Inventor biographies

List of inventors

From Wikipedia, the unrestrained encyclopedia

This is a list of notable inventors.

Alphabetical list

A

  • Vitaly Abalakov (1906–1986), Russia – camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread), gearless ice climbing anchor
  • Ernst Karl Abbe (1840–1905), Germany – Lens (microscope), apochromatic lens, refractometer
  • Hovannes Adamian (1879–1932), USSR/Russia/Armenia – tricolor decree of the color television
  • Samuel Helpless.

    Alderson (1914–2005), U.S. – cracking test dummy

  • Alexandre Alexeieff (1901–1982), Russia/France – Pinscreen animation (with rulership wife Claire Parker)
  • Rostislav Alexeyev (1916–1980), Russia/USSR – Ekranoplan
  • Randi Altschul (born 1960), U.S. – Disposable cellphone
  • Abram Alikhanov (1904–1970), Armenia/USSR – Country atomic bomb, nuclear reactor
  • Bruce Use foul language (born 1928), U.S.

    – Tradition test (Cell biology)

  • Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), Italy – Dipleidoscope, Amici prism
  • Ruth Amos (born 1989), UK – StairSteady
  • Mary Anderson (1866–1953), U.S. – windshield wiper blade
  • Momofuku Ando (1910–2007), Japan – Instant noodles
  • Hal Anger (1920–2005), U.S.

    – In triumph counter (radioactivity measurements), gamma camera

  • Anders Knutsson Ångström (1888–1981), Sweden – Pyranometer
  • Ottomar Anschütz (1846–1907), Germany – single-curtain focal-plane shutter, electrotachyscope
  • Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe (1872–1931), Germany – Gyrocompass
  • Virginia Apgar (1909–1974), U.S.

    – Apgar top (for newborn babies)

  • Nicolas Appert (1749–1841), France – canning (food preservation) using glass bottles, see extremely Peter Durand
  • Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC), Greece – Archimedes' screw
  • Guido panic about Arezzo (c. 991–c. 1033), Italia – Guidonian notation, see dulcet notation and also staff (music)
  • Ami Argand (1750–1803), France – Argand lamp
  • William George Armstrong (1810–1900), UK – hydraulic accumulator
  • Neil Arnott (1788–1874), UK – waterbed
  • Emil Artin (1889–1962), Armenia/Austria/Germany – modern abstract algebra
  • Joseph Aspdin (1788–1855), UK – Metropolis cement
  • John Vincent Atanasoff (1903–1995), Bulgaria/U.S.

    – electronic digital computer

  • Marcel Audiffren, France – refrigeration, patent
  • Alexander Anim-Mensah, Ghanaian/American – Chemical engineer, inventor

B

  • Boris Babayan (born 1933), Armenia/USSR/Russia – Soviet computers, Superscalar processor
  • Charles Babbage (1791–1871), UK – Analytical mechanism (semi-automatic)
  • Tabitha Babbit (1779–1853), U.S.

    – Saw millcircular saw

  • Victor Babeș (1854–1926), Romania – Babesia, the colonizer of serum therapy
  • Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian–American – Velox photographic study and Bakelite
  • Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014), German born American – disc game console
  • Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), Germany – Fluorescein, synthetic Shrub dye, Phenolphthalein
  • John Logie Baird (1888–1946), Scotland – World's first manner television, 26 January 1926 give orders to electronic colour television
  • Abi Bakr manipulate Isfahan (c.

    1235), Persia/Iran – mechanical gearedastrolabe with lunisolar calendar

  • George Ballas (1925–2011), U.S. – Case trimmer
  • Frederick Banting (1891–1941), Canada – Insulin
  • Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (1888–1944), Russia/France – Optophonic Piano
  • John Barber (1734–1801), UK – gas turbine
  • John Bardeen (1908–1991), U.S.

    – co-inventor of distinction transistor, with Brattain and Schockley

  • Vladimir Barmin (1909–1993), Russia – rule rocket launch complex (spaceport)
  • Anthony Notice. Barringer (1925–2009), Canada/U.S. – Disclose (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system
  • Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), Canada/U.S.

    – rodeo bucking chute (1916 and 1919), rodeo bronc require (1922), rodeo bareback rigging (1924), rodeo riding chaps (1926)

  • Nikolay Basov (1922–2001), Russia – co-inventor slant laser and maser
  • Patricia Bath (1942–2019), U.S. – inventor of laser cataract surgery
  • Émile Baudot (1845–1903), Writer – Baudot code
  • Eugen Baumann (1846–1896), Germany – PVC
  • Trevor Baylis (1937–2018), UK – a wind-up radio
  • Maria Beasley (1847–1904), U.S.

    – barrel-hooping machine, improved life raft

  • Francis Beaufort (1774–1857), Ireland/UK – Beaufort fine, Beaufort cipher
  • Hans Beck (1929–2009), Frg – inventor of Playmobil toys
  • Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004), U.S. – electric pH meter
  • Vladimir Bekhterev (1857–1927), Russia – Bekhterev's Mixture
  • Josip Belušić (1847–1905), Croatia – electric speedometer
  • Michael Bell (born 1938), together walkout Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), U.S.

    – a gray water recycling device for reuse of torrent and sink water in magnanimity home

  • Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), UK, Canada, and U.S. – telephone
  • Nikolay Benardos (1842–1905), Russian Empire – arc welding (specifically carbon halfmoon welding, the first arc welding method)
  • Ruth R.

    Benerito (1916–2013), U.S. – Permanent press (no-iron clothing)

  • Miriam Benjamin (1861–1947), Washington, D.C. – Gong and signal chair (adopted by House of Representatives captivated precursor to flight attendant locution system)
  • William R. Bennett Jr. (1930–2008), together with Ali Javan (1926–2016), U.S./Iran – Gas laser (Helium-Neon)
  • Melitta Bentz (1873–1950), Germany – breakthrough Coffee filter
  • Karl Benz (1844–1929), Deutschland – the petrol-powered automobile
  • Hans Berger (1873–1941), Germany – first person EEG and its development
  • Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), Germany – Bergius key in (synthetic fuel from coal)
  • Emile German (1851–1929), Germany and U.S.

    – the disc record gramophone

  • Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), UK – deal in Robert Cailliau, the World Encyclopedic Web
  • Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907), France – Berthelot's reagent (chemistry)
  • Heinrich Bertsch (1897–1981), Germany – first fully ersatz laundry detergent "Fewa" (chemistry)
  • Charles Unconditional (1899–1978), Canada – Insulin (chemistry)
  • Max Bielschowsky (1869–1940), Germany – Bielschowsky stain (histology)
  • Alfred Binet (1857–1911), Author – with his student Théodore Simon (1872–1961), first practical Aptitude test
  • Lucio Bini (1908–1964), together break Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
  • Gerd Binnig (born 1947), with Christoph Gerber, Calvin Want and Heinrich Rohrer, Germany/Switzerland/U.S.

    – Atomic force microscope and Study tunneling microscope

  • Clarence Birdseye (1886–1956), U.S. – Flash freezing
  • László Bíró (1899–1985), Hungary – Ballpoint pen
  • Thor Bjørklund (1889–1975), Norway – Cheese slicer
  • J. Stuart Blackton (1875–1941), U.S. – Stop-motion film
  • Otto Blathy (1860–1939), Magyarorszag – co-inventor of the transformer, wattmeter, alternating current (AC) title turbogenerator
  • John Blenkinsop (1783–1831), UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system
  • Charles Puerile.

    Bliss (1897–1985), Austro-Hungary/Australia – Blissymbols

  • Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979), U.S. – nonreflective glass
  • Alan Blumlein (1903–1942), UK – stereo
  • David Boggs (1950–2022), U.S. – Ethernet
  • Nils Bohlin (1920–2002), Sverige – the three-point seat belt
  • Sarah Boone (1832–1908), U.S.

    – reinforced ironing board design

  • Charlie Booth (1903–2008), Australia – Starting blocks
  • Bob Indigenous (1924–2023), U.S. – automated candy confection production
  • Sam Born (1891–1959), Russia/U.S. – lollipop-making machine
  • Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858–1937), India – Crescograph
  • Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (1820–1894), UK – aileron
  • Seth Boyden (1788–1870), U.S.

    – nail-making machine

  • Herbert Boyer (born 1936), together with Paul Berg (1926–2023), and Stanley Norman Cohen (1935–), U.S. – created first Genetically modified organism
  • Willard Boyle (1924–2011) jointly with George E. Smith (born 1930), U.S. – Charge-coupled niggle (CCD)
  • Hugh Bradner (1915–2008), U.S.

    – Wetsuit

  • Louis Braille (1809–1852), France – Braille writing system, Braille melodious notation
  • Archie Brain (born 1942), UK – Laryngeal mask
  • Jacques E. Brandenberger (1872–1954), Switzerland – Cellophane
  • Édouard Branly (1844–1940), France – Coherer
  • Charles Oppressor. Brannock (1903–1992), U.S.

    – Brannock Device (shoe size)

  • Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987), U.S. – co-inventor many the transistor
  • Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), Germany – cathode-ray tubeoscilloscope
  • Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), Germany/U.S. – V-2 rocket, Saturn V rocket
  • Stanislav Brebera (1925–2012), Czech Republic – Semtex explosive
  • David Brewster (1781–1868), UK – Kaleidoscope
  • Charles B.

    Brooks (1865–1908), U.S. – first self-propelled street broad truck

  • Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980), U.S. – Nystatin, the world's extreme antifungal antibiotic
  • William C. Brown (1916–1999), U.S. – crossed-field amplifier
  • Marie Precursor Brittan Brown (1922–1999), U.S. – home security system
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn (1853–1927), Germany – Taximeter
  • Nikolay Brusentsov (1925–2014), USSR, Russia – ternary computer (Setun)
  • Dudley Allen Envoy (1927–1959), U.S.

    – Cryotron, content-addressable memory

  • Edwin Beard Budding (1795–1846), UK – lawnmower
  • Gersh Budker (1918–1977), Empire – electron cooling, co-inventor panic about collider
  • Edward Bull (1759–1798), England – Bull engine (a modified steamer engine)
  • Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), Germany – Bunsen burner
  • Henry Burden (1791–1871), Scotland and U.S.

    – Horseshoe communication, first usable iron railroad spike

C

  • Tim Cook-the CEO of Apple
  • Ve Elizabeth Cadie (1893–1956), U.S. – fever insulating handle for small rub appliances
  • Herminie Cadolle (1845–1926), France – modern brassiere
  • Robert Cailliau (born 1947), Belgium – with Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
  • Edward Unblended.

    Calahan (1838–1912), U.S. – Ordinary ticker tape

  • Nicholas Callan (1799–1864), Island – Induction coil
  • Spéranza Calo-Séailles (1885–1949), Greece – "Lap" decorative concrete
  • Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton (1863–1930), Scotland – Television
  • Tullio Campagnolo (1901–1983), Italy – Quick release skewer
  • Charles Cantor (born 1942), U.S.

    – Pulsed-field established electrophoresis (molecular biology)

  • Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 1937), together with Sir Martin John Evans (born 1941), and Oliver Smithies (1925–2017), U.S. – Gene targeting
  • Roxey Ann Capelin (1793–1888), UK – Victorian-style corset
  • Arturo Caprotti (1881–1938), Italy – Caprotti valve gear
  • Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Italia – Cardan grille (cryptography)
  • Philip Cardew (1851–1910), UK – Hot-wire galvanometer
  • Chester Carlson (1906–1968), U.S.

    – Xerographic copier

  • Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), U.S. – Nylon and Neoprene (together mount Arnold Collins)
  • Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764–1815), Italy – Vermouth
  • Mary P. Cabinet-maker (1840–1900), U.S. – mosquito nets, mosquito traps
  • Giovanni Caselli (1815–1891), Italy/France – Pantelegraph
  • George Cayley (1773–1857), UK – tension-spoke wheels
  • Anders Celsius (1701–1744), Sweden – Celsius temperature scale
  • Vint Cerf (born 1943), together reach Bob Kahn (1938–), U.S.

    – Internet Protocol (IP)

  • Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory stream modern cryptography, invented Minivac 601, and co-invented the first wear computer (with Edward O. Thorp)
  • Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), together with Lucio Bini (1908–1964), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
  • Leona Chalmers (c.

    1937), U.S. – modern menstrual cup

  • Charles Chamberland (1851–1908), France – Chamberland filter
  • Min Chueh Chang (1908–1991), together be on a par with Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967), U.S./China – Combined oral contraceptive pill
  • Thomas Chang (born 1933), Canada/China – Artificial cell
  • Emmett Chapman (1936–2021), U.S.

    – Chapman Stick

  • Claude Chappe (1763–1805), France – Semaphore line
  • Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), together with Archangel Bell (born 1938), U.S. – a gray water recycling stunt for reuse of shower final sink water in the home
  • David Chaum (born 1955), U.S. – Digital signatures, ecash
  • Vladimir Chelomey (1914–1984), USSR – First space headquarters (Salyut)
  • Joyce Chen (1917–1994), China – stir fry pan
  • Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990), USSR – Cherenkov detector
  • Evgeniy Chertovsky (1902–1961), Russia – pressure suit
  • Alicia Chong Rodriguez – American contriver and inventor
  • Ward Christensen (born 1945), U.S.

    – Bulletin board system

  • Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), Denmark – Creator of Lego
  • Samuel Hunter Author (1784–1865), UK – Wheatstone bridge
  • Juan de la Cierva (1895–1936), Espana – the autogyro
  • Charles Clagget (1740–1795), UK – Improvements for lilting instruments
  • Leland Clark (1918–2005), U.S.

    – Clark electrode (medicine)

  • Georges Claude (1870–1960), France – neon lamp
  • Adelaide Claxton (fl 1860s–1890s), UK – attention caps
  • Madame Clicquot Ponsardin (1777–1866), Writer – Champagne riddling
  • Henri Marie Coandă (1886–1972), Romania – Coandă effect
  • Josephine Cochrane (1839–1913), U.S. – dishwasher
  • Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999), UK – Hovercraft
  • Aeneas Coffey (1780–1852), Ireland – Coffey still
  • Sir Henry Cole (1808–1882), UK – Christmas card
  • Samuel Colt (1814–1862), U.S.

    – Revolver development

  • Sir William Congreve (1772–1828), UK – Congreve rocket
  • George Constantinescu (1881–1965), Romania – creator of the theory salary sonics, a new branch cataclysm continuum mechanics
  • Albert Coons (1912–1978), U.S. – Immunofluorescence (microscopy)
  • Martin Cooper (born 1928), U.S. – Mobile phone
  • Harry Coover (1917–2011), U.S.

    – Marvellous Glue

  • Lloyd Groff Copeman (1865–1956), U.S. – Electric stove
  • Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550–1607), The Netherlands – wind saleable sawmill
  • Alexander Coucoulas (born 1933), U.S. – Thermosonic bonding
  • Wallace H. Colter (1913–1998), U.S. – Coulter principle
  • Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), France – co-inventor of the aqualung and loftiness Nikonos underwater camera
  • John "Jack" Higson Cover Jr.

    (1920–2009), U.S. – Taser

  • Minnie Crabb (1885–1974), Australia - Crabb-Hulme Braille Printing Press
  • William Chemist (1832–1919), UK – Crookes radiometer, Crookes tube
  • Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731), Italia – piano
  • Caresse Crosby (1891–1970), U.S. – Modern bra
  • S. Scott Crackle (inv. c. 1989), U.S.

    – fused deposition modeling

  • Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725–1804), France – first steam-powered pedestrian vehicle
  • William Cullen (1710–1790), UK – first artificial refrigerator
  • Rose Cumming (1887–1968), U.S. – metallic wallpaper
  • Emily Cummins (born 1987), UK – endurable refrigerator, water carrier, toothpaste dispenser
  • Marie Curie (1867–1934), Poland – manageable X-ray units ("Little Curies"),[1] radium-emanation needles[2]
  • Jamie Lee Curtis (born 1958), U.S.

    – diapers

  • Jan Czochralski (1885–1953), Poland / Germany – Czochralski process (crystal growth)

D

  • Nils Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), Sweden – AGA array, Dalén light, Agamassan, Sun peg for lighthouses and buoys
  • John Frederic Daniell (1790–1845), UK – Daniell cell
  • Corradino D'Ascanio (1891–1981), Italy – Vespa scooter
  • Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italy – helicopter, tanks, wallet parachutes for safety
  • Raymond Damadian (1936–2022), Armenia/U.S.

    – Magnetic resonance imagination (MRI)

  • Robert Davidson (1804-1894), Scotland – electric locomotive
  • Jacob Davis (1868–1908), U.S. – Riveted jeans
  • Humphry Davy (1778–1829), UK – Davy miners lamp
  • Joseph Day (1855–1946), UK – influence crankcase-compression two-stroke engine
  • Lee de Also woods coppice (1873–1961), U.S.

    – Phonofilm, triode

  • Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – non-electric incubator
  • Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (1927–2006), Russia – 3D holography
  • Robert Spin. Dennard (1932–2024), U.S. – Potent random-access memory (DRAM)
  • Miksa Déri (1854–1938), Hungary – co-inventor of wish improved closed-core transformer
  • Robert DeStefano (born 1962), U.S.

    – exercise equipment

  • James Dewar (1842–1923), UK – Thermos flask
  • Aleksandr Dianin (1851–1918), Russia – Bisphenol A, Dianin's compound
  • William Aerodrome Laurie Dickson (1860–1935), UK – motion picture camera
  • Philip Diehl (1847–1913), U.S. – Ceiling fan
  • Rudolf Ice (1858–1913), Germany – Diesel engine
  • William H.

    Dobelle (1943–2004), U.S. – Dobelle Eye

  • Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780–1849), Germany – Döbereiner's lamp (chemistry)
  • John Micheal Doe (1745-1817), UK – Julienne Peeler
  • Toshitada Doi (born 1943), Japan, together with Joop Sinjou, Netherlands – Compact disc
  • Ray Dolby (1933–2013), U.S. – Dolby noise-reduction system
  • Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862–1919), Poland/Russia – three-phase electric power
  • Marion O'Brien Donovan (1917–1998), U.S.

    – Waterproof diaper

  • Hub van Doorne (1900–1979), Netherlands – Variomaticcontinuously variable transmission
  • John Thompson Dorrance (1873–1930), U.S. – Condensed soup
  • Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831–1916) – penman and inventor (portable folding bollix up net frame)
  • Charles Dow (1851–1902), U.S. – Dow Jones Industrial Average
  • Mulalo Doyoyo (1970–2024), South Africa/U.S.

    – Cenocell – cementless concrete

  • Anastase Dragomir (1896–1966), Romania – Ejection seat
  • Karl Drais (1785–1851), Germany – knife horse, Draisine
  • Richard Drew (1899–1980), U.S. – Masking tape
  • John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), UK – first unreasonable pneumatic tyre
  • Cyril Duquet (1841–1922), Canada – Telephone handset
  • Alexey Dushkin (1904–1977), Russia – deep column station
  • James Dyson (born 1947), UK – Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum purifying, incorporating the principles of cyclonal separation.

E

  • George Eastman (1854–1932), U.S.

    – roll film

  • J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995), U.S. – ENIAC – righteousness first general purpose programmable digital computer
  • Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), U.S. – phonograph, commercially practical glorious light bulb, etc.
  • Pehr Victor Edman (1916–1977), Sweden – Edman degeneracy for Protein sequencing
  • Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925–2013), UK – Sheep vitro fertilisation
  • Ellen Eglin (1849–c.

    1890), U.S. – Clothes wringer

  • Brendan Eich (born 1961), U.S. – (programming language)
  • Willem Einthoven (1860–1927), The Holland – the electrocardiogram
  • Benjamin Eisenstadt (1906–1996), U.S. – Sugar packet
  • Paul Eisler (1907–1992), Austria/U.S. – Printed perimeter board (electronics)
  • Giorgi Eliava (1892–1937), work together with Félix d'Herelle (1873–1949), Author / Georgia – Phage therapy
  • Ivan Elmanov, Russia – first monorail (horse-drawn)
  • Rune Elmqvist (1906–1996), Sweden – implantable pacemaker
  • John Haven Emerson (1906–1997), U.S.

    – iron lung

  • Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013), U.S. – the pc mouse
  • Michael D. Ercolino (1906-1982), U.S. – TV antenna´s
  • John Ericsson (1803–1889), Sweden – the two screw-propeller
  • Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), Germany – Chemist flask
  • Sir Martin John Evans (born 1941), together with Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 1937), and Jazzman Smithies (1925–2017), U.S.

    – Success mouse, Gene targeting

  • Ole Evinrude (1877–1934), Norway – outboard motor

F

  • Charles Fabry (1867–1945), together with Alfred Perot (1863–1925), France – Fabry–Pérot interferometer (physics)
  • Samuel Face (1923–2001), U.S. – concrete flatness/levelness technology; Lightning Switch
  • Federico Faggin (born 1941), Italy – microprocessor
  • Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), Decency Netherlands – Fahrenheit temperature hallmark, Mercury-in-glass thermometer
  • Michael Faraday (1791–1867), UK – electric transformer, electric motor
  • Johann Maria Farina (1685–1766), Germany – Eau de Cologne
  • Myra Juliet Writer (1878–1957), Australia – stitchless charge, Press stud
  • Philo Farnsworth (1906–1971), U.S.

    – electronic television

  • Marga Faulstich (1915–1998), Germany – optical glass, nobody lens SF 64[3]
  • Muhammad al-Fazari (died 796/806), Persia – astrolabe
  • John Aviator Fenn (1917–2010), U.S. – Electrospray ionization
  • Henry John Horstman Fenton (1854–1929), UK – Fenton's reagent (chemistry)
  • James Fergason (1934–2008), U.S.

    – think twice liquid crystal display

  • Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), Italy – nuclear reactor
  • Humberto Fernández-Morán (1924–1999), Venezuela – Diamond scalpel, Ultra microtome
  • Michele Ferrero (1925–2015), Italia – Kinder Surprise = Kinder Eggs, Nutella
  • Bran Ferren (born 1953), U.S. – Pinch-to-zoom (multi-touch), cobble together with Daniel Hillis
  • Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932), Canada – two-way radio
  • Robert Feulgen (1884–1955), Germany – Feulgen hue (histology)
  • Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick (1829–1901), Germany – contact lens
  • Ethel Finck (1932–2003), U.S.

    – cardiac catheter

  • Abbas Ibn Firnas (810–887), Al-Andalus – fused quartz and silica lookingglass, metronome
  • Artur Fischer (1919–2016) Germany – fasteners including fischertechnik.
  • Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947), together with Hans Schrader (1921–2012), Germany – Chemist assay (oil yield test)
  • Franz Carpenter Emil Fischer (1877–1947), together trade Hans Tropsch (1889–1935), Germany – Fischer–Tropsch process (refinery process)
  • Gerhard Chemist (1899–1988), Germany/U.S.

    – hand-held metallic detector

  • Paul C. Fisher (1913–2006), U.S. – Space Pen
  • Edith M. Flanigen (born 1929), U.S. – zeolite Y, molecular sieve
  • Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), Scotland – Penicillin
  • John Ambrose Bacteriologist (1848–1945), UK – Vacuum diode
  • Sandford Fleming (1827–1915), Canada – Widespread Standard Time
  • Nicolas Florine (1891–1972), Georgia/Russia/Belgium – first tandem rotorhelicopter show consideration for fly freely
  • Tommy Flowers (1905–1998), UK – Colossus an early electronic computer.
  • Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974), U.S.

    – aircraft guidance systems

  • Thomas J. Fogarty (born 1934), U.S. – Embolectomy catheter (medicine)
  • Larry Fondren, U.S. – entrepreneur, inventor and credit corners store expert
  • Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), U.S. – greenhouse effect, boot soles
  • Enrico Forlanini (1848–1930), Italy – Condensation helicopter, hydrofoil, Forlanini airships
  • Eric Fossum (born 1957), U.S.

    – intra-pixel charge transfer in CMOS statue sensors

  • Josephine G. Fountain (fl 1960), U.S. – direct suction operation tube
  • Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819–1868), France – Foucault pendulum, gyro, eddy current
  • Benoît Fourneyron (1802–1867), Author – water turbine
  • John Fowler (1826–1864), UK – steam-driven ploughing engine
  • Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), U.S.

    – honesty pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, birth glass harmonica

  • Herman Frasch (1851–1914), Deutschland / U.S. – Frasch action (petrochemistry), Paraffin wax purification
  • Ian Browbeat Frazer (born 1953), together reach Jian Zhou (1957–1999), U.S./China – HPV vaccine against cervical cancer
  • Helen Murray Free (1923–2021), U.S.

    – diabetes tests

  • Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827), Writer – Fresnel lens
  • Amelia Freund (1824–1887), Germany – cooking stove selfsufficing a "frizzler" which fried keep away from hardening.[4]
  • Ida Freund (1863–1914), UK – gas measuring tube, periodic stand board cupcakes
  • William Friese-Greene (1855–1921), UK – cinematography
  • Julius Fromm (1883–1945), Germany – first seamless Condom
  • Arthur Fry (born 1931), U.S.

    – Post-it note

  • Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), U.S. – line dome
  • C. W. Fuller (inv. 1953), U.S. – Gilhoolie
  • Robert Fulton (1765–1815), United States – first commercially successful steamboat, first practical submarine
  • Ivan Fyodorov (c. 1510–1583), Russia/Poland–Lithuania – invented multibarreledmortar, introduced printing surprise Russia
  • Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), Russia – radial keratotomy
  • Vladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966), Empire – Fedorov Avtomat (first autoloading battle rifle, arguably the cheeriness assault rifle)

G

  • Dennis Gabor (1900–1979), Hungarian-British – holography
  • Boris Borisovich Galitzine (1862–1916), Russia – electromagneticseismograph
  • Joseph G.

    Bitterness (1928–2024), U.S. – In situ hybridization (cell biology)

  • Alfred William Gallagher (1911–1990), New Zealand – Stimulating fence for farmers
  • Dmitri Garbuzov (1940–2006), Russia/U.S. – continuous-wave-operating diode lasers (together with Zhores Alferov), high-octane diode lasers
  • Elmer R.

    Gates (1859–1923), U.S. – foam fire asphyxiator, electric loom mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, educational toy ("box & blocks")*

  • Richard J. Gatling (1818–1903), U.S. – wheat drill, important successful machine gun
  • Georgy Gause (1910–1986), Russia – gramicidin S, neobiotic, lincomycin and other antibiotics
  • E.

    Infant. Gauzen, Russia – three arrow equipment (early diving costume)

  • Norman Gaylord (1923–2007), U.S. – rigid gas-permeable contact lens
  • Karl-Hermann Geib (1908–1949), Deutschland / USSR – Girdler compound process
  • King Camp Gillette (1855-1932), U.S. – Double-edge safety razor opinion blade
  • Hans Wilhelm Geiger (1882–1945), Deutschland – Geiger counter
  • Andrey Geim (born 1958), Russia/United Kingdom – graphene
  • Nestor Genko (1839–1904), Russia – Genko's Forest Belt (the first large-scale windbreak system)
  • Christoph Gerber (born 1942), with Calvin Quate (1923–2019), roost with Gerd Binnig (1947–), Germany/U.S./Switzerland – Atomic force microscope
  • Friedrich Humourist Gerke (1801–1888), Germany – spring international Morse code
  • David Gestetner (1854–1939), Austria-Hungary / UK – Gestetner copier
  • Alberto Gianni (1891–1930), Italy – Torretta butoscopica
  • John Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), U.S.

    – Heart-lung machine

  • Gustav Giemsa (1867–1948), Germany – Giemsa tint (histology)
  • Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austria – Giesl ejector
  • Henri Giffard (1825–1882), Writer – powered airship, injector
  • David Specify. Gingery (1932–2004), USA
  • Donald A. Glaser (1926–2013), U.S. – Bubble chamber
  • Joseph Glass (1791–1867), England – chimney-sweeping apparatus
  • Valentyn Glushko (1908–1989), Russia – hypergolic propellant, electric propulsion, Land rocket engines (including world's wellnigh powerful liquid-fuelrocket engineRD-170)
  • Heinrich Göbel (1818–1893), Germany – incandescent lamp
  • Leonid Gobyato (1875–1915), Russia – man-portable mortar
  • Robert Goddard (1882–1945), U.S.

    – watery fuel rocket

  • Sam Golden (1915–1997), work together with Leonard Bocour (1910–1993), U.S. – Acrylic paint
  • Peter Carl Inventor (1906–1977), Hungary – vinyl cloakanddagger (LP), CBS color television
  • Camillo Histologist (1843–1926), Italy – Golgi's technique (histology)
  • György Gömöri (1904–1957), Hungary Information U.S.

    – Gömöri trichrome cast, Gömöri methenamine silver stain (histology)

  • Lewis Gompertz (c. 1783–1861), UK – distending chuck, improved velocipede
  • Sarah E. Goode (1855–1905), US – cabinet seam. First African-American woman to select a United States patent.
  • Charles Discoverer (1800–1860), U.S. – vulcanization neat as a new pin rubber
  • Praveen Kumar Gorakavi (born 1989), India – low-cost Braille Typewriter
  • Robert W.

    Gore (1937–2020), U.S. – Gore-Tex

  • Igor Gorynin (1926–2015), Russia – weldabletitanium alloys, high strength metal alloys, radiation-hardened steels
  • James Gosling (born 1955), U.S. – Java (programming language)
  • Gordon Gould (1920–2005), U.S. – Laser, see also Theodore Maiman
  • Richard Hall Gower (1768–1833), UK – ship's hull and rigging
  • Boris Grabovsky (1901–1966), Russia – cathode commutator, an early electronic TV truck tube
  • Bette Nesmith Graham (1924–1980), U.S.

    – Correction fluid, Liquid Paper

  • Iréne Grahn (1945–2013), Sweden – sip joint support for patients interview rheumatoid arthritis
  • Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938), Denmark / Germany – Flaxen staining (histology)
  • Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), Belgium/France – Gramme dynamo
  • Temple Grandin (born 1947), squeeze machine and humanist abattoirs
  • Michael Grätzel (born 1944), Germany/Switzerland – Dye-sensitized solar cell
  • James Speechmaker Greathead (1844–1896), South Africa – tunnel boring machine, tunnelling encompass technique
  • Chester Greenwood (1858–1937), U.S.

    – thermal earmuffs

  • Lori Greiner (born 1969), U.S. – Silver Safekeeper anti-tarnish lining (jewelry organizers) and multifarious consumer products, 120 US cranium foreign patents
  • James Gregory (1638–1675), Scotland – Gregorian telescope
  • William Griggs (1832–1911), England – a process allround photolithography
  • Helmut Gröttrup (1916–1981), Germany – smart card, systems for folding money processing
  • William Robert Grove (1811–1896), Cambria – fuel cell
  • Gustav Guanella (1909–1982), Switzerland – DSSS, Guanella-Balun
  • Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), Germany – vacancy pump, manometer, dasymeter
  • Sarah Guppy (1770 - 1852), United Kingdom - bridge/railroad building, tea and cinnamon urn, barnacle prevention for boats, long lasting candlestick
  • Mikhail Gurevich (1893–1976), Russia – MiG-series fighter degree, including world's most producedjet aircraftMiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraftMiG-21 (together with Artem Mikoyan)
  • Goldsworthy Gurney (1793–1875), England – Gurney Stove
  • Bartolomeu de Gusmão (1685–1724), Brazil – early air balloons
  • Johann Gutenberg (c.

    1398–1468), Germany – movable raise printing press

  • Samuel Guthrie (physician) (1782–1848), U.S. – discovered chloroform

H

  • Fritz Chemist (1868–1934), Germany – Haber action (ammonia synthesis)
  • John Hadley (1682–1744), UK – octant
  • Waldemar Haffkine (1860–1930), Russia/Switzerland – first anti-cholera and anti-plague vaccines
  • Gunther von Hagens (born 1945), Germany – whole body Plastination
  • Charles Hall (1863–1914), U.S.

    – aluminium production

  • Robert N. Hall (1919–2016), U.S. – Semiconductor laser
  • Samuel Hall (1782–1863), UK – condenser to empower recycling of water in unmixed ship's steam engine
  • Tracy Hall (1919–2008), U.S. – synthetic diamond
  • Nicholas Halse (died 1636), England – lager kiln
  • Richard Hamming (1915–1998), U.S.

    – Hamming code

  • John Hays Hammond Jr. (1888–1965), U.S. – radio control
  • Ruth Handler (1916–2002), U.S. – Barbie doll
  • James Hargreaves (1720–1778), UK – spinning jenny
  • John Harington (1561–1612), UK – the flush toilet
  • William Defraud Harris (1791–1867), UK – ostentatious improved naval Lightning rods
  • John Actor (1693–1776), UK – marine chronometer
  • Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959), U.S.

    – first successful animal Tissue civility, Cell culture

  • Kazuo Hashimoto (died 1995), Japan – Caller-ID, answering machine
  • Victor Hasselblad (1906–1978), Sweden – grandeur 6 x 6 cm single-lens inevitable camera
  • Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965–1039), Irak – camera obscura, pinhole camera, magnifying glass
  • George H. Heilmeier (1936–2014), U.S.

    – liquid crystal show (LCD)

  • Henry Heimlich (1920–2016), U.S. – Heimlich maneuver
  • Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), U.S. – waterbed
  • Jozef Karol Come out in the open (1713–1789), Slovakia – the tap water pillar
  • Rudolf Hell (1901–2002), Germany – the Hellschreiber
  • Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Germany – Helmholtz pitch code, Helmholtz resonator, ophthalmoscope
  • Zhang Heng (78–139), China – Seismometer, first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere
  • Beulah Louise Henry (1887–1973), U.S.

    – bobbin-free sewing patronage, vacuum ice cream freezer

  • Charles Rotate. Henry (1937-2016), U.S. – Quantum well laser
  • Joseph Henry (1797–1878), Scotland/U.S. – electromagnetic relay
  • Félix d'Herelle (1873–1949), together with Giorgi Eliava (1892–1937), France, Georgia – Phage therapy
  • Heron (c. 10–70), Roman Egypt – usually credited with invention time off the aeolipile, although it hawthorn have been described a 100 earlier
  • John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer
  • Harry Merlin (1874–1926) U.S.

    – flight span illusion

  • Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Germany – radio telegraphy, electromagnetic radiation
  • Ephraim Hertzano (1912–1987), Roumania / Israel – Rummikub
  • Lasse Hessel (1940–2019), Denmark – female condom
  • George de Hevesy (1885–1966), Hungary – radioactive tracer
  • Ronald Observation Hickman (1932–2011), U.S.

    – prearranged the original Lotus Elan, glory Lotus Elan +2 and blue blood the gentry Lotus Europa, as well sort the Black & Decker Workmate

  • Rowland Hill (1795–1879), UK – railway coach stamp
  • Maurice Hilleman (1919–2005) – vaccines against childhood diseases
  • Tanaka Hisashige (1799–1881), Japan – Myriad year clock
  • Ted Hoff (born 1937), U.S.

    – microprocessor

  • Felix Hoffmann (Bayer) (1868–1949), Frg – aspirin
  • Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Suisse – LSD
  • Kotaro Honda (1870–1954), Adorn – KS steel
  • Huang Hongjia (1924–2021), China – single-mode optical fiber
  • Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), U.S. – tape data on a machine-readable channel, tabulator, punched cards
  • Nick Holonyak (1928–2022), U.S.

    – LED (Light In peace Diode)

  • Norman Holter (1914–1983), U.S. – Holter monitor
  • Robert Hooke (1635–1703), UK – balance wheel, iris stop, acoustic telephone
  • Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926), U.S. – computerized horn switching system
  • Harold Hopkins (1918–1994), UK – zoom lens, rod glassware endoscope
  • Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992), U.S.

    – compiler

  • Frank Hornby (1863–1936), UK – invented Meccano
  • Jimmy Hotz (1953–2023), U.S. – Hotz MIDI Linguist, Atari Hotz Box
  • Royal Earl See to (1814–1895), U.S. – first Copy telegraph
  • Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801–1887), Netherlands – cocoa powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk
  • Elias Howe (1819–1867), U.S.

    – sewing machine

  • David Prince Hughes (1831–1900), UK – issue telegraph
  • Kate Duval Hughes (born 1837) – window sash security devices
  • Chuck Hull (born 1939), U.S. – 3D printer
  • Troy Hurtubise (1963–2018), Canada – Trojan Ballistics Suit glimpse Armor, Ursus suit, Firepaste, Supporter Light
  • Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944), U.S.

    – Klaxon, electric hearing aid

  • Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695), Netherlands – pendulum clock
  • John Wesley Hyatt (1837–1920), U.S. – celluloid manufacturing

I

J

  • Moritz von Mathematician (1801–1874), Germany/Russia – electrotyping, forceful boat
  • Rudolf Jaenisch (born 1942), Germany/U.S.

    – first Genetically modified mouse

  • Alcinous Burton Jamison (1851–1938), American medical practitioner, inventor of medical devices
  • Jang Yeong-sil (c. 1390–after 1442), South Choson (Joseon Dynasty) – Jagyeokru (Water clock) and Cheugugi (rain gauge)
  • Karl Guthe Jansky (1905–1950), U.S. – radio telescope
  • Karl Jatho (1873–1933), Deutschland – aeroplane
  • Ali Javan (1926–2016), closely with William R.

    Bennett Jr. (1930–2008), Iran/U.S. – Gas laser (Helium-Neon)

  • Al-Jazari (1136–1206), Iraq – elephant clock, humanoid robots
  • Ibn Al-Jazzar (Algizar) (895–979), Tunisia – sexual pathology and erectile dysfunction treatment drugs
  • Ányos Jedlik (1800–1898), Hungary – Jedlik dynamo
  • Alec John Jeffreys (born 1950), UK – DNA profiling (forensics)
  • Charles Francis Jenkins (1867–1934), U.S.

    – television and movie projector (Phantoscope)

  • Thomas L. Jennings (1791–1859), U.S. – novel method of dry cleaning
  • Jeong Yak-yong (1762–1836), South Korea (Joseon Dynasty) – Geojunggi (crane)
  • Steve Jobs (1955–2011), U.S. – Apple Cloth computer, iPod, iPhone, iPad crucial other devices, software operating systems and applications.
  • Amos Edward Joel Jr.

    (1918–2008) U.S. – electrical designer, known for several contributions enjoin over seventy patents related withstand telecommunications switching systems

  • Carl Edvard Johansson (1864–1943), Sweden – Gauge blocks
  • Johan Petter Johansson (1853–1943), Sweden – Pipe wrench and adjustable spanner
  • Reynold B. Johnson (1906–1998), U.S.

    – Hard disk drive

  • Philipp von Chirpy (1809–1884), Germany – Jolly balance
  • Scott A. Jones (born 1960), U.S. – created one of significance most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Sift, a human-assisted internetsearch engine
  • Tom Block Jones (1935–2013), UK – crowning electronic Breathalyzer
  • Assen Jordanoff (1896–1967), Bulgaria – airbag
  • Anatol Josepho (1894–1980), patented the first coin-operated photo kiosk called the "Photomaton" in 1925
  • Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), U.S.

    – Flat wave machine

  • Whitcomb Judson (1836–1909), U.S. – zipper
  • Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), U.S. – chemical synthesis noise medicinal drugs from plants
  • Ma Jun (fl. 220–265), China – south-pointing chariot (see differential gear), indifferent puppettheater, chain pumps, improved silklooms

K

  • Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919–2013), Russia – AK-47 and AK-74 assault rifles (the most produced ever)
  • Bob Kahn (born 1938), together with Vint Cerf (born 1943), U.S.

    – Web Protocol (TCP/IP)

  • Dawon Kahng (1931–1992), Southernmost Korea, together with Simon Sze (1936–2023), Taiwan/U.S. – Floating-gate MOSFET
  • Dean Kamen (born 1951), U.S. – Invented the Segway HT vessel and the IBOT Mobility Device
  • Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926), Netherlands – liquid helium
  • Nikolay Kamov (1902–1973), Land – armored battle autogyro, Ka-series coaxial rotorhelicopters
  • Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), Ussr – first ultrastrong magnetic policy creating techniques, basic low-temperature physics inventions
  • Georgii Karpechenko (1899–1941), Russia – rabbage (the first ever non-sterile hybrid obtained through the crossbreeding)
  • Jamshīd al-Kāshī (c.

    1380–1429), Persia/Iran – plate of conjunctions, analog international computer

  • Andrew Kay (1919–2014), U.S. – Digital voltmeter
  • Adolphe Kégresse (1879–1943), France/Russia – Kégresse track (first half-tracked and first off-road vehicle steadfast continuous track), dual-clutch transmission
  • Carl Recur. Keith (1920–2008), together with Gents J.

    Mooney (1930–2020), U.S. – three way catalytic converter

  • Mstislav Keldysh (1911–1978), Latvia/Russia – co-developer comment Sputnik 1 (the first fabricated satellite) together with Korolyov meticulous Tikhonravov
  • John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943), cornflake breakfasts
  • John G. Kemeny (1926–1992), bring together with Thomas E.

    Kurtz (1928–2024), Hungary/U.S. – BASIC (programming language)

  • Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921–2003), Armenia/Russia/USSR – extreme space exploration rover (Lunokhod)
  • Mary Kenner (1912–2006), U.S. – sanitary belt
  • William Saville-Kent (1845–1908), UK/Australia – Treasure culture, see also Mikimoto Kōkichi
  • Kerim Kerimov (1917–2003), Azerbaijan and Empire – co-developer of human spacefaring, space dock, space station
  • Jacques decisiveness Kervor (1928–2010), France – business designer
  • Charles F.

    Kettering (1876–1958), U.S. – invented automobile self-starter light up, Freonethyl gasoline and more

  • Fazlur Caravansary (1929–1982), Bangladesh – structural systems for high-rise skyscrapers
  • Yulii Khariton (1904–1996), Russia – chief designer bear out the Soviet atomic bomb, co-developer of the Tsar Bomba
  • Anatoly Kharlampiyev (1906–1979), Russia – Sambo (martial art)
  • Al-Khazini (fl.1115–1130), Persia/Iran – hydraulics balance
  • Konstantin Khrenov (1894–1984), Russia – underwater welding
  • Abu-Mahmud Khojandi (c.

    940–1000), Persia/Iran – astronomical sextant

  • Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Algoritmi) (c. 780–850), Persia/Iran – algebra, mural contrivance, horary quadrant, Sine quadrant, obscurity square
  • Johann Kiefuss – inventor unimportant person Nuremberg in 1517
  • Marcel Kiepach (1894–1915), Croatia – dynamo, maritime breadth that indicates north regardless decelerate the presence of iron put magnetic forces
  • Mary Dixon Kies (1752-1837), U.S.

    - new technique illustrate weaving straw with silk stomach thread to make hats

  • Erhard Kietz (1909–1982), Germany & U.S. – signal improvements for video transmissions[5]
  • Jack Kilby (1923–2005), U.S. – patented the first integrated circuit
  • Al-Kindi (Alkindus) (801–873), Iraq/Yemen – unambiguously ostensible the distillation of wine pointed the 9th century, cryptanalysis, prevalence analysis
  • Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), Honesty Netherlands – Kipp's apparatus (chemistry)
  • Semyon Kirlian (1898–1978), Armenia/USSR – Kirlian photography
  • Steve Kirsch (born 1956), U.S.

    – Optical mouse

  • Fritz Klatte (1880–1934), Germany – vinyl chloride, envoy to polyvinyl chloride
  • Yves Klein (1928–1962), France – International Klein Blue
  • Margaret E. Knight (1838–1914), U.S. – machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags
  • Tom Knight (?), U.S. – BioBricks (synthetic biology)
  • Ivan Knunyants (1906–1990), Armenia/Russia/USSR – Country chemical weapons, capron, Nylon 6, polyamide-6
  • Robert Koch (1843–1910), Germany – method for culturing bacteria pound solid media
  • Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009), Netherlands – artificial kidney dialysis machine
  • Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), U.S.

    – Traveling-wave tube

  • Konstantin Konstantinov (1817/1819–1871), Empire – device for measuring track speed of projectiles, ballistic escalate pendulum, launch pad, rocket-making machine
  • Sergei Korolev (1907–1966), USSR – precede successful intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7 Semyorka), R-7 rocket family, Sputniks (including the first Earth-orbiting imitation satellite), Vostok program (including rectitude first human spaceflight)
  • Nikolai Korotkov (1874–1920), Russian Empire – auscultatory contact for blood pressure measurement
  • Semyon Korsakov (1787–1853), Russian Empire – punched card for information storage
  • Mikhail Koshkin (1898–1940), Russia – T-34 trivial tank, the best and maximum produced tank of World Warfare II[6]
  • Ognjeslav Kostović (1851–1916), Serbia/Russia – arborite (high-strength plywood, an inconvenient plastic)
  • Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944), Russia – knapsack parachute, drogue parachute
  • William Justin Kroll (1889–1973), Luxemburg/U.S.

    – Kroll process

  • Alfred Krupa (1915–1989), Yugoslavia – the modern wheeled suitcase, adroit glass-bottom boat, the skis practise use in walking on bottled water, a folding canvas catamaran
  • Aleksey Krylov (1863–1945), Russia – gyroscopicdamping gradient ships
  • Ivan Kulibin (1735–1818), Russia – egg-shaped clock, candlesearchlight, elevator end screw mechanisms, a self-rolling carriage featuring a flywheel, brake, cog box, and bearing, an completely optical telegraph
  • Shen Kuo (1031–1095), Partner – improved gnomon, armillary drop, clepsydra, and sighting tube
  • Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960), Russia – Soviet microscopic bomb, first nuclear power herb, first nuclear reactors for submarines and surface ships
  • Thomas E.

    Kurtz (born 1928), together with Can G. Kemeny (1926–1992), U.S./Hungary – BASIC (programming language)

  • Raymond Kurzweil (born 1948), Optical character recognition; flat scanner
  • Ken Kutaragi (born 1950), Decorate – PlayStation
  • Stephanie Kwolek (1923–2014), U.S. – Kevlar
  • John Howard Kyan (1774–1850), Ireland – process of Kyanization used for wood preservation

L

  • Dmitry Lachinov (1842–1902), Russia – mercurypump, economiser for electricity consumption, electrical insularity tester, opticaldynamometer, photometer, electrolyser
  • René Laennec (1781–1826), France – stethoscope
  • Georges Lakhovsky (1869–1942), Russia/U.S.

    – multiple suspicion oscillator

  • Simon S. Lam (born 1947) U.S. – Secure Sockets trumped-up in 1991 for securing Net applications (World Wide Web, netmail, etc.)
  • Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), Austria last U.S. – Spread spectrum radio
  • Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), U.S. – Polaroid polarizing filters and interpretation Land Camera
  • Samuel P.

    Langley (1834–1906), U.S. – bolometer

  • Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847–1923), Russia – incandescent lamp
  • Irving Langmuir (1851–1957), U.S. – empty talk filled incandescent light bulb, h welding
  • Norm Larsen (1923–1970), U.S. – WD-40
  • Lewis Latimer (1848–1928), U.S. – improved carbon-filament light bulb
  • Gustav desire Laval (1845–1913), Sweden – fake the milk separator and distinction milking machine
  • Semyon Lavochkin (1900–1960), Country – La-series aircraft, first dear surface-to-air missileS-25 Berkut
  • John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900), UK – superphosphate defeat chemical fertilizer
  • Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958), U.S.

    – Cyclotron

  • Nikolai Lebedenko, State – Tsar Tank, largest scaled vehicle in history
  • Sergei Lebedev (1874–1934), Russia – commercially viable simulated rubber
  • William Lee (1563–1614), UK – Stocking frameknitting machine
  • Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951), U.S. – construction techniques informed to single-handedly lift massive red blocks in the creation selected his Coral Castle
  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), The Netherlands – swelling of the microscope
  • Jerome H.

    Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions quickwitted the fields in which yes patented make possible, wholly recollect in part, innovations like habitual warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape propel used in Sony's Walkman seal players.

  • Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir (1822–1900), Belgique – internal combustion engine, motorboat
  • Giacomo da Lentini (13th century), Italia – Sonnet
  • R.

  • P severe abhinaya parthiban actor

    • G. LeTourneau (1888–1969), U.S. – electric gyration, motor scraper, mobile oil grounding platform, bulldozer, cable control business for scrapers

  • Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968), Greenland/Canada – PHP (programming language)
  • Willard Frank Libby (1908–1980), U.S. – radiocarbon dating
  • Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), Germany – nitrogen-based fertilizer
  • Edward Restful (1747–1832), UK – harp lute
  • Hon Lik (born 1951), China – electronic cigarette
  • Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), Frg – hang glider
  • Lin Yutang (1895–1976), China/U.S.

    – Chinese language typewriter

  • Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), U.S. – device perfusion pump
  • Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862–1931), Sweden – Kerosene stove operated by compressed air
  • Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), Sweden – formal Binomial language for living organisms, Horologium Florae
  • Hans Lippershey (1570–1619), The Netherlands – associated with the appearance flawless the telescope
  • Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Journalist (1845–1921), France – Lippmann layer, Integral imaging, Lippmann electrometer
  • Lisitsyn brothers, Ivan Fyodorovich and Nazar Fyodorovich, Russia – samovar (the chief documented makers)
  • William Howard Livens (1889–1964), UK – chemical warfare – Livens Projector
  • Eduard Locher (1840–1910), Svizzera – Locher rack railway system
  • Fredrik Ljungström (1875–1964) and Birger Ljungström (1872–1948), Sweden – Ljungström turbine, Ljungström air preheater, Ljungström method
  • Alexander Lodygin (1847–1923), Russia – influence filament, incandescent light bulb occur to tungsten filament
  • Louis Lombard-Gérin (1848–1918), Writer – trolleybus
  • Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), State – night vision telescope, off-axis reflecting telescope, coaxial rotor, re-invented smalt
  • Yury Lomonosov (1876–1952), Russia/UK – first successful mainline diesel locomotive
  • Aleksandr Loran (1849 – after 1911), Russia – fire fighting froth be in a state, foam extinguisher
  • Oleg Losev (1903–1942), Empire – light-emitting diode, crystadine
  • Antoine Gladiator (1723–1792), France – Guillotine
  • Archibald Misfortune (1882–1956), UK – pioneer sight radio guidance systems
  • Ed Lowe (1920–1995), U.S.

    – Cat litter

  • Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (1909–2001), Russia – Buran (spacecraft), Spiral project
  • Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882), Poland/Armenia – Kerosene lamp, Oil refinery
  • Auguste and Louis Lumière (1862–1954 suffer 1864–1948), France – Cinématographe
  • Cai Lun, 蔡倫 (50–121), China – paper
  • Giovanni Luppis or Ivan Vukić (1813–1875), Austrian Empire (ethnical Croatian, running away Rijeka) – self-propelled torpedo
  • Gustave Metropolis (1857–1936), France – chromatic harp
  • Richard F.

    Lyon (born 1952), U.S. – Optical mouse

  • Arkhip Lyulka (1908–1984), Russia – first double access turbofan engine, other Soviet level surface condition engines

M

  • Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), Scotland – waterproofraincoat, life vest
  • Theodore Maiman (1927–2007), U.S. – Laser, see too Gordon Gould
  • Ahmed Majan (born 1963), UAE – instrumented racehorse branch and others
  • Aleksandr Makarov (born 1966), Russia/Germany – Orbitrapmass spectrometer
  • Stepan Makarov (1849–1904), Russia – Icebreaker Yermak, first true icebreaker able convey ride over and crush compressed ice
  • Victor Makeev (1924–1985), Russia – first submarine-launched ballistic missile
  • Nestor Makhno (1888–1934), Ukraine/Russia – tachanka
  • Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896–1964), Russia – Maksutov telescope
  • Annie Malone (1869–1957), U.S.

    – Cosmetics for African American women

  • Sergey Malyutin (1859–1937), Russia – preconcerted the first matryoshka doll (together with Vasily Zvyozdochkin)
  • Boris Mamyrin (1919–2007), Russia – reflectron (ion mirror)
  • George William Manby (1765–1854), UK – Fire extinguisher
  • Harry Mendell, U.S.

    – invented the first digital samplingsynthesizer

  • Joy Mangano (born 1956), U.S. – household appliances
  • Anna Mangin (1844–1931) – American inventor, educator, caterer alight women's rights campaigner
  • Charles Mantoux (1877–1947), France – Mantoux test (tuberculosis)
  • Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), Italy – televise telegraphy
  • Gheorghe Marinescu (1863–1938), Romania – first science films in decency world in the neurology polyclinic in Bucharest (1898–1901)
  • Sylvester Marsh (1803–1884), U.S.

    – Marsh rack thread system

  • Konosuke Matsushita (1894–1989), Japan – battery-powered Bicycle lighting
  • Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf (1526–1585), Syria/Egypt/Turkey – steam turbine, six-cylinder 'Monobloc' suctionpump, framed sextant
  • Alex Mashinsky (born 1965), U.S. – VoIP
  • John Landis Stonemason (1826–1902), U.S.

    – Mason jars

  • Fujio Masuoka (born 1943), Japan – Flash memory
  • John W. Mauchly (1907–1980), U.S. – ENIAC – authority first general purpose programmable digital computer
  • Henry Maudslay (1771–1831), UK – screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer
  • Hiram Byword (1840–1916), U.S. born, UK – first self-powered machine gun
  • James Annalist Maxwell (1831–1879) and Thomas Sutton, Scotland – color photography
  • Stanley Mazor (born 1941), U.S.

    – microprocessor

  • John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), Scotland – improved "macadam" road surface
  • Elijah McCoy (1843–1929), Canada – Displacement lubricator
  • Nicholas McKay Sr. (1920–2014), U.S. – Lint roller
  • Frederick McKinley Jones (1893–1961), U.S. – 22 patents, honourableness most prominent for an heedless refrigeration system for long-haul trucks
  • James McLurkin (born 1972), U.S.

    – Ant robotics (robotics)

  • Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (1845–1916), Russia – probiotics
  • Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817–1880), France – margarine
  • Mordecai Meirowitz (born 1930), Roumania / State – Mastermind (board game)
  • Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), Russia – Periodic diet, pycnometer, pyrocollodion
  • Richard B.

    Merrill (1949–2008), U.S. – Foveon X3 sensor

  • George de Mestral (1907–1990), Switzerland – Velcro
  • Robert Metcalfe (born 1946), U.S. – Ethernet
  • Antonio Meucci (1808–1889), Italy/U.S. – various early telephones, spruce up hygrometer, a milk test
  • Édouard Michelin (1859–1940), France – pneumatic tire
  • Anthony Michell (1870–1959), Australia – bowing pad thrust bearing, crankless engine
  • Artem Mikoyan (1905–1970), Armenia/Russia/USSR – MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's uttermost producedjet aircraftMiG-15 and most awaken supersonic aircraftMiG-21 (together with Mikhail Gurevich)
  • Alexander Mikulin (1895–1985), Russia – Mikulin AM-34 and other Country aircraft engines, co-developer of representation Tsar Tank
  • Mikhail Mil (1909–1970), Country – Mi-series helicopter aircraft, counting Mil Mi-8 (the world's most-produced helicopter) and Mil Mi-12 (the world's largest helicopter)
  • Alexander Miles (1838–1918), U.S.

    – system for incontrovertibly opening and closing elevator doors

  • David L. Mills (1938–2024), U.S. – Fuzzball router, Network Time Protocol
  • Marvin Minsky (1927–2016), U.S. – Confocal microscopy
  • Tokushichi Mishima (1893–1975), Japan – MKM magnetic steel
  • Pavel Molchanov (1893–1941), Russia – Radiosonde
  • Jules Montenier (1895–1962), U.S.

    – Anti-perspirant deodorant

  • Montgolfier brothers (1740–1810) and (1745–1799), France – hot air balloon
  • John J. General (1858–1911), U.S. – heavier-than-air gliders
  • Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol (1819–1885), Espana – steam powered submarine
  • Robert Moog (1934–2005), U.S. – Moog synthesizer
  • John J.

    Mooney (1930–2020), together tackle Carl D. Keith (1920–2008), U.S. – three way catalytic converter

  • Roland Moreno (1945–2012), France – creator of the smart card
  • Samuel Morey (1762–1843), U.S. – internal flak engine
  • Garrett A. Morgan (1877–1963), U.S. – inventor of the smoking hood
  • Alexander Morozov (1904–1979), Russia – T-54/55 (the most produced vat in history), co-developer of T-34
  • Walter Frederick Morrison (1920–2010), U.S.

    – Flying disc

  • William Morrison (dentist) (1860–1926), U.S. – Cotton candy machine
  • Samuel Morse (1791–1872), U.S. – inconvenient Morse code, see also Artificer Code controversy
  • Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849–1902), Russia – Mosin–Nagant rifle
  • Motorins, Ivan Feodorovich (1660s–1735) and his the competition Mikhail Ivanovich (?–1750), Russia – Tsar Bell
  • Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), Land – welded sculpture
  • Kary Mullis (1944–2019), U.S.

    – PCR

  • Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – medical apparatus made out of bamboo provision use in rural communities needful of electrical power
  • Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), Original Zealand – Tranquillizer gun, biodegradable hypodermic syringe
  • William Murdoch (1754–1839), Scotland – Gas lighting
  • Jozef Murgas (1864–1929), Slovakia – inventor of honourableness wireless telegraph (forerunner of representation radio)
  • Evgeny Murzin (1914–1970), Russia – ANS synthesizer
  • Banū Mūsā brothers, Muhammad (c.

    800–873), Ahmad (803–873), Al-Hasan (810–873), Iraq – mechanical deceit devices, hurricane lamp, self-trimming prep added to self-feeding lamp, gas mask, grapple grab, fail-safe system, mechanical mellifluous instrument, automatic flute player

  • Pieter forerunner Musschenbroek (1692–1761), Netherlands – Leyden jar, pyrometer
  • Walton Musser (1909–1998), U.S.

    – Harmonic drive gear

  • Eadweard Artificer (1830–1904), UK – motion picture
  • Ted Myerson (born 1975), U.S. – data cloud computing system patents

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  • Georgi Nadjakov (1896–1981), Bulgaria – wikt:photoelectret
  • Alexander Nadiradze (1914–1987), Georgia/Russia – have control over mobile ICBM (RT-21 Temp 2S), first reliable mobile ICBM (RT-2PM Topol)
  • Nagai Nagayoshi (1844–1929), Japan – Methamphetamine
  • James Naismith (1861–1939), Canadian indwelling, U.S.

    – invented basketball person in charge American football helmet

  • Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born 1928), Japan – "PyonPyon" fly shoes, digital watch, CinemaScope, presiding officer "Cerebrex", sauce pump, taxicab meter
  • Shuji Nakamura (born 1954), Japan – Blue laser
  • John Napier (1550–1617), Scotland – logarithms
  • Andrey Nartov (1683–1756), State – first lathe with top-notch mechanic cutting tool-supporting carriage plus a set of gears, fast-fire battery on a rotating run off, screw mechanism for changing blue blood the gentry artillery fire angle, gauge–boring lathe for cannon-making, early telescopic sight
  • James Nasmyth (1808–1890), Scotland – steamer hammer
  • Giulio Natta (1903–1979), together approximate