GROUPS
Famous German Inventors
FEATURED VIDEO
Featured People
See all Famous German Inventors (7)
-
Johannes Gutenberg
- In these groups:
- Famous Inventors
- Famous People Named Johannes
- Famous Germans
Johannes Gutenberg
Inventor / 1395 - 1468
German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed a method of printing from movable type. He printed the first book via movable type, the “Forty-Two-Line” Bible.
-
Gottlieb Daimler
- In these groups:
- Famous Pisceans
- Famous Inventors
- Famous Engineers
Gottlieb Daimler
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor / 1834 - 1900
German inventor Gottlieb Daimler patented one of the first successful internal-combustion engines and later founded the Daimler company, which produced the first Mercedes car in 1899.
-
Karl Benz
- In these groups:
- Fantastic Facial Hair
- Famous Sagittarians
- Famous Inventors
Karl Benz
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor / 1844 - 1929
German mechanical engineer Karl Benz designed and built the first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine.
-
Ferdinand Porsche
- In these groups:
- Famous Virgoans
- Famous Inventors
- Famous Engineers
Ferdinand Porsche
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor / 1875 - 1951
Ferdinand Porsche founded the Porsche car company in 1931. In the early 1920s, he oversaw the development of the Mercedes compressor car, and later developed the first designs of the Volkswagen car with his son, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche.
-
Nikolaus Otto
- In these groups:
- Famous Geminis
- Famous Inventors
- Famous People Born in 1832
Nikolaus Otto
Inventor / 1832 - 1891
Nikolaus Otto created the first internal-combustion engine that used the four-stroke cycle. It provided an alternative power source to the steam engine. -
Ferdinand Braun
- In these groups:
- Famous Geminis
- Famous Inventors
- Famous Physicists
Ferdinand Braun
Inventor, Physicist / 1850 - 1918
German physicist Ferdinand Braun was the co-recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics for his developments with wireless technology.
profile name: Johannes Gutenberg profile occupation: Inventor
profile id: 9208256
profile name: Karl Benz profile occupation: Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor
profile id: 9542414
profile name: Ferdinand Porsche profile occupation: Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor
profile id: 36980
profile name: Gottlieb Daimler profile occupation: Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor
profile id: 9430652
profile name: Nikolaus Otto profile occupation: Inventor
profile id: 9224860
profile name: Ferdinand Braun profile occupation: Inventor, Physicist
group
Your Connections
Sign in with Facebook to see how you and your friends are connected to famous icons.
Other groups you may
be interested in
-
ABBA
4 people in this group
-
Fantastic Facial Hair
Fantastic Facial Hair
View groupThe Chaplin. The Fu Manchu. The Van Dyke. The Garlbaldi. These beards, and other creative variations on chin whiskers, have become such a striking reflection of their wearers' personalities that it becomes hard to know whether the people made the facial hair famous, or the other way around. We do know this much is certain: the only rivals to these fabulous beards are the men sporting them.
70 people in this group
-
Batman Villains
Batman Villains
View groupA superhero like Batman needs a legion of super villains to zap, ka-pow and wham out of Gotham City. From his first appearance in Batman comic books of the late 1930s to later television shows and films, the Caped Crusader has battled such infamous foes as "the Penguin," played by Burgess Meredith on TV and Danny DeVito on the big screen, and "the Joker," played by both Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger, among others. Browse our evil lair of actors who have played some of the baddest Batman baddies.
21 people in this group

Prince William
Famous Astronauts
Kanye West
My Ghost Story
I Survived
Liberace
Annie Oakley
I Survived


