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List of inventors
This is a
List of inventors
(in alphabetic order by surname):
Table of contents
1 A
2 B
3 C
4 D
5 E
6 F
7 G
8 H
9 I
10 J
11 K
12 L
13 M
14 N
15 O
16 P
17 Q
18 R
19 S
20 T
21 U
22 V
23 W
24 X
25 Y
26 Z
1 See also
A
Archimedes
, (circa 287 BC-212 BC BC),
euclidean geometry
William George Armstrong
--
hydraulic crane[?]
, Armstrong breech-loading gun
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
George Washington Carver
, (1860-1943), plant scientist
Arthur C. Clarke
, (born 1917),
geostationary satellite
Christopher Cockerell
, (1910-1999) --
hovercraft
Jacques Cousteau
,
aqualung
Charles Cros
, (October 1842-1888) --
phonograph
... almost
William Cullen[?]
-- mechanical / chemical
refrigeration
D
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
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]
(
http://eepatents.com/collection#006
)
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
G
Galileo Galilei
, (1564-1642) --
thermometer
Hans Geiger
, (1882-1945)
Robert Goddard
-- liquid fuel rocket
Gordon Gould[?]
--
laser
James Gregory
, (1638-1675) -- reflecting telescope
Sir
William Grove[?]
-- fuel cell
Otto von Guericke
, (1602-1686) -- vacuum pump
Johann Gutenberg
, (circa 1390s-1468) -- movable type press
H
John Hadley[?]
-- quadrant
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
K
Stephanie Kwolek[?]
--
Kevlar
L
Edwin H. Land
, (1909-1991) --
Polaroid
polarizing filters and the
Land Camera
Irving Langmuir
, (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding
Justus von Liebig
, (1803-1873) --
fertilizer
M
Guglielmo Marconi
, (1874-1937) --
radio
Jack Marks[?]
-- boxer's
gumshield[?]
Harry Grindell Matthews[?]
--
death ray[?]
Lise Meitner
--
nuclear chainreaction[?]
Robert Moog
Montgolfier
, (1740-1810), brothers -- hot-air balloon
Samuel Morey
, (1762-1843), - internal combustion engine
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
P
Spede Pasanen
, Finnish inventor
Blaise Pascal
, (1623-1662) -- adding machine
Stephen Perry
-- rubber band
Ashwin Kochiyil Philips[?]
-- personal audio recorder
Q
R
Norbert Rilleaux
, (1806-1894), US chemical engineer, inventor
Otto Frederick Rohwedder
- sliced bread
James Russell[?]
--
compact disk
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
, co-inventor of
transistor
Werner von Siemens
, (1816-1892)
Percy Shaw[?]
-- cat's eyes
William Bradford Shockley
-- co-inventor of the
transistor
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-born inventor of
alternating current
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
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
X
Y
Z
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
, (1838-1917) -- rigid
airship
Konrad Zuse
, (1910-1995), computers
Vladimir Zworykin
--
television
See also
List of scientists
Timeline of invention
inventor
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