Innovator
"Innovators" redirects here. For other uses, see Innovators (disambiguation).
An innovator, in a general sense, is a person or an organization, who is one of the first to introduce into reality, something better than before. Something that opens up a new area for others, and achieves an innovation.
History
Some people that are often called innovators include:
- Isaac Newton - pioneered classical mechanics
- Albert Einstein - pioneered Relativity
- Steve Jobs - introduced first commercially successful personal computers, Graphical user interface PCs smartphones, tablet computers, first feature-length computer-animated film.
- Sir Richard Arkwright - credited for inventing spinning frame
- Wright Brothers - pioneered controlled flight
- Thomas Edison - developed the first economically feasible light bulb
- Dennis Ritchie - co-developer of the Unix operating system and authored the C programming language
- Karl Benz - developed the first automobile with internal combustion
- Henry Ford - pioneered mass-produced motor cars
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel - revolutionised public transport and engineering
- Nikola Tesla - pioneered the induction motor
- Robert H. Goddard - pioneered the liquid rocket engine
- Tim Berners Lee - pioneered the World Wide Web[1]
- Benjamin Graham - economist and professional investor
- Woody Shaw - American trumpeter and composer referred to by NPR as "the last great trumpet innovator"[2]
See also
- Innovation
- Southern Innovator Magazine
- Gitta, Cosmas and South, David (2011). Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 1: Mobile Phones and Information Technology: United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation. ISSN 2222-9280
- Gitta, Cosmas and South, David (2012). Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 2: Youth and Entrepreneurship: United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation. ISSN 2222-9280
- Gitta, Cosmas and South, David (2012). Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 3: Agribusiness and Food Security: United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation. ISSN 2222-9280
- Gitta, Cosmas and South, David (2013). Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 4: Cities and Urbanization: United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation. ISSN 2222-9280, ISBN 9780992021702
- Gitta, Cosmas and South, David (2014). Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 5: Waste and Recycling: United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation. ISSN 2222-9280, ISBN 978-0-9920217-1-9
- Timeline of historic inventions
References
- ↑ "Tim Berners Lee - Time 100 People of the Century". Time Magazine. 29 March 1999.
He wove the World Wide Web and created a mass medium for the 21st century. The World Wide Web is Berners-Lee's alone. He designed it. He loosed it on the world. And he more than anyone else has fought to keep it open, nonproprietary and free.
- ↑ West, Michael J. "Woody Shaw: The Last Great Trumpet Innovator". NPR.
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