The increased number of patents issued in the 19th Century was fueled by the American Industrial Revolution and was a golden age for American invention. The BIG LIST Of Famous Inventors From Edward Goodrich Acheson, Ernst F. W. Alexanderson, Andrew Alford, Luis Walter Alvarez, Edwin Howard Armstrong, to Steve Wozniak, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin. Index of hundreds of famous inventors - provided by Inventure Place.
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Leonardo da Vinci Keen eye and quick mind led him to make important scientific discoveries, yet he never published his ideas. He was a vegetarian who loved animals and despised war, yet he worked as a military engineer to invent advanced and deadly weapons. Dead Inventors' Corner Discovery Channel Online's biweekly profiles of late great innovators. He remained an apprentice for three years and then returned to Dearborn. Hawaii Inventor's Gallery Hundreds of inventor's listed with brief bios, dates and countries.