14 People Whose Works Are Much More Famous Than They Are

1. Garrett Morgan, the man who made traffic a little less annoying and exponentially less lethal.

Morgan set up the first street traffic light after being bothered by road accidents. With the populations ever growing in the future and with an exponential addition of cars and bikes on the roads, his inventions will still help us long into the future.

2. Georges de Mestral, the reason we can all wear sandals easily.

 

 

de Mestral invented the velcro after he found stubborn thistles on his dog’s fur. He observed that the thistles had hook-like leaves that didn’t let go easily. As a result, we got velcro, which is as widespread as a zipper.

3. William Addis, the reason we have clean teeth.

 

People used pieces of rag, fingers and twigs of trees before Addis came up with the toothbrush. People used charcoal on a body part that is supposed to be white.
Thank god for Addis, we don’t have to use pieces of cloth to clean our teeth.

4. Willis Carrier, the reason we keep out cool in the face of harsh summers.

 

Carrier made the first air conditioner with a stable coolant. And as a result, gave us a gadget that keeps us cool every summer. And what with the global warming and all, his invention will be crucial to all humans on this planet.

5. Lazlo Biro, the reason we write so smoothly.

 

Lazlo Biro first used printer ink in his fountain pen, but it didn’t work. So he invented the world’s first ball point pen. He revolutionized writing until the stylus came along.

6. Douglas Engelbart who gave us the best way to communicate with our computers.

 

He came up with the design of the first computer mouse in 1968. More than one billion computer mice have been sold since then.

7. Ron Klein, the reason behind almost all financial transactions today.

 

Ron Klein invented the magnetic strip that enables us to make cashless transactions multiple times in a day. He may well be the reason behind the extinction of paper money.

8. Harvey Ball, the man who made texting more interesting.

 

Harvey ball created the first emoticon – the smiley. He could have raked in millions, but sadly, he never copyrighted his work, because he didn’t feel that it would be so popular.

9. Nick Holonyak the reason why tube lights and light bulbs will be extinct.

 

Mr. Holonyak predicted way back in 1962 that his invention, the LED bulb will replace all incandescent bulbs in the future.
As we know now, he may well be true.

10. Karlheinz Brandenburg the reason we can listen to pirated music.

 

Brandenburg invented the Mp3 file format that made music so easily transferable everywhere electronically.

11. Gideon Sundback, the reason why men can pee without pulling their pants down.

 

Sundback invented the zipper that became mainstream on every trouser that was created for men. It also became standard on bags too.

12. Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, the man behind perfect music.

 

Winkel invented the first functional metronome. The metronome is used to count a period in music. This device is basically the reason we call a particular music “slow” and “fast”.

13. James Goodfellow, the reason we can withdraw cash anywhere, at any time.

Mr. Goodfellow came up with the idea of a PIN code, which would let people withdraw cash from machines, that are called ATM machines today.

14. Ajay Bhatt – the inventor of USB.