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Philo Farnsworth / Television
Philo first conceived the idea of an electronic television at age 14 in 1920. He had a working model at age 21.
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| Alexander Graham Bell / Wheat Husker, Telephone...
At the age of 14, Bell conceived of a device designed to remove the husks from wheat by combining a nail brush and paddle into a rotary-brushing wheel. |
| Frank Epperson / The Popsicle
Frank invented the Popsicle when he was 11 years. 18 years later he applied for and received a patent for his invention - which he called the "epsicle ice pop". His kids renamed it the Popsicle.
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| Igor Sikorsky / The Helicopter
Igor began developing the helicopter at the age of 19. He successfully flew the first VS-300 in 1939.
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| Leslie Scott / Jenga!
Invented JENGA! It is a game played with stackable wooden blocks. Leslie, a British Citizen, came up with the idea while living in Africa as a teenager. The word JENGA is Swahili for "build".
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| Blaise Pascal / The Calculator
Blaise invented the calculator at the age of 18 in 1641. It was a mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction.
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| Louis Braille / Braille
Louis invented Braille when he was 12 years old in 1821. He published his first Braille book in 1829 at the age of 20.
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| George Parker (of The Parker Brothers) / Gaming Empire
George invented his first game at the age of 15, a game called "Banking". A year later with the encouragement of his brother he started his own game company. Soon two of his brothers joined and Parker Brothers was born.
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| Abbey Fleck / Makin Bacon
Abbey, in 1992 at 8 years old, invented MAKIN BACON, a device that cooks the bacon hanging up so the fat will drip into a tray below. |
| Abbey Fleck / Makin Bacon
Abbey, in 1992 at 8 years old, invented MAKIN BACON, a device that cooks the bacon hanging up so the fat will drip into a tray below. |
| Andrew Heafitz / Lightweight Camera
Andrew received his first patent at age 19 in 1985 for the shutter of a high-speed balsa wood camera that he constructed and flew in a model rocket. |
| Becky Schroeder / Glo-Sheet
Becky invented the Glo-sheet when she was 10 years old in 1972. Two years later in 1974, she was the youngest female ever to receive a U.S. Patent. |
| Brian Hubert / Oceanic Hydroelectricity
He began inventing a machine at age 8 that would convert the weight of water into electrical energy while it sat on the ocean Floor. |
| Chelsea Lanmon / Diaper Pocket
At the age of 5 Chelsea watched her mother making sure that she had powder and wipes along with a clean diaper before she started changing her younger brother. Chelsea thought it would be easier to have everything in one place so she invented the Diaper Pocket. This is a diaper with a pocket that holds a wipe and a powder puff in it. |
