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I Più Grandi Inventori e Geni dell'Ingegneria

Inventors are the bridge between theory and the physical world. These 41 builders — from Archimedes' water screw to the airplane — turned science into the infrastructure of modern life.

Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel

A Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist who bequeathed his fortune to the Nobel Prize ins

Archimedes

Archimedes

IQ 190

A Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

IQ 160

A French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made pioneering contributions to several branches of mathematics.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

IQ 180

A French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

IQ 170

Coulomb's law

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage

IQ 170

A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer.

Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon

IQ 180

An American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".

Ctesibius

Ctesibius

IQ 185

Greek inventor and mathematician who is considered to be the father of pneumatics.

Edith Stern

Edith Stern

IQ 200

An American inventor and mathematician who holds over 100 US patents and was the youngest ever graduate of Florida Atlan

Elon Musk

Elon Musk

IQ 155

One in a lifetime entrepreneur, business giant, scientist & engineer. The man behind Tesla, Space-X and more.

George Stephenson

George Stephenson

IQ 175

A British civil engineer and mechanical engineer responsible for creating the standard of railroad tracks

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi

IQ 165

An Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission.

Howard Robard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes

IQ 170

An American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist who went mad b

Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy

IQ 185

Cornish chemist & inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

An English civil engineer who built dockyards, the Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including the fi

James Watt

James Watt

IQ 165

A Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who created the Watt steam engine in 1776

John Bardeen

John Bardeen

IQ 180

An American engineer and physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.

John von Neumann

John von Neumann

IQ 190

Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath.

Henri Poincaré

Henri Poincaré

IQ 190

French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science who made fundamental contributions to pure and app

Kim Ung-yong

Kim Ung-yong

IQ 210

Having one of the biggest IQs in the world.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

IQ 200

Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who is widely considered one of the greatest minds and painters of all time

Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler

IQ 190

A Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the study of graph theory an

Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling

IQ 190

An American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator

Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia

An Italian mathematician, engineer, a surveyor, and a bookkeeper from the then-Republic of Venice

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

IQ 190

A French mechanical engineer in the French Army, military scientist and physicist, and often described as the "father of

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

IQ 195

Was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

IQ 195

A French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physi

Pyotr Kapitsa

Pyotr Kapitsa

A leading Soviet physicist, engineer, and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physics.

Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton

IQ 155

An American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steam

Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban

Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban

IQ 140

A French military engineer who worked under Louis XIV generally considered as one of the most important in Western milit

Shahriar Afshar

Shahriar Afshar

An Iranian-American physicist and multiple award-winning inventor known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experim

Simon Stevin

Simon Stevin

A Flemish mathematician, physicist and military engineer.

Theodore Maiman

Theodore Maiman

IQ 165

An American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser.

Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun

IQ 180

a German-American aerospace engineer who pioneered rocket and space technology in the United States

Wright brothers

Wright brothers

IQ 165

Two American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful moto

William Armstrong Fairburn

William Armstrong Fairburn

A noted American author, naval architect, marine engineer, industrial executive, and chemist.

Macquorn Rankine

Macquorn Rankine

IQ 180

Rankine scale Laws of thermodynamics Rankine–Hugoniot relation

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

IQ 185

A British mathematician, mathematical physicist, and engineer whose works helped to formulate the 1 and 2 laws of thermo

Yaakov Ziv

Yaakov Ziv

The father of modern files compression. Developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.

Kelvin Doe

Kelvin Doe

A Sierra Leonean engineer known for teaching himself engineering at the age of 12 and building his own radio station.

Federico Faggin

Federico Faggin

An Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur best known for designing the first commercial micropr

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Domande Frequenti

Who is the greatest inventor of all time?

Thomas Edison holds the record at 1,093 U.S. patents; Nikola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, and Archimedes are the historical titans.

Did Tesla invent AC current?

Yes — Nikola Tesla invented the alternating-current (AC) induction motor and polyphase AC system that powers the modern world.

Who invented the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876; Elisha Gray filed a competing patent the same day.

Who invented the airplane?

The Wright Brothers — Orville and Wilbur — made the first powered flight on December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk.

Is Elon Musk an engineer?

Musk is a founder and product architect; he holds physics and economics degrees but is not formally trained as an engineer.