 11 October 2024
  • presenter William Jones (1675-1749), mathematician Brian David Josephson (born 1940), physicist, Nobel Laureate, inventor of the Josephson junction Edward...
    67 KB (7,457 words) - 12:47, 16 December 2024
  • Congress from South Carolina (born 1749) September 9 – John Singleton Copley, painter (born 1738; died in London) September 24 – John Sevier, soldier, frontiersman...
    13 KB (959 words) - 22:23, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Scots
    and built the Union Canal John Logie Baird (1888–1946), television Nicol Hugh Baird (1796–1849), surveyor, engineer and inventor who emigrated to Canada...
    133 KB (15,186 words) - 16:48, 3 December 2024
  • microbiologist who won Nobel prize for work on typhus Ian Olver (born 1953) Gary Onik (born 1952) — inventor and pioneer of ultrasound guided cryosurgery for both...
    50 KB (5,428 words) - 23:02, 28 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of English people
    1947), inventor James Hargreaves (1720–1778), weaver and inventor Sir John Harington (1561–1612), poet and inventor of the first water closet John Harrison...
    79 KB (9,143 words) - 10:58, 2 December 2024
  • painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. Described as...
    56 KB (6,669 words) - 04:25, 7 September 2024
  • William Bacon Stevens (1815–1887), American bishop William Bacon Wright (1830–1895), Confederate politician Abra Bacon, character in John Steinbeck's East...
    22 KB (2,131 words) - 17:24, 30 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Scottish inventions and discoveries
    1038/nphoton.2012.332. ISSN 1749-4885. A Handbook of determinative methods in clay mineralogy Michael Jeffrey Wilson, Michael John Wilson Blackie, 1987 "Trees...
    62 KB (6,560 words) - 00:30, 31 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of people from Massachusetts
    Harvard Graduate School of Design John Goddard Stearns Jr. (1843–1917) – architect Harvey Ball (1921–2001) – inventor of the smiley face Will Barnet (1911–2012)...
    83 KB (8,435 words) - 03:09, 9 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Llanover House
    public. In 1792, Benjamin Waddington (1749-1828), the third son of the Rev. Joshua Waddington (1711-1780), who was born in Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire bought...
    11 KB (1,061 words) - 19:22, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lists of Armenians
    world, winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2024 Hovannes Adamian, engineer, inventor of color television Nicholas...
    92 KB (10,265 words) - 21:59, 22 December 2024
  • (1910-1995) Hubert Chanson – Australian engineering academic (born 1961) Jacques Charles – French inventor, scientist and mathematician (1746–1823) Jean-Yves Chemin –...
    24 KB (4,934 words) - 22:57, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin (category 18th-century American inventors)
    April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among...
    211 KB (22,468 words) - 10:18, 1 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Al-Zarqali
    Al-Zarqali (category Inventors of the medieval Islamic world)
    eventually made him the foremost astronomer of his time. Al-Zarqālī was also an inventor, and his works helped to put Toledo on the intellectual center of Al-Andalus...
    18 KB (1,989 words) - 22:32, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Horace Binney
    the inventor John Stevens III (1749–1838). Together, Horace and Elizabeth were the parents of: Mary (1805-1831), first wife of Judge/Congressman John Cadwalader...
    12 KB (1,107 words) - 09:02, 9 December 2024
  • (1779–1853), American inventor and tool maker Mary Brush (fl. 1815), American inventor Martha Coston (1826–1904), American inventor Ellen Eglin (1849–fl...
    41 KB (3,978 words) - 20:40, 12 December 2024
  • glaciologist John Paulitious (died 1645), Edinburgh's first plague doctor Marion Ross (1903–1994), physicist Daniel Rutherford (1749–1819), physician...
    56 KB (6,278 words) - 23:12, 2 January 2025