List of inventors

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This is a list of inventors.

See also: list of scientists, List of inventions named after people, timeline of invention, inventor, and Category:Inventors.

Alphabetical list

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Archimedes, (c 287 BC-212 BC), Greece — Archimedes screw
• Ami Argand, (1750-1803), France — Argand lamp
• Edwin H. Armstrong,(1890-1954), USA — FM radio
• William George Armstrong, (1810-1900), UK — hydraulic crane
• Joseph Aspdin, (1788-1855), England — Portland cement
• John Vincent Atanasoff, (1903-1995), United States — modern programmable computer
• Neil Arnott, (1788-1874), UK — waterbed

B

• Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), UK — Analytical engine
• Roger Bacon, (1214-1292), England — magnifying glass
• Leo Baekeland, (1863-1944), Belgian–American — Velox photographic paper and Bakelite
• Ralph Baer, (1922-), German born American — the home video game console
• John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), Uk — an electromechanical television
• Donat Banki, (1859-1922), Hungary — inventor of the carburetor
• John Bardeen, (1908-1991), USA — co-inventor of the transistor
• Anthony R. Barringer Canadian – American — INPUT (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system
• Earl W. Bascom, (1906-1995), Canada and United States — side-delivery rodeo chute, hornless rodeo saddle, rodeo bareback rigging, rodeo chaps
• Eugen Baumann, (1846-1896), Germany — PVC
• Trevor Baylis, (1937-), UK — a wind-up radio
• Francis Beaufort, (1774-1857), France — Beaufort scale
• Arnold O. Beckman, (1900-2004), USA — pH meter
• Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Canada — telephone
• Karl Benz, (1844-1929), Germany — the petrol-powered automobile
• Emile Berliner, (1851-1929), Germany and USA — the disc record gramophone
• Tim Berners-Lee, (1955-), UK — with Robert Cailliau, the World Wide Web
• Bi Sheng, (?-1052), China — primitive movable printing types
• Laszlo Biro, (1899-1985), Hungary — modern ballpoint pen
• J. Stuart Blackton, (1875-1941), USA — stop-motion film
• Otto Blathy (1860-1939), Hungary — co-inventor of the transformer, wattmeter, alternating current (AC) and turbogenerator
• Katherine Blodgett, (1898-1979), UK — nonreflective glass
• Nils Bohlin, (1920-2002), Sweden — the three-point seat belt
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier, (1907-1964), Canada — snowmobile
• Robert W. Bower, (1936-), USA — self-aligned–gate MOSFET
• Seth Boyden, (1788-1870), USA — nail-making machine
• Walter Houser Brattain, (1902-1987), USA — co-inventor of the transistor
• Louis Braille, (1809-1852), France — the Braille writing system
• Karl Ferdinand Braun, (1850-1918), Germany — cathode-ray tube oscilloscope
• Harry Brearley, (1871-1948), UK — stainless steel
• John Moses Browning, (1855-1926), USA — automatic handgun
• Edwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846), UK — lawnmower

C

• C`ai Lun, (50 AD - 121), China — paper
• Marvin Camras, (1916 - 1995), USA — magnetic recording
• Chester Carlson, (1906-1968), USA — Xerography
• Wallace Carothers, (1896-1937), USA — Nylon
• Dennis Charter, (1952-), Australia — Secure Electronic Payment System
• Adrian Chernoff, (1971-), USA — GM Autonomy, GM Hy-wire, Rubber Bandits
• Niels Christensen (1865- 1952), USA — O-ring
• Samuel Hunter Christie, (1784-1865), UK — Wheatstone bridge
• Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), UK — Hovercraft
• Jacques Cousteau, (1910-1997), France — co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera
• Aeneas Coffey, (1780-1852), Ireland, heat exchanger, inventor of the Coffey still
• Holger Crafoord, (1908-1982), Sweden — inventor of the artificial kidney
• János Csonka, (1852-1939), Hungary — co-inventor of carburetor
• Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, (1725-1804), France — automobile
• Juan de la Cierva, (1895-1936), Spain — the autogyro
• William Cullen, (1710-1790), UK — first artificial refrigerator
• Glenn Curtiss, (1878 - 1930), USA — ailerons
• Corliss Orville Burandt, USA — Variable valve timing
• Joseph Constantine Carpue, (1764-1846), France — rhinoplastic surgery
• Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, (1795-1877), France — caffeine, chlorophyll, strychnine
• George Cayley, (1773-1857), (UK) — tension-spoke wheels, Caterpillar track
• Georges Claude, (1870-1960), France — neon lamp
• Josephine Cochrane, (1839-1913), USA — dishwasher
• Cornelis Corneliszoon, (1550-1607), The Netherlands — sawmill
• Bartolomeo Cristofori, (1655-1731), Italy — piano
• William Cumberland Cruikshank, (1745-1800), UK — chlorinated water

D

• Gustaf Dalen, (1869-1937), Sweden — invented the AGA Lighthouse
• Salvino D'Armate, (?-?), Italy — credited for inventing eyeglasses in 1284
• Joseph Day, (1855-1946), UK — the crankcase compression two stroke engine
• Lee DeForest, (1873-1961), USA — triode
• Sir James Dewar, (1842-1923), UK — Thermos flask
• Miksa Deri (1854-1938), Hungary — co-inventor of transformer
• William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, (1860-1935), UK — motion picture camera
• Rudolf Diesel, (1858-1913), Germany — Diesel engine
• William H. Dobelle, (1943-2004), United States — first functioning artificial eye
• Karl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany — dandy horse (Draisine)
• Cornelius Drebbel, (1572-1633), The Netherlands — first navigable submarine
• Richard Drew, (1899-1980), USA — Sticky Tape
• Charles Brace Darrow, (1889-1967). USA — Monopoly
• Jacob Davis, (1868-1908), USA — riveted jeans
• Edmund Davy, (1785-1857), Ireland — acetylene
• Humphry Davy, (1778-1829), UK — Davy miners lamp
• John Boyd Dunlop, (1840-1921) UK — first practical pneumatic tyre
• Karl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany — velocipede

E

• George Eastman, (1854-1932), USA — film-roll
• Thomas Edison, (1847-1931), USA — phonograph, commercially practical light bulb, motion picture projector, stock ticker, etc.
• Willem Einthoven, (1860-1927), The Netherlands — the electrocardiogram
• Douglas Engelbart, (1925-), USA — the computer mouse [1]
• Rune Elmqvist, (1857-1924), Sweden — implantable pacemaker
• John Ericsson, (1803-1889), Sweden — the two screw-propeller
• Lars Magnus Ericsson, (1846-1926), Sweden — the handheld micro telephone
• Ole Evinrude, (1877-1934), Norway — outboard motor

F

• Samuel Face, (1923-2001), USA — concrete flatness/levelness technology; Lightning Switch
• Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971), USA — electronic television
• James Fergason, (1934-), USA — improved liquid crystal display
• Reginald Fessenden, (1866-1932), Canada — two-way radio
• Adolf Eugen Fick, (1829-1901), Germany — contact lens
• Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), Scotland — penicillin
• Sandford Fleming, (1827-1915), inventor of Standard Universal Time (1879)
• John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), England — vacuum diode
• Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), USA — the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, the glass harmonica
• William Friese-Greene, (1855-1921), England — cinematography
• Buckminster Fuller, (1895-1983), USA — geodesic dome
• Gerhard Fischer, Germany/USA — hand-held metal detector
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel, (1788-1827), France — Fresnel lens
• Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, (1819-1868), France — Foucault pendulum (earth rotation), gyroscope, eddy current
• Benoît Fourneyron, (1802-1867), France — water turbine
• Enrico Fermi, (1901-1954), Italy — nuclear reactor
• Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), England — rubber balloon, electric transformer

G

• Dennis Gabor, (1900-1979), Hungary — holography
• Elmer R. Gates, (1859-1923), foam fire extinguisher, electric loom mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, educational toy ("box & blocks")
• William Henry Gates III, (1955-), Windows operating system, chief architect of Visual Basic
• Robert Goddard, (1882-1945), USA — liquid fuel rocket
• Heinrich Göbel, (1818-1893), Germany — first functional incandescent lamp
• Peter Carl Goldmark, (1906-1977), Hungary — vinyl record (LP)
• Gordon Gould, (1920-2005), USA — co-inventor of laser
• Richard Hall Gower, (1768-1833), England — ship's hull and rigging
• Bette Nesmith Graham, (1924-1980), USA — Liquid Paper
• Chester Greenwood, (1858-1937), USA — thermal earmuffs
• James Gregory, (1638-1675), Scotland — reflecting telescope
• William Robert Grove, (1811-1896), Wales — fuel cell
• Otto von Guericke, (1602-1686), Germany — vacuum pump, manometer, dasymeter,
• Johann Gutenberg, (c 1390s-1468), Germany — modern movable type printing press
• Hans Wilhelm Geiger, (1882-1945), Germany — Geiger counter
• Henri Giffard, (1825-1882), France — powered airship, injector
• Charles Goodyear, (1800-1860), USA — vulcanization of rubber
• Samuel Guthrie, (1782 - 1848), USA — discovered chloroform
• James Henry Greathead, (1844-1896), South Africa — tunnel boring machine, tunnelling shield technique

H

• John Hadley, (1682-1744), England — the sextant
• James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), England — invented the spinning jenny
• John Harrison, (1693-1776), England — marine chronometer
• Victor Hasselblad, (1906-1978), Sweden — invented the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera
• Rudolf Hell, (1901-2002), Germany — the Hellschreiber
• Avram Hershko, (1937-), Hungary — Ubiquitin
• Jozef Karol Hell, (1713-1789), Slovakia — the water pillar
• Joseph Henry, (1797-1898), USA — electromagnetic relay
• George de Hevesy, (1885-1966), Hungary — radioactive tracer
• Erna Schneider Hoover, (1926-), USA — computerized telephone switching system
• Frank Hornby, (1863-1936), England — invented Meccano
• Heron, Greece — invented Aeolipile
• Joseph Hon – book index thumb notch system for dictionaries Patent #561888
• Christopher Hansteen, (1783-1873), Norway — discovery of terrestrial magnetism
• William Harvey, (1578-1657), England — blood circulation in the human body
• Robert A. Heinlein, (1907-1988), USA — waterbed
• Henry J. Heinz, USA — tomato ketchup
• Joseph Henry, (1797-1878), Scotland — electromagnetic relay
• Heinrich Hertz, (1857-1894), Germany — radio telegraphy, electromagnetic radiation
• Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), UK — postage stamp
• Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), (1868-1949), Germany — Aspirin
• Herman Hollerith, (1860-1929), USA — mechanical tabulator based on punched cards
• Nick Holonyak, (1928- ), USA — LED (Light Emitting Diode)
• Robert Hooke, (1635-1703), England — balance wheel, iris diaphragm
• Coenraad Johannes van Houten, (1801-1887), Netherlands — cocoa powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk
• Elias Howe, (1819-1867), USA — sewing machine
• Christiaan Huygens, (1629-1695), Netherlands — pendulum clock

I

• János Irinyi, (1817-1895), Hungary — noiseless match
• Sumio Iijima, (1939- ), Japan — nanotubes

J

• Karl Jatho, (1873-1933), Germany — aeroplane
• György Jendrassik, (1898-1954), Hungary — turboprop
• Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), USA — swivel chair
• Steve Jobs, (1955-), Macintosh operating system
• Carl Edvard Johansson, (1864-1943), Sweden — Gauge blocks
• Johan Petter Johansson, (1853-1943), Sweden — the pipe wrench and the modern adjustable spanner
• Nancy Johnson, USA — American version of the hand cranked ice cream machine in (1843)
• Scott A. Jones, (1960-), USA — created one of the most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Search, a human-assisted internet search engine.
• Whitcomb Judson, (1836-1909), USA — zipper

K

• Dean Kamen, (1951-), USA — Invented the Segway HT scooter and the IBOT Mobility Device
• John George Kemeny, (1926-1992), Hungary — co-inventor of BASIC
• Charles F. Kettering, (1876-1958), USA — invented automobile self-starter ignition, Freon ethyl gasoline and more
• Jack Kilby, (1923-2005), USA — patented the first integrated circuit
• Fritz Klatte, (1880-1934), Germany — vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride
• Margaret Knight, (1838-1914), USA — machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags
• Ivan Knunyants, (1906-1990), Ukraine — invented Nylon-6
• Willem Johan Kolff, (1911-), Netherlands — artificial kidney hemodialysis machine
• Gleb Kotelnikov, (1872-1944), Russia — knapsack parachute
• Stephanie Kwolek, (1923-), USA — Kevlar
• John Howard Kyan (1774-1850), Ireland — The process of Kyanization used for wood preservation
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, (1853-1926), Netherlands — liquify helium
• Theophilus Van Kannel, revolving door (1888)
• John Harvey Kellogg, (1852-1943), cornflake breakfasts
• Robert Koch, (1843-1910), method for culturing bacteria on solid media

L

• Hedy Lamarr, (1913-2000), Austria and USA — Spread spectrum radio
• Edwin H. Land, (1909-1991),