Historic BiosThe articles in this blog are about famous people from history in science. They include articles about scientists, inventors, and engineers.
Thomas Edison, an American inventor and businessman, profoundly impacted the world with inventions like the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the long-lasting electric light bulb. His approach to mass production and large-scale teamwork in invention pioneered the concept of the first industrial research laboratory. Edison, born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, grew up in Port […]
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879. His parents were Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch. In 1880, the family moved to Munich, where Einstein’s father and his uncle Jakob founded Elektrowerkzeuge Hermann Einstein & Cie, a company that manufactured […]