Seeing the 30 Under 30 honorees may have you wondering about young professionals who have been successful in other fields. There have always been young people pushing innovation and achieving commercial success. Here are some major milestones achieved by individuals who had yet to celebrate their 30th birthday.
Early Success
Seeing the 30 Under 30 honorees may have you wondering about young professionals who have been successful in other fields. There have always been young people pushing innovation and achieving commercial success. Here are some major milestones achieved by individuals who had yet to celebrate their 30th birthday.
In 1818, at age 20, Mary Shelley saw the publication of her novel Frankenstein; she was only 18 when she began writing it.
In 1927, Philo Farnsworth debuted the first operational television at the age of 21.
In 1972, Mark Spitz won seven gold medals in swimming when he was 22, a record that was surpassed 36 years later by another young swimmer, Michael Phelps, at 23 years old.
At age 25, Charles A. Lindbergh became the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next day as a result of his 1927 prize-winning, non-stop solo flight in a single-seat, single-engine monoplane called the Spirit of St. Louis.
Albert Einstein wrote a paper proposing his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905 when he was a 26-year-old employee working six days a week at a Swiss Patent office. While balancing work and family life, Einstein found time to work on his scientific theories.
Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission, was 28 years old when a transmission sent on Dec. 17, 1902, from the Marconi station in Nova Scotia became the worlds first radio message to cross the Atlantic from North America.
In 1876, at the age of 29, Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first ever words on his invention, the telephone: Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.
