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List of inventors
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This is a list of inventors.
See also: list of scientists, timeline of invention, and inventor.
A
Thomas Ahearn, inventor of the electric stove in 1892
Archimedes, (circa 287 BC-212 BC), euclidean geometry
William George Armstrong -- hydraulic crane, Armstrong breech-loading gun
Edward Asselbergs, of the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture, invented instant mashed potato flakes
B
Charles Babbage, (1791-1871) -- Analytical engine
Leo Baekeland (1863) - (1944) -- plastic
John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), television
John Bardeen, (1908-1991) -- co-inventor of the transistor
Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922) -- telephone
Karl Benz -- automobile
Emile Berliner, (1851-1929) -- gramophone
Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898) -- Bessemer process
Tim Berners-Lee -- World Wide Web
Walter Houser Brattain, (born 1902), co-inventor of the transistor
Louis Braille, (1809-1852)
Edwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846) -- lawnmower and adjustable spanner
Robert Bunsen, (1811-1899), chemist
C
Marvin Camras -- magnetic recording
Chester Carlson, (1906-1968) -- electrophotography
George Washington Carver, (1860-1943), plant scientist
Arthur C. Clarke, (born 1917), geostationary satellite
Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999) -- hovercraft
Henri Coand? (1886-1972) -- Jet aircraft
Jacques Cousteau, 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 -- automobile
Salvino D’Armate -- eyeglasses
Leonardo DaVinci, (1452-1519), euclidean geometry
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) -- Diesel engine
Karl Drais -- bicyle (Draisine)
Richard Drew -- Scotch (or cellophane) tape
E
George Eastman, (1854-1932) -- roll film
Thomas Edison, (1847-1931) -- phonograph, amongst others
Douglas Engelbart - the computer mouse [1]
Barry Ethridge - High-Speed Data communications via Optical Fiber, amongst others
Oliver Evans (1755-1819) - amphibious vehicle, amongst others
F
Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971) -- vacuum tube television display
James Fergason -- liquid crystal display
Reginald Fessenden -- two-way radio
John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), vacuum diode
Henry Ford, (1863-1947) -- modern assembly line
Samuel Fox -- steel ribbed umbrella
Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) -- 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) -- thermometer
Hans Geiger, (1882-1945)
Robert Goddard -- 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) -- movable type press
H
John Hadley -- quadrant
William Hamilton, jet boat in 1957
James Hargreaves, (1720-1778)
John Harrison, (1693-1776) -- marine chronometer
Robert Heinlein, (1907-1988), waterbed
Rudolf Hell, (1901-2002)
John Philip Holland, (1840-1914) -- "true" submarine
I
J
Karl Jatho -- airplane
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
L
Edwin H. Land, (1909-1991) -- Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera
H?kan 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 welding
Lewis Latimer -- worked with Thomas Edison and patented an improved lightbulb manufacturing process.
Gottfried Leibniz -- binary numeral system
Justus von Liebig, (1803-1873) -- fertilizer
M
Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937) -- radio
Jack Marks -- boxer’s gumshield
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, (1740-1810), brothers -- 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), telegraph
N
Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896) -- dynamite
Thomas Newcomen, (ca. 1664-1729)
Isaac Newton, (1642-1727) -- reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration)
O
Hans von Ohain -- co-founder of the jet engine
Elisha Otis -- passenger elevator and concommitant safety device
P
Spede Pasanen, Finnish inventor
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
Q
R
Philip Reis -- telephone
Norbert Rilleaux, (1806-1894), US chemical engineer, inventor
Otto Frederick Rohwedder - sliced bread
James Russell -- compact disc
S
Alberto Santos-Dumont, (1873-1932) -- non-rigid airship and airplane
Adolphe Sax, (1814-1894) -- saxophone
Claude E. Shannon, (1916-2001) -- information theory
William Bradford Shockley, (1910- ) -- co-inventor of transistor
Werner von Siemens, (1816-1892)
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), civil engineer, inventor
Levi Strauss
John Stringfellow -- airplane
Joseph Swan, (1828-1914), inventor, physicist
T
Nikola Tesla, (ca. 1856-1943), Serbian-American inventor of the induction motor, alternating current polyphase power distribution system, wireless communication, robotics, logic gates, the bladeless turbine, and VTOL aircraft (among others).
Edward Teller -- fusion bomb
Ray Tomlinson -- Internet-based e-mail
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, (1852-1936), Spanish inventor
U
V
Johann Vaaler, Paper clip
Alessandro Volta, (1745-1827) -- battery
W
Erik Wallenberg, -- invented the Tetra Pak
Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973) -- microwave radar
James Watt, (1736-1819) -- practical steam engine
George Westinghouse -- 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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Y
Z
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, (1838-1917) -- rigid airship
Konrad Zuse, (1910-1995), computers
Vladimir Zworykin -- television
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