STEM – Inventors
Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922-1999)
Marie Van Brittan Brown was the inventor of the first home security system. She is also credited with the invention...
Charles Frederick Page, Inventor of the Bi-Ballooned Flyable Airship, 1903
The story of Orville and Wilbur Wright and their first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903, is...
Robert Scott (ca. 1840-~1930)
Prolific inventor Robert P. Scott was most likely born somewhere between 1840 to 1850. Little information is known about his...
Dasia Taylor (2004- ) [Children’s Edition]
This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here. Who are they: Dasia...
Kamal Al Mansour (1959- )
Kamal Al Mansour is an African American artist and inventor who graduated from University of California Los Angeles in 1981...
Dasia Taylor (2004- )
Teenage scientist and inventor Dasia Taylor was born on April 6, 2004, in Chicago, Illinois, to LaDonna Phillips. When she...
Lonnie Johnson (1949- ) [Children’s Edition]
This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here. Who are they: Lonnie...
Meredith C. Gourdine (1929-1998)
Meredith C. Gourdine was an American engineer, athlete, and inventor. He primarily focused on electrogasdynamics systems which refer to generating...
Hildreth “Hal” Walker, Jr. (1933- )
NASA scientist Hildreth “Hal” Walker, Jr. is most known for leading the team that used a laser to measure the...
