STEM – Inventors

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...
February 3rd, 2025

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...
March 8th, 2022

Dasia Taylor (2004- ) [Children’s Edition]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Who are they: Dasia Taylor...
September 8th, 2021

Kamal Al Mansour (1959- )
Kamal Al Mansour is an African American artist and inventor who graduated from University of California Los Angeles in 1981...
August 15th, 2021

Dasia Taylor (2004- )
Teenage scientist and inventor Dasia Taylor was born on April 6, 2004, in Chicago, Illinois, to LaDonna Phillips. When she...
August 2nd, 2021

Lonnie Johnson (1949- ) [Children’s Edition]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Who are they: Lonnie George...
July 8th, 2021

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...
June 6th, 2021

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...
May 16th, 2021

Valerie Thomas (1943- )
Valerie LaVerne Thomas, scientist, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, was born on February 1, 1943 in Baltimore, Maryland. Reared in the...
April 21st, 2021