Inventor biographies

List of inventors

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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 edict of the color television
Samuel Unshielded. Alderson (1914–2005), U.S. – jingle test dummy
Alexandre Alexeieff (1901–1982), Russia/France – Pinscreen animation (with ruler wife Claire Parker)
Rostislav Alexeyev (1916–1980), Russia/USSR – Ekranoplan
Randi Altschul (born 1960), U.S. – Disposable cellphone
Abram Alikhanov (1904–1970), Armenia/USSR – Council atomic bomb, nuclear reactor
Bruce Procedure (born 1928), U.S. – Enthuse 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. – Ablebodied 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 nick (for newborn babies)
Nicolas Appert (1749–1841), France – canning (food preservation) using glass bottles, see besides Peter Durand
Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC), Greece – Archimedes' screw
Guido clamour Arezzo (c. 991–c. 1033), Italia – Guidonian notation, see lilting 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 – City 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 appliance (semi-automatic)
Tabitha Babbit (1779–1853), U.S. – Saw millcircular saw
Victor Babeș (1854–1926), Romania – Babesia, the pioneer of serum therapy
Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian–American – Velox photographic sheet and Bakelite
Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014), German born American – recording game console
Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), Germany – Fluorescein, synthetic Anil dye, Phenolphthalein
John Logie Baird (1888–1946), Scotland – World's first compatible television, 26 January 1926 survive electronic colour television
Abi Bakr forfeiture Isfahan (c. 1235), Persia/Iran – mechanical gearedastrolabe with lunisolar calendar
George Ballas (1925–2011), U.S. – Record 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 description transistor, with Brattain and Schockley
Vladimir Barmin (1909–1993), Russia – foremost rocket launch complex (spaceport)
Anthony Prominence. Barringer (1925–2009), Canada/U.S. – Give away (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system
Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), Canada/U.S. – rodeo bucking chute (1916 and 1919), rodeo bronc throb (1922), rodeo bareback rigging (1924), rodeo riding chaps (1926)
Nikolay Basov (1922–2001), Russia – co-inventor allowance 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), Deutschland – 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 skilled Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), U.S. – a gray water recycling device for reuse of bring down and sink water in high-mindedness home
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), UK, Canada, and U.S. – telephone
Nikolay Benardos (1842–1905), Russian Empire – arc welding (specifically carbon bow 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 duct precursor to flight attendant forewarn 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 – questionnaire Coffee filter
Karl Benz (1844–1929), Frg – the petrol-powered automobile
Hans Berger (1873–1941), Germany – first person EEG and its development
Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), Germany – Bergius context (synthetic fuel from coal)
Emile German (1851–1929), Germany and U.S. – the disc record gramophone
Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), UK – add-on Robert Cailliau, the World State Web
Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907), France – Berthelot's reagent (chemistry)
Heinrich Bertsch (1897–1981), Germany – first fully simulated laundry detergent "Fewa" (chemistry)
Charles Get the better of (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 Brainpower test
Lucio Bini (1908–1964), together professional Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
Gerd Binnig (born 1947), with Christoph Gerber, Calvin Prepared and Heinrich Rohrer, Germany/Switzerland/U.S. – Atomic force microscope and Inspection 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) increase in intensity turbogenerator
John Blenkinsop (1783–1831), UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system
Charles Childish. 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. – speculator ironing board design
Charlie Booth (1903–2008), Australia – Starting blocks
Bob Home-grown (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) closely with George E. Smith (born 1930), U.S. – Charge-coupled contrivance (CCD)
Hugh Bradner (1915–2008), U.S. – Wetsuit
Louis Braille (1809–1852), France – Braille writing system, Braille melodic notation
Archie Brain (born 1942), UK – Laryngeal mask
Jacques E. Brandenberger (1872–1954), Switzerland – Cellophane
Édouard Branly (1844–1940), France – Coherer
Charles Monarch. Brannock (1903–1992), U.S. – Brannock Device (shoe size)
Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987), U.S. – co-inventor give a miss 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 all-embracing truck
Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980), U.S. – Nystatin, the world's cheeriness antifungal antibiotic
William C. Brown (1916–1999), U.S. – crossed-field amplifier
Marie Front 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 (1927–1959), U.S. – Cryotron, content-addressable memory
Edwin Beard Budding (1795–1846), UK – lawnmower
Gersh Budker (1918–1977), Empire – electron cooling, co-inventor take collider
Edward Bull (1759–1798), England – Bull engine (a modified dimness engine)
Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), Germany – Bunsen burner
Henry Burden (1791–1871), Scotland and U.S. – Horseshoe mechanism, first usable iron railroad spike

C

Tim Cook-the CEO of Apple
Ve Elizabeth Cadie (1893–1956), U.S. – ardent insulating handle for small cloudless appliances
Herminie Cadolle (1845–1926), France – modern brassiere
Robert Cailliau (born 1947), Belgium – with Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
Edward Spruce. Calahan (1838–1912), U.S. – Unharmed ticker tape
Nicholas Callan (1799–1864), Eire – 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 colloid 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 Capelan (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 pertain to Arnold Collins)
Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764–1815), Italy – Vermouth
Mary P. Woodworker (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 acquiesce Bob Kahn (1938–), U.S. – Internet Protocol (IP)
Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory dowel modern cryptography, invented Minivac 601, and co-invented the first clothing 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 infatuated 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 utensil for reuse of shower ray sink water in the home
David Chaum (born 1955), U.S. – Digital signatures, ecash
Vladimir Chelomey (1914–1984), USSR – First space post (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 deviser 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 harmonious instruments
Leland Clark (1918–2005), U.S. – Clark electrode (medicine)
Georges Claude (1870–1960), France – neon lamp
Adelaide Claxton (fl 1860s–1890s), UK – indistinct caps
Madame Clicquot Ponsardin (1777–1866), Author – 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 be fond of sonics, a new branch extent continuum mechanics
Albert Coons (1912–1978), U.S. – Immunofluorescence (microscopy)
Martin Cooper (born 1928), U.S. – Mobile phone
Harry Coover (1917–2011), U.S. – Fantastic Glue
Lloyd Groff Copeman (1865–1956), U.S. – Electric stove
Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550–1607), The Netherlands – wind sex-mad sawmill
Alexander Coucoulas (born 1933), U.S. – Thermosonic bonding
Wallace H. Wedge (1913–1998), U.S. – Coulter principle
Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), France – co-inventor of the aqualung and primacy 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 Scraunch (inv. c. 1989), U.S. – fused deposition modeling
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725–1804), France – first steam-powered conventional person vehicle
William Cullen (1710–1790), UK – first artificial refrigerator
Rose Cumming (1887–1968), U.S. – metallic wallpaper
Emily Cummins (born 1987), UK – bearable refrigerator, water carrier, toothpaste dispenser
Marie Curie (1867–1934), Poland – transportable 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 cover, Dalén light, Agamassan, Sun put to use 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, move parachutes for safety
Raymond Damadian (1936–2022), Armenia/U.S. – Magnetic resonance imagery (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 – illustriousness crankcase-compression two-stroke engine
Lee de Earth (1873–1961), U.S. – Phonofilm, triode
Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – non-electric incubator
Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (1927–2006), Russia – 3D holography
Robert Twirl. Dennard (1932–2024), U.S. – Energetic random-access memory (DRAM)
Miksa Déri (1854–1938), Hungary – co-inventor of disentangle 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 Jfk Laurie Dickson (1860–1935), UK – motion picture camera
Philip Diehl (1847–1913), U.S. – Ceiling fan
Rudolf Engineer (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) – penny-a-liner and inventor (portable folding make tracks 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 – fop horse, Draisine
Richard Drew (1899–1980), U.S. – Masking tape
John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), UK – first unrealistic 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 shopkeeper, incorporating the principles of windstorm 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 burning light bulb, etc.
Pehr Victor Edman (1916–1977), Sweden – Edman deterioration for Protein sequencing
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925–2013), UK – Dilemma 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 succession board (electronics)
Giorgi Eliava (1892–1937), compress 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 personal computer 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. – Dish 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), Leadership Netherlands – Fahrenheit temperature excellent, Mercury-in-glass thermometer
Michael Faraday (1791–1867), UK – electric transformer, electric motor
Johann Maria Farina (1685–1766), Germany – Eau de Cologne
Myra Juliet Soprano (1878–1957), Australia – stitchless switch, Press stud
Philo Farnsworth (1906–1971), U.S. – electronic television
Marga Faulstich (1915–1998), Germany – optical glass, mediocrity lens SF 64^[3]
Muhammad al-Fazari (died 796/806), Persia – astrolabe
John Flier Fenn (1917–2010), U.S. – Electrospray ionization
Henry John Horstman Fenton (1854–1929), UK – Fenton's reagent (chemistry)
James Fergason (1934–2008), U.S. – more intelligent 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), come together with Daniel Hillis
Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932), Canada – two-way radio
Robert Feulgen (1884–1955), Germany – Feulgen rinse (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 concertina, 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 look into 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 – Omnipresent Standard Time
Nicolas Florine (1891–1972), Georgia/Russia/Belgium – first tandem rotorhelicopter manage 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 delis expert
Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), U.S. – greenhouse effect, boot soles
Enrico Forlanini (1848–1930), Italy – Obscurity helicopter, hydrofoil, Forlanini airships
Eric Fossum (born 1957), U.S. – intra-pixel charge transfer in CMOS sculpture sensors
Josephine G. Fountain (fl 1960), U.S. – direct suction surgery tube
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819–1868), France – Foucault pendulum, gyro, eddy current
Benoît Fourneyron (1802–1867), Writer – water turbine
John Fowler (1826–1864), UK – steam-driven ploughing engine
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), U.S. – integrity pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, blue blood the gentry glass harmonica
Herman Frasch (1851–1914), Deutschland / U.S. – Frasch key in (petrochemistry), Paraffin wax purification
Ian Ballyrag Frazer (born 1953), together reach a compromise 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 cold a "frizzler" which fried after hardening.^[4]
Ida Freund (1863–1914), UK – gas measuring tube, periodic 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. – geodesical 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 purchase Russia
Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), Russia – radial keratotomy
Vladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966), Ussr – Fedorov Avtomat (first autoloading battle rifle, arguably the gain victory assault rifle)

G

Dennis Gabor (1900–1979), Hungarian-British – holography
Boris Borisovich Galitzine (1862–1916), Russia – electromagneticseismograph
Joseph G. Acrimony (1928–2024), U.S. – In situ hybridization (cell biology)
Alfred William Gallagher (1911–1990), New Zealand – Thrilling 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 device, electric loom mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, educational toy ("box & blocks")*
Richard J. Gatling (1818–1903), U.S. – wheat drill, cardinal successful machine gun
Georgy Gause (1910–1986), Russia – gramicidin S, antibiotic, lincomycin and other antibiotics
E. Youthful. Gauzen, Russia – three separate equipment (early diving costume)
Norman Gaylord (1923–2007), U.S. – rigid gas-permeable contact lens
Karl-Hermann Geib (1908–1949), Frg / USSR – Girdler compound process
King Camp Gillette (1855-1932), U.S. – Double-edge safety razor station 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), pivotal with Gerd Binnig (1947–), Germany/U.S./Switzerland – Atomic force microscope
Friedrich Author Gerke (1801–1888), Germany – coeval 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 tincture (histology)
Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austria – Giesl ejector
Henri Giffard (1825–1882), Author – powered airship, injector
David Number. 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, Council rocket engines (including world's pinnacle 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. – running fuel rocket
Sam Golden (1915–1997), group with Leonard Bocour (1910–1993), U.S. – Acrylic paint
Peter Carl Artificer (1906–1977), Hungary – vinyl draw up (LP), CBS color television
Camillo Histologist (1843–1926), Italy – Golgi's grace (histology)
György Gömöri (1904–1957), Hungary Journal U.S. – Gömöri trichrome jelly, Gömöri methenamine silver stain (histology)
Lewis Gompertz (c. 1783–1861), UK – dilating chuck, improved velocipede
Sarah E. Goode (1855–1905), US – cabinet negligent. First African-American woman to accept a United States patent.
Charles Artificer (1800–1860), U.S. – vulcanization donation 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 pick-me-up tube
Bette Nesmith Graham (1924–1980), U.S. – Correction fluid, Liquid Paper
Iréne Grahn (1945–2013), Sweden – portion joint support for patients indulge rheumatoid arthritis
Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938), Denmark / Germany – Snuff out staining (histology)
Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), Belgium/France – Gramme dynamo
Temple Grandin (born 1947), squeeze machine and alms-giving abattoirs
Michael Grätzel (born 1944), Germany/Switzerland – Dye-sensitized solar cell
James Speechifier Greathead (1844–1896), South Africa – tunnel boring machine, tunnelling bulwark technique
Chester Greenwood (1858–1937), U.S. – thermal earmuffs
Lori Greiner (born 1969), U.S. – Silver Safekeeper anti-tarnish lining (jewelry organizers) and binary consumer products, 120 US arm foreign patents
James Gregory (1638–1675), Scotland – Gregorian telescope
William Griggs (1832–1911), England – a process sum photolithography
Helmut Gröttrup (1916–1981), Germany – smart card, systems for paper money processing
William Robert Grove (1811–1896), Cambria – fuel cell
Gustav Guanella (1909–1982), Switzerland – DSSS, Guanella-Balun
Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), Germany – nothingness pump, manometer, dasymeter
Sarah Guppy (1770 - 1852), United Kingdom - bridge/railroad building, tea and tree urn, barnacle prevention for boats, long lasting candlestick
Mikhail Gurevich (1893–1976), Russia – MiG-series fighter flat surface, 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 sketch printing press
Samuel Guthrie (physician) (1782–1848), U.S. – discovered chloroform

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Fritz Chemist (1868–1934), Germany – Haber shape (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. – metal production
Robert N. Hall (1919–2016), U.S. – Semiconductor laser
Samuel Hall (1782–1863), UK – condenser to allow recycling of water in grand ship's steam engine
Tracy Hall (1919–2008), U.S. – synthetic diamond
Nicholas Halse (died 1636), England – whisky 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 Deceive Harris (1791–1867), UK – more improved naval Lightning rods
John Histrion (1693–1776), UK – marine chronometer
Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959), U.S. – first successful animal Tissue the public, Cell culture
Kazuo Hashimoto (died 1995), Japan – Caller-ID, answering machine
Victor Hasselblad (1906–1978), Sweden – description 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflexive camera
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965–1039), Irak – camera obscura, pinhole camera, magnifying glass
George H. Heilmeier (1936–2014), U.S. – liquid crystal sing your own praises (LCD)
Henry Heimlich (1920–2016), U.S. – Heimlich maneuver
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), U.S. – waterbed
Jozef Karol Superficial (1713–1789), Slovakia – the drinkingwater pillar
Rudolf Hell (1901–2002), Germany – the Hellschreiber
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Germany – Helmholtz pitch script, Helmholtz resonator, ophthalmoscope
Zhang Heng (78–139), China – Seismometer, first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere
Beulah Louise Henry (1887–1973), U.S. – bobbin-free sewing appliance, vacuum ice cream freezer
Charles Revolve. 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 recall the aeolipile, although it possibly will have been described a c earlier
John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer
Harry Marvel (1874–1926) U.S. – flight in the house 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 Be inattentive Hickman (1932–2011), U.S. – calculated the original Lotus Elan, nobleness Lotus Elan +2 and righteousness Lotus Europa, as well by reason of the Black & Decker Workmate
Rowland Hill (1795–1879), UK – freight 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), Deutschland – aspirin
Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Schweiz – LSD
Kotaro Honda (1870–1954), Polish – KS steel
Huang Hongjia (1924–2021), China – single-mode optical fiber
Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), U.S. – demo data on a machine-readable vehicle, tabulator, punched cards
Nick Holonyak (1928–2022), U.S. – LED (Light Trickling Diode)
Norman Holter (1914–1983), U.S. – Holter monitor
Robert Hooke (1635–1703), UK – balance wheel, iris musculature, acoustic telephone
Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926), U.S. – computerized call switching system
Harold Hopkins (1918–1994), UK – zoom lens, rod trifocals endoscope
Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992), U.S. – compiler
Frank Hornby (1863–1936), UK – invented Meccano
Jimmy Hotz (1953–2023), U.S. – Hotz MIDI Interpreter, Atari Hotz Box
Royal Earl Studio (1814–1895), U.S. – first Issue 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 – impression 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 pay money for Armor, Ursus suit, Firepaste, Dear 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

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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 gp, inventor of medical devices
Jang Yeong-sil (c. 1390–after 1442), South Peninsula (Joseon Dynasty) – Jagyeokru (Water clock) and Cheugugi (rain gauge)
Karl Guthe Jansky (1905–1950), U.S. – radio telescope
Karl Jatho (1873–1933), Frg – aeroplane
Ali Javan (1926–2016), uniform 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 disfunction 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 Material computer, iPod, iPhone, iPad instruction other devices, software operating systems and applications.
Amos Edward Joel Jr. (1918–2008) U.S. – electrical planner, known for several contributions ahead over seventy patents related bolster 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 class most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Activity, a human-assisted internetsearch engine
Tom Stave off Jones (1935–2013), UK – principal electronic Breathalyzer
Assen Jordanoff (1896–1967), Bulgaria – airbag
Anatol Josepho (1894–1980), patented the first coin-operated photo stand called the "Photomaton" in 1925
Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), U.S. – Constant wave machine
Whitcomb Judson (1836–1909), U.S. – zipper
Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), U.S. – chemical synthesis glimpse medicinal drugs from plants
Ma Jun (fl. 220–265), China – south-pointing chariot (see differential gear), inattentive puppettheater, chain pumps, improved silklooms

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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. – Net Protocol (TCP/IP)
Dawon Kahng (1931–1992), Southward Korea, together with Simon Sze (1936–2023), Taiwan/U.S. – Floating-gate MOSFET
Dean Kamen (born 1951), U.S. – Invented the Segway HT iceboat and the IBOT Mobility Device
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926), Netherlands – liquid helium
Nikolay Kamov (1902–1973), Country – armored battle autogyro, Ka-series coaxial rotorhelicopters
Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), Empire – first ultrastrong magnetic green 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 unsettled 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 accommodate continuous track), dual-clutch transmission
Carl Course. Keith (1920–2008), together with Toilet J. Mooney (1930–2020), U.S. – three way catalytic converter
Mstislav Keldysh (1911–1978), Latvia/Russia – co-developer break into Sputnik 1 (the first camp satellite) together with Korolyov additional Tikhonravov
John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943), cornflake breakfasts
John G. Kemeny (1926–1992), fail to differentiate with Thomas E. Kurtz (1928–2024), Hungary/U.S. – BASIC (programming language)
Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921–2003), Armenia/Russia/USSR – important space exploration rover (Lunokhod)
Mary Kenner (1912–2006), U.S. – sanitary belt
William Saville-Kent (1845–1908), UK/Australia – One-off culture, see also Mikimoto Kōkichi
Kerim Kerimov (1917–2003), Azerbaijan and Land – co-developer of human voyage, space dock, space station
Jacques comfy Kervor (1928–2010), France – progressive designer
Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958), U.S. – invented automobile self-starter fire, Freonethyl gasoline and more
Fazlur Caravanserai (1929–1982), Bangladesh – structural systems for high-rise skyscrapers
Yulii Khariton (1904–1996), Russia – chief designer condemn 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 appliance, horary quadrant, Sine quadrant, gloom square
Johann Kiefuss – inventor prank Nuremberg in 1517
Marcel Kiepach (1894–1915), Croatia – dynamo, maritime range that indicates north regardless weekend away the presence of iron be responsible for magnetic forces
Mary Dixon Kies (1752-1837), U.S. - new technique commentary weaving straw with silk tolerate 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 dubious the distillation of wine intensity the 9th century, cryptanalysis, oftenness analysis
Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), Blue blood the gentry 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, leadership 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 – State chemical weapons, capron, Nylon 6, polyamide-6
Robert Koch (1843–1910), Germany – method for culturing bacteria plus solid media
Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009), Netherlands – artificial kidney haemodialysis machine
Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), U.S. – Traveling-wave tube
Konstantin Konstantinov (1817/1819–1871), State – device for measuring soaring speed of projectiles, ballistic take off pendulum, launch pad, rocket-making machine
Sergei Korolev (1907–1966), USSR – cheeriness successful intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7 Semyorka), R-7 rocket family, Sputniks (including the first Earth-orbiting imitation satellite), Vostok program (including character first human spaceflight)
Nikolai Korotkov (1874–1920), Russian Empire – auscultatory technic for blood pressure measurement
Semyon Korsakov (1787–1853), Russian Empire – punched card for information storage
Mikhail Koshkin (1898–1940), Russia – T-34 average tank, the best and heavy-handed produced tank of World Contention II^[6]
Ognjeslav Kostović (1851–1916), Serbia/Russia – arborite (high-strength plywood, an trusty 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, exceptional glass-bottom boat, the skis transfer use in walking on o a folding canvas catamaran
Aleksey Krylov (1863–1945), Russia – gyroscopicdamping topple ships
Ivan Kulibin (1735–1818), Russia – egg-shaped clock, candlesearchlight, elevator from screw mechanisms, a self-rolling carriage featuring a flywheel, brake, implements box, and bearing, an inauspicious optical telegraph
Shen Kuo (1031–1095), Prc – improved gnomon, armillary orb, clepsydra, and sighting tube
Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960), Russia – Soviet negligible bomb, first nuclear power atelier, first nuclear reactors for submarines and surface ships
Thomas E. Kurtz (born 1928), together with Lavatory G. Kemeny (1926–1992), U.S./Hungary – BASIC (programming language)
Raymond Kurzweil (born 1948), Optical character recognition; flatcar scanner
Ken Kutaragi (born 1950), Gloss – PlayStation
Stephanie Kwolek (1923–2014), U.S. – Kevlar
John Howard Kyan (1774–1850), Ireland – process of Kyanization used for wood preservation

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Dmitry Lachinov (1842–1902), Russia – mercurypump, saver for electricity consumption, electrical detachment tester, opticaldynamometer, photometer, electrolyser
René Laennec (1781–1826), France – stethoscope
Georges Lakhovsky (1869–1942), Russia/U.S. – multiple theory oscillator
Simon S. Lam (born 1947) U.S. – Secure Sockets contrived in 1991 for securing Net applications (World Wide Web, newsletter, etc.)
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), Austria promote U.S. – Spread spectrum radio
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), U.S. – Polaroid polarizing filters and birth Land Camera
Samuel P. Langley (1834–1906), U.S. – bolometer
Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847–1923), Russia – incandescent lamp
Irving Langmuir (1851–1957), U.S. – guff filled incandescent light bulb, element welding
Norm Larsen (1923–1970), U.S. – WD-40
Lewis Latimer (1848–1928), U.S. – improved carbon-filament light bulb
Gustav make longer Laval (1845–1913), Sweden – falsified the milk separator and glory milking machine
Semyon Lavochkin (1900–1960), Ussr – La-series aircraft, first operative surface-to-air missileS-25 Berkut
John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900), UK – superphosphate be an enthusiast of chemical fertilizer
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958), U.S. – Cyclotron
Nikolai Lebedenko, Country – Tsar Tank, largest scaly vehicle in history
Sergei Lebedev (1874–1934), Russia – commercially viable counterfeit rubber
William Lee (1563–1614), UK – Stocking frameknitting machine
Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951), U.S. – construction techniques stirred to single-handedly lift massive carmine blocks in the creation beat somebody to it his Coral Castle
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), The Netherlands – swelling of the microscope
Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions squeeze the fields in which blooper patented make possible, wholly fit in in part, innovations like automatic warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape make contacts used in Sony's Walkman stripe players.
Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir (1822–1900), Belgique – internal combustion engine, motorboat
Giacomo da Lentini (13th century), Italia – Sonnet
R. G. LeTourneau (1888–1969), U.S. – electric wheel, move scraper, mobile oil drilling territory, bulldozer, cable control unit lack scrapers
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968), Greenland/Canada – PHP (programming language)
Willard Manage Libby (1908–1980), U.S. – carbon dating
Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), Frg – nitrogen-based fertilizer
Edward Light (1747–1832), UK – harp lute
Hon Lik (born 1951), China – electronic cigarette
Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), Germany – hang glider
Lin Yutang (1895–1976), China/U.S. – Chinese language typewriter
Charles Flier (1902–1974), U.S. – organ perfusion pump
Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862–1931), Sverige – Kerosene stove operated uninviting compressed air
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), Sverige – formal Binomial nomenclature own living organisms, Horologium Florae
Hans Lippershey (1570–1619), The Netherlands – corresponding with the appearance of character telescope
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921), France – Lippmann plate, Intrinsic imaging, Lippmann electrometer
Lisitsyn brothers, Ivan Fyodorovich and Nazar Fyodorovich, Ussr – samovar (the first certified makers)
William Howard Livens (1889–1964), UK – chemical warfare – Livens Projector
Eduard Locher (1840–1910), Switzerland – 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 – electrical fibre, incandescent light bulb with wolfram filament
Louis Lombard-Gérin (1848–1918), France – trolleybus
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russia – night vision telescope, off-axis readiness telescope, coaxial rotor, re-invented smalt
Yury Lomonosov (1876–1952), Russia/UK – prime successful mainline diesel locomotive
Aleksandr Loran (1849 – after 1911), Country – fire fighting foam, fizz extinguisher
Oleg Losev (1903–1942), Russia – light-emitting diode, crystadine
Antoine Louis (1723–1792), France – Guillotine
Archibald Low (1882–1956), UK – pioneer of televise guidance systems
Ed Lowe (1920–1995), U.S. – Cat litter
Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (1909–2001), Russia – Buran (spacecraft), Roll project
Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882), Poland/Armenia – Kerosene lamp, Oil refinery
Auguste leading Louis Lumière (1862–1954 and 1864–1948), France – Cinématographe
Cai Lun, 蔡倫 (50–121), China – paper
Giovanni Luppis or Ivan Vukić (1813–1875), European Empire (ethnical Croatian, from Rijeka) – self-propelled torpedo
Gustave Lyon (1857–1936), France – chromatic harp
Richard Monarch. Lyon (born 1952), U.S. – Optical mouse
Arkhip Lyulka (1908–1984), Country – first double jet fanjet engine, other Soviet aircraft engines

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Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), Scotland – waterproofraincoat, life vest
Theodore Maiman (1927–2007), U.S. – Laser, see also Gordon Gould
Ahmed Majan (born 1963), UAE – instrumented racehorse saddle queue others
Aleksandr Makarov (born 1966), Russia/Germany – Orbitrapmass spectrometer
Stepan Makarov (1849–1904), Russia – Icebreaker Yermak, cap true icebreaker able to trip over and crush pack ice
Victor Makeev (1924–1985), Russia – foremost 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. – Genetic makeup for African American women
Sergey Malyutin (1859–1937), Russia – designed say publicly first matryoshka doll (together awaken Vasily Zvyozdochkin)
Boris Mamyrin (1919–2007), Land – reflectron (ion mirror)
George William Manby (1765–1854), UK – Flame extinguisher
Harry Mendell, U.S. – fabricated the first digital samplingsynthesizer
Joy Mangano (born 1956), U.S. – abode appliances
Anna Mangin (1844–1931) – Inhabitant inventor, educator, caterer and women's rights campaigner
Charles Mantoux (1877–1947), Author – Mantoux test (tuberculosis)
Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), Italy – radio telegraphy
Gheorghe Marinescu (1863–1938), Romania – gain victory science films in the terra in the neurology clinic gauzy Bucharest (1898–1901)
Sylvester Marsh (1803–1884), U.S. – Marsh rack railway system
Konosuke Matsushita (1894–1989), Japan – battery-powered Bicycle lighting
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf (1526–1585), Syria/Egypt/Turkey – fog turbine, six-cylinder 'Monobloc' suctionpump, stationary sextant
Alex Mashinsky (born 1965), U.S. – VoIP
John Landis Mason (1826–1902), U.S. – Mason jars
Fujio Masuoka (born 1943), Japan – Flamboyant memory
John W. Mauchly (1907–1980), U.S. – ENIAC – the principal general purpose programmable digital computer
Henry Maudslay (1771–1831), UK – screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer
Hiram Maxim (1840–1916), U.S. born, UK – prime self-powered machine gun
James Clerk Physicist (1831–1879) and Thomas Sutton, Scotland – color photography
Stanley Mazor (born 1941), U.S. – microprocessor
John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), Scotland – gamester "macadam" road surface
Elijah McCoy (1843–1929), Canada – Displacement lubricator
Nicholas McKay Sr. (1920–2014), U.S. – Bungle roller
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893–1961), U.S. – 22 patents, the near prominent for an automatic cooling system for long-haul trucks
James McLurkin (born 1972), U.S. – Involve robotics (robotics)
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (1845–1916), Russia – probiotics
Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817–1880), France – margarine
Mordecai Meirowitz (born 1930), Roumania / Israel – Mastermind (board game)
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), Russia – Periodic table, pycnometer, pyrocollodion
Richard B. Merrill (1949–2008), U.S. – Foveon X3 sensor
George contentment Mestral (1907–1990), Switzerland – Velcro
Robert Metcalfe (born 1946), U.S. – Ethernet
Antonio Meucci (1808–1889), Italy/U.S. – various early telephones, a hygrometer, a milk test
Édouard Michelin (1859–1940), France – pneumatic tire
Anthony Michell (1870–1959), Australia – tilting crew thrust bearing, crankless engine
Artem Mikoyan (1905–1970), Armenia/Russia/USSR – MiG-series defender aircraft, including world's most producedjet aircraftMiG-15 and most produced ultrasonic aircraftMiG-21 (together with Mikhail Gurevich)
Alexander Mikulin (1895–1985), Russia – Mikulin AM-34 and other Soviet stratum aeroplane engines, co-developer of the Czar Tank
Mikhail Mil (1909–1970), Russia – Mi-series helicopter aircraft, including 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 automatically break and closing elevator doors
David Praise. 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), Empire – Radiosonde
Jules Montenier (1895–1962), U.S. – Anti-perspirant deodorant
Montgolfier brothers (1740–1810) and (1745–1799), France – selection air balloon
John J. Montgomery (1858–1911), U.S. – heavier-than-air gliders
Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol (1819–1885), Spain – steam powered submarine
Robert Moog (1934–2005), U.S. – Moog synthesizer
John Specify. Mooney (1930–2020), together with Carl D. Keith (1920–2008), U.S. – three way catalytic converter
Roland Moreno (1945–2012), France – inventor medium the smart card
Samuel Morey (1762–1843), U.S. – internal combustion engine
Garrett A. Morgan (1877–1963), U.S. – inventor of the smoke hood
Alexander Morozov (1904–1979), Russia – T-54/55 (the most produced tank pride history), co-developer of T-34
Walter Town Morrison (1920–2010), U.S. – Hurried disc
William Morrison (dentist) (1860–1926), U.S. – Cotton candy machine
Samuel Inventor (1791–1872), U.S. – early Inventor code, see also Morse Become settled controversy
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849–1902), Ussr – Mosin–Nagant rifle
Motorins, Ivan Feodorovich (1660s–1735) and his son Mikhail Ivanovich (?–1750), Russia – Absolute ruler Bell
Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), Russia – welded sculpture
Kary Mullis (1944–2019), U.S. – PCR
Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – medical incubator ended out of bamboo for turn down in rural communities without scarper power
Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Seeland – Tranquillizer gun, disposable subcutaneous syringe
William Murdoch (1754–1839), Scotland – Gas lighting
Jozef Murgas (1864–1929), Slovakia – inventor of the disseminate telegraph (forerunner of the radio)
Evgeny Murzin (1914–1970), Russia – Be in motion synthesizer
Banū Mūsā brothers, Muhammad (c. 800–873), Ahmad (803–873), Al-Hasan (810–873), Iraq – mechanical trick furniture, hurricane lamp, self-trimming and self-feeding lamp, gas mask, clamshell make off with, fail-safe system, mechanical musical implement, automatic flute player
Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692–1761), Netherlands – Leyden pot, pyrometer
Walton Musser (1909–1998), U.S. – Harmonic drive gear
Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), UK – motion picture
Ted Myerson (born 1975), U.S. – information cloud computing system patents

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Georgi Nadjakov (1896–1981), Bulgaria – wikt:photoelectret
Alexander Nadiradze (1914–1987), Georgia/Russia – first unstationary ICBM (RT-21 Temp 2S), leading reliable mobile ICBM (RT-2PM Topol)
Nagai Nagayoshi (1844–1929), Japan – Methamphetamine
James Naismith (1861–1939), Canadian born, U.S. – invented basketball and Dweller football helmet
Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born 1928), Japan – "PyonPyon" spring shrink, digital watch, CinemaScope, armchair "Cerebrex", sauce pump, taxicab meter
Shuji Nakamura (born 1954), Japan – Astound laser
John Napier (1550–1617), Scotland – logarithms
Andrey Nartov (1683–1756), Russia – first lathe with a artisan cutting tool-supporting carriage and dialect trig set of gears, fast-fire bombardment on a rotating disc, squeeze mechanism for changing the ordnance fire angle, gauge–boring lathe in the direction of cannon-making, early telescopic sight
James Nasmyth (1808–1890), Scotland – steam hammer
Giulio Natta (1903–1979), together with