Top 6 Innovators of All Time [Pt. 2]

Innovators are very important to humanity. From the man who invented the first light bulb to the artist who painted the famous Mona Lisa, innovators have played a vital role in the advancement of the human race.

Innovation is the process of creating something new that makes life better. Innovation is impossible without passion. Innovators see the world differently. They become obsessed with making the world better.

Many innovators in the for-profit sector focus incessantly on bringing value to the market. Others focus incessantly on the core research needed to push the human race forward.

Below, we have picked out 6 of the greatest innovators of all time. Check them out:

Alexander Graham Bell

A Scottish inventor and engineer, Alexander Graham was awarded the US patent for the telephone in 1876. His work on telecommunications, aeronautics, and many other areas (he invented the metal detector) earned him a reputation as one of the great figures of the nineteenth century.

Sandford Fleming

A Scottish-Canadian innovator and inventor, Sandford used his engineering, surveying, and mapmaking skills to help build the transcontinental railways of the nineteenth century. He was also the inventor of worldwide standard time and the standard times zones used today.

Marie Curie

The first female winner of the Nobel Prize in 1903 (she won it twice in both physics and chemistry), Marie was a pioneering physicist and chemist who is known for her breakthrough ideas in radioactivity and her discovery of two elements.

The Wright Brothers

Orville & Wilbur Wright invented and flew the world’s first successful airplane in 1903. Their persistence, experimentation, and work on the principles of flight made them legendary inventors and innovators.

Galileo Galilei

The legendary Italian genius whose breakthrough ideas helped usher in the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century, Galileo is often called the father of modern science.

Forced to defend his views of heliocentrism against the Roman inquisition, and spending most of his life under house arrest for heresy, Galileo has become an icon of scientific integrity in the face of religious dogmatism.

Richard Feynman

One of the great scientists of the twentieth century, Richard’s breakthrough ideas in Quantum theory helped revolutionize that field.

This article was written by Ryan Allis and published on his website in 2012.