Category
page 1Inventors from Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Henry J. Heinz
American businessman (1844-1919)
Amar Bose
Indian American academic entrepreneur (1929–2013)
Edward Goodrich Acheson
American chemist (1856–1931)
Oliver Evans
American inventor
Benjamin Chew Tilghman
American inventor
Thomas Godfrey
American optician and inventor (1704-1749)
David Alter
American inventor and scientist (1807–1881)
Franklin Pierce Geyer
(1853-1918) American police detective

William Henry
Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress
Fred Cox
NFL football player (1938-2019)