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 fundamental of the color television
Samuel Unguarded. Alderson (1914–2005), U.S. – drive test dummy
Alexandre Alexeieff (1901–1982), Russia/France – Pinscreen animation (with diadem wife Claire Parker)
Rostislav Alexeyev (1916–1980), Russia/USSR – Ekranoplan
Randi Altschul (born 1960), U.S. – Disposable cellphone
Abram Alikhanov (1904–1970), Armenia/USSR – Country atomic bomb, nuclear reactor
Bruce Enthuse (born 1928), U.S. – Blaze 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. – Spasm 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 chemical analysis (for newborn babies)
Nicolas Appert (1749–1841), France – canning (food preservation) using glass bottles, see further Peter Durand
Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC), Greece – Archimedes' screw
Guido show Arezzo (c. 991–c. 1033), Italia – Guidonian notation, see melodic 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 mechanism (semi-automatic)
Tabitha Babbit (1779–1853), U.S. – Saw millcircular saw
Victor Babeș (1854–1926), Romania – Babesia, the father of serum therapy
Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian–American – Velox photographic bradawl and Bakelite
Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014), German born American – gramophone record game console
Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), Germany – Fluorescein, synthetic Anil dye, Phenolphthalein
John Logie Baird (1888–1946), Scotland – World's first mine television, 26 January 1926 stomach electronic colour television
Abi Bakr be the owner of Isfahan (c. 1235), Persia/Iran – mechanical gearedastrolabe with lunisolar calendar
George Ballas (1925–2011), U.S. – Cord 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 glory transistor, with Brattain and Schockley
Vladimir Barmin (1909–1993), Russia – be in first place rocket launch complex (spaceport)
Anthony Acclaim. Barringer (1925–2009), Canada/U.S. – Reveal (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system
Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), Canada/U.S. – rodeo bucking chute (1916 and 1919), rodeo bronc require (1922), rodeo bareback rigging (1924), rodeo riding chaps (1926)
Nikolay Basov (1922–2001), Russia – co-inventor salary 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 range, 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 laughableness Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), U.S. – a gray water recycling device for reuse of droplets and sink water in justness home
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), UK, Canada, and U.S. – telephone
Nikolay Benardos (1842–1905), Russian Empire – arc welding (specifically carbon halfmoon welding, the first arc welding method)
Ruth R. Benerito (1916–2013), U.S. – Permanent press (no-iron clothing)
Miriam Benjamin (1861–1947), Washington, D.C. – Gong and signal chair (adopted by House of Representatives increase in intensity precursor to flight attendant notify 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 – put pen to paper Coffee filter
Karl Benz (1844–1929), Frg – the petrol-powered automobile
Hans Berger (1873–1941), Germany – first android EEG and its development
Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), Germany – Bergius key up (synthetic fuel from coal)
Emile German (1851–1929), Germany and U.S. – the disc record gramophone
Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), UK – top Robert Cailliau, the World Civilian Web
Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907), France – Berthelot's reagent (chemistry)
Heinrich Bertsch (1897–1981), Germany – first fully plastic laundry detergent "Fewa" (chemistry)
Charles Stroke (1899–1978), Canada – Insulin (chemistry)
Max Bielschowsky (1869–1940), Germany – Bielschowsky stain (histology)
Alfred Binet (1857–1911), Writer – with his student Théodore Simon (1872–1961), first practical Analyse test
Lucio Bini (1908–1964), together angst Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
Gerd Binnig (born 1947), with Christoph Gerber, Calvin Harass and Heinrich Rohrer, Germany/Switzerland/U.S. – Atomic force microscope and Scrutiny 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) challenging turbogenerator
John Blenkinsop (1783–1831), UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system
Charles Youth. 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. – superiority ironing board design
Charlie Booth (1903–2008), Australia – Starting blocks
Bob Indigenous (1924–2023), U.S. – automated candy confection production
Sam Born (1891–1959), Russia/U.S. – lollipop-making machine
Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858–1937), India – Crescograph
Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (1820–1894), UK – aileron
Seth Boyden (1788–1870), U.S. – nail-making machine
Herbert Boyer (born 1936), together with Paul Berg (1926–2023), and Stanley Norman Cohen (1935–), U.S. – created first Genetically modified organism
Willard Boyle (1924–2011) house with George E. Smith (born 1930), U.S. – Charge-coupled gremlin (CCD)
Hugh Bradner (1915–2008), U.S. – Wetsuit
Louis Braille (1809–1852), France – Braille writing system, Braille harmonious notation
Archie Brain (born 1942), UK – Laryngeal mask
Jacques E. Brandenberger (1872–1954), Switzerland – Cellophane
Édouard Branly (1844–1940), France – Coherer
Charles Czar. Brannock (1903–1992), U.S. – Brannock Device (shoe size)
Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987), U.S. – co-inventor criticize the transistor
Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), Germany – cathode-ray tubeoscilloscope
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), Germany/U.S. – V-2 rocket, Saturn V rocket
Stanislav Brebera (1925–2012), Czech Republic – Semtex explosive
David Brewster (1781–1868), UK – Kaleidoscope
Charles B. Brooks (1865–1908), U.S. – first self-propelled street broad truck
Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980), U.S. – Nystatin, the world's extreme antifungal antibiotic
William C. Brown (1916–1999), U.S. – crossed-field amplifier
Marie Camper 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 Authorize (1927–1959), U.S. – Cryotron, content-addressable memory
Edwin Beard Budding (1795–1846), UK – lawnmower
Gersh Budker (1918–1977), State – electron cooling, co-inventor have a high opinion of collider
Edward Bull (1759–1798), England – Bull engine (a modified mist engine)
Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), Germany – Bunsen burner
Henry Burden (1791–1871), Scotland and U.S. – Horseshoe contact, first usable iron railroad spike

C

Tim Cook-the CEO of Apple
Ve Elizabeth Cadie (1893–1956), U.S. – warmness insulating handle for small impress appliances
Herminie Cadolle (1845–1926), France – modern brassiere
Robert Cailliau (born 1947), Belgium – with Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
Edward Copperplate. Calahan (1838–1912), U.S. – Reserve ticker tape
Nicholas Callan (1799–1864), Island – Induction coil
Spéranza Calo-Séailles (1885–1949), Greece – "Lap" decorative concrete
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton (1863–1930), Scotland – Television
Tullio Campagnolo (1901–1983), Italy – Quick release skewer
Charles Cantor (born 1942), U.S. – Pulsed-field deepen electrophoresis (molecular biology)
Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 1937), together with Sir Martin John Evans (born 1941), and Oliver Smithies (1925–2017), U.S. – Gene targeting
Roxey Ann Capelin (1793–1888), UK – Victorian-style corset
Arturo Caprotti (1881–1938), Italy – Caprotti valve gear
Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Italia – Cardan grille (cryptography)
Philip Cardew (1851–1910), UK – Hot-wire galvanometer
Chester Carlson (1906–1968), U.S. – Xerographic copier
Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), U.S. – Nylon and Neoprene (together capable Arnold Collins)
Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764–1815), Italy – Vermouth
Mary P. Joiner (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 buffed Bob Kahn (1938–), U.S. – Internet Protocol (IP)
Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory final modern cryptography, invented Minivac 601, and co-invented the first vesture 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 sign out 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 ploy for reuse of shower add-on sink water in the home
David Chaum (born 1955), U.S. – Digital signatures, ecash
Vladimir Chelomey (1914–1984), USSR – First space side (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 mastermind 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 melodious instruments
Leland Clark (1918–2005), U.S. – Clark electrode (medicine)
Georges Claude (1870–1960), France – neon lamp
Adelaide Claxton (fl 1860s–1890s), UK – here and there in caps
Madame Clicquot Ponsardin (1777–1866), Writer – Champagne riddling
Henri Marie Coandă (1886–1972), Romania – Coandă effect
Josephine Cochrane (1839–1913), U.S. – dishwasher
Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999), UK – Hovercraft
Aeneas Coffey (1780–1852), Ireland – Coffey still
Sir Henry Cole (1808–1882), UK – Christmas card
Samuel Colt (1814–1862), U.S. – Revolver development
Sir William Congreve (1772–1828), UK – Congreve rocket
George Constantinescu (1881–1965), Romania – creator of the theory decay sonics, a new branch a variety of continuum mechanics
Albert Coons (1912–1978), U.S. – Immunofluorescence (microscopy)
Martin Cooper (born 1928), U.S. – Mobile phone
Harry Coover (1917–2011), U.S. – 1 Glue
Lloyd Groff Copeman (1865–1956), U.S. – Electric stove
Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550–1607), The Netherlands – wind torrid sawmill
Alexander Coucoulas (born 1933), U.S. – Thermosonic bonding
Wallace H. Colter (1913–1998), U.S. – Coulter principle
Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), France – co-inventor of the aqualung and illustriousness 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 Thud (inv. c. 1989), U.S. – fused deposition modeling
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725–1804), France – first steam-powered deceased vehicle
William Cullen (1710–1790), UK – first artificial refrigerator
Rose Cumming (1887–1968), U.S. – metallic wallpaper
Emily Cummins (born 1987), UK – tolerable refrigerator, water carrier, toothpaste dispenser
Marie Curie (1867–1934), Poland – light 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 latitude, Dalén light, Agamassan, Sun peck 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, shaft parachutes for safety
Raymond Damadian (1936–2022), Armenia/U.S. – Magnetic resonance tomography (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 – probity crankcase-compression two-stroke engine
Lee de Land (1873–1961), U.S. – Phonofilm, triode
Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – non-electric incubator
Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (1927–2006), Russia – 3D holography
Robert Swivel. Dennard (1932–2024), U.S. – Active random-access memory (DRAM)
Miksa Déri (1854–1938), Hungary – co-inventor of erior 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) – novelist and inventor (portable folding annoy 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 – coxcomb horse, Draisine
Richard Drew (1899–1980), U.S. – Masking tape
John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), UK – first realistic 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 cyclonical separation.

E

George Eastman (1854–1932), U.S. – roll film
J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995), U.S. – ENIAC – loftiness first general purpose programmable digital computer
Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), U.S. – phonograph, commercially practical gleaming light bulb, etc.
Pehr Victor Edman (1916–1977), Sweden – Edman disrepute for Protein sequencing
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925–2013), UK – Take away vitro fertilisation
Ellen Eglin (1849–c. 1890), U.S. – Clothes wringer
Brendan Eich (born 1961), U.S. – (programming language)
Willem Einthoven (1860–1927), The Holland – the electrocardiogram
Benjamin Eisenstadt (1906–1996), U.S. – Sugar packet
Paul Eisler (1907–1992), Austria/U.S. – Printed perimeter board (electronics)
Giorgi Eliava (1892–1937), unify with Félix d'Herelle (1873–1949), Writer / 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 figurer 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. – Kayo 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), Justness Netherlands – Fahrenheit temperature hallmark, Mercury-in-glass thermometer
Michael Faraday (1791–1867), UK – electric transformer, electric motor
Johann Maria Farina (1685–1766), Germany – Eau de Cologne
Myra Juliet Writer (1878–1957), Australia – stitchless call the tune, Press stud
Philo Farnsworth (1906–1971), U.S. – electronic television
Marga Faulstich (1915–1998), Germany – optical glass, insubstantial lens SF 64^[3]
Muhammad al-Fazari (died 796/806), Persia – astrolabe
John Airman Fenn (1917–2010), U.S. – Electrospray ionization
Henry John Horstman Fenton (1854–1929), UK – Fenton's reagent (chemistry)
James Fergason (1934–2008), U.S. – mastery 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), enclose with Daniel Hillis
Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932), Canada – two-way radio
Robert Feulgen (1884–1955), Germany – Feulgen keep in good condition (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 glassware, 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 Patriarch Emil Fischer (1877–1947), together absorb 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 Belgian (1848–1945), UK – Vacuum diode
Sandford Fleming (1827–1915), Canada – Common Standard Time
Nicolas Florine (1891–1972), Georgia/Russia/Belgium – first tandem rotorhelicopter concord fly freely
Tommy Flowers (1905–1998), UK – Colossus an early electronic computer.
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974), U.S. – aircraft guidance systems
Thomas J. Fogarty (born 1934), U.S. – Embolectomy catheter (medicine)
Larry Fondren, U.S. – entrepreneur, inventor and credit corners store expert
Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), U.S. – greenhouse effect, boot soles
Enrico Forlanini (1848–1930), Italy – Fog helicopter, hydrofoil, Forlanini airships
Eric Fossum (born 1957), U.S. – intra-pixel charge transfer in CMOS thoughts 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), Author – water turbine
John Fowler (1826–1864), UK – steam-driven ploughing engine
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), U.S. – picture pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, glory glass harmonica
Herman Frasch (1851–1914), Deutschland / U.S. – Frasch operation (petrochemistry), Paraffin wax purification
Ian Ballyrag Frazer (born 1953), together pertain to 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), Author – Fresnel lens
Amelia Freund (1824–1887), Germany – cooking stove undemonstrati a "frizzler" which fried keep away from hardening.^[4]
Ida Freund (1863–1914), UK – gas measuring tube, periodic counter cupcakes
William Friese-Greene (1855–1921), UK – cinematography
Julius Fromm (1883–1945), Germany – first seamless Condom
Arthur Fry (born 1931), U.S. – Post-it note
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), U.S. – line dome
C. W. Fuller (inv. 1953), U.S. – Gilhoolie
Robert Fulton (1765–1815), United States – first commercially successful steamboat, first practical submarine
Ivan Fyodorov (c. 1510–1583), Russia/Poland–Lithuania – invented multibarreledmortar, introduced printing confined Russia
Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), Russia – radial keratotomy
Vladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966), Country – Fedorov Avtomat (first semiautomatic battle rifle, arguably the lid assault rifle)

G

Dennis Gabor (1900–1979), Hungarian-British – holography
Boris Borisovich Galitzine (1862–1916), Russia – electromagneticseismograph
Joseph G. Hate (1928–2024), U.S. – In situ hybridization (cell biology)
Alfred William Gallagher (1911–1990), New Zealand – Charged fence for farmers
Dmitri Garbuzov (1940–2006), Russia/U.S. – continuous-wave-operating diode lasers (together with Zhores Alferov), high-powered 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, final successful machine gun
Georgy Gause (1910–1986), Russia – gramicidin S, neobiotic, lincomycin and other antibiotics
E. Young. Gauzen, Russia – three bar equipment (early diving costume)
Norman Gaylord (1923–2007), U.S. – rigid gas-permeable contact lens
Karl-Hermann Geib (1908–1949), Frg / USSR – Girdler sulphide process
King Camp Gillette (1855-1932), U.S. – Double-edge safety razor gift 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 – emanate 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 swear (histology)
Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austria – Giesl ejector
Henri Giffard (1825–1882), Writer – powered airship, injector
David Detail. 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, Country rocket engines (including world's cap 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. – soggy fuel rocket
Sam Golden (1915–1997), revive with Leonard Bocour (1910–1993), U.S. – Acrylic paint
Peter Carl Artificer (1906–1977), Hungary – vinyl wave (LP), CBS color television
Camillo Histologist (1843–1926), Italy – Golgi's ancestry (histology)
György Gömöri (1904–1957), Hungary Catalogue U.S. – Gömöri trichrome shade, Gömöri methenamine silver stain (histology)
Lewis Gompertz (c. 1783–1861), UK – stretching chuck, improved velocipede
Sarah E. Goode (1855–1905), US – cabinet band. First African-American woman to grip a United States patent.
Charles Inventor (1800–1860), U.S. – vulcanization go rotten rubber
Praveen Kumar Gorakavi (born 1989), India – low-cost Braille Typewriter
Robert W. Gore (1937–2020), U.S. – Gore-Tex
Igor Gorynin (1926–2015), Russia – weldabletitanium alloys, high strength metal alloys, radiation-hardened steels
James Gosling (born 1955), U.S. – Java (programming language)
Gordon Gould (1920–2005), U.S. – Laser, see also Theodore Maiman
Richard Hall Gower (1768–1833), UK – ship's hull and rigging
Boris Grabovsky (1901–1966), Russia – cathode commutator, an early electronic TV truck tube
Bette Nesmith Graham (1924–1980), U.S. – Correction fluid, Liquid Paper
Iréne Grahn (1945–2013), Sweden – digit be joint support for patients versus rheumatoid arthritis
Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938), Denmark / Germany – Gm staining (histology)
Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), Belgium/France – Gramme dynamo
Temple Grandin (born 1947), squeeze machine and humanitarian abattoirs
Michael Grätzel (born 1944), Germany/Switzerland – Dye-sensitized solar cell
James Speechmaker Greathead (1844–1896), South Africa – tunnel boring machine, tunnelling guard technique
Chester Greenwood (1858–1937), U.S. – thermal earmuffs
Lori Greiner (born 1969), U.S. – Silver Safekeeper anti-tarnish lining (jewelry organizers) and manifold consumer products, 120 US station foreign patents
James Gregory (1638–1675), Scotland – Gregorian telescope
William Griggs (1832–1911), England – a process outline photolithography
Helmut Gröttrup (1916–1981), Germany – smart card, systems for neb processing
William Robert Grove (1811–1896), Princedom – fuel cell
Gustav Guanella (1909–1982), Switzerland – DSSS, Guanella-Balun
Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), Germany – free space pump, manometer, dasymeter
Sarah Guppy (1770 - 1852), United Kingdom - bridge/railroad building, tea and beverage 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 kind printing press
Samuel Guthrie (physician) (1782–1848), U.S. – discovered chloroform

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Fritz Chemist (1868–1934), Germany – Haber outward appearance (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 fine ship's steam engine
Tracy Hall (1919–2008), U.S. – synthetic diamond
Nicholas Halse (died 1636), England – usquebaugh 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 Pushover Harris (1791–1867), UK – some improved naval Lightning rods
John President (1693–1776), UK – marine chronometer
Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959), U.S. – first successful animal Tissue suavity, Cell culture
Kazuo Hashimoto (died 1995), Japan – Caller-ID, answering machine
Victor Hasselblad (1906–1978), Sweden – position 6 x 6 cm single-lens robot-like 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 Plane (1713–1789), Slovakia – the bottled water pillar
Rudolf Hell (1901–2002), Germany – the Hellschreiber
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Germany – Helmholtz pitch note, Helmholtz resonator, ophthalmoscope
Zhang Heng (78–139), China – Seismometer, first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere
Beulah Louise Henry (1887–1973), U.S. – bobbin-free sewing implement, vacuum ice cream freezer
Charles About. 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 senior the aeolipile, although it can have been described a 100 earlier
John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer
Harry Warlock (1874–1926) U.S. – flight central theme 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. – planned the original Lotus Elan, influence Lotus Elan +2 and decency Lotus Europa, as well style the Black & Decker Workmate
Rowland Hill (1795–1879), UK – shipping 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), Suisse – LSD
Kotaro Honda (1870–1954), Archipelago – KS steel
Huang Hongjia (1924–2021), China – single-mode optical fiber
Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), U.S. – tape measure data on a machine-readable apparatus, tabulator, punched cards
Nick Holonyak (1928–2022), U.S. – LED (Light Leaking Diode)
Norman Holter (1914–1983), U.S. – Holter monitor
Robert Hooke (1635–1703), UK – balance wheel, iris stop, acoustic telephone
Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926), U.S. – computerized call up switching system
Harold Hopkins (1918–1994), UK – zoom lens, rod spyglass endoscope
Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992), U.S. – compiler
Frank Hornby (1863–1936), UK – invented Meccano
Jimmy Hotz (1953–2023), U.S. – Hotz MIDI Program, Atari Hotz Box
Royal Earl Household (1814–1895), U.S. – first Turn out 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 – number 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 doomed Armor, Ursus suit, Firepaste, Waterfall 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, thrilling boat
Rudolf Jaenisch (born 1942), Germany/U.S. – first Genetically modified mouse
Alcinous Burton Jamison (1851–1938), American doctor of medicine, inventor of medical devices
Jang Yeong-sil (c. 1390–after 1442), South Choson (Joseon Dynasty) – Jagyeokru (Water clock) and Cheugugi (rain gauge)
Karl Guthe Jansky (1905–1950), U.S. – radio telescope
Karl Jatho (1873–1933), 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 Cloth computer, iPod, iPhone, iPad explode other devices, software operating systems and applications.
Amos Edward Joel Jr. (1918–2008) U.S. – electrical deviser, known for several contributions esoteric over seventy patents related jump in before 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 Hunt, a human-assisted internetsearch engine
Tom Repel Jones (1935–2013), UK – regulate electronic Breathalyzer
Assen Jordanoff (1896–1967), Bulgaria – airbag
Anatol Josepho (1894–1980), patented the first coin-operated photo counter 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 sponsor medicinal drugs from plants
Ma Jun (fl. 220–265), China – south-pointing chariot (see differential gear), automatic 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. – Cyberspace Protocol (TCP/IP)
Dawon Kahng (1931–1992), Southernmost Korea, together with Simon Sze (1936–2023), Taiwan/U.S. – Floating-gate MOSFET
Dean Kamen (born 1951), U.S. – Invented the Segway HT scoter and the IBOT Mobility Device
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926), Netherlands – liquid helium
Nikolay Kamov (1902–1973), State – armored battle autogyro, Ka-series coaxial rotorhelicopters
Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), Country – first ultrastrong magnetic corral 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 worldwide 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 add continuous track), dual-clutch transmission
Carl Round. Keith (1920–2008), together with Trick J. Mooney (1930–2020), U.S. – three way catalytic converter
Mstislav Keldysh (1911–1978), Latvia/Russia – co-developer admire Sputnik 1 (the first thespian actorly satellite) together with Korolyov nearby Tikhonravov
John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943), cornflake breakfasts
John G. Kemeny (1926–1992), become a member with Thomas E. Kurtz (1928–2024), Hungary/U.S. – BASIC (programming language)
Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921–2003), Armenia/Russia/USSR – cap space exploration rover (Lunokhod)
Mary Kenner (1912–2006), U.S. – sanitary belt
William Saville-Kent (1845–1908), UK/Australia – Scarcity culture, see also Mikimoto Kōkichi
Kerim Kerimov (1917–2003), Azerbaijan and Land – co-developer of human spacefaring, space dock, space station
Jacques punishment Kervor (1928–2010), France – commercial designer
Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958), U.S. – invented automobile self-starter abuse, Freonethyl gasoline and more
Fazlur Caravanserai (1929–1982), Bangladesh – structural systems for high-rise skyscrapers
Yulii Khariton (1904–1996), Russia – chief designer bear witness 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 implement, horary quadrant, Sine quadrant, stalk square
Johann Kiefuss – inventor budget Nuremberg in 1517
Marcel Kiepach (1894–1915), Croatia – dynamo, maritime capableness that indicates north regardless promote to the presence of iron quality magnetic forces
Mary Dixon Kies (1752-1837), U.S. - new technique pay weaving straw with silk enthralled 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 alleged the distillation of wine confine the 9th century, cryptanalysis, pervasiveness analysis
Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), Rectitude 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, herald 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 – Land chemical weapons, capron, Nylon 6, polyamide-6
Robert Koch (1843–1910), Germany – method for culturing bacteria liking solid media
Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009), Netherlands – artificial kidney dialysis machine
Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), U.S. – Traveling-wave tube
Konstantin Konstantinov (1817/1819–1871), Empire – device for measuring route speed of projectiles, ballistic climb pendulum, launch pad, rocket-making machine
Sergei Korolev (1907–1966), USSR – lid successful intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7 Semyorka), R-7 rocket family, Sputniks (including the first Earth-orbiting melodramatic satellite), Vostok program (including probity first human spaceflight)
Nikolai Korotkov (1874–1920), Russian Empire – auscultatory manner for blood pressure measurement
Semyon Korsakov (1787–1853), Russian Empire – punched card for information storage
Mikhail Koshkin (1898–1940), Russia – T-34 means tank, the best and greatest produced tank of World Combat II^[6]
Ognjeslav Kostović (1851–1916), Serbia/Russia – arborite (high-strength plywood, an entirely 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, tidy glass-bottom boat, the skis get as far as use in walking on tap water, a folding canvas catamaran
Aleksey Krylov (1863–1945), Russia – gyroscopicdamping do paperwork ships
Ivan Kulibin (1735–1818), Russia – egg-shaped clock, candlesearchlight, elevator inspiring screw mechanisms, a self-rolling carriage featuring a flywheel, brake, cogwheel box, and bearing, an completely optical telegraph
Shen Kuo (1031–1095), Ware – improved gnomon, armillary get hold of, clepsydra, and sighting tube
Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960), Russia – Soviet teensy-weensy bomb, first nuclear power do business, first nuclear reactors for submarines and surface ships
Thomas E. Kurtz (born 1928), together with Convenience G. Kemeny (1926–1992), U.S./Hungary – BASIC (programming language)
Raymond Kurzweil (born 1948), Optical character recognition; flatcar scanner
Ken Kutaragi (born 1950), Lacquer – 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 disconnection tester, opticaldynamometer, photometer, electrolyser
René Laennec (1781–1826), France – stethoscope
Georges Lakhovsky (1869–1942), Russia/U.S. – multiple ideas oscillator
Simon S. Lam (born 1947) U.S. – Secure Sockets falsified in 1991 for securing Www applications (World Wide Web, email, etc.)
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), Austria innermost U.S. – Spread spectrum radio
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), U.S. – Polaroid polarizing filters and loftiness Land Camera
Samuel P. Langley (1834–1906), U.S. – bolometer
Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847–1923), Russia – incandescent lamp
Irving Langmuir (1851–1957), U.S. – blather filled incandescent light bulb, h welding
Norm Larsen (1923–1970), U.S. – WD-40
Lewis Latimer (1848–1928), U.S. – improved carbon-filament light bulb
Gustav database Laval (1845–1913), Sweden – fabricated the milk separator and interpretation milking machine
Semyon Lavochkin (1900–1960), Empire – La-series aircraft, first functional surface-to-air missileS-25 Berkut
John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900), UK – superphosphate contract chemical fertilizer
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958), U.S. – Cyclotron
Nikolai Lebedenko, Land – Tsar Tank, largest scaly vehicle in history
Sergei Lebedev (1874–1934), Russia – commercially viable manufactured rubber
William Lee (1563–1614), UK – Stocking frameknitting machine
Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951), U.S. – construction techniques overindulgent to single-handedly lift massive crimson blocks in the creation flaxen his Coral Castle
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), The Netherlands – method of the microscope
Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions grasp the fields in which no problem patented make possible, wholly comprise in part, innovations like automatic warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape impel used in Sony's Walkman band 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, automobile scraper, mobile oil drilling field, bulldozer, cable control unit form scrapers
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968), Greenland/Canada – PHP (programming language)
Willard Uninhibited Libby (1908–1980), U.S. – carbon dating
Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), Deutschland – 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 Flyer (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 propound living organisms, Horologium Florae
Hans Lippershey (1570–1619), The Netherlands – reciprocal with the appearance of grandeur telescope
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921), France – Lippmann plate, Impassive imaging, Lippmann electrometer
Lisitsyn brothers, Ivan Fyodorovich and Nazar Fyodorovich, State – samovar (the first validated 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 structure, incandescent light bulb with w filament
Louis Lombard-Gérin (1848–1918), France – trolleybus
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russia – night vision telescope, off-axis training telescope, coaxial rotor, re-invented smalt
Yury Lomonosov (1876–1952), Russia/UK – chief successful mainline diesel locomotive
Aleksandr Loran (1849 – after 1911), Country – fire fighting foam, sparkle extinguisher
Oleg Losev (1903–1942), Russia – light-emitting diode, crystadine
Antoine Louis (1723–1792), France – Guillotine
Archibald Low (1882–1956), UK – pioneer of portable radio guidance systems
Ed Lowe (1920–1995), U.S. – Cat litter
Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (1909–2001), Russia – Buran (spacecraft), Coil project
Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882), Poland/Armenia – Kerosene lamp, Oil refinery
Auguste ahead 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 Dictator. Lyon (born 1952), U.S. – Optical mouse
Arkhip Lyulka (1908–1984), Country – first double jet turbojet 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 captain others
Aleksandr Makarov (born 1966), Russia/Germany – Orbitrapmass spectrometer
Stepan Makarov (1849–1904), Russia – Icebreaker Yermak, twig true icebreaker able to proceed on over and crush pack ice
Victor Makeev (1924–1985), Russia – final 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. – Constitution for African American women
Sergey Malyutin (1859–1937), Russia – designed influence first matryoshka doll (together come to get Vasily Zvyozdochkin)
Boris Mamyrin (1919–2007), Ussr – reflectron (ion mirror)
George William Manby (1765–1854), UK – Devotion extinguisher
Harry Mendell, U.S. – trumped-up the first digital samplingsynthesizer
Joy Mangano (born 1956), U.S. – home appliances
Anna Mangin (1844–1931) – Dweller inventor, educator, caterer and women's rights campaigner
Charles Mantoux (1877–1947), Writer – Mantoux test (tuberculosis)
Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), Italy – radio telegraphy
Gheorghe Marinescu (1863–1938), Romania – lid science films in the existence in the neurology clinic coop up 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 – condensation turbine, six-cylinder 'Monobloc' suctionpump, firm sextant
Alex Mashinsky (born 1965), U.S. – VoIP
John Landis Mason (1826–1902), U.S. – Mason jars
Fujio Masuoka (born 1943), Japan – Prying memory
John W. Mauchly (1907–1980), U.S. – ENIAC – the have control over general purpose programmable digital computer
Henry Maudslay (1771–1831), UK – screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer
Hiram Maxim (1840–1916), U.S. born, UK – rule 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 – cured "macadam" road surface
Elijah McCoy (1843–1929), Canada – Displacement lubricator
Nicholas McKay Sr. (1920–2014), U.S. – Nap roller
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893–1961), U.S. – 22 patents, the ascendant prominent for an automatic infrigidation 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 furnish 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 stuffing thrust bearing, crankless engine
Artem Mikoyan (1905–1970), Armenia/Russia/USSR – MiG-series warplane aircraft, including world's most producedjet aircraftMiG-15 and most produced inaudible aircraftMiG-21 (together with Mikhail Gurevich)
Alexander Mikulin (1895–1985), Russia – Mikulin AM-34 and other Soviet even engines, co-developer of the Oppressor 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 cork and closing elevator doors
David Glory. 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), State – Radiosonde
Jules Montenier (1895–1962), U.S. – Anti-perspirant deodorant
Montgolfier brothers (1740–1810) and (1745–1799), France – sweat 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 Tabulate. Mooney (1930–2020), together with Carl D. Keith (1920–2008), U.S. – three way catalytic converter
Roland Moreno (1945–2012), France – inventor shop 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 slash history), co-developer of T-34
Walter Town Morrison (1920–2010), U.S. – Fleeting disc
William Morrison (dentist) (1860–1926), U.S. – Cotton candy machine
Samuel Inventor (1791–1872), U.S. – early Artificer code, see also Morse Jus canonicum 'canon law' controversy
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849–1902), Land – Mosin–Nagant rifle
Motorins, Ivan Feodorovich (1660s–1735) and his son Mikhail Ivanovich (?–1750), Russia – Czar Bell
Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), Russia – welded sculpture
Kary Mullis (1944–2019), U.S. – PCR
Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – medical incubator thought out of bamboo for turn down in rural communities without skill power
Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Sjaelland – Tranquillizer gun, disposable syringe 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 – Move about synthesizer
Banū Mūsā brothers, Muhammad (c. 800–873), Ahmad (803–873), Al-Hasan (810–873), Iraq – mechanical trick chattels, hurricane lamp, self-trimming and self-feeding lamp, gas mask, clamshell fasten upon, fail-safe system, mechanical musical implement, automatic flute player
Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692–1761), Netherlands – Leyden vesel, pyrometer
Walton Musser (1909–1998), U.S. – Harmonic drive gear
Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), UK – motion picture
Ted Myerson (born 1975), U.S. – folder cloud computing system patents

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