swap_horiz Carl Zeiss Alternatives

1

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press utilizing movable type in the mid-15th century. This innovation dramatical...

German Press Printing 15TH Century

9.7 Brilliant

2

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer for her notes on Charles Babbages Analytical Engine. Her ins...

Software Algorithm Mathematics Computer Science

9.5 Brilliant

3

Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist who pioneered the use of sulfonamide drugs for treating bacterial infections. Hi...

German Chemistry Medicine 20TH Century

9.4 Excellent

4

Peter Grünberg

Peter Grünberg was a German physicist who revolutionized data storage technology. His independent 1988 discovery of gian...

German Physics 20TH Century Data Storage

9.4 Excellent

5

Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith was an American inventor whose innovations dramatically improved data processing. He developed a punch-...

American 19TH Century Computing Punch Card Tabulator

9.3 Excellent

6

Auguste Lumière

Auguste Lumière was a French inventor instrumental in the development of early cinema. He collaborated with his brother...

French Photography 19TH Century Film

9.3 Excellent

7

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-American inventor renowned for his development of the first practical telephone. Hi...

Audio Communication 19TH Century Telephone

9.2 Excellent

8

Emil Berliner

Emil Berliner was a German-American inventor credited with developing the first practical method of recording sound onto...

Audio 19TH Century Gramophone German American

9.2 Excellent

9

Emile Berliner

Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor who revolutionized audio technology. His 1887 patent for the lateral-cut g...

Audio 19TH Century Telecommunications German American

9.2 Excellent

10

Ernst Abbe

German physicist who partnered with Carl Zeiss in Jena, formulating the Abbe sine condition in 1873 and establishing the...

German 19TH Century Zeiss Microscopy

9.1 Excellent

11

Hiram Stevens Maxim

American-British inventor who created the Maxim gun in 1884, the first fully automatic recoil-operated machine gun, tran...

19TH Century Electrical American British Automatic Gun

9.1 Excellent

12

William Dickson

Scottish-born inventor William Dickson worked in Thomas Edison's laboratory and developed the Kinetoscope, an early moti...

19TH Century Film British American Kinetoscope

9.1 Excellent

13

John Browning

American firearms designer whose prolific output included the M1911 pistol and the Browning Automatic Rifle, making him...

American 19TH Century Mechanical Firearms

9.0 Excellent

14

Sakichi Toyoda

Japanese inventor and industrialist who created the automatic power loom in the late 19th century and founded what becam...

19TH Century Japanese Textile Automatic Loom

9.0 Excellent

15

Henry Bessemer

Henry Bessemer was an English engineer whose 1856 Bessemer process made large-scale, low-cost steel production possible...

19TH Century Steel Industrial British

8.9 Great

16

John Dunlop

Scottish veterinarian who reinvented the pneumatic rubber tire in 1888 to improve his son's tricycle ride, launching the...

19TH Century Rubber Transportation Scottish

8.8 Great

17

John Philip Holland

Irish-American engineer who designed the USS Holland, commissioned in 1900 as the first submarine purchased by the U.S....

19TH Century Naval Propulsion Irish American

8.8 Great

18

Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Daimler was a German engineer who helped create a high-speed petrol engine in 1885, a key step toward modern mo...

German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.6 Great

19

Wilhelm Maybach

Wilhelm Maybach was a German engineer who worked with Gottlieb Daimler and designed early petrol engines and cars, inclu...

German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.3 Great

20

Carl von Linde

Carl von Linde was a German engineer who developed practical refrigeration machines in the 1870s and later advanced air...

German 19TH Century Industrial Refrigeration

8.3 Great