List of inventors
This is a list of inventors. See also: list of scientists, List of inventions named after people, timeline of invention, inventor, and :Category:Inventors.
Alphabetical list
A Thomas Ahearn, inventor of the electric stove in 1892Archimedes, (circa 287 BC-212 BC), Greece Manfred von Ardenne, (1907-1997), GermanyWilliam George Armstrong — hydraulic crane, Armstrong breech-loading gunEdward Asselbergs,(1927 - June, 1996)of the Canadian Department of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakesJoseph Aspdin, British inventor of cement in 1824
B Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), England — Analytical engineLeo Baekeland (1863) - (1944), Belgium — plasticRalph Baer - German born American — computer gameSteve Baer - (1938-) U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), Scotland — televisionJohn Bardeen, (1908-1991) — co-inventor of the transistorTrevor Baylis, (1937- ) — clockwork radioArnold O. Beckman, (1900 - 2004), pH meterAlexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Scotland and Canada — telephoneKarl Benz, Germany — automobileEmile Berliner, (1851-1929) Germany and USA — gramophoneHenry Bessemer, (1813-1898), England — Bessemer processTim Berners-Lee — World Wide WebBi Sheng — primitive movable printing typesKatherine Blodgett, (1898-1979) — nonreflective glassTheobald Boehm, (1794-1881), Germany — inventor of the modern fluteJoseph-Armand Bombardier — snowmobileHugo Borchardt (1844-1924) German/American inventor of the Borchardt C-93 semi automatic pistolRuđer Bošković, (1711-1787) — Croatia, ring-micrometer, water telescopeWalter Houser Brattain, (born 1902), co-inventor of the transistorLouis Braille, (1809-1852)Karl Ferdinand Braun, (1850-1918), Germany — cathode ray tubeWernher von Braun, (1912-1977), Germany and USA — rocket technologyEdwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846) — lawnmower and adjustable spannerRobert Bunsen, (1811-1899), Germany — Bunsen burner
C Cai Lun — paperMarvin Camras — magnetic recordingChester Carlson, (1906-1968) USA — electrophotographyWallace Carothers, (1896-1937) — NylonGeorge Washington Carver, (1860-1943), plant scientistChang Heng — "Seismograph"Arthur C. Clarke, (born 1917),England, geosynchronous satelliteChristopher Cockerell, (1910-#259; (1886-1972) — Jet aircraftJacques Cousteau, France — aqualungCharles Cros, (1842-1888) — phonograph... almostNicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725-1804) — automobileWilliam Cullen — mechanical / chemical refrigerationWard Cunningham — wiki
D Gustav Dahlén, (1869-1937) — invented the AGA LighthouseGottlieb Daimler, (1834-1900), Germany — automobileSalvino D'Armate — eyeglassesLeonardo DaVinci, (1452-1519), Italy — euclidean geometryJoseph Day --(1855-1946) Two Stroke Internal Combustion EngineLee DeForest, (1873-1961) — triode, amongst othersSir James Dewar, (1842-1923) — Thermos bottleWilliam Kennedy Laurie Dickson, motion picture cameraRudolf Diesel, (1858-1913), Germany — Diesel engineKarl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany — bicycle (Draisine)Cornelius Drebbel (1572-1633)Richard Drew — Scotch (or cellophane) tape
E George Eastman, (1854-1932), USA — roll filmThomas Edison, (1847-1931), USA — phonograph, amongst othersDouglas Engelbart - the computer mouse [1]Oliver Evans (1755-1819) - amphibious vehicle, amongst othersJohn S. Eastwood (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple arch dam
F Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971) — vacuum tube television displayJames Fergason — liquid crystal displayReginald Fessenden — two-way radioAdolf Eugen Fick, (1829-1901) — contact lensJohn Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), England — vacuum diodeHenry Ford, (1863-1947), USA — modern assembly lineSamuel Fox — steel ribbed umbrellaBenjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), USA — lightning rod, bifocalsWilliam Friese-Greene, (1855-1921) — cinematographyBuckminster Fuller, (1895-1983) — geodesic domes, othersRobert Fulton, (1765-1815) — steamboat engine
G Galileo Galilei, (1564-1642), Italy — thermometerHans Geiger, (1882-1945)Robert Goddard, (1882-1945), USA — liquid fuel rocketHeinrich Göbel — light bulbGordon Gould — laserBette Nesmith Graham — Liquid PaperChester Greenwood, (1858-1937) — Ear muffsJames Gregory, (1638-1675) — reflecting telescopeHarry Grindell-Matthews, (1880-1941) — various products, & supposed death raySir William Grove — fuel cell William Gruber — View-masterOtto von Guericke, (1602-1686) — vacuum pumpJohann Gutenberg, (circa 1390s-1468), Germany — movable type printing press
H John Hadley — quadrant William Hamilton, jet boat in 1957Franjo Hanaman, Croatia, electric bulbJames Hargreaves, (1720-1778)John Harrison, (1693-1776) — marine chronometerRobert Heinlein, (1907-1988), waterbedRudolf Hell, (1901-2002)John Philip Holland, (1840-1914) — "true" submarineErna Schneider Hoover, computerized telephone switching system
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J Aleksandar Just — Croatia, electric bulbKarl Jatho — airplaneSam Jacks — ringetteCarl Edvard JohanssonJohan Petter Johansson
K William KellyMary Dixon Kies — method for weaving straw with silk for hat-making.Fritz Klatte — invented vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chlorideMargaret Knight — (1838-1914) American, machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags.Gleb Kotelnikov - Russian inventor of the parachute.Stephanie Kwolek — Kevlar
L Hedy Lamarr, (1913-2000) — Spread spectrumEdwin H. Land, (1909-1991), USA — Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land CameraHåkan Lans, (1942-) — Developed the Computer mouse by adding a heavy rubber ball to the underside of it. Irving Langmuir, (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen weldingLewis Latimer — worked with Thomas Edison and patented an improved lightbulb manufacturing process.Gottfried Leibniz — binary numeral systemJustus von Liebig, (1803-1873) — fertilizerIvan Lupis-Vukić (1813-1875) — Croatia, torpedo
M Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937), Italy — radioJack Marks — boxer's gumshieldEdgar Matias — Half KeyboardElijah McCoy — son of former slaves, patented many lubrication devicesLise Meitner — nuclear chain reactionNarcis Monturiol i Estarriol, (1819-1885) — steam powered submarineRobert Moog — music synthesizerMontgolfier brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), France — hot-air balloonSamuel Morey, (1762-1843) — internal combustion engineGarrett A. Morgan, (1877-1963) — African-American Inventor of the gas mask, and traffic signal.Samuel Morse, (1791-1872), USA — telegraph
N Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Sweden — dynamiteThomas Newcomen, England(ca. 1664-1729) designed a steam engine Isaac Newton, England,(1642-1727) — reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration)
O Hans von Ohain — co-founder of the jet engineElisha Otis — passenger elevator and concommitant safety deviceNikolaus Otto, (1832-1891), Germany — four-stroke cycle engine
P Spede Pasanen, Finnish inventorSlavoljub Eduard Penkala, (1871-1922), Croatia, ball point penBlaise Pascal, (1623-1662) — adding machineSteve Pasjack, Canadian who invented the tuck-away beer carton handle in 1957Stephen Perry — rubber bandAshwin Kochiyil Philips — personal audio recorderOlivia Poole, Mother of 7, invented the Jolly Jumper baby harness with her husband, circa. 1959
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R Johann Philipp Reis, (1834-1874), Germany — telephoneNorbert Rilleaux, (1806-1894), USA — sugar processingWilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923), Germany — x-ray machineOtto Frederick Rohwedder, USA — automatic bread-slicing machineJames Russell — compact disc
S Alberto Santos-Dumont, (1873-1932) — non-rigid airship and airplaneAdolphe Sax, (1814-1894) — saxophoneAugust Schrader, Schrader valve for Pneumatic tireDavid Schwarz, Croatia, rigid ship later called ZeppelinClaude E. Shannon, (1916-2001) — information theoryWilliam Bradford Shockley, (1910- ) — co-inventor of transistorWerner von Siemens, (1816-1892), Germany — dynamo (electrical generator), electrical railroad, electrical elevatorPercy Shaw — cat's eyesHenry Miller Shreve, (1785-1854) — sidewheeler, snagboat, various other steamboat and steam engine improvementsLucien B. Smith — barbed wireGeorge Stephenson, (1781-1848), England — steam locomotive, civil engineer, inventorLevi Strauss, (1829-1902), USA — blue jeansJohn Stringfellow — airplaneJoseph Swan, (1828-1914), England — inventor, physicist
T Nikola Tesla, ( 1856-1943), Serbian-Croatia- 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 bombRay Tomlinson — Internet-based e-mailLeonardo Torres y Quevedo, (1852-1936), Spanish inventorAlfred Traeger, (1895 - 1980), Australian inventor of the pedal radioAlan Turing, (1912–1954) a British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer, and is considered to be one of the fathers of modern computer science. He provided an influential formalisation of the concept of algorithm and computation: the Turing machine.
U Lewis Urry, (1927-2004), — long-lasting alkaline battery.
V Johann Vaaler, Paper clipAlessandro Volta, (1745-1827), Italy — batteryFaust Vrančić (1551-1617), Croatia, parachuteIvan Vučetić - Croatia, fingerprinting
W Erik Wallenberg, — invented the Tetra PakGhulam Sediq Wardak — Afghan with 341 unpatented inventionsRobert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973) — microwave radarJames Watt, (1736-1819), Scotland — practical steam engineGeorge Westinghouse, (1846-1914), USA — Air brakeEli Whitney, (1765-1825) — cotton ginFrank Whittle, (1907-1996) — co-inventor of the jet engineOtto Wichterle, (1913-1989) — invented modern contact lensesDietrich Nikolaus Winkel, (1780-1826), — inventor of the metronomeA. Baldwin Wood, (December 1879-1956), US inventor & engineerGranville Woods, synchronous multiplex railway telegraph and other railroad-related technology Wolfhart Willimczik Wolfhart Engine, air mobile etc Arthur Wynne, (1862 - 1945), crossword puzzle (1913)
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Z Ferdinand von Zeppelin, (1838-1917), Germany — rigid airshipKonrad Zuse, (1910-1995), Germany — computersVladimir Zworykin (1889-1982), Russia — television
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