List of inventors

This is a List of inventors (in alphabetic order by surname):

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