agriculturalistBorn: c. 1865Birthplace: Japan After failing his university exams, Kinji Ushijima migrated to California in 1888. Unlike most Japanese immigrants, he arrived with some money. With…
Born: 1854Birthplace: Waterville, N.Y. Method and apparatus for coating plates for use in photography—Before Eastman, photographers used glass plates with light-sensitive emulsions on them. Eastman…
Born: 1846Birthplace: Central Bridge, N.Y. Steam-power brake devices—Westinghouse invented a system of railroad brakes that would centralize control in the hands of the engineer. Westinghouse,…
Born: 1939 Far Electrograph Ultraviolet Camera. The Far Ultraviolet Camera and Spectrograph uses ultraviolet light to study Earth's upper atmosphere, stars, and interstellar space. It went to the…
Born: 2/22/1732Birthplace: Westmoreland County, Va. George Washington was born on Feb. 22, 1732 (Feb. 11, 1731/2, old style) in Westmoreland County, Va. While in his teens, he trained as a…
actorBorn: 4/20/1937Birthplace: Los Angeles Takei will likely be forever associated with hit sci-fi series Star Trek. He joined the franchise in 1966 as helmsman Hikaru Sulu and has appeared each…
(George Louis Scheafer)director, producerBorn: 12/16/1920Birthplace: Wallingford, Connecticut In the early 1950s and 1960s, Schaefer directed the first TV versions of several Shakespearean plays…
manufacturer, social reformerBorn: 9/19/1839Birthplace: Birmingham, England With his brother Richard, he took over his father's failing chocolate business and built it into the highly successful…
inventor, manufacturer, philanthropistBorn: 7/12/1854Birthplace: Waterville, N.Y. Eastman is largely responsible for stimulating popular interest in photography through his inventions and through…
