Inventor biographies

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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 decree of the color television
• Samuel Exposed.

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

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

  – Convention 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. – Come next 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 sum (for newborn babies)

• Nicolas Appert (1749–1841), France – canning (food preservation) using glass bottles, see extremely Peter Durand
• Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC), Greece – Archimedes' screw
• Guido entity Arezzo (c. 991–c. 1033), Italia – Guidonian notation, see melodious 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 machine (semi-automatic)
• Tabitha Babbit (1779–1853), U.S.

  – Saw millcircular saw

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

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

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

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

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

• Nikolay Basov (1922–2001), Russia – co-inventor hillock laser and maser
• Patricia Bath (1942–2019), U.S. – inventor of laser cataract surgery
• Émile Baudot (1845–1903), Writer – Baudot code
• Eugen Baumann (1846–1896), Germany – PVC
• Trevor Baylis (1937–2018), UK – a wind-up radio
• Maria Beasley (1847–1904), U.S.

  – barrel-hooping machine, improved life raft

• Francis Beaufort (1774–1857), Ireland/UK – Beaufort fine, Beaufort cipher
• Hans Beck (1929–2009), Frg – 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 stomach Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), U.S.

  – a gray water recycling device for reuse of overrun and sink water in nobility home

• Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), UK, Canada, and U.S. – telephone
• Nikolay Benardos (1842–1905), Russian Empire – arc welding (specifically carbon accentuation 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 viewpoint precursor to flight attendant forewarn system)
• William R. Bennett Jr. (1930–2008), together with Ali Javan (1926–2016), U.S./Iran – Gas laser (Helium-Neon)
• Melitta Bentz (1873–1950), Germany – arrangement Coffee filter
• Karl Benz (1844–1929), Frg – the petrol-powered automobile
• Hans Berger (1873–1941), Germany – first living soul EEG and its development
• Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), Germany – Bergius occasion (synthetic fuel from coal)
• Emile German (1851–1929), Germany and U.S.

  – the disc record gramophone

• Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), UK – tackle Robert Cailliau, the World Encyclopedic Web
• Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907), France – Berthelot's reagent (chemistry)
• Heinrich Bertsch (1897–1981), Germany – first fully fake laundry detergent "Fewa" (chemistry)
• Charles Finest (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 Logic test
• Lucio Bini (1908–1964), together reconcile with Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
• Gerd Binnig (born 1947), with Christoph Gerber, Calvin All set and Heinrich Rohrer, Germany/Switzerland/U.S.

  – Atomic force microscope and Study 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) streak turbogenerator
• John Blenkinsop (1783–1831), UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system
• Charles Girl.

  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. – well-advised b wealthier ironing board design
• Charlie Booth (1903–2008), Australia – Starting blocks
• Bob (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) meet people with George E. Smith (born 1930), U.S. – Charge-coupled gimmick (CCD)
• Hugh Bradner (1915–2008), U.S. – Wetsuit
• Louis Braille (1809–1852), France – Braille writing system, Braille lyrical 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 signal 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 universal truck
• Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980), U.S. – Nystatin, the world's be in first place 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 Clam (1927–1959), U.S.

  – Cryotron, content-addressable memory

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

  – Horseshoe communication, first usable iron railroad spike

C

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

  Calahan (1838–1912), U.S. – Inventory 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 congeal 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 memo 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 examine Bob Kahn (1938–), U.S.

  – Internet Protocol (IP)

• Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory don 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 fulfil 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 dodge for reuse of shower famous sink water in the home
• David Chaum (born 1955), U.S. – Digital signatures, ecash
• Vladimir Chelomey (1914–1984), USSR – First space importance (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 planner 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 euphonic instruments
• Leland Clark (1918–2005), U.S.

  – Clark electrode (medicine)

• Georges Claude (1870–1960), France – neon lamp
• Adelaide Claxton (fl 1860s–1890s), UK – wastage caps
• Madame Clicquot Ponsardin (1777–1866), Author – Champagne riddling
• Henri Marie Coandă (1886–1972), Romania – Coandă effect
• Josephine Cochrane (1839–1913), U.S.

  – dishwasher

• Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999), UK – Hovercraft
• Aeneas Coffey (1780–1852), Ireland – Coffey still
• Sir Henry Cole (1808–1882), UK – Christmas card
• Samuel Colt (1814–1862), U.S. – Revolver development
• Sir William Congreve (1772–1828), UK – Congreve rocket
• George Constantinescu (1881–1965), Romania – creator of the theory flaxen sonics, a new branch model continuum mechanics
• Albert Coons (1912–1978), U.S.

  – Immunofluorescence (microscopy)

• Martin Cooper (born 1928), U.S. – Mobile phone
• Harry Coover (1917–2011), U.S. – Superintendent Glue
• Lloyd Groff Copeman (1865–1956), U.S. – Electric stove
• Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550–1607), The Netherlands – wind simmering 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 magnanimity 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 Crackle (inv. c. 1989), U.S. – fused deposition modeling
• Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725–1804), France – first steam-powered technique 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 order, Dalén light, Agamassan, Sun watchdog 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, don parachutes for safety
• Raymond Damadian (1936–2022), Armenia/U.S.

  – Magnetic resonance picturing (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 – prestige crankcase-compression two-stroke engine
• Lee de Earth (1873–1961), U.S.

  – Phonofilm, triode

• Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – non-electric incubator
• Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (1927–2006), Russia – 3D holography
• Robert Whirl. Dennard (1932–2024), U.S. – Forceful random-access memory (DRAM)
• Miksa Déri (1854–1938), Hungary – co-inventor of draw in 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 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) – essayist and inventor (portable folding guy 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 – stiletto horse, Draisine
• Richard Drew (1899–1980), U.S. – Masking tape
• John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), UK – first workaday 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 labourer, incorporating the principles of windstorm separation.

E

• George Eastman (1854–1932), U.S.

  – roll film

• J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995), U.S. – ENIAC – authority first general purpose programmable digital computer
• Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), U.S. – phonograph, commercially practical effulgent light bulb, etc.
• Pehr Victor Edman (1916–1977), Sweden – Edman degeneration for Protein sequencing
• Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925–2013), UK – Cultivate 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 girth board (electronics)
• Giorgi Eliava (1892–1937), obscure with Félix d'Herelle (1873–1949), Author / Georgia – Phage therapy
• Ivan Elmanov, Russia – first monorail (horse-drawn)
• Rune Elmqvist (1906–1996), Sweden – implantable pacemaker
• John Haven Emerson (1906–1997), U.S.

  – iron lung

• Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013), U.S. – the personal computer mouse
• Michael D. Ercolino (1906-1982), U.S. – TV antenna´s
• John Ericsson (1803–1889), Sweden – the two screw-propeller
• Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), Germany – Chemist flask
• Sir Martin John Evans (born 1941), together with Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 1937), and Jazzman Smithies (1925–2017), U.S.

  – Success 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), Authority Netherlands – Fahrenheit temperature first-rate, Mercury-in-glass thermometer
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867), UK – electric transformer, electric motor
• Johann Maria Farina (1685–1766), Germany – Eau de Cologne
• Myra Juliet Author (1878–1957), Australia – stitchless call the tune, Press stud
• Philo Farnsworth (1906–1971), U.S.

  – electronic television

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

  – better 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), compacted with Daniel Hillis
• Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932), Canada – two-way radio
• Robert Feulgen (1884–1955), Germany – Feulgen take care of (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 windowpane, 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 conform to Hans Tropsch (1889–1935), Germany – Fischer–Tropsch process (refinery process)
• Gerhard Chemist (1899–1988), Germany/U.S.

  – hand-held mixture 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 – Public Standard Time
• Nicolas Florine (1891–1972), Georgia/Russia/Belgium – first tandem rotorhelicopter tutorial 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 delicatessens 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 notion 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.

  – character pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, depiction glass harmonica

• Herman Frasch (1851–1914), Frg / U.S. – Frasch proceeding (petrochemistry), Paraffin wax purification
• Ian Bully Frazer (born 1953), together shrink 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 selfsupported a "frizzler" which fried penurious hardening.^[4]
• Ida Freund (1863–1914), UK – gas measuring tube, periodic spread 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 bother Russia
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), Russia – radial keratotomy
• Vladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966), State – Fedorov Avtomat (first autoloading battle rifle, arguably the cheeriness assault rifle)

G

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

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

• Alfred William Gallagher (1911–1990), New Zealand – Go-ahead 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, have control over successful machine gun
• Georgy Gause (1910–1986), Russia – gramicidin S, antiseptic, lincomycin and other antibiotics
• E.

  Minor. Gauzen, Russia – three historical quarrel equipment (early diving costume)

• Norman Gaylord (1923–2007), U.S. – rigid gas-permeable contact lens
• Karl-Hermann Geib (1908–1949), Frg / USSR – Girdler compound process
• King Camp Gillette (1855-1932), U.S. – Double-edge safety razor take blade
• Hans Wilhelm Geiger (1882–1945), Frg – 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), spell with Gerd Binnig (1947–), Germany/U.S./Switzerland – Atomic force microscope
• Friedrich Writer Gerke (1801–1888), Germany – spring 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 field (histology)
• Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austria – Giesl ejector
• Henri Giffard (1825–1882), Writer – powered airship, injector
• David Record. Gingery (1932–2004), USA
• Donald A. Glaser (1926–2013), U.S.

  – Bubble chamber

• Joseph Glass (1791–1867), England – chimney-sweeping apparatus
• Valentyn Glushko (1908–1989), Russia – hypergolic propellant, electric propulsion, Council rocket engines (including world's overbearing 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.

  – fluid fuel rocket

• Sam Golden (1915–1997), total with Leonard Bocour (1910–1993), U.S. – Acrylic paint
• Peter Carl Artificer (1906–1977), Hungary – vinyl inscribe (LP), CBS color television
• Camillo Histologist (1843–1926), Italy – Golgi's machinate (histology)
• György Gömöri (1904–1957), Hungary Track record U.S.

  – Gömöri trichrome retain, Gömöri methenamine silver stain (histology)

• Lewis Gompertz (c. 1783–1861), UK – dilating chuck, improved velocipede
• Sarah E. Goode (1855–1905), US – cabinet untold. First African-American woman to obtain a United States patent.
• Charles Discoverer (1800–1860), U.S.

  – vulcanization cosy up 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 al 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 – have a hand in joint support for patients pertain to rheumatoid arthritis
• Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938), Denmark / Germany – g staining (histology)
• Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), Belgium/France – Gramme dynamo
• Temple Grandin (born 1947), squeeze machine and eleemosynary abattoirs
• Michael Grätzel (born 1944), Germany/Switzerland – Dye-sensitized solar cell
• James Chemist Greathead (1844–1896), South Africa – tunnel boring machine, tunnelling bulwark technique
• Chester Greenwood (1858–1937), U.S.

  – thermal earmuffs

• Lori Greiner (born 1969), U.S. – Silver Safekeeper anti-tarnish lining (jewelry organizers) and many consumer products, 120 US skull foreign patents
• James Gregory (1638–1675), Scotland – Gregorian telescope
• William Griggs (1832–1911), England – a process preceding photolithography
• Helmut Gröttrup (1916–1981), Germany – smart card, systems for invoice processing
• William Robert Grove (1811–1896), Cambria – fuel cell
• Gustav Guanella (1909–1982), Switzerland – DSSS, Guanella-Balun
• Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), Germany – region pump, manometer, dasymeter
• Sarah Guppy (1770 - 1852), United Kingdom - bridge/railroad building, tea and seed urn, barnacle prevention for boats, long lasting candlestick
• Mikhail Gurevich (1893–1976), Russia – MiG-series fighter degree, 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 design printing press

• Samuel Guthrie (physician) (1782–1848), U.S. – discovered chloroform

H

• Fritz Chemist (1868–1934), Germany – Haber figure (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 sanction recycling of water in splendid ship's steam engine
• Tracy Hall (1919–2008), U.S. – synthetic diamond
• Nicholas Halse (died 1636), England – milkshake 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 Patsy Harris (1791–1867), UK – disproportionate improved naval Lightning rods
• John Player (1693–1776), UK – marine chronometer
• Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959), U.S.

  – first successful animal Tissue civility, Cell culture

• Kazuo Hashimoto (died 1995), Japan – Caller-ID, answering machine
• Victor Hasselblad (1906–1978), Sweden – dignity 6 x 6 cm single-lens mechanical camera
• Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965–1039), Irak – camera obscura, pinhole camera, magnifying glass
• George H.

  Heilmeier (1936–2014), U.S. – liquid crystal bighead (LCD)

• Henry Heimlich (1920–2016), U.S. – Heimlich maneuver
• Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), U.S. – waterbed
• Jozef Karol Gehenna (1713–1789), Slovakia – the o pillar
• Rudolf Hell (1901–2002), Germany – the Hellschreiber
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Germany – Helmholtz pitch characters, Helmholtz resonator, ophthalmoscope
• Zhang Heng (78–139), China – Seismometer, first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere
• Beulah Louise Henry (1887–1973), U.S.

  – bobbin-free sewing instrument, vacuum ice cream freezer

• Charles Pirouette. 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 out-and-out the aeolipile, although it hawthorn have been described a hundred earlier

• John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer
• Harry Virtuoso (1874–1926) U.S. – flight regarding 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 Proportion Hickman (1932–2011), U.S.

  – organized the original Lotus Elan, rectitude Lotus Elan +2 and honourableness Lotus Europa, as well brand the Black & Decker Workmate

• Rowland Hill (1795–1879), UK – car 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), Frg – aspirin
• Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Suisse – LSD
• Kotaro Honda (1870–1954), Nippon – KS steel
• Huang Hongjia (1924–2021), China – single-mode optical fiber
• Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), U.S. – tape data on a machine-readable average, tabulator, punched cards
• Nick Holonyak (1928–2022), U.S.

  – LED (Light Running Diode)

• Norman Holter (1914–1983), U.S. – Holter monitor
• Robert Hooke (1635–1703), UK – balance wheel, iris pessary, acoustic telephone
• Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926), U.S. – computerized ring switching system
• Harold Hopkins (1918–1994), UK – zoom lens, rod looking-glass endoscope
• Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992), U.S.

  – compiler

• Frank Hornby (1863–1936), UK – invented Meccano
• Jimmy Hotz (1953–2023), U.S. – Hotz MIDI Metaphrast, Atari Hotz Box
• Royal Earl Semidetached (1814–1895), U.S. – first Copy 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 – produce 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 accuse Armor, Ursus suit, Firepaste, Ideal 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

I

J

• Moritz von Mathematician (1801–1874), Germany/Russia – electrotyping, exciting 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), section 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 pathology 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 Mack computer, iPod, iPhone, iPad beam other devices, software operating systems and applications.
• Amos Edward Joel Jr.

  (1918–2008) U.S. – electrical architect, known for several contributions increase in intensity over seventy patents related ensue 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 Joyful (1809–1884), Germany – Jolly balance
• Scott A. Jones (born 1960), U.S. – created one of magnanimity most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Give something the onceover, a human-assisted internetsearch engine
• Tom Lick Jones (1935–2013), UK – be in first place electronic Breathalyzer
• Assen Jordanoff (1896–1967), Bulgaria – airbag
• Anatol Josepho (1894–1980), patented the first coin-operated photo kiosk called the "Photomaton" in 1925
• Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), U.S.

  – Castiron wave machine

• Whitcomb Judson (1836–1909), U.S. – zipper
• Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), U.S. – chemical synthesis holdup medicinal drugs from plants
• Ma Jun (fl. 220–265), China – south-pointing chariot (see differential gear), machinedriven puppettheater, chain pumps, improved silklooms

K

• 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.

  – World wide web Protocol (TCP/IP)

• Dawon Kahng (1931–1992), Southern Korea, together with Simon Sze (1936–2023), Taiwan/U.S. – Floating-gate MOSFET
• Dean Kamen (born 1951), U.S. – Invented the Segway HT motorboat 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), Empire – first ultrastrong magnetic ideology 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 international 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 observe continuous track), dual-clutch transmission
• Carl Run. Keith (1920–2008), together with Crapper J.

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

• Mstislav Keldysh (1911–1978), Latvia/Russia – co-developer be a witness Sputnik 1 (the first simulated satellite) together with Korolyov soar Tikhonravov
• John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943), cornflake breakfasts
• John G. Kemeny (1926–1992), advance with Thomas E.

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

• Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921–2003), Armenia/Russia/USSR – cardinal space exploration rover (Lunokhod)
• Mary Kenner (1912–2006), U.S. – sanitary belt
• William Saville-Kent (1845–1908), UK/Australia – Gem culture, see also Mikimoto Kōkichi
• Kerim Kerimov (1917–2003), Azerbaijan and Empire – co-developer of human voyage, space dock, space station
• Jacques wittiness Kervor (1928–2010), France – industrialised designer
• Charles F.

  Kettering (1876–1958), U.S. – invented automobile self-starter disclose, Freonethyl gasoline and more

• Fazlur Caravansary (1929–1982), Bangladesh – structural systems for high-rise skyscrapers
• Yulii Khariton (1904–1996), Russia – chief designer appreciated 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 tool, horary quadrant, Sine quadrant, dusk square
• Johann Kiefuss – inventor conduct yourself Nuremberg in 1517
• Marcel Kiepach (1894–1915), Croatia – dynamo, maritime circle that indicates north regardless invoke the presence of iron defeat magnetic forces
• Mary Dixon Kies (1752-1837), U.S.

  - new technique method weaving straw with silk bear 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 stated doubtful the distillation of wine small fry the 9th century, cryptanalysis, currency analysis
• Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), High-mindedness 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, harbinger to polyvinyl chloride
• Yves Klein (1928–1962), France – International Klein Blue
• Margaret E. Knight (1838–1914), U.S. – machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags
• Tom Knight (?), U.S. – BioBricks (synthetic biology)
• Ivan Knunyants (1906–1990), Armenia/Russia/USSR – State chemical weapons, capron, Nylon 6, polyamide-6
• Robert Koch (1843–1910), Germany – method for culturing bacteria link 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), State – device for measuring trip speed of projectiles, ballistic soar 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 synthetic satellite), Vostok program (including loftiness 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 average tank, the best and chief produced tank of World Fighting II^[6]
• Ognjeslav Kostović (1851–1916), Serbia/Russia – arborite (high-strength plywood, an inauspicious 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, clean glass-bottom boat, the skis take possession of use in walking on o a folding canvas catamaran
• Aleksey Krylov (1863–1945), Russia – gyroscopicdamping hill ships
• Ivan Kulibin (1735–1818), Russia – egg-shaped clock, candlesearchlight, elevator drink screw mechanisms, a self-rolling carriage featuring a flywheel, brake, cog-wheel box, and bearing, an untimely optical telegraph
• Shen Kuo (1031–1095), Crockery – improved gnomon, armillary grass, clepsydra, and sighting tube
• Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960), Russia – Soviet initesimal bomb, first nuclear power vegetable, first nuclear reactors for submarines and surface ships
• Thomas E.

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

• Raymond Kurzweil (born 1948), Optical character recognition; flat scanner
• Ken Kutaragi (born 1950), Gild – PlayStation
• Stephanie Kwolek (1923–2014), U.S. – Kevlar
• John Howard Kyan (1774–1850), Ireland – process of Kyanization used for wood preservation

L

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

  – multiple billow oscillator

• Simon S. Lam (born 1947) U.S. – Secure Sockets contrived in 1991 for securing Www applications (World Wide Web, telecommunicate, etc.)
• Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), Austria folk tale 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. – bombast 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 channel Laval (1845–1913), Sweden – concocted the milk separator and ethics milking machine
• Semyon Lavochkin (1900–1960), Empire – La-series aircraft, first effective surface-to-air missileS-25 Berkut
• John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900), UK – superphosphate finish chemical fertilizer
• Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958), U.S.

  – Cyclotron

• Nikolai Lebedenko, Country – Tsar Tank, largest armoured vehicle in history
• Sergei Lebedev (1874–1934), Russia – commercially viable counterfeit rubber
• William Lee (1563–1614), UK – Stocking frameknitting machine
• Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951), U.S. – construction techniques unreceptive to single-handedly lift massive maroon blocks in the creation attack his Coral Castle
• Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), The Netherlands – get out of bed of the microscope
• Jerome H.

  Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions loaded the fields in which good taste patented make possible, wholly foregoing in part, innovations like machine-controlled warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape propel used in Sony's Walkman strip 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, drive scraper, mobile oil drilling stage, bulldozer, cable control unit divulge scrapers

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

  – Chinese language typewriter

• Charles Airman (1902–1974), U.S. – organ perfusion pump
• Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862–1931), Sverige – Kerosene stove operated wishy-washy compressed air
• Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), Sverige – formal Binomial nomenclature concerning living organisms, Horologium Florae
• Hans Lippershey (1570–1619), The Netherlands – corresponding with the appearance of leadership telescope
• Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921), France – Lippmann plate, Elementary imaging, Lippmann electrometer
• Lisitsyn brothers, Ivan Fyodorovich and Nazar Fyodorovich, Empire – samovar (the first trustworthy 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 thread, incandescent light bulb with metal filament
• Louis Lombard-Gérin (1848–1918), France – trolleybus
• Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russia – night vision telescope, off-axis measures telescope, coaxial rotor, re-invented smalt
• Yury Lomonosov (1876–1952), Russia/UK – precede successful mainline diesel locomotive
• Aleksandr Loran (1849 – after 1911), State – fire fighting foam, bubbles extinguisher
• Oleg Losev (1903–1942), Russia – light-emitting diode, crystadine
• Antoine Louis (1723–1792), France – Guillotine
• Archibald Low (1882–1956), UK – pioneer of ghetto-blaster guidance systems
• Ed Lowe (1920–1995), U.S.

  – Cat litter

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

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

• Arkhip Lyulka (1908–1984), Ussr – first double jet fanjet engine, other Soviet aircraft engines

M

• 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 pointer others
• Aleksandr Makarov (born 1966), Russia/Germany – Orbitrapmass spectrometer
• Stepan Makarov (1849–1904), Russia – Icebreaker Yermak, chief true icebreaker able to drive over and crush pack ice
• Victor Makeev (1924–1985), Russia – gain victory 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.

  – Assembly for African American women

• Sergey Malyutin (1859–1937), Russia – designed loftiness first matryoshka doll (together absorb Vasily Zvyozdochkin)
• Boris Mamyrin (1919–2007), Country – reflectron (ion mirror)
• George William Manby (1765–1854), UK – Eagerness extinguisher
• Harry Mendell, U.S.

  – concocted the first digital samplingsynthesizer

• Joy Mangano (born 1956), U.S. – residence appliances
• Anna Mangin (1844–1931) – Indweller 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 – premier science films in the earth in the neurology clinic profit 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 – mist turbine, six-cylinder 'Monobloc' suctionpump, obstinate sextant
• Alex Mashinsky (born 1965), U.S. – VoIP
• John Landis Mason (1826–1902), U.S.

  – Mason jars

• Fujio Masuoka (born 1943), Japan – Inquisitive memory
• John W. Mauchly (1907–1980), U.S. – ENIAC – the foremost general purpose programmable digital computer
• Henry Maudslay (1771–1831), UK – screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer
• Hiram Maxim (1840–1916), U.S. born, UK – pass with flying colours 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 – wagerer "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 cap prominent for an automatic cooling system for long-haul trucks
• James McLurkin (born 1972), U.S.

  – Out of place 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 from end to end 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 filling thrust bearing, crankless engine
• Artem Mikoyan (1905–1970), Armenia/Russia/USSR – MiG-series plane 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 bomb engines, co-developer of the f 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 stopper and closing elevator doors

• David Kudos. 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), Land – Radiosonde
• Jules Montenier (1895–1962), U.S.

  – Anti-perspirant deodorant

• Montgolfier brothers (1740–1810) and (1745–1799), France – exertion 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 Enumerate.

  Mooney (1930–2020), together with Carl D. Keith (1920–2008), U.S. – three way catalytic converter

• Roland Moreno (1945–2012), France – inventor obey 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 prickly history), co-developer of T-34
• Walter Town Morrison (1920–2010), U.S.

  – Fugacious disc

• William Morrison (dentist) (1860–1926), U.S. – Cotton candy machine
• Samuel Discoverer (1791–1872), U.S. – early Inventor code, see also Morse Jurisprudence controversy
• Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849–1902), State – Mosin–Nagant rifle
• Motorins, Ivan Feodorovich (1660s–1735) and his son Mikhail Ivanovich (?–1750), Russia – Despot Bell
• Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), Russia – welded sculpture
• Kary Mullis (1944–2019), U.S.

  – PCR

• Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – medical incubator appreciative out of bamboo for gum in rural communities without authorities power
• Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Island – 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 – Effective synthesizer
• Banū Mūsā brothers, Muhammad (c.

  800–873), Ahmad (803–873), Al-Hasan (810–873), Iraq – mechanical trick accoutrements, hurricane lamp, self-trimming and self-feeding lamp, gas mask, clamshell pluck, fail-safe system, mechanical musical contrivance, automatic flute player

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

  – Harmonic drive gear

• Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), UK – motion picture
• Ted Myerson (born 1975), U.S. – document cloud computing system patents

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

  – invented basketball and Dweller football helmet

• Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born 1928), Japan – "PyonPyon" spring wince, digital watch, CinemaScope, armchair "Cerebrex", sauce pump, taxicab meter
• Shuji Nakamura (born 1954), Japan – Gaudy laser
• John Napier (1550–1617), Scotland – logarithms
• Andrey Nartov (1683–1756), Russia – first lathe with a artisan cutting tool-supporting carriage and out set of gears, fast-fire big guns on a rotating disc, wrest distress mechanism for changing the gun fire angle, gauge–boring lathe arrangement cannon-making, early telescopic sight
• James Nasmyth (1808–1890), Scotland – steam hammer
• Giulio Natta (1903–1979), together with