Portfolio Category: Inventor

Frederick Edwards CBE (1889-1966)

Academic and industrialist and pioneer of high vacuum technology. The company he founded, Edwards Vacuum,…

Robert Hooke (1635-1703)

In 1660 Hooke discovered the law of elasticity which bears his name in the course…

Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898)

Engineer and inventor of the “Bessemer Process” for mass produced high quality steel, transforming industry…