Top ten best inventors of all time 1. Cai LUN
Cai Lun, the eunuch of the Eastern Han Dynasty, improved papermaking and made Cai Hou paper. He was a famous inventor. He summed up people's experience in papermaking, innovated papermaking technology and improved papermaking technology, which was popularized by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and made outstanding contributions to the spread of human culture and the progress of world civilization. Unfortunately, in the power struggle, he finally committed suicide.
2.da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian Renaissance painter, was born in 1452. He took Mona Lisa and The Last Supper as his representative works. In addition to painting, he was also good at sculpture, invention, biology, physics, astronomy, geology and other disciplines, which had a far-reaching impact on the human body and was praised by later generations as the most perfect representative of the Renaissance.
3. james watt
British inventor and entrepreneur, born in 1736, was an important figure in the first industrial revolution, and invented the first practical steam engine in 1776. After improvement, the universal prime mover has been widely used in industry, making human beings formally enter age of steam.
4. Thomas Alva Edison
It is mentioned that this world-famous inventor, physicist and entrepreneur was born in Milan 1847, USA. He is also a figure with more than 2,000 important invention patents and has the reputation of the world's invention king. His products, such as movie cameras, electric lights and phonographs, have a great influence on the military.
5. Bi Sheng
Born in 972, Bi Sheng, an inventor of the Northern Song Dynasty, summed up his predecessors' experience and invented movable type printing such as clay type and wood type typesetting, which had a far-reaching impact on the development of printing in China, but his deeds can only be seen in Shen Kuo's Meng Qian Bi Tan.
6.the Wright brothers
The Wright brothers invented the world's first plane that stayed in the air for a long time. They are famous American inventors. In 1903, they made the first test flight of a completely controlled plane that landed without relying on their own power. Some people called it the three greatest inventions that had the greatest influence on mankind in the 20th century, along with computers and televisions.
7. antonio meucci
Born in 1808, the inventor of the telephone was an Italian with the reputation of "the father of the telephone", and the inventor who became an American citizen in 1850 was involved in a lawsuit because of the patent problem of the telephone, and finally meucci was recognized as the inventor of the telephone through the US resolution.
8. Galileo Galilei
Galileo was the founder of natural science in modern Europe. He studied the principles of acceleration, relative tonnage, free fall, neutrality and inertia, invented telescopes, thermometers and various military compasses, and was a famous Italian astronomer. He confirmed the phase of Venus, discovered the four largest satellites of Jupiter, observed Saturn's rings and analyzed sunspots.
9. nikola tesla
The Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer made great contributions to magnetism, and successively invented and manufactured the world's first radio-controlled ship and the generator set of Niagara Power Station. The electrical pioneer with more than 65,438+0,000 invention patents died in 65,438+0,943 at the age of 86.
10. Benjamin Franklin
Franklin mentioned that his first thought was an American politician, the founding father of the United States, one of the drafters and signatories of the Declaration of Independence, and an inventor. The famous kite lightning experiment was carried out by this man. He invented bifocal glasses, lightning rod and frog shoes successively, and put forward the law of conservation of charge at the earliest.