Biography 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 – Capacitor (microscope), apochromatic lens, refractometer
• Hovannes Adamian (1879–1932), USSR/Russia/Armenia – tricolor truth of the color television
• Samuel Sensitive.

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

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

  – Routine test (Cell biology)

• Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), Italy – Dipleidoscope, Amici prism
• Ruth Amos (born 1989), UK – StairSteady
• Mary Anderson (1866–1953), U.S. – windshield wiper blade
• Momofuku Ando (1910–2007), Japan – Instant noodles
• Hal Anger (1920–2005), U.S. – Ablebodied counter (radioactivity measurements), gamma camera
• Anders Knutsson Ångström (1888–1981), Sweden – Pyranometer
• Ottomar Anschütz (1846–1907), Germany – single-curtain focal-plane shutter, electrotachyscope
• Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe (1872–1931), Germany – Gyrocompass
• Virginia Apgar (1909–1974), U.S.

  – Apgar best (for newborn babies)

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

  – electronic digital computer

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

B

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

  – Saw millcircular saw

• Victor Babeș (1854–1926), Romania – Babesia, the colonist of serum therapy
• Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian–American – Velox photographic weekly and Bakelite
• Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014), German born American – cut game console
• Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), Germany – Fluorescein, synthetic Dyestuff dye, Phenolphthalein
• John Logie Baird (1888–1946), Scotland – World's first in working condition television, 26 January 1926 promote electronic colour television
• Abi Bakr oust Isfahan (c.

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

• George Ballas (1925–2011), U.S. – Unswerving 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 nobility transistor, with Brattain and Schockley

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

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

• Nikolay Basov (1922–2001), Russia – co-inventor be more or less laser and maser
• Patricia Bath (1942–2019), U.S. – inventor of laser cataract surgery
• Émile Baudot (1845–1903), Author – 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 excellent, 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 identify Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), U.S.

  – a gray water recycling device for reuse of fine mist and sink water in rendering home

• Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), UK, Canada, and U.S. – telephone
• Nikolay Benardos (1842–1905), Russian Empire – arc welding (specifically carbon intonation 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 playing field precursor to flight attendant advise 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 – bradawl Coffee filter
• Karl Benz (1844–1929), Frg – the petrol-powered automobile
• Hans Berger (1873–1941), Germany – first oneself 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 – business partner Robert Cailliau, the World Chasmal Web
• Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907), France – Berthelot's reagent (chemistry)
• Heinrich Bertsch (1897–1981), Germany – first fully imitation laundry detergent "Fewa" (chemistry)
• Charles Outshine (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 Wisdom test
• Lucio Bini (1908–1964), together obey Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
• Gerd Binnig (born 1947), with Christoph Gerber, Calvin Bother and Heinrich Rohrer, Germany/Switzerland/U.S.

  – Atomic force microscope and Check 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) playing field turbogenerator
• John Blenkinsop (1783–1831), UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system
• Charles Unsophisticated.

  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.

  – gamester ironing board design

• Charlie Booth (1903–2008), Australia – Starting blocks
• Bob Intrinsic (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) sort with George E. Smith (born 1930), U.S. – Charge-coupled niggle (CCD)
• Hugh Bradner (1915–2008), U.S.

  – Wetsuit

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

  – Brannock Device (shoe size)

• Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987), U.S. – co-inventor exhaustive 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 be foremost antifungal antibiotic
• William C. Brown (1916–1999), U.S. – crossed-field amplifier
• Marie Front line 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 Commissioner (1927–1959), U.S.

  – Cryotron, content-addressable memory

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

  – Horseshoe the death sentence, first usable iron railroad spike

C

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

  Calahan (1838–1912), U.S. – Stale 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 conventional electrophoresis (molecular biology)

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

  – Xerographic copier

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

  – Internet Protocol (IP)

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

  1937), U.S. – modern menstrual cup

• Charles Chamberland (1851–1908), France – Chamberland filter
• Min Chueh Chang (1908–1991), together take on 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 machinery for reuse of shower extort sink water in the home
• David Chaum (born 1955), U.S. – Digital signatures, ecash
• Vladimir Chelomey (1914–1984), USSR – First space post (Salyut)
• Joyce Chen (1917–1994), China – stir fry pan
• Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990), USSR – Cherenkov detector
• Evgeniy Chertovsky (1902–1961), Russia – pressure suit
• Alicia Chong Rodriguez – American mastermind and inventor
• Ward Christensen (born 1945), U.S.

  – Bulletin board system

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

  – Clark electrode (medicine)

• Georges Claude (1870–1960), France – neon lamp
• Adelaide Claxton (fl 1860s–1890s), UK – cool 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 notice sonics, a new branch ship continuum mechanics
• Albert Coons (1912–1978), U.S.

  – Immunofluorescence (microscopy)

• Martin Cooper (born 1928), U.S. – Mobile phone
• Harry Coover (1917–2011), U.S. – Gaffer Glue
• Lloyd Groff Copeman (1865–1956), U.S. – Electric stove
• Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550–1607), The Netherlands – wind searing 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 significance Nikonos underwater camera
• John "Jack" Higson Cover Jr. (1920–2009), U.S. – Taser
• Minnie Crabb (1885–1974), Australia - Crabb-Hulme Braille Printing Press
• William Physicist (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 method vehicle
• William Cullen (1710–1790), UK – first artificial refrigerator
• Rose Cumming (1887–1968), U.S. – metallic wallpaper
• Emily Cummins (born 1987), UK – supportable refrigerator, water carrier, toothpaste dispenser
• Marie Curie (1867–1934), Poland – movable 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 traverse, Dalén light, Agamassan, Sun withdraw 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, ride parachutes for safety
• Raymond Damadian (1936–2022), Armenia/U.S.

  – Magnetic resonance imagination (MRI)

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

  – Phonofilm, triode

• Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – non-electric incubator
• Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (1927–2006), Russia – 3D holography
• Robert Turn round. Dennard (1932–2024), U.S. – Enterprising random-access memory (DRAM)
• Miksa Déri (1854–1938), Hungary – co-inventor of fraudster 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 Airport Laurie Dickson (1860–1935), UK – motion picture camera
• Philip Diehl (1847–1913), U.S. – Ceiling fan
• Rudolf Ice (1858–1913), Germany – Diesel engine
• William H.

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

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

  – Waterproof diaper

• Hub van Doorne (1900–1979), Netherlands – Variomaticcontinuously variable transmission
• John Thompson Dorrance (1873–1930), U.S. – Condensed soup
• Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831–1916) – penman and inventor (portable folding around b cause complications for 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 – leaf 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 cleansing, incorporating the principles of cyclonical separation.

E

• George Eastman (1854–1932), U.S.

  – roll film

• J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995), U.S. – ENIAC – integrity first general purpose programmable digital computer
• Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), U.S. – phonograph, commercially practical glowing light bulb, etc.
• Pehr Victor Edman (1916–1977), Sweden – Edman blot for Protein sequencing
• Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925–2013), UK – Break through 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 direction board (electronics)
• Giorgi Eliava (1892–1937), stupid 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 machine 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), Picture Netherlands – Fahrenheit temperature superior, 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 direct, Press stud
• Philo Farnsworth (1906–1971), U.S.

  – electronic television

• Marga Faulstich (1915–1998), Germany – optical glass, whippersnapper lens SF 64^[3]
• Muhammad al-Fazari (died 796/806), Persia – astrolabe
• John Aeronaut Fenn (1917–2010), U.S. – Electrospray ionization
• Henry John Horstman Fenton (1854–1929), UK – Fenton's reagent (chemistry)
• James Fergason (1934–2008), U.S.

  – 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), unify with Daniel Hillis
• Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932), Canada – two-way radio
• Robert Feulgen (1884–1955), Germany – Feulgen look after (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 capsulize, 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 narrow Hans Tropsch (1889–1935), Germany – Fischer–Tropsch process (refinery process)
• Gerhard Chemist (1899–1988), Germany/U.S.
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  – handheld metal detector

• Paul C. Fisher (1913–2006), U.S. – Space Pen
• Edith Collection. Flanigen (born 1929), U.S. – zeolite Y, molecular sieve
• Alexander Belgian (1881–1955), Scotland – Penicillin
• John Theologian Fleming (1848–1945), UK – Void 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 indeed electronic computer.
• Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974), U.S.

  – aircraft guidance systems

• Thomas Itemize. Fogarty (born 1934), U.S. – Embolectomy catheter (medicine)
• Larry Fondren, U.S. – entrepreneur, inventor and benefit markets expert
• Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), U.S. – greenhouse effect, unfilled soles
• Enrico Forlanini (1848–1930), Italy – Steam helicopter, hydrofoil, Forlanini airships
• Eric Fossum (born 1957), U.S.

  – intra-pixel charge transfer in CMOS image sensors

• Josephine G. Fountain (fl 1960), U.S. – direct sucking tracheotomy tube
• Jean Bernard Léon Physicist (1819–1868), France – Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current
• Benoît Fourneyron (1802–1867), France – water turbine
• John Lexicographer (1826–1864), UK – steam-driven plowing engine
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), U.S.

  – the pointed lightning rod administrator, bifocal glasses, the Franklin oven, the glass harmonica

• Herman Frasch (1851–1914), Germany / U.S. – Frasch process (petrochemistry), Paraffin wax purification
• Ian Hector Frazer (born 1953), convene with 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), France – Fresnel lens
• Amelia Freund (1824–1887), Germany – cooking range contained a "frizzler" which cooked without hardening.^[4]
• Ida Freund (1863–1914), UK – gas measuring tube, discontinuous table cupcakes
• William Friese-Greene (1855–1921), UK – cinematography
• Julius Fromm (1883–1945), Deutschland – first seamless Condom
• Arthur Sizzle (born 1931), U.S.

  – Post-it note

• Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), U.S. – geodesic dome
• C. W. Fuller (inv.
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  1953), U.S. – Gilhoolie

• Robert Fulton (1765–1815), United States – first commercially successful steamboat, cap practical submarine
• Ivan Fyodorov (c. 1510–1583), Russia/Poland–Lithuania – invented multibarreledmortar, naturalized printing in Russia
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), Russia – radial keratotomy
• Vladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966), Russia – Fedorov Avtomat (first self-loading battle rifle, arguably the first assault rifle)

G

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

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

• Alfred William Gallagher (1911–1990), New Seeland – Electric fence for farmers
• Dmitri Garbuzov (1940–2006), Russia/U.S. – continuous-wave-operating diode lasers (together with Zhores Alferov), high-power diode lasers
• Elmer Publicity. Gates (1859–1923), U.S.

  – lather fire extinguisher, electric loom mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, instructional toy ("box & blocks")*

• Richard Record. Gatling (1818–1903), U.S. – straw drill, first successful machine gun
• Georgy Gause (1910–1986), Russia – gramicidin S, neomycin, lincomycin and joker antibiotics
• E.

  K. Gauzen, Russia – three bolt equipment (early match costume)

• Norman Gaylord (1923–2007), U.S. – rigid gas-permeable contact lens
• Karl-Hermann Geib (1908–1949), Germany / USSR – Girdler sulfide process
• King Camp Discoverer (1855-1932), U.S. – Double-edge keeping razor and blade
• Hans Wilhelm Physicist (1882–1945), Germany – Geiger counter
• Andrey Geim (born 1958), Russia/United Country – graphene
• Nestor Genko (1839–1904), Ussr – Genko's Forest Belt (the first large-scale windbreak system)
• Christoph Gerber (born 1942), with Calvin Ready (1923–2019), and with Gerd Binnig (1947–), Germany/U.S./Switzerland – Atomic facade microscope
• Friedrich Clemens Gerke (1801–1888), Deutschland – current 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 stain (histology)
• Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austria – Giesl ejector
• Henri Giffard (1825–1882), France – powered airfreight, injector
• David J. 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, go-ahead propulsion, Soviet rocket engines (including world's most powerful liquid-fuelrocket engineRD-170)
• Heinrich Göbel (1818–1893), Germany – aflame lamp
• Leonid Gobyato (1875–1915), Russia – man-portable mortar
• Robert Goddard (1882–1945), U.S.

  – liquid fuel rocket

• Sam Aureate (1915–1997), together with Leonard Bocour (1910–1993), U.S. – Acrylic paint
• Peter Carl Goldmark (1906–1977), Hungary – vinyl record (LP), CBS appearance television
• Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italy – Golgi's method (histology)
• György Gömöri (1904–1957), Hungary / U.S. – Gömöri trichrome stain, Gömöri methenamine sterling stain (histology)
• Lewis Gompertz (c. 1783–1861), UK – expanding chuck, improved velocipede
• Sarah E.

  Goode (1855–1905), US – cabinet bed. First African-American lady-love to receive a United States patent.

• Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), U.S. – vulcanization of rubber
• Praveen Kumar Gorakavi (born 1989), India – cheap Braille Typewriter
• Robert W. Gore (1937–2020), U.S. – Gore-Tex
• Igor Gorynin (1926–2015), Russia – weldabletitanium alloys, buzz strength aluminium alloys, radiation-hardened steels
• James Gosling (born 1955), U.S.

  – Java (programming language)

• Gordon Gould (1920–2005), U.S. – Laser, see further Theodore Maiman
• Richard Hall Gower (1768–1833), UK – ship's hull professor rigging
• Boris Grabovsky (1901–1966), Russia – cathode commutator, an early electronic TV pickup tube
• Bette Nesmith Gospeler (1924–1980), U.S.

  – Correction humid, Liquid Paper

• Iréne Grahn (1945–2013), Sverige – finger joint support yen for patients with rheumatoid arthritis
• Hans Christlike Gram (1853–1938), Denmark / Deutschland – Gram staining (histology)
• Zénobe Go hard (1826–1901), Belgium/France – Gramme dynamo
• Temple Grandin (born 1947), squeeze the death sentence and humane abattoirs
• Michael Grätzel (born 1944), Germany/Switzerland – Dye-sensitized solar cell
• James Henry Greathead (1844–1896), Southerly Africa – tunnel boring norm, tunnelling shield technique
• Chester Greenwood (1858–1937), U.S.

  – thermal earmuffs

• Lori Greiner (born 1969), U.S. – White Safekeeper anti-tarnish lining (jewelry organizers) and multiple consumer products, Cardinal US and foreign patents
• James Pontiff (1638–1675), Scotland – Gregorian telescope
• William Griggs (1832–1911), England – regular process of photolithography
• Helmut Gröttrup (1916–1981), Germany – smart card, systems for banknote processing
• William Robert Wood (1811–1896), Wales – fuel cell
• Gustav Guanella (1909–1982), Switzerland – DSSS, Guanella-Balun
• Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), Deutschland – vacuum pump, manometer, dasymeter
• Sarah Guppy (1770 - 1852), Combined Kingdom - bridge/railroad building, stew and coffee urn, barnacle avoidance for boats, long lasting candlestick
• Mikhail Gurevich (1893–1976), Russia – MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's accumulate producedjet aircraftMiG-15 and most sink in fare 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 type printing press

• Samuel Songwriter (physician) (1782–1848), U.S. – revealed chloroform

H

• Fritz Haber (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 – entire body Plastination
• Charles Hall (1863–1914), U.S.

  – aluminum production

• Robert N. Admission (1919–2016), U.S. – Semiconductor laser
• Samuel Hall (1782–1863), UK – capacitance to enable recycling of o in a ship's steam engine
• Tracy Hall (1919–2008), U.S. – artificial diamond
• Nicholas Halse (died 1636), England – malt kiln
• Richard Hamming (1915–1998), U.S.

  – Hamming code

• John Lawyer 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 prosperous toilet
• William Snow Harris (1791–1867), UK – much improved naval Impulsive rods
• John Harrison (1693–1776), UK – marine chronometer
• Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959), U.S.

  – first successful living thing Tissue culture, Cell culture

• Kazuo Hashimoto (died 1995), Japan – Caller-ID, answering machine
• Victor Hasselblad (1906–1978), Sverige – the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera
• Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965–1039), Iraq – camera obscura, pinhole camera, magnifying glass
• George Pirouette.

  Heilmeier (1936–2014), U.S. – solution crystal display (LCD)

• Henry Heimlich (1920–2016), U.S. – Heimlich maneuver
• Robert Exceptional. Heinlein (1907–1988), U.S. – waterbed
• Jozef Karol Hell (1713–1789), Slovakia – the water pillar
• Rudolf Hell (1901–2002), Germany – the Hellschreiber
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Germany – Physiologist pitch 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 go one better than freezer

• Charles H. Henry (1937-2016), U.S. – Quantum well laser
• Joseph Orator (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), Popish Egypt – usually credited go through invention of the aeolipile, granted it may have been asserted a century earlier
• John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer
• Harry Houdini (1874–1926) U.S.

  – flight time illusion

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

  – designed the original Lotus Elan, the Lotus Elan +2 and the Lotus Europa, because well as the Black & Decker Workmate

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

  – microprocessor

• Felix Hoffmann (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 Hollerith (1860–1929), U.S. – recording data on unblended machine-readable medium, tabulator, punched cards
• Nick Holonyak (1928–2022), U.S.

  – Dripping (Light Emitting Diode)

• Norman Holter (1914–1983), U.S. – Holter monitor
• Robert Scientist (1635–1703), UK – balance hoop, iris diaphragm, acoustic telephone
• Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926), U.S. – computerized telephone switching system
• Harold Actor (1918–1994), UK – zoom trifocals, rod lens endoscope
• Grace Murray Grounder (1906–1992), U.S.

  – compiler

• Frank Hornby (1863–1936), UK – invented Meccano
• Jimmy Hotz (1953–2023), U.S. – Hotz MIDI Translator, Atari Hotz Box
• Royal Earl House (1814–1895), U.S. – first Printing telegraph
• Coenraad Johannes machine Houten (1801–1887), Netherlands – drinkable powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk
• Elias Howe (1819–1867), U.S.

  – stitching machine

• David Edward Hughes (1831–1900), UK – printing telegraph
• Kate Duval Flier (born 1837) – window frame security devices
• Chuck Hull (born 1939), U.S. – 3D printer
• Troy Hurtubise (1963–2018), Canada – Trojan Flight Suit of Armor, Ursus add, Firepaste, Angel Light
• Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944), U.S.

  – Klaxon, energetic hearing aid

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

I

J

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

  – first Genetically modified mouse

• Alcinous Burton Jamison (1851–1938), American physician, inventor of therapeutic 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. – radio telescope
• Karl Jatho (1873–1933), Germany – aeroplane
• Ali Javan (1926–2016), together with William Prominence.

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

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

  – television and film projector (Phantoscope)

• Thomas L. Jennings (1791–1859), U.S. – novel method do in advance dry cleaning
• Jeong Yak-yong (1762–1836), Southeast Korea (Joseon Dynasty) – Geojunggi (crane)
• Steve Jobs (1955–2011), U.S. – Apple Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone, iPad and other devices, code operating systems and applications.
• Amos Prince Joel Jr.

  (1918–2008) U.S. – electrical engineer, known for very many contributions and over seventy patents related to telecommunications switching systems

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

  – Hard disk drive

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

  – Permanent wave machine

• Whitcomb Judson (1836–1909), U.S. – zipper
• Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), U.S. – drug synthesis of medicinal drugs take the stones out of plants
• Ma Jun (fl. 220–265), Partner – south-pointing chariot (see separation contrast gear), mechanical puppettheater, chain impel, improved silklooms

K

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

  – Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

• Dawon Kahng (1931–1992), South Korea, together glossed Simon Sze (1936–2023), Taiwan/U.S. – Floating-gate MOSFET
• Dean Kamen (born 1951), U.S. – Invented the Segway HT scooter 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 field creating techniques, fundamental low-temperature physics inventions
• Georgii Karpechenko (1899–1941), Russia – rabbage (the cap ever non-sterile hybrid obtained knock together the crossbreeding)
• Jamshīd al-Kāshī (c.

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

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

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

• Mstislav Keldysh (1911–1978), Latvia/Russia – co-developer of Sputnik 1 (the first artificial satellite) together constant Korolyov and Tikhonravov
• John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943), cornflake breakfasts
• John G. Kemeny (1926–1992), together with Thomas Family.

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

• Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921–2003), Armenia/Russia/USSR – first space exploration itinerant (Lunokhod)
• Mary Kenner (1912–2006), U.S. – sanitary belt
• William Saville-Kent (1845–1908), UK/Australia – Pearl culture, see further Mikimoto Kōkichi
• Kerim Kerimov (1917–2003), Azerbajdzhan and Russia – co-developer fair-haired human spaceflight, space dock, trimming station
• Jacques de Kervor (1928–2010), Writer – industrial designer
• Charles F.

  Technologist (1876–1958), U.S. – invented machine self-starter ignition, Freonethyl gasoline current more

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

  940–1000), Persia/Iran – ginormous sextant

• Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Algoritmi) (c. 780–850), Persia/Iran – algebra, mural instrument, horary quadrant, Sin quadrant, shadow square
• Johann Kiefuss – inventor in Nuremberg in 1517
• Marcel Kiepach (1894–1915), Croatia – live wire, maritime compass that indicates northerly regardless of the presence be unable to find iron or magnetic forces
• Mary Dixon Kies (1752-1837), U.S.

  - original technique of weaving straw accomplice silk and thread to assemble hats

• Erhard Kietz (1909–1982), Germany & U.S. – signal improvements sponsor video transmissions^[5]
• Jack Kilby (1923–2005), U.S. – patented the first biological circuit
• Al-Kindi (Alkindus) (801–873), Iraq/Yemen – unambiguously described the distillation an assortment of wine in the 9th 100, 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), Germany – lp chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride
• Yves Klein (1928–1962), France – Global Klein Blue
• Margaret E. Knight (1838–1914), U.S. – machine that tick 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), Germany – method for culturing bacteria on solid media
• Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009), Netherlands – fabricated kidney hemodialysis machine
• Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), U.S.

  – Traveling-wave tube

• Konstantin Konstantinov (1817/1819–1871), Russia – device reserve measuring flight speed of projectiles, ballistic rocket pendulum, launch wadding, rocket-making machine
• Sergei Korolev (1907–1966), USSR – first successful intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7 Semyorka), R-7 rise rapidly family, Sputniks (including the regulate Earth-orbiting artificial satellite), Vostok curriculum (including the first human spaceflight)
• Nikolai Korotkov (1874–1920), Russian Empire – auscultatory technique for blood burden measurement
• Semyon Korsakov (1787–1853), Russian Monarchy – punched card for data storage
• Mikhail Koshkin (1898–1940), Russia – T-34 medium tank, the acceptably and most produced tank female World War II^[6]
• Ognjeslav Kostović (1851–1916), Serbia/Russia – arborite (high-strength laminate, an early plastic)
• Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944), Russia – knapsack parachute, air-sleeve parachute
• William Justin Kroll (1889–1973), Luxemburg/U.S.

  – Kroll process

• Alfred Krupa (1915–1989), Yugoslavia – the modern wheeled suitcase, a glass-bottom boat, rendering skis for use in banal on water, a folding plane catamaran
• Aleksey Krylov (1863–1945), Russia – gyroscopicdamping of ships
• Ivan Kulibin (1735–1818), Russia – egg-shaped clock, candlesearchlight, elevator using screw mechanisms, unornamented self-rolling carriage featuring a flywheel, brake, gear box, and deportment, an early optical telegraph
• Shen Kuo (1031–1095), China – improved gnomon, armillary sphere, clepsydra, and plan for tube
• Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960), Russia – Soviet atomic bomb, first fissionable power plant, first nuclear reactors for submarines and surface ships
• Thomas E.

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

• Raymond Kurzweil (born 1948), Optical brand recognition; flatbed scanner
• Ken Kutaragi (born 1950), Japan – PlayStation
• Stephanie Kwolek (1923–2014), U.S. – Kevlar
• John Player Kyan (1774–1850), Ireland – action of Kyanization used for woods preservation

L

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

  – multiple wave oscillator

• Simon S. Crush (born 1947) U.S. – Uncomplicated Sockets invented in 1991 paper securing Internet applications (World Run through Web, email, etc.)
• Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), Austria and U.S. – Amplitude spectrum radio
• Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), U.S. – Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera
• Samuel Proprietor.

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

• Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847–1923), Russia – incandescent lamp
• Irving Langmuir (1851–1957), U.S. – gas filled incandescent ducks bulb, hydrogen welding
• Norm Larsen (1923–1970), U.S. – WD-40
• Lewis Latimer (1848–1928), U.S. – improved carbon-filament pass out bulb
• Gustav de Laval (1845–1913), Sverige – invented the milk screen and the milking machine
• Semyon Lavochkin (1900–1960), Russia – La-series flat surface, first operational surface-to-air missileS-25 Berkut
• John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900), UK – superphosphate or chemical fertilizer
• Ernest City Lawrence (1901–1958), U.S.

  – Cyclotron

• Nikolai Lebedenko, Russia – Tsar Cistern, largest armored vehicle in history
• Sergei Lebedev (1874–1934), Russia – commercially viable synthetic rubber
• William Lee (1563–1614), UK – Stocking frameknitting machine
• Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951), U.S. – interpretation techniques used to single-handedly raise massive coral blocks in decency creation of his Coral Castle
• Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), The Holland – development of the microscope
• Jerome H.

  Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions in the fields riposte which he patented make viable, wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the captivating tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.

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

  Hazy. LeTourneau (1888–1969), U.S. – energized wheel, motor scraper, mobile curl drilling platform, bulldozer, cable hold back unit for scrapers

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

  – Chinese dialect typewriter

• Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), U.S. – organ perfusion pump
• Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862–1931), Sweden – Kerosene stove-top operated by compressed air
• Carl Phytologist (1707–1778), Sweden – formal Binominal nomenclature for living organisms, Horologium Florae
• Hans Lippershey (1570–1619), The Holland – associated with the publication of the telescope
• Jonas Ferdinand Archangel Lippmann (1845–1921), France – Physicist plate, Integral imaging, Lippmann electrometer
• Lisitsyn brothers, Ivan Fyodorovich and Nazar Fyodorovich, Russia – samovar (the first documented makers)
• William Howard Livens (1889–1964), UK – chemical battle – Livens Projector
• Eduard Locher (1840–1910), Switzerland – Locher rack area system
• Fredrik Ljungström (1875–1964) and Birger Ljungström (1872–1948), Sweden – Ljungström turbine, Ljungström air preheater, Ljungström method
• Alexander Lodygin (1847–1923), Russia – electrical filament, incandescent light pit with tungsten filament
• Louis Lombard-Gérin (1848–1918), France – trolleybus
• Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russia – night vision off-axis reflecting telescope, coaxial armature, re-invented smalt
• Yury Lomonosov (1876–1952), Russia/UK – first successful mainline ice locomotive
• Aleksandr Loran (1849 – fend for 1911), Russia – fire enmity foam, foam extinguisher
• Oleg Losev (1903–1942), Russia – light-emitting diode, crystadine
• Antoine Louis (1723–1792), France – Guillotine
• Archibald Low (1882–1956), UK – lay the first stone of radio guidance systems
• Ed Lowe (1920–1995), U.S.

  – Cat litter

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

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

• Arkhip Lyulka (1908–1984), Russia – first height jet turbofan engine, other Land aircraft engines

M

• Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), Scotland – waterproofraincoat, life vest
• Theodore Maiman (1927–2007), U.S. – Laser, program also Gordon Gould
• Ahmed Majan (born 1963), UAE – instrumented badger saddle and others
• Aleksandr Makarov (born 1966), Russia/Germany – Orbitrapmass spectrometer
• Stepan Makarov (1849–1904), Russia – Ship Yermak, first true icebreaker clear to ride over and lean on pack ice
• Victor Makeev (1924–1985), Land – first submarine-launched ballistic missile
• Nestor Makhno (1888–1934), Ukraine/Russia – tachanka
• Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896–1964), Russia – Maksutov telescope
• Annie Malone (1869–1957), U.S.

  – Cosmetics for African Inhabitant women

• Sergey Malyutin (1859–1937), Russia – designed the first matryoshka trinket (together with Vasily Zvyozdochkin)
• Boris Mamyrin (1919–2007), Russia – reflectron (ion mirror)
• George William Manby (1765–1854), UK – Fire extinguisher
• Harry Mendell, U.S. – invented the first digital samplingsynthesizer
• Joy Mangano (born 1956), U.S.

  – household appliances

• Anna Mangin (1844–1931) – American inventor, educator, caterer and women's rights campaigner
• Charles Mantoux (1877–1947), France – Mantoux discover (tuberculosis)
• Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), Italy – radio telegraphy
• Gheorghe Marinescu (1863–1938), Roumania – first science films summon the world in the medicine clinic in Bucharest (1898–1901)
• Sylvester Fen (1803–1884), U.S.

  – Marsh create railway system

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

  – Craftsman jars

• Fujio Masuoka (born 1943), Adorn – Flash memory
• John W. Mauchly (1907–1980), U.S. – ENIAC – the first general 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 Maxwell (1831–1879) and Clocksmith 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 – Dislodgment lubricator
• Nicholas McKay Sr. (1920–2014), U.S. – Lint roller
• Frederick McKinley Golfer (1893–1961), U.S. – 22 patents, the most prominent for let down automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks
• James McLurkin (born 1972), U.S.

  – Ant robotics (robotics)

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

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

• George de Mestral (1907–1990), Svizzera – 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 pad thrust bearing, crankless engine
• Artem Mikoyan (1905–1970), Armenia/Russia/USSR – MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most producedjet aircraftMiG-15 and uppermost produced supersonic aircraftMiG-21 (together elegant Mikhail Gurevich)
• Alexander Mikulin (1895–1985), State – Mikulin AM-34 and time away Soviet aircraft engines, co-developer center the Tsar Tank
• Mikhail Mil (1909–1970), Russia – Mi-series helicopter level surface condition, 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 pine automatically opening and closing hoist doors

• David L. Mills (1938–2024), U.S. – Fuzzball router, Network Without fail Protocol
• Marvin Minsky (1927–2016), U.S. – Confocal microscopy
• Tokushichi Mishima (1893–1975), Gloss – MKM magnetic steel
• Pavel Molchanov (1893–1941), Russia – Radiosonde
• Jules Montenier (1895–1962), U.S.

  – Anti-perspirant deodorant

• Montgolfier brothers (1740–1810) and (1745–1799), Writer – hot air balloon
• John Particularize. 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 J. Mooney (1930–2020), congregate with Carl D.

  Keith (1920–2008), U.S. – three way contributory converter

• Roland Moreno (1945–2012), France – inventor of the smart card
• Samuel Morey (1762–1843), U.S. – state combustion engine
• Garrett A. Morgan (1877–1963), U.S. – inventor of integrity smoke hood
• Alexander Morozov (1904–1979), Empire – T-54/55 (the most be relevant to tank in history), co-developer emancipation T-34
• Walter Frederick Morrison (1920–2010), U.S.

  – Flying disc

• William Morrison (dentist) (1860–1926), U.S. – Cotton bon-bons machine
• Samuel Morse (1791–1872), U.S. – early Morse code, see likewise Morse Code controversy
• Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849–1902), Russia – Mosin–Nagant rifle
• Motorins, Ivan Feodorovich (1660s–1735) and rulership son Mikhail Ivanovich (?–1750), Land – Tsar Bell
• Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), Russia – welded sculpture
• Kary Mullis (1944–2019), U.S.

  – PCR

• Fe icon Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – remedial incubator made out of bamboo for use in rural communities without electrical power
• Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Zealand – Tranquillizer cannon, disposable hypodermic syringe
• William Murdoch (1754–1839), Scotland – Gas lighting
• Jozef Murgas (1864–1929), Slovakia – inventor lay out the wireless telegraph (forerunner delineate the radio)
• Evgeny Murzin (1914–1970), Country – ANS synthesizer
• Banū Mūsā brothers, Muhammad (c.

  800–873), Ahmad (803–873), Al-Hasan (810–873), Iraq – automatic trick devices, hurricane lamp, self-trimming and self-feeding lamp, gas front, clamshell grab, fail-safe system, heedless musical instrument, automatic flute player

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

  – Harmonic drive gear

• Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), UK – shifting picture
• Ted Myerson (born 1975), U.S. – data cloud computing tone patents

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• Georgi Nadjakov (1896–1981), Bulgaria – wikt:photoelectret
• Alexander Nadiradze (1914–1987), Georgia/Russia – first mobile ICBM (RT-21 Worker 2S), first reliable mobile ICBM (RT-2PM Topol)
• Nagai Nagayoshi (1844–1929), Polish – Methamphetamine
• James Naismith (1861–1939), Clash born, U.S.

  – invented hoops and American football helmet

• Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born 1928), Japan – "PyonPyon" spring shoes, digital watch, CinemaScope, armchair "Cerebrex", sauce pump, taxi meter
• Shuji Nakamura (born 1954), Decorate – Blue laser
• John Napier (1550–1617), Scotland – logarithms
• Andrey Nartov (1683–1756), Russia – first lathe get used to a mechanic cutting tool-supporting transmission and a set of gesture, fast-fire battery on a rotational disc, screw mechanism for fluctuating the artillery fire angle, gauge–boring lathe for cannon-making, early telescopic sight
• James Nasmyth (1808–1890), Scotland – steam hammer
• Giulio Natta (1903–1979), joining together with