C/2014 G3 [SEP] discoverer or inventor
C/2014 G3
C/2014 G3 is a faint comet discovered on 10 April 2014 by Pan-STARRS which will pass near Jupiter's gravitational field on 8 March 2016 at distance of . The comet had about a 405-year orbital period before entering the planetary region of the Solar System. The comet will only brighten to around apparent magnitude 18 in 2015, and will require a large amateur telescope with a CCD camera to be detected. After this passage the comet will have a 391-year orbital period. C/2014 G3 has a spectra similar to S
- Joseph Bramah (1748–1814), inventor of the hydraulic press (beer pump)
- Sir Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), discoverer of hydrogen
- Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999), inventor of the hovercraft
- William Congreve (1772–1828), rocketry pioneer
- Abraham Darby (c. 1678–1717), ironmaster
- James Dyson (born 1947), inventor
- James Hargreaves (1720–1778), weaver and inventor
- Sir John Harington (1561–1612), poet and inventor of the first water closet