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This is a list of inventors.
See also: list of scientists, List of inventions named after
people, timeline of invention, and inventor.
Alphabetical list
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
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- Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), England -- Analytical engine
- Leo Baekeland (1863) - (1944), Belgium -- plastic
- Ralph Baer - German born American -- computer game
- John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), Scotland -- television
- John Bardeen, (1908-1991) -- co-inventor of the transistor
- Arnold O. Beckman, (1900 - 1904), pH meter
- Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Scotland and USA -- telephone
- Karl Benz, Germany -- automobile
- Emile Berliner, (1851-1929) Germany and USA -- gramophone
- Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898),England -- Bessemer process
- Tim Berners-Lee -- World Wide Web
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier -- snowmobile
- Ruđer Bošković, (1711-1787) -- Croatia, ring-micrometer, water telescope
- Walter Houser Brattain, (born 1902), co-inventor of
the transistor
- Louis Braille, (1809-1852)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun, (1850-1918), Germany -- cathode ray
tube
- Wernher von Braun, (1912-1977), Germany and USA -- rocket
technology
- Edwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846) -- lawnmower and adjustable
spanner
- Robert Bunsen, (1811-1899), Germany -- Bunsen burner
C
- Marvin Camras -- magnetic recording
- Chester Carlson, (1906-1968) USA -- electrophotography
- George Washington Carver, (1860-1943), plant
scientist
- Arthur C. Clarke, (born 1917),England, geostationary satellite
- Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999)England, -- hovercraft
- Henri Coandă (1886-1972) -- Jet aircraft
- Jacques Cousteau, France -- aqualung
- Charles Cros, (1842-1888) -- phonograph... almost
- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725-1804) -- automobile
- William Cullen -- mechanical / chemical refrigeration
- Ward Cunningham -- wiki
D
- Gustav Dahlén,
(1869-1937) -- invented the AGA Lighthouse
- Gottlieb Daimler, (1834-1900), Germany -- automobile
- Salvino D'Armate -- eyeglasses
- Leonardo DaVinci, (1452-1519), Italy -- euclidean geometry
- Joseph Day --(1855-1946) Two Stroke Internal Combustion Engine
- Lee DeForest, (1873-1961) -- triode, amongst others
- Sir James Dewar, (1842-1923) -- Thermos bottle
- William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, motion picture camera
- Rudolf Diesel, (1858-1913), Germany -- Diesel engine
- Karl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany -- bicycle (Draisine)
- Richard Drew -- Scotch (or cellophane) tape
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F
- Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971) -- vacuum tube television display
- James Fergason --
liquid crystal display
- Reginald Fessenden -- two-way radio
- Adolf Eugen Fick, (1829-1901) -- contact lens
- John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), England -- vacuum diode
- Henry Ford, (1863-1947), USA -- modern
assembly line
- Samuel Fox -- steel ribbed
umbrella
- Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), USA -- lightning rod, bifocals
- William Friese-Greene, (1855-1921) -- cinematography
- Buckminster Fuller, (1895-1983) -- geodesic domes,
others
- Robert Fulton, (1765-1815) -- steamboat engine
G
- Galileo Galilei, (1564-1642), Italy -- thermometer
- Hans Geiger, (1882-1945)
- Robert Goddard, (1882-1945), USA -- liquid fuel rocket
- Heinrich Goebel -- light bulb
- Gordon Gould -- laser
- Bette Nesmith Graham -- Liquid Paper
- James Gregory, (1638-1675) -- reflecting telescope
- Harry
Grindell-Matthews, (1880-1941) -- various products, & supposed death
ray
- Sir William Grove -- fuel
cell
- Otto von Guericke, (1602-1686) -- vacuum pump
- Johann Gutenberg, (circa 1390s-1468), Germany -- movable type press
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J
K
- William Kelly
- Mary Dixon Kies -- method for weaving straw with silk for
hat-making.
- Fritz Klatte -- invented
vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride
- Margaret Knight -- (1838-1914) American, machine that completely
constructs box-bottom brown paper bags.
- Stephanie Kwolek -- Kevlar
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M
- Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937), Italy -- radio
- Jack Marks -- boxer's gumshield
- Edgar Matias -- Half Keyboard
- Elijah McCoy, born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada, was one of 12 children of former Kentucky slaves, who escaped
through the Underground Railroad, patented more than 50
inventions, from tire treads, ironing boards and lawn sprinklers to the McCoy lubricator that earned the reputation of being the
only worthwhile product of it's kind of the market, or "The Real McCoy", hence the popular phrase.
- Lise Meitner -- nuclear
chainreaction
- Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol,
(1819-1885) -- steam powered submarine
- Robert Moog -- music synthesizer
- Montgolfier brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), France -- hot-air balloon
- Samuel Morey, (1762-1843) -- internal combustion engine
- Garrett A. Morgan, (1877-1963) -- African-American Inventor
of the gas mask, and traffic
signal.
- Samuel Morse, (1791-1872), USA -- telegraph
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- Spede Pasanen, Finnish inventor
- Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, (1871-1922), Croatia, ball point pen
- Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662) -- adding machine
- Steve Pasjack, Canadian who invented the tuck-away beer carton handle in 1957
- Stephen Perry -- rubber band
- Ashwin
Kochiyil Philips -- personal audio recorder
- Olivia Poole, Mother of 7, invented the Jolly Jumper baby harness with
her husband, circa. 1959
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R
S
- Alberto Santos-Dumont, (1873-1932) -- non-rigid airship and airplane
- Adolphe Sax, (1814-1894) -- saxophone
- David Schwarz, Croatia, rigid ship later called Zeppelin
- Claude E. Shannon, (1916-2001) -- information theory
- William Bradford Shockley, (1910- ) --
co-inventor of transistor
- Werner von Siemens, (1816-1892), Germany -- dynamo (electrical
generator), electrical railroad, electrical elevator
- Percy Shaw -- cat's eyes
- Henry Miller Shreve, (1785-1854) -- sidewheeler, snagboat, various other steamboat and steam engine improvements
- Lucien B. Smith --
barbed wire
- George Stephenson, (1781-1848), England -- steam locomotive, civil engineer, inventor
- Levi Strauss, (1829-1902), USA --
blue jeans
- John Stringfellow
-- airplane
- Joseph Swan, (1828-1914), England -- inventor, physicist
T
- Nikola Tesla, ( 1856-1943), Serbian-Croatia- [United States|American]] inventor of the induction motor, alternating current polyphase power
distribution system, wireless communication, robotics, logic gates, the bladeless turbine, radio and VTOL aircraft
(among others).
- Edward Teller -- fusion bomb
- Ray Tomlinson --
Internet-based e-mail
- Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, (1852-1936),
Spanish inventor
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V
W
- Erik Wallenberg, --
invented the Tetra Pak
- Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973) -- microwave radar
- James Watt, (1736-1819), Scotland -- practical steam engine
- George Westinghouse, (1846-1914), USA -- air brake
- Eli Whitney, (1765-1825) -- cotton gin
- Frank Whittle, (1907-1996) -- co-inventor of the jet engine
- A. Baldwin Wood, (December 1879-1956), US inventor &
engineer
- Granville Woods, synchronous multiplex railway telegraph and
other railroad-related technology
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