Inventor biographies

List of inventors

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This is a list of famous inventors.

Alphabetical list

A

Vitaly Abalakov (1906–1986), Country – camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread), gearless ice climbing anchor
Ernst Karl Abbe (1840–1905), Germany – Condenser (microscope), apochromatic lens, refractometer
Hovannes Adamian (1879–1932), USSR/Russia/Armenia – tricolor principle of the hue television
Samuel W. Alderson (1914–2005), U.S. – crash test dummy
Alexandre Alexeieff (1901–1982), Russia/France – Pinscreen animation (with his helpmeet Claire Parker)
Rostislav Alexeyev (1916–1980), Russia/USSR – Ekranoplan
Randi Altschul (born 1960), U.S. – Disposable cellphone
Abram Alikhanov (1904–1970), Armenia/USSR – Soviet atomic bomb, nuclear reactor
Bruce Tradition (born 1928), U.S. – Ames probation (Cell biology)
Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), Italia – 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 Depiction (1920–2005), U.S. – Well counter (radioactivity measurements), gamma camera
Anders Knutsson Ångström (1888–1981), Sweden – Pyranometer
Ottomar Anschütz (1846–1907), Deutschland – single-curtain focal-plane shutter, electrotachyscope
Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe (1872–1931), Germany – Gyrocompass
Virginia Apgar (1909–1974), U.S. – Apgar score (for babe in arms babies)
Nicolas Appert (1749–1841), France – canning (food preservation) using glass bottles, authority also Peter Durand
Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC), Greece – Archimedes' screw
Guido of Arezzo (c. 991–c. 1033), Italy – Guidonian notation, see musical notation and too 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 – Portland 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 – Doubtful engine (semi-automatic)
Tabitha Babbit (1779–1853), U.S. – Saw millcircular saw
Victor Babeș (1854–1926), Rumania – Babesia, the founder of vaccine therapy
Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian–American – Velox photographic paper and Bakelite
Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014), German born American – recording game console
Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), Deutschland – Fluorescein, synthetic Indigo dye, Phenolphthalein
John Logie Baird (1888–1946), Scotland – World's first working television, 26 January 1926 and electronic colour television
Abi Bakr order Isfahan (c. 1235), Persia/Iran – perfunctory gearedastrolabe with lunisolar calendar
George Ballas (1925–2011), U.S. – String 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 the transistor, laughableness Brattain and Schockley
Vladimir Barmin (1909–1993), State – first rocket launch complex (spaceport)
Anthony R. Barringer (1925–2009), Canada/U.S. – Display (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system
Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), Canada/U.S. – rodeo bucking chute (1916 and 1919), rodeo bronc saddle (1922), rodeo bareback accoutrements (1924), rodeo riding chaps (1926)
Nikolay Basov (1922–2001), Russia – co-inventor of laser and maser
Patricia Bath (1942–2019), U.S. – inventor of laser cataract surgery
Émile Baudot (1845–1903), France – 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, reinforced life raft
Francis Beaufort (1774–1857), Ireland/UK – Beaufort scale, Beaufort cipher
Hans Beck (1929–2009), Germany – inventor of Playmobil toys
Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004), U.S. – charged pH meter
Vladimir Bekhterev (1857–1927), Russia – Bekhterev's Mixture
Josip Belušić (1847–1905), Croatia – electric speedometer
Michael Bell (born 1938), motivation with Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), U.S. – a gray water recycling infuriate for reuse of shower and plunge water in the home
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), UK, Canada, and U.S. – telephone
Nikolay Benardos (1842–1905), Russian Empire – arc welding (specifically carbon arc welding, the first arc welding method)
Ruth Publicity. Benerito (1916–2013), U.S. – Permanent tamp (no-iron clothing)
Miriam Benjamin (1861–1947), Washington, D.C. – Gong and signal chair (adopted by House of Representatives and herald to flight attendant signal system)
William Notice. Bennett Jr. (1930–2008), together with Caliph Javan (1926–2016), U.S./Iran – Gas laser (Helium-Neon)
Melitta Bentz (1873–1950), Germany – exposition Coffee filter
Karl Benz (1844–1929), Germany – the petrol-powered automobile
Hans Berger (1873–1941), Frg – first human EEG and well-fitting development
Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), Germany – Bergius process (synthetic fuel from coal)
Emile German (1851–1929), Germany and U.S. – influence disc record gramophone
Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), UK – with Robert Cailliau, rectitude World Wide Web
Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907), Author – Berthelot's reagent (chemistry)
Heinrich Bertsch (1897–1981), Germany – first fully synthetic wash detergent "Fewa" (chemistry)
Charles Best (1899–1978), Canada – Insulin (chemistry)
Max Bielschowsky (1869–1940), Frg – Bielschowsky stain (histology)
Alfred Binet (1857–1911), France – with his student Théodore Simon (1872–1961), first practical Intelligence test
Lucio Bini (1908–1964), together with Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
Gerd Binnig (born 1947), with Christoph Gerber, Chemist Quate and Heinrich Rohrer, Germany/Switzerland/U.S. – Atomic force microscope and Scanning tunneling microscope
Clarence Birdseye (1886–1956), U.S. – Interfere freezing
László Bíró (1899–1985), Hungary – Pen pen
Thor Bjørklund (1889–1975), Norway – Cheeseflower slicer
J. Stuart Blackton (1875–1941), U.S. – Stop-motion film
Otto Blathy (1860–1939), Hungary – co-inventor of the transformer, wattmeter, variable current (AC) and turbogenerator
John Blenkinsop (1783–1831), UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system
Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985), Austro-Hungary/Australia – Blissymbols
Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979), U.S. – echoless glass
Alan Blumlein (1903–1942), UK – stereo
David Boggs (1950–2022), U.S. – Ethernet
Nils Bohlin (1920–2002), Sweden – the three-point headquarters belt
Sarah Boone (1832–1908), U.S. – punter ironing board design
Charlie Booth (1903–2008), Continent – Starting blocks
Bob Born (1924–2023), U.S. – automated marshmallow confection production
Sam Original (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 Missionary Berg (1926–2023), and Stanley Norman Cohen (1935–), U.S. – created first Genetically modified organism
Willard Boyle (1924–2011) together arrange a deal George E. Smith (born 1930), U.S. – Charge-coupled device (CCD)
Hugh Bradner (1915–2008), U.S. – Wetsuit
Louis Braille (1809–1852), Author – Braille writing system, Braille melodious notation
Archie Brain (born 1942), UK – Laryngeal mask
Jacques E. Brandenberger (1872–1954), Suisse – Cellophane
Édouard Branly (1844–1940), France – Coherer
Charles F. Brannock (1903–1992), U.S. – Brannock Device (shoe size)
Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987), U.S. – co-inventor of probity 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. – chief self-propelled street sweeping truck
Rachel Fuller Brownness (1898–1980), U.S. – Nystatin, the world's first antifungal antibiotic
William C. Brown (1916–1999), U.S. – crossed-field amplifier
Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922–1999), U.S. – home asylum system
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn (1853–1927), Frg – Taximeter
Nikolay Brusentsov (1925–2014), USSR, Ussr – ternary computer (Setun)
Dudley Allen Depute (1927–1959), U.S. – Cryotron, content-addressable memory
Edwin Beard Budding (1795–1846), UK – lawnmower
Gersh Budker (1918–1977), Russia – electron fresh, co-inventor of collider
Edward Bull (1759–1798), England – Bull engine (a modified cloud engine)
Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), Germany – Chemist burner
Henry Burden (1791–1871), Scotland and U.S. – Horseshoe machine, first usable forceful railroad spike

C

Tim Cook-the CEO of Apple
Ve Elizabeth Cadie (1893–1956), U.S. – hotness insulating handle for small home appliances
Herminie Cadolle (1845–1926), France – modern brassiere
Robert Cailliau (born 1947), Belgium – truthful Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
Edward A. Calahan (1838–1912), U.S. – Emergency supply ticker tape
Nicholas Callan (1799–1864), Ireland – Induction coil
Spéranza Calo-Séailles (1885–1949), Greece – "Lap" decorative concrete
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton (1863–1930), Scotland – Television
Tullio Campagnolo (1901–1983), Italia – Quick release skewer
Charles Cantor (born 1942), U.S. – Pulsed-field gel action (molecular biology)
Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 1937), together with Sir Martin John Archaeologist (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), Italy – Cardan grating (cryptography)
Philip Cardew (1851–1910), UK – Hot-wire galvanometer
Chester Carlson (1906–1968), U.S. – Xerographic copier
Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), U.S. – Polyamide and Neoprene (together with Arnold Collins)
Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764–1815), Italy – Vermouth
Mary P. Carpenter (1840–1900), U.S. – enthusiast 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 with Bob Kahn (1938–), U.S. – Internet Protocol (IP)
Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory and recent cryptography, invented Minivac 601, and co-invented the first wearable computer (with Prince O. Thorp)
Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), together slaughter Lucio Bini (1908–1964), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
Leona Chalmers (c. 1937), U.S. – modern menstrual cup
Charles Chamberland (1851–1908), Author – Chamberland filter
Min Chueh Chang (1908–1991), together with Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967), U.S./China – Combined oral contraceptive pill
Thomas Chang (born 1933), Canada/China – Madeup cell
Emmett Chapman (1936–2021), U.S. – Hawker Stick
Claude Chappe (1763–1805), France – Semaphore line
Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), together meet Michael Bell (born 1938), U.S. – a gray water recycling device mix up with reuse of shower and sink h 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 – vibrate fry pan
Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990), USSR – Cherenkov detector
Evgeniy Chertovsky (1902–1961), Russia – pressure suit
Alicia Chong Rodriguez – Earth engineer and inventor
Ward Christensen (born 1945), U.S. – Bulletin board system
Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), Denmark – Creator call upon Lego
Samuel Hunter Christie (1784–1865), UK – Wheatstone bridge
Juan de la Cierva (1895–1936), Spain – the autogyro
Charles Clagget (1740–1795), UK – Improvements for musical instruments
Leland Clark (1918–2005), U.S. – Clark electrode (medicine)
Georges Claude (1870–1960), France – element lamp
Adelaide Claxton (fl 1860s–1890s), UK – ear 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 speculation of sonics, a new branch range continuum mechanics
Albert Coons (1912–1978), U.S. – Immunofluorescence (microscopy)
Martin Cooper (born 1928), U.S. – Mobile phone
Harry Coover (1917–2011), U.S. – Super Glue
Lloyd Groff Copeman (1865–1956), U.S. – Electric stove
Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550–1607), The Netherlands – wind powered sawmill
Alexander Coucoulas (born 1933), U.S. – Thermosonic bonding
Wallace H. Coulter (1913–1998), U.S. – Coulter principle
Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), France – co-inventor of the aqualung and honesty Nikonos underwater camera
John "Jack" Higson Giveaway Jr. (1920–2009), U.S. – Taser
Minnie Crabb (1885–1974), Australia - Crabb-Hulme Braille Print Press
William Crookes (1832–1919), UK – Physicist radiometer, Crookes tube
Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731), Italia – piano
Caresse Crosby (1891–1970), U.S. – Modern bra
S. Scott Crump (inv. aphorism. 1989), U.S. – fused deposition modeling
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725–1804), France – first steam-powered road vehicle
William Cullen (1710–1790), UK – first artificial refrigerator
Rose Cumming (1887–1968), U.S. – metallic wallpaper
Emily Cummins (born 1987), UK – sustainable refrigerator, water shipper, toothpaste dispenser
Marie Curie (1867–1934), Poland – portable X-ray units ("Little Curies"),^[1] radium-emanation needles^[2]
Jamie Lee Curtis (born 1958), U.S. – diapers
Jan Czochralski (1885–1953), Poland Distance Germany – Czochralski process (crystal growth)

D

Nils Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), Sweden – Title cooker, Dalén light, Agamassan, Sun listening device for lighthouses and buoys
John Frederic Daniell (1790–1845), UK – Daniell cell
Corradino D'Ascanio (1891–1981), Italy – Vespa scooter
Leonardo alcoholic drink Vinci (1452–1519), Italy – helicopter, tanks, and parachutes for safety
Raymond Damadian (1936–2022), Armenia/U.S. – Magnetic resonance imaging (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 – interpretation crankcase-compression two-stroke engine
Lee de Forest (1873–1961), U.S. – Phonofilm, triode
Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – non-electric incubator
Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (1927–2006), Russia – 3D holography
Robert H. Dennard (1932–2024), U.S. – Powerful random-access memory (DRAM)
Miksa Déri (1854–1938), Magyarorszag – co-inventor of an 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 Kennedy Laurie Dickson (1860–1935), UK – motion cotton on camera
Philip Diehl (1847–1913), U.S. – Cellar fan
Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), Germany – Engineer engine
William H. Dobelle (1943–2004), U.S. – Dobelle Eye
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780–1849), Deutschland – 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 go-ahead power
Marion O'Brien Donovan (1917–1998), U.S. – Waterproof diaper
Hub van Doorne (1900–1979), Holland – Variomaticcontinuously variable transmission
John Thompson Dorrance (1873–1930), U.S. – Condensed soup
Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831–1916) – writer and innovator (portable folding mosquito net frame)
Charles Frills (1851–1902), U.S. – Dow Jones Commercial Average
Mulalo Doyoyo (1970–2024), South Africa/U.S. – Cenocell – cementless concrete
Anastase Dragomir (1896–1966), Romania – Ejection seat
Karl Drais (1785–1851), Germany – dandy horse, Draisine
Richard Histrion (1899–1980), U.S. – Masking tape
John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), UK – first unusable 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 emptiness cleaner, incorporating the principles of windstorm separation.

E

George Eastman (1854–1932), U.S. – loop film
J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995), U.S. – ENIAC – the first general end programmable digital computer
Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), U.S. – phonograph, commercially practical redhot light bulb, etc.
Pehr Victor Edman (1916–1977), Sweden – Edman degradation for Accelerator sequencing
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925–2013), UK – In vitro fertilisation
Ellen Eglin (1849–c. 1890), U.S. – Clothes wringer
Brendan Eich (born 1961), U.S. – (programming language)
Willem Einthoven (1860–1927), The Netherlands – class electrocardiogram
Benjamin Eisenstadt (1906–1996), U.S. – Sweeten packet
Paul Eisler (1907–1992), Austria/U.S. – Printed circuit board (electronics)
Giorgi Eliava (1892–1937), tally with Félix d'Herelle (1873–1949), France Accomplishment Georgia – Phage therapy
Ivan Elmanov, State – first monorail (horse-drawn)
Rune Elmqvist (1906–1996), Sweden – implantable pacemaker
John Haven Author (1906–1997), U.S. – iron lung
Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013), U.S. – the computer mouse
Michael D. Ercolino (1906-1982), U.S. – Boob tube antenna´s
John Ericsson (1803–1889), Sweden – influence two screw-propeller
Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), Germany – Erlenmeyer flask
Sir Martin John Evans (born 1941), together with Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 1937), and Oliver Smithies (1925–2017), U.S. – Knockout 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), The Netherlands – Fahrenheit temperature relation, Mercury-in-glass thermometer
Michael Faraday (1791–1867), UK – electric transformer, electric motor
Johann Maria Farina (1685–1766), Germany – Eau de Cologne
Myra Juliet Farrell (1878–1957), Australia – stitchless button, Press stud
Philo Farnsworth (1906–1971), U.S. – electronic television
Marga Faulstich (1915–1998), Deutschland – optical glass, lightweight lens SF 64^[3]
Muhammad al-Fazari (died 796/806), Persia – astrolabe
John Bennett Fenn (1917–2010), U.S. – Electrospray ionization
Henry John Horstman Fenton (1854–1929), UK – Fenton's reagent (chemistry)
James Fergason (1934–2008), U.S. – improved liquid barometer display
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), Italy – fissionable reactor
Humberto Fernández-Morán (1924–1999), Venezuela – Parcel scalpel, Ultra microtome
Michele Ferrero (1925–2015), Italia – Kinder Surprise = Kinder Foodstuff, Nutella
Bran Ferren (born 1953), U.S. – Pinch-to-zoom (multi-touch), together with Daniel Hillis
Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932), Canada – two-way radio
Robert Feulgen (1884–1955), Germany – Feulgen colour (histology)
Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick (1829–1901), Frg – contact lens
Ethel Finck (1932–2003), U.S. – cardiac catheter
Abbas Ibn Firnas (810–887), Al-Andalus – fused quartz and oxide glass, metronome
Artur Fischer (1919–2016) Germany – fasteners including fischertechnik.
Franz Joseph Emil Chemist (1877–1947), together with Hans Schrader (1921–2012), Germany – Fischer assay (oil knuckle under test)
Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947), alliance with Hans Tropsch (1889–1935), Germany – Fischer–Tropsch process (refinery process)
Gerhard Fischer (1899–1988), Germany/U.S. – hand-held metal detector
Paul Apophthegm. 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 Fleming (1848–1945), UK – Vacuum diode
Sandford Fleming (1827–1915), Canada – Universal Standard Time
Nicolas Florine (1891–1972), Georgia/Russia/Belgium – first tandem rotorhelicopter to fly freely
Tommy Flowers (1905–1998), UK – Colossus an early electronic computer.
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974), U.S. – aircraft direction 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 – Steam helicopter, hydrofoil, Forlanini airships
Eric Fossum (born 1957), U.S. – intra-pixel charge transfer in CMOS clue sensors
Josephine G. Fountain (fl 1960), U.S. – direct suction tracheotomy tube
Jean Physiologist Léon Foucault (1819–1868), France – Physicist pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current
Benoît Fourneyron (1802–1867), France – water turbine
John Fowler (1826–1864), UK – steam-driven ploughing engine
Benjamin Scientist (1706–1790), U.S. – the pointed tornado rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Writer stove, the glass harmonica
Herman Frasch (1851–1914), Germany / U.S. – Frasch occasion (petrochemistry), Paraffin wax purification
Ian Hector Anthropologist (born 1953), together with Jian Chou (1957–1999), U.S./China – HPV vaccine antithetical cervical cancer
Helen Murray Free (1923–2021), U.S. – diabetes tests
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827), Writer – Fresnel lens
Amelia Freund (1824–1887), Frg – cooking stove contained a "frizzler" which fried without hardening.^[4]
Ida Freund (1863–1914), UK – gas measuring tube, recurrent table cupcakes
William Friese-Greene (1855–1921), UK – cinematography
Julius Fromm (1883–1945), Germany – principal seamless Condom
Arthur Fry (born 1931), U.S. – Post-it note
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), U.S. – geodesic dome
C. W. Fuller (inv. 1953), U.S. – Gilhoolie
Robert Fulton (1765–1815), United States – first commercially in force steamboat, first practical submarine
Ivan Fyodorov (c. 1510–1583), Russia/Poland–Lithuania – invented multibarreledmortar, foreign printing in Russia
Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), Empire – radial keratotomy
Vladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966), Country – Fedorov Avtomat (first self-loading warfare rifle, arguably the first assault rifle)

G

Dennis Gabor (1900–1979), Hungarian-British – holography
Boris Borisovich Galitzine (1862–1916), Russia – electromagneticseismograph
Joseph Fluffy. Gall (1928–2024), U.S. – In situ hybridization (cell biology)
Alfred William Gallagher (1911–1990), New Zealand – Electric fence reach farmers
Dmitri Garbuzov (1940–2006), Russia/U.S. – continuous-wave-operating diode lasers (together with Zhores Alferov), high-power diode lasers
Elmer R. Gates (1859–1923), U.S. – foam fire extinguisher, go-getting loom mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, educational toy ("box & blocks")*
Richard Tabulate. Gatling (1818–1903), U.S. – wheat inadequacy, first successful machine gun
Georgy Gause (1910–1986), Russia – gramicidin S, neomycin, lincocin and other antibiotics
E. K. Gauzen, Ussr – three bolt equipment (early dive costume)
Norman Gaylord (1923–2007), U.S. – stiff gas-permeable contact lens
Karl-Hermann Geib (1908–1949), Deutschland / USSR – Girdler sulfide process
King Camp Gillette (1855-1932), U.S. – Double-edge safety razor and blade
Hans Wilhelm Physicist (1882–1945), Germany – Geiger counter
Andrey Geim (born 1958), Russia/United Kingdom – graphene
Nestor Genko (1839–1904), Russia – Genko's Timberland Belt (the first large-scale windbreak system)
Christoph Gerber (born 1942), with Calvin Plan (1923–2019), and with Gerd Binnig (1947–), Germany/U.S./Switzerland – Atomic force microscope
Friedrich Writer Gerke (1801–1888), Germany – current cosmopolitan Morse code
David Gestetner (1854–1939), Austria-Hungary Memento UK – Gestetner copier
Alberto Gianni (1891–1930), Italy – Torretta butoscopica
John Heysham Historiographer (1903–1973), U.S. – Heart-lung machine
Gustav Giemsa (1867–1948), Germany – Giemsa stain (histology)
Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austria – Giesl ejector
Henri Giffard (1825–1882), France – powered dirigible, injector
David J. Gingery (1932–2004), USA
Donald First-class. Glaser (1926–2013), U.S. – Bubble chamber
Joseph Glass (1791–1867), England – chimney-sweeping apparatus
Valentyn Glushko (1908–1989), Russia – hypergolic propellent, electric propulsion, Soviet rocket engines (including world's most powerful liquid-fuelrocket engineRD-170)
Heinrich Göbel (1818–1893), Germany – incandescent lamp
Leonid Gobyato (1875–1915), Russia – man-portable mortar
Robert Physicist (1882–1945), U.S. – liquid fuel rocket
Sam Golden (1915–1997), together with Leonard Bocour (1910–1993), U.S. – Acrylic paint
Peter Carl Goldmark (1906–1977), Hungary – vinyl make a notation of (LP), CBS color television
Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italy – Golgi's method (histology)
György Gömöri (1904–1957), Hungary / U.S. – Gömöri trichrome stain, Gömöri methenamine silver mark (histology)
Lewis Gompertz (c. 1783–1861), UK – latable chuck, improved velocipede
Sarah E. Goode (1855–1905), US – cabinet bed. First African-American woman to receive a United States patent.
Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), U.S. – vulcanisation of rubber
Praveen Kumar Gorakavi (born 1989), India – low-cost Braille Typewriter
Robert Sensitive. Gore (1937–2020), U.S. – Gore-Tex
Igor Gorynin (1926–2015), Russia – weldabletitanium alloys, pump up session strength aluminium 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 captain 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 – finger joint support suffer privation patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Hans Christian Reasonable (1853–1938), Denmark / Germany – Graphic staining (histology)
Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), Belgium/France – Gramme dynamo
Temple Grandin (born 1947), press machine and humane abattoirs
Michael Grätzel (born 1944), Germany/Switzerland – Dye-sensitized solar cell
James Henry Greathead (1844–1896), South Africa – tunnel boring machine, tunnelling shield technique
Chester Greenwood (1858–1937), U.S. – thermal earmuffs
Lori Greiner (born 1969), U.S. – Flatware Safekeeper anti-tarnish lining (jewelry organizers) be first multiple consumer products, 120 US become peaceful foreign patents
James Gregory (1638–1675), Scotland – Gregorian telescope
William Griggs (1832–1911), England – a process of photolithography
Helmut Gröttrup (1916–1981), Germany – smart card, systems get on to banknote processing
William Robert Grove (1811–1896), Princedom – fuel cell
Gustav Guanella (1909–1982), Schweiz – DSSS, Guanella-Balun
Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), Germany – vacuum pump, manometer, dasymeter
Sarah Guppy (1770 - 1852), United Society - bridge/railroad building, tea and ecru urn, barnacle prevention for boats, scuttle lasting candlestick
Mikhail Gurevich (1893–1976), Russia – MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's pinnacle producedjet aircraftMiG-15 and most produced inaudible aircraftMiG-21 (together with Artem Mikoyan)
Goldsworthy Gurney (1793–1875), England – Gurney Stove
Bartolomeu bring forward Gusmão (1685–1724), Brazil – early bent balloons
Johann Gutenberg (c. 1398–1468), Germany – movable type printing press
Samuel Guthrie (physician) (1782–1848), U.S. – discovered chloroform

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Fritz Chemist (1868–1934), Germany – Haber process (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. – aluminum production
Robert N. Hall (1919–2016), U.S. – Conductor laser
Samuel Hall (1782–1863), UK – capacitor to enable recycling of water prosperous a ship's steam engine
Tracy Hall (1919–2008), U.S. – synthetic diamond
Nicholas Halse (died 1636), England – malt kiln
Richard Overacting (1915–1998), U.S. – Hamming code
John Attorney Hammond Jr. (1888–1965), U.S. – tranny control
Ruth Handler (1916–2002), U.S. – Barbie doll
James Hargreaves (1720–1778), UK – revolution jenny
John Harington (1561–1612), UK – rectitude flush toilet
William Snow Harris (1791–1867), UK – much improved naval Lightning rods
John Harrison (1693–1776), UK – marine chronometer
Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959), U.S. – foremost successful animal Tissue culture, Cell culture
Kazuo Hashimoto (died 1995), Japan – Caller-ID, answering machine
Victor Hasselblad (1906–1978), Sweden – the 6 x 6 cm single-lens self-governing camera
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965–1039), Iraq – camera obscura, pinhole camera, magnifying glass
George H. Heilmeier (1936–2014), U.S. – juice crystal display (LCD)
Henry Heimlich (1920–2016), U.S. – Heimlich maneuver
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), U.S. – waterbed
Jozef Karol Hell (1713–1789), Slovakia – the water pillar
Rudolf Tartarus (1901–2002), Germany – the Hellschreiber
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Germany – Helmholtz heave notation, Helmholtz resonator, ophthalmoscope
Zhang Heng (78–139), China – Seismometer, first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere
Beulah Louise Henry (1887–1973), U.S. – bobbin-free sewing machine, vacuum ice remove freezer
Charles H. Henry (1937-2016), U.S. – Quantum well laser
Joseph Henry (1797–1878), Scotland/U.S. – electromagnetic relay
Félix d'Herelle (1873–1949), bring together with Giorgi Eliava (1892–1937), France, Colony – Phage therapy
Heron (c. 10–70), Latin Egypt – usually credited with contrivance of the aeolipile, although it might have been described a century earlier
John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic repairer (hypo), actinometer
Harry Houdini (1874–1926) U.S. – flight time illusion
Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Deutschland – radio telegraphy, electromagnetic radiation
Ephraim Hertzano (1912–1987), Roumania / Israel – Rummikub
Lasse Hessel (1940–2019), Denmark – female condom
George de Hevesy (1885–1966), Hungary – hot tracer
Ronald Price Hickman (1932–2011), U.S. – designed the original Lotus Elan, depiction Lotus Elan +2 and the Lotus Europa, as well as the Inky & Decker Workmate
Rowland Hill (1795–1879), UK – postage 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 Chemist (Bayer) (1868–1949), Germany – aspirin
Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Switzerland – LSD
Kotaro Honda (1870–1954), Japan – KS steel
Huang Hongjia (1924–2021), China – single-mode optical fiber
Herman Discoverer (1860–1929), U.S. – recording data beckon a machine-readable medium, tabulator, punched cards
Nick Holonyak (1928–2022), U.S. – LED (Light Emitting Diode)
Norman Holter (1914–1983), U.S. – Holter monitor
Robert Hooke (1635–1703), UK – balance wheel, iris diaphragm, acoustic telephone
Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926), U.S. – computerized telephone switching system
Harold Hopkins (1918–1994), UK – zoom lens, rod pane endoscope
Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992), U.S. – compiler
Frank Hornby (1863–1936), UK – fabricated Meccano
Jimmy Hotz (1953–2023), U.S. – Hotz MIDI Translator, Atari Hotz Box
Royal Marquis House (1814–1895), U.S. – first Print run telegraph
Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801–1887), Holland – cocoa powder, cacao butter, bronzed milk
Elias Howe (1819–1867), U.S. – embroidery machine
David Edward Hughes (1831–1900), UK – printing telegraph
Kate Duval Hughes (born 1837) – window sash security devices
Chuck Body (born 1939), U.S. – 3D printer
Troy Hurtubise (1963–2018), Canada – Trojan Trajectory Suit of Armor, Ursus suit, Firepaste, Angel Light
Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944), U.S. – Klaxon, electric hearing aid
Christiaan Physicist (1629–1695), Netherlands – pendulum clock
John Reverend Hyatt (1837–1920), U.S. – celluloid manufacturing

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Moritz von Jacobi (1801–1874), Germany/Russia – electrotyping, electric boat
Rudolf Jaenisch (born 1942), Germany/U.S. – first Genetically modified mouse
Alcinous Explorer Jamison (1851–1938), American physician, inventor admit medical devices
Jang Yeong-sil (c. 1390–after 1442), South Korea (Joseon Dynasty) – Jagyeokru (Water clock) and Cheugugi (rain gauge)
Karl Guthe Jansky (1905–1950), U.S. – tranny telescope
Karl Jatho (1873–1933), Germany – aeroplane
Ali Javan (1926–2016), together with William Attention. Bennett Jr. (1930–2008), Iran/U.S. – Blether laser (Helium-Neon)
Al-Jazari (1136–1206), Iraq – elephant clock, humanoid robots
Ibn Al-Jazzar (Algizar) (895–979), Tunisia – sexual dysfunction and expansive dysfunction treatment drugs
Ányos Jedlik (1800–1898), Magyarorszag – Jedlik dynamo
Alec John Jeffreys (born 1950), UK – DNA profiling (forensics)
Charles Francis Jenkins (1867–1934), U.S. – fleet street and movie projector (Phantoscope)
Thomas L. Jennings (1791–1859), U.S. – novel method hegemony dry cleaning
Jeong Yak-yong (1762–1836), South Choson (Joseon Dynasty) – Geojunggi (crane)
Steve Jobs (1955–2011), U.S. – Apple Macintosh estimator, iPod, iPhone, iPad and other furnishings, software operating systems and applications.
Amos Prince Joel Jr. (1918–2008) U.S. – puissance engineer, known for several contributions station over seventy patents related to travel ormation technol switching systems
Carl Edvard Johansson (1864–1943), Sverige – Gauge blocks
Johan Petter Johansson (1853–1943), Sweden – Pipe wrench and plastic spanner
Reynold B. Johnson (1906–1998), U.S. – Hard disk drive
Philipp von Jolly (1809–1884), Germany – Jolly balance
Scott A. Phonetician (born 1960), U.S. – created subject of the most successful versions retard voicemail as well as ChaCha See, a human-assisted internetsearch engine
Tom Parry Designer (1935–2013), UK – first electronic Breathalyzer
Assen Jordanoff (1896–1967), Bulgaria – airbag
Anatol Josepho (1894–1980), patented the first coin-operated picture booth called the "Photomaton" in 1925
Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), U.S. – Permanent opinion machine
Whitcomb Judson (1836–1909), U.S. – zipper
Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), U.S. – mineral synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants
Ma Jun (fl. 220–265), China – south-pointing chariot (see differential gear), mechanical puppettheater, chain pumps, improved silklooms

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Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919–2013), Russia – AK-47 and AK-74 blitz rifles (the most produced ever)
Bob Designer (born 1938), together with Vint Cerf (born 1943), U.S. – Internet Etiquette (TCP/IP)
Dawon Kahng (1931–1992), South Korea, turn out with Simon Sze (1936–2023), Taiwan/U.S. – Floating-gate MOSFET
Dean Kamen (born 1951), U.S. – Invented the Segway HT scoter and the IBOT Mobility Device
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926), Netherlands – liquid helium
Nikolay Kamov (1902–1973), Russia – armored combat autogyro, Ka-series coaxial rotorhelicopters
Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), Russia – first ultrastrong magnetic much creating techniques, basic low-temperature physics inventions
Georgii Karpechenko (1899–1941), Russia – rabbage (the first ever non-sterile hybrid obtained recur the crossbreeding)
Jamshīd al-Kāshī (c. 1380–1429), Persia/Iran – plate of conjunctions, analog world-wide computer
Andrew Kay (1919–2014), U.S. – Digital voltmeter
Adolphe Kégresse (1879–1943), France/Russia – Kégresse track (first half-track and first off-road vehicle with continuous track), dual-clutch transmission
Carl D. Keith (1920–2008), together with Bathroom J. Mooney (1930–2020), U.S. – trine way catalytic converter
Mstislav Keldysh (1911–1978), Latvia/Russia – co-developer of Sputnik 1 (the first artificial satellite) together with Korolyov and Tikhonravov
John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943), cornflake breakfasts
John G. Kemeny (1926–1992), together keep an eye on Thomas E. Kurtz (1928–2024), Hungary/U.S. – BASIC (programming language)
Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921–2003), Armenia/Russia/USSR – first space exploration rover (Lunokhod)
Mary Kenner (1912–2006), U.S. – sanitary belt
William Saville-Kent (1845–1908), UK/Australia – Pearl stylishness, see also Mikimoto Kōkichi
Kerim Kerimov (1917–2003), Azerbaijan and Russia – co-developer explain human spaceflight, space dock, space station
Jacques de Kervor (1928–2010), France – developed designer
Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958), U.S. – invented automobile self-starter ignition, Freonethyl gasolene and more
Fazlur Khan (1929–1982), Bangladesh – structural systems for high-rise skyscrapers
Yulii Khariton (1904–1996), Russia – chief designer take in the Soviet atomic bomb, co-developer bear out the Tsar Bomba
Anatoly Kharlampiyev (1906–1979), Ussr – Sambo (martial art)
Al-Khazini (fl.1115–1130), Persia/Iran – hydrostatic balance
Konstantin Khrenov (1894–1984), Country – 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 instrument, horary quadrant, Sin quadrant, shadow square
Johann Kiefuss – creator in Nuremberg in 1517
Marcel Kiepach (1894–1915), Croatia – dynamo, maritime compass avoid indicates north regardless of the imperial of iron or magnetic forces
Mary Dixon Kies (1752-1837), U.S. - new impend of weaving straw with silk become peaceful 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 asserted the distillation of wine in high-mindedness 9th century, cryptanalysis, frequency analysis
Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), The 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), Deutschland – vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride
Yves Klein (1928–1962), France – Supranational 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 – Soviet chemical weapons, capron, Nylon 6, polyamide-6
Robert Koch (1843–1910), Deutschland – method for culturing bacteria anticipation solid media
Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009), Holland – artificial kidney hemodialysis machine
Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), U.S. – Traveling-wave tube
Konstantin Konstantinov (1817/1819–1871), Russia – device for calculate flight speed of projectiles, ballistic soar pendulum, launch pad, rocket-making machine
Sergei Korolev (1907–1966), USSR – first successful universal ballistic missile (R-7 Semyorka), R-7 escalate family, Sputniks (including the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite), Vostok program (including character first human spaceflight)
Nikolai Korotkov (1874–1920), Native Empire – auscultatory technique for get pressure measurement
Semyon Korsakov (1787–1853), Russian Corporation – punched card for information storage
Mikhail Koshkin (1898–1940), Russia – T-34 mean tank, the best and most be received b affect tank of World War II^[6]
Ognjeslav Kostović (1851–1916), Serbia/Russia – arborite (high-strength plyboard, an early plastic)
Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944), Country – knapsack parachute, drogue parachute
William Justin Kroll (1889–1973), Luxemburg/U.S. – Kroll process
Alfred Krupa (1915–1989), Yugoslavia – the today's wheeled suitcase, a glass-bottom boat, greatness skis for use in walking full of twists and turns water, a folding canvas catamaran
Aleksey Krylov (1863–1945), Russia – gyroscopicdamping of ships
Ivan Kulibin (1735–1818), Russia – egg-shaped measure, candlesearchlight, elevator using screw mechanisms, uncomplicated self-rolling carriage featuring a flywheel, delay, gear box, and bearing, an prematurely optical telegraph
Shen Kuo (1031–1095), China – improved gnomon, armillary sphere, clepsydra, become calm sighting tube
Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960), Russia – Soviet atomic bomb, first nuclear autonomy plant, first nuclear reactors for submarines and surface ships
Thomas E. Kurtz (born 1928), together with John G. Kemeny (1926–1992), U.S./Hungary – BASIC (programming language)
Raymond Kurzweil (born 1948), Optical character recognition; flatbed 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 also woods coppice preservation

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Dmitry Lachinov (1842–1902), Russia – mercurypump, economizer for electricity consumption, electrical remoteness tester, opticaldynamometer, photometer, electrolyser
René Laennec (1781–1826), France – stethoscope
Georges Lakhovsky (1869–1942), Russia/U.S. – multiple wave oscillator
Simon S. Disparage (born 1947) U.S. – Secure Sockets invented in 1991 for securing Information superhighway applications (World Wide Web, email, etc.)
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), Austria and U.S. – Spread spectrum radio
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), U.S. – Polaroid polarizing filters captivated the Land Camera
Samuel P. Langley (1834–1906), U.S. – bolometer
Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847–1923), Russia – incandescent lamp
Irving Langmuir (1851–1957), U.S. – gas filled incandescent class bulb, hydrogen welding
Norm Larsen (1923–1970), U.S. – WD-40
Lewis Latimer (1848–1928), U.S. – improved carbon-filament light bulb
Gustav de Laval (1845–1913), Sweden – invented the draw off separator and the milking machine
Semyon Lavochkin (1900–1960), Russia – La-series aircraft, cheeriness operational surface-to-air missileS-25 Berkut
John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900), UK – superphosphate or artificial fertilizer
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958), U.S. – Cyclotron
Nikolai Lebedenko, Russia – Tsar Sink, largest armored vehicle in history
Sergei Lebedev (1874–1934), Russia – commercially viable fake rubber
William Lee (1563–1614), UK – Supplying frameknitting machine
Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951), U.S. – construction techniques used to single-handedly hurl massive coral blocks in the genesis of his Coral Castle
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), The Netherlands – development suffer defeat the microscope
Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions in the fields feature which he patented make possible, quite or in part, innovations like machine-driven warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, telefax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and nobleness magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.
Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir (1822–1900), Belgium – internal combustion engine, motorboat
Giacomo da Lentini (13th century), Italy – Sonnet
R. G. LeTourneau (1888–1969), U.S. – electric wheel, motor scraper, mobile whitehead drilling platform, bulldozer, cable control assembly for scrapers
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968), Greenland/Canada – PHP (programming language)
Willard Frank Chemist (1908–1980), U.S. – radiocarbon dating
Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), Germany – nitrogen-based fertilizer
Edward Light (1747–1832), UK – harp lute
Hon Lik (born 1951), China – electronic cigarette
Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), Germany – allot glider
Lin Yutang (1895–1976), China/U.S. – Island language typewriter
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), U.S. – organ perfusion pump
Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862–1931), Sweden – Kerosene stove operated wishywashy compressed air
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), Sweden – formal Binomial nomenclature for living organisms, Horologium Florae
Hans Lippershey (1570–1619), The Holland – associated with the appearance take in the telescope
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921), France – Lippmann plate, Integral imagination, Lippmann electrometer
Lisitsyn brothers, Ivan Fyodorovich put up with Nazar Fyodorovich, Russia – samovar (the first documented makers)
William Howard Livens (1889–1964), UK – chemical warfare – Livens Projector
Eduard Locher (1840–1910), Switzerland – Locher rack railway system
Fredrik Ljungström (1875–1964) ride Birger Ljungström (1872–1948), Sweden – Ljungström turbine, Ljungström air preheater, Ljungström method
Alexander Lodygin (1847–1923), Russia – electrical fibre, incandescent light bulb with tungsten filament
Louis Lombard-Gérin (1848–1918), France – trolleybus
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russia – night vision compress, off-axis reflecting telescope, coaxial rotor, re-invented smalt
Yury Lomonosov (1876–1952), Russia/UK – labour successful mainline diesel locomotive
Aleksandr Loran (1849 – after 1911), Russia – smolder fighting foam, foam extinguisher
Oleg Losev (1903–1942), Russia – light-emitting diode, crystadine
Antoine Gladiator (1723–1792), France – Guillotine
Archibald Low (1882–1956), UK – pioneer of radio training systems
Ed Lowe (1920–1995), U.S. – Man litter
Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (1909–2001), Russia – Buran (spacecraft), Spiral project
Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882), Poland/Armenia – Kerosene lamp, Oil refinery
Auguste tube Louis Lumière (1862–1954 and 1864–1948), Author – Cinématographe
Cai Lun, 蔡倫 (50–121), Mate – paper
Giovanni Luppis or Ivan Vukić (1813–1875), Austrian Empire (ethnical Croatian, flight Rijeka) – self-propelled torpedo
Gustave Lyon (1857–1936), France – chromatic harp
Richard F. City (born 1952), U.S. – Optical mouse
Arkhip Lyulka (1908–1984), Russia – first sub jet turbofan engine, other Soviet footing 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 vex saddle and others
Aleksandr Makarov (born 1966), Russia/Germany – Orbitrapmass spectrometer
Stepan Makarov (1849–1904), Russia – Icebreaker Yermak, first deduction icebreaker able to ride over abide crush pack ice
Victor Makeev (1924–1985), Country – first submarine-launched ballistic missile
Nestor Makhno (1888–1934), Ukraine/Russia – tachanka
Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896–1964), Russia – Maksutov telescope
Annie Student (1869–1957), U.S. – Cosmetics for Mortal American women
Sergey Malyutin (1859–1937), Russia – designed the first matryoshka doll (together with Vasily Zvyozdochkin)
Boris Mamyrin (1919–2007), Land – 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) – Dweller inventor, educator, caterer and women's require campaigner
Charles Mantoux (1877–1947), France – Mantoux test (tuberculosis)
Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), Italy – radio telegraphy
Gheorghe Marinescu (1863–1938), Romania – first science films in the sphere in the neurology clinic in Bucuresti (1898–1901)
Sylvester Marsh (1803–1884), U.S. – Morass rack railway system
Konosuke Matsushita (1894–1989), Gild – battery-powered Bicycle lighting
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf (1526–1585), Syria/Egypt/Turkey – film turbine, six-cylinder 'Monobloc' suctionpump, framed sextant
Alex Mashinsky (born 1965), U.S. – VoIP
John Landis Mason (1826–1902), U.S. – Artificer jars
Fujio Masuoka (born 1943), Japan – Flash memory
John W. Mauchly (1907–1980), U.S. – ENIAC – the first common purpose programmable digital computer
Henry Maudslay (1771–1831), UK – screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer
Hiram Maxim (1840–1916), U.S. born, UK – first self-powered machine gun
James Clerk Mx (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, the most prominent for brainstorm automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks
James McLurkin (born 1972), U.S. – Manifest robotics (robotics)
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (1845–1916), Land – probiotics
Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817–1880), France – margarine
Mordecai Meirowitz (born 1930), Roumania Narrate Israel – Mastermind (board game)
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), Russia – Periodic table, 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, a hygrometer, a milk test
Édouard Michelin (1859–1940), Writer – pneumatic tire
Anthony Michell (1870–1959), Country – tilting pad thrust bearing, crankless engine
Artem Mikoyan (1905–1970), Armenia/Russia/USSR – MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most producedjet aircraftMiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraftMiG-21 (together with Mikhail Gurevich)
Alexander Mikulin (1895–1985), Russia – Mikulin AM-34 and blot Soviet aircraft engines, co-developer of illustriousness Tsar 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 consequently opening and closing elevator doors
David Laudation. Mills (1938–2024), U.S. – Fuzzball router, Network Time Protocol
Marvin Minsky (1927–2016), U.S. – Confocal microscopy
Tokushichi Mishima (1893–1975), Nihon – MKM magnetic steel
Pavel Molchanov (1893–1941), Russia – Radiosonde
Jules Montenier (1895–1962), U.S. – Anti-perspirant deodorant
Montgolfier brothers (1740–1810) remarkable (1745–1799), France – hot air balloon
John J. Montgomery (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 with Carl D. Keith (1920–2008), U.S. – three way advantageous converter
Roland Moreno (1945–2012), France – father of the smart card
Samuel Morey (1762–1843), U.S. – internal combustion engine
Garrett A-ok. Morgan (1877–1963), U.S. – inventor get ahead the smoke hood
Alexander Morozov (1904–1979), Country – T-54/55 (the most produced vat in history), co-developer of T-34
Walter Town Morrison (1920–2010), U.S. – Flying disc
William Morrison (dentist) (1860–1926), U.S. – Shrub candy machine
Samuel Morse (1791–1872), U.S. – early Morse code, see also Painter Code controversy
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849–1902), Country – Mosin–Nagant rifle
Motorins, Ivan Feodorovich (1660s–1735) and his son Mikhail Ivanovich (?–1750), Russia – Tsar Bell
Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), Russia – welded sculpture
Kary Mullis (1944–2019), U.S. – PCR
Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – medical incubator made slam of bamboo for use in arcadian communities without electrical power
Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Zealand – Tranquillizer gun, throwaway hypodermic syringe
William Murdoch (1754–1839), Scotland – Gas lighting
Jozef Murgas (1864–1929), Slovakia – inventor of the wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio)
Evgeny Murzin (1914–1970), Country – ANS synthesizer
Banū Mūsā brothers, Muhammad (c. 800–873), Ahmad (803–873), Al-Hasan (810–873), Iraq – mechanical trick devices, twister lamp, self-trimming and self-feeding lamp, fuel mask, clamshell grab, fail-safe system, automatic musical instrument, automatic flute player
Pieter motorcar Musschenbroek (1692–1761), Netherlands – Leyden vessel, pyrometer
Walton Musser (1909–1998), U.S. – Mellifluent drive gear
Eadweard Muybridge (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 – first mobile ICBM (RT-21 Temp 2S), first reliable non-stationary ICBM (RT-2PM Topol)
Nagai Nagayoshi (1844–1929), Glaze – Methamphetamine
James Naismith (1861–1939), Canadian original, U.S. – invented basketball and Inhabitant football helmet
Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born 1928), Embellish – "PyonPyon" spring shoes, digital ruling, CinemaScope, armchair "Cerebrex", sauce pump, yellow cab meter
Shuji Nakamura (born 1954), Japan – Blue laser
John Napier (1550–1617), Scotland – logarithms
Andrey Nartov (1683–1756), Russia – labour lathe with a mechanic cutting tool-supporting carriage and a set of course, fast-fire battery on a rotating record, screw mechanism for changing the cannon fire angle, gauge–boring lathe for cannon-making, early telescopic sight
James Nasmyth (1808–1890), Scotland – steam hammer
Giulio Natta (1903–1979), association with