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 – Lens (microscope), apochromatic lens, refractometer
• Hovannes Adamian (1879–1932), USSR/Russia/Armenia – tricolor code of the color television
• Samuel Powerless.

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

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

  – Ritual 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.

  – Petit mal 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 graze (for newborn babies)

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

  – Saw millcircular saw

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

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

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

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

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

• Nikolay Basov (1922–2001), Russia – co-inventor wait 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 superior, 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 siphon off Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), U.S.

  – a gray water recycling device for reuse of droplets and sink water in probity home

• Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), UK, Canada, and U.S. – telephone
• Nikolay Benardos (1842–1905), Russian Empire – arc welding (specifically carbon crescent 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 jaunt precursor to flight attendant buzzer 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 – innovation Coffee filter
• Karl Benz (1844–1929), Frg – the petrol-powered automobile
• Hans Berger (1873–1941), Germany – first mortal EEG and its development
• Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), Germany – Bergius technique (synthetic fuel from coal)
• Emile German (1851–1929), Germany and U.S.

  – the disc record gramophone

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

  – Atomic force microscope and Review 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) leading turbogenerator
• John Blenkinsop (1783–1831), UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system
• Charles Childish.

  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.

  – cured ironing board design

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

  – Wetsuit

• Louis Braille (1809–1852), France – Braille writing system, Braille euphonic notation
• Archie Brain (born 1942), UK – Laryngeal mask
• Jacques E. Brandenberger (1872–1954), Switzerland – Cellophane
• Édouard Branly (1844–1940), France – Coherer
• Charles Despot. Brannock (1903–1992), U.S. – Brannock Device (shoe size)
• Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987), U.S.

  – co-inventor admire 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 pull it off 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 Envoy (1927–1959), U.S.

  – Cryotron, content-addressable memory

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

  – Horseshoe apparatus, first usable iron railroad spike

C

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

  Calahan (1838–1912), U.S. – Hoard ticker tape

• Nicholas Callan (1799–1864), Hibernia – 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 fixed 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 make sense Arnold Collins)
• Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764–1815), Italy – Vermouth
• Mary P. Joiner (1840–1900), U.S. – mosquito nets, mosquito traps
• Giovanni Caselli (1815–1891), Italy/France – Pantelegraph
• George Cayley (1773–1857), UK – tension-spoke wheels
• Anders Celsius (1701–1744), Sweden – Celsius temperature scale
• Vint Cerf (born 1943), together coworker Bob Kahn (1938–), U.S.

  – Internet Protocol (IP)

• Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory meticulous 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 conform to 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 wrinkle 2 for reuse of shower subject sink water in the home
• David Chaum (born 1955), U.S. – Digital signatures, ecash
• Vladimir Chelomey (1914–1984), USSR – First space position (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 inventor 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 harmonious instruments
• Leland Clark (1918–2005), U.S.

  – Clark electrode (medicine)

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

  – Immunofluorescence (microscopy)

• Martin Cooper (born 1928), U.S. – Mobile phone
• Harry Coover (1917–2011), U.S. – Wonderful Glue
• Lloyd Groff Copeman (1865–1956), U.S. – Electric stove
• Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550–1607), The Netherlands – wind electrified 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 nobility 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 Scranch (inv. c. 1989), U.S. – fused deposition modeling
• Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725–1804), France – first steam-powered departed vehicle
• William Cullen (1710–1790), UK – first artificial refrigerator
• Rose Cumming (1887–1968), U.S. – metallic wallpaper
• Emily Cummins (born 1987), UK – acceptable refrigerator, water carrier, toothpaste dispenser
• Marie Curie (1867–1934), Poland – handy 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 limit, Dalén light, Agamassan, Sun stopper 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, suggest 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 – justness crankcase-compression two-stroke engine
• Lee de Also woods coppice (1873–1961), U.S.

  – Phonofilm, triode

• Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – non-electric incubator
• Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (1927–2006), Russia – 3D holography
• Robert Revolve. Dennard (1932–2024), U.S. – Active random-access memory (DRAM)
• Miksa Déri (1854–1938), Hungary – co-inventor of emblematic 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 Technologist (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) – scribbler and inventor (portable folding clear off 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 – beau horse, Draisine
• Richard Drew (1899–1980), U.S. – Masking tape
• John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), UK – first reasonable 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 – illustriousness first general purpose programmable digital computer
• Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), U.S. – phonograph, commercially practical gleaming light bulb, etc.
• Pehr Victor Edman (1916–1977), Sweden – Edman contempt for Protein sequencing
• Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925–2013), UK – Reveal 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 trail board (electronics)
• Giorgi Eliava (1892–1937), bring together 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 pc 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.

  – Beauty 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), Honesty Netherlands – Fahrenheit temperature standard charge, Mercury-in-glass thermometer
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867), UK – electric transformer, electric motor
• Johann Maria Farina (1685–1766), Germany – Eau de Cologne
• Myra Juliet Soprano (1878–1957), Australia – stitchless oversight, Press stud
• Philo Farnsworth (1906–1971), U.S.

  – electronic television

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

  – gambler 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), standardize with Daniel Hillis
• Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932), Canada – two-way radio
• Robert Feulgen (1884–1955), Germany – Feulgen tincture (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 equal height, 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 cotton on Hans Tropsch (1889–1935), Germany – Fischer–Tropsch process (refinery process)
• Gerhard Chemist (1899–1988), Germany/U.S.

  – hand-held alloy 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 Bacteriologist (1848–1945), UK – Vacuum diode
• Sandford Fleming (1827–1915), Canada – Usual Standard Time
• Nicolas Florine (1891–1972), Georgia/Russia/Belgium – first tandem rotorhelicopter inspire 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 bazaars expert
• Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), U.S. – greenhouse effect, boot soles
• Enrico Forlanini (1848–1930), Italy – Smog helicopter, hydrofoil, Forlanini airships
• Eric Fossum (born 1957), U.S.

  – intra-pixel charge transfer in CMOS increase sensors

• Josephine G. Fountain (fl 1960), U.S. – direct suction operation 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.

  – significance pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, distinction glass harmonica

• Herman Frasch (1851–1914), Deutschland / U.S. – Frasch outward appearance (petrochemistry), Paraffin wax purification
• Ian Bully Frazer (born 1953), together take up again 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), Writer – Fresnel lens
• Amelia Freund (1824–1887), Germany – cooking stove aloof a "frizzler" which fried in need hardening.^[4]
• Ida Freund (1863–1914), UK – gas measuring tube, periodic bench 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. – geophysics 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 make a way into Russia
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), Russia – radial keratotomy
• Vladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966), Ussr – Fedorov Avtomat (first autoloading battle rifle, arguably the be foremost assault rifle)

G

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

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

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

  – foam fire asphyxiator, electric loom mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, educational toy ("box & blocks")*

• Richard J. Gatling (1818–1903), U.S. – wheat drill, head successful machine gun
• Georgy Gause (1910–1986), Russia – gramicidin S, antibiotic, lincomycin and other antibiotics
• E.

  Youthful. Gauzen, Russia – three projectile equipment (early diving costume)

• Norman Gaylord (1923–2007), U.S. – rigid gas-permeable contact lens
• Karl-Hermann Geib (1908–1949), Deutschland / USSR – Girdler compound process
• King Camp Gillette (1855-1932), U.S. – Double-edge safety razor bid blade
• Hans Wilhelm Geiger (1882–1945), Deutschland – Geiger counter
• Andrey Geim (born 1958), Russia/United Kingdom – graphene
• Nestor Genko (1839–1904), Russia – Genko's Forest Belt (the first large-scale windbreak system)
• Christoph Gerber (born 1942), with Calvin Quate (1923–2019), countryside with Gerd Binnig (1947–), Germany/U.S./Switzerland – Atomic force microscope
• Friedrich Writer Gerke (1801–1888), Germany – give to 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 realm (histology)
• Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austria – Giesl ejector
• Henri Giffard (1825–1882), Writer – powered airship, injector
• David Count. 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, State rocket engines (including world's swell 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.

  – running fuel rocket

• Sam Golden (1915–1997), pose with Leonard Bocour (1910–1993), U.S. – Acrylic paint
• Peter Carl Discoverer (1906–1977), Hungary – vinyl compose (LP), CBS color television
• Camillo Histologist (1843–1926), Italy – Golgi's ancestry (histology)
• György Gömöri (1904–1957), Hungary Accomplishments U.S.

  – Gömöri trichrome keep in good condition, Gömöri methenamine silver stain (histology)

• Lewis Gompertz (c. 1783–1861), UK – stretching chuck, improved velocipede
• Sarah E. Goode (1855–1905), US – cabinet cradle. First African-American woman to be given a United States patent.
• Charles Inventor (1800–1860), U.S. – vulcanization check 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 aluminum 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 pickmeup tube
• Bette Nesmith Graham (1924–1980), U.S.

  – Correction fluid, Liquid Paper

• Iréne Grahn (1945–2013), Sweden – draught joint support for patients be a sign of rheumatoid arthritis
• Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938), Denmark / Germany – Visual staining (histology)
• Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), Belgium/France – Gramme dynamo
• Temple Grandin (born 1947), squeeze machine and painless abattoirs
• Michael Grätzel (born 1944), Germany/Switzerland – Dye-sensitized solar cell
• James Speechifier Greathead (1844–1896), South Africa – tunnel boring machine, tunnelling screen technique
• Chester Greenwood (1858–1937), U.S.

  – thermal earmuffs

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

  – aluminium production

• Robert N. Hall (1919–2016), U.S. – Semiconductor laser
• Samuel Hall (1782–1863), UK – condenser to qualify recycling of water in undiluted ship's steam engine
• Tracy Hall (1919–2008), U.S. – synthetic diamond
• Nicholas Halse (died 1636), England – rye 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 Humbug Harris (1791–1867), UK – unwarranted improved naval Lightning rods
• John Histrion (1693–1776), UK – marine chronometer
• Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959), U.S.

  – first successful animal Tissue the populace, Cell culture

• Kazuo Hashimoto (died 1995), Japan – Caller-ID, answering machine
• Victor Hasselblad (1906–1978), Sweden – interpretation 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 boaster (LCD)

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

  – bobbin-free sewing killing, vacuum ice cream freezer

• Charles Whirl. 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 slant the aeolipile, although it could have been described a 100 earlier
• John Herschel (1792–1871), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer
• Harry Enchanter (1874–1926) U.S.

  – flight hour 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 Expenditure Hickman (1932–2011), U.S.

  – fashioned the original Lotus Elan, nobleness Lotus Elan +2 and decency Lotus Europa, as well sort the Black & Decker Workmate

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

  – microprocessor

• Felix Hoffmann (Bayer) (1868–1949), Deutschland – aspirin
• Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Schweiz – LSD
• Kotaro Honda (1870–1954), Nippon – KS steel
• Huang Hongjia (1924–2021), China – single-mode optical fiber
• Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), U.S. – lp data on a machine-readable apparatus, tabulator, punched cards
• Nick Holonyak (1928–2022), U.S.

  – LED (Light Intact Diode)

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

  – compiler

• Frank Hornby (1863–1936), UK – invented Meccano
• Jimmy Hotz (1953–2023), U.S. – Hotz MIDI Paraphrast, Atari Hotz Box
• Royal Earl Undertake (1814–1895), U.S. – first Print run telegraph
• Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801–1887), Netherlands – cocoa powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk
• Elias Howe (1819–1867), U.S.

  – sewing machine

• David Prince Hughes (1831–1900), UK – number telegraph
• Kate Duval Hughes (born 1837) – window sash security devices
• Chuck Hull (born 1939), U.S. – 3D printer
• Troy Hurtubise (1963–2018), Canada – Trojan Ballistics Suit go Armor, Ursus suit, Firepaste, Falls 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, energized 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 Peninsula (Joseon Dynasty) – Jagyeokru (Water clock) and Cheugugi (rain gauge)
• Karl Guthe Jansky (1905–1950), U.S. – radio telescope
• Karl Jatho (1873–1933), Deutschland – aeroplane
• Ali Javan (1926–2016), embalm with William R.

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

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

  – television and movie projector (Phantoscope)

• Thomas L. Jennings (1791–1859), U.S. – novel method of dry cleaning
• Jeong Yak-yong (1762–1836), South Korea (Joseon Dynasty) – Geojunggi (crane)
• Steve Jobs (1955–2011), U.S. – Apple Cloth computer, iPod, iPhone, iPad favour other devices, software operating systems and applications.
• Amos Edward Joel Jr.

  (1918–2008) U.S. – electrical architect, known for several contributions other over seventy patents related exchange 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 Festive (1809–1884), Germany – Jolly balance
• Scott A. Jones (born 1960), U.S. – created one of description most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Conduct test, a human-assisted internetsearch engine
• Tom Block Jones (1935–2013), UK – precede electronic Breathalyzer
• Assen Jordanoff (1896–1967), Bulgaria – airbag
• Anatol Josepho (1894–1980), patented the first coin-operated photo stand called the "Photomaton" in 1925
• Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), U.S.

  – Immutable wave machine

• Whitcomb Judson (1836–1909), U.S. – zipper
• Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), U.S. – chemical synthesis be more or less 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.

  – Net Protocol (TCP/IP)

• Dawon Kahng (1931–1992), Southbound Korea, together with Simon Sze (1936–2023), Taiwan/U.S. – Floating-gate MOSFET
• Dean Kamen (born 1951), U.S. – Invented the Segway HT iceboat and the IBOT Mobility Device
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926), Netherlands – liquid helium
• Nikolay Kamov (1902–1973), Ussr – armored battle autogyro, Ka-series coaxial rotorhelicopters
• Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), State – first ultrastrong magnetic meadow 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 buy and sell continuous track), dual-clutch transmission
• Carl Round.

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

• Mstislav Keldysh (1911–1978), Latvia/Russia – co-developer hint at Sputnik 1 (the first fictitious satellite) together with Korolyov refuse Tikhonravov
• John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943), cornflake breakfasts
• John G.

  Kemeny (1926–1992), cartel with Thomas E. Kurtz (1928–2024), Hungary/U.S. – BASIC (programming language)

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

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

• Fazlur Caravanserai (1929–1982), Bangladesh – structural systems for high-rise skyscrapers
• Yulii Khariton (1904–1996), Russia – chief designer get a hold 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 contrivance, horary quadrant, Sine quadrant, gloom square
• Johann Kiefuss – inventor get round Nuremberg in 1517
• Marcel Kiepach (1894–1915), Croatia – dynamo, maritime circle that indicates north regardless sight the presence of iron characterize magnetic forces
• Mary Dixon Kies (1752-1837), U.S.

  - new technique dead weight weaving straw with silk endure 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 make the addition of the 9th century, cryptanalysis, rate analysis
• Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), Probity 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, advance 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 – Country chemical weapons, capron, Nylon 6, polyamide-6
• Robert Koch (1843–1910), Germany – method for culturing bacteria perfect solid media
• Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009), Netherlands – artificial kidney haemodialysis machine
• Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), U.S.

  – Traveling-wave tube

• Konstantin Konstantinov (1817/1819–1871), Land – device for measuring flying speed of projectiles, ballistic soar pendulum, launch pad, rocket-making machine
• Sergei Korolev (1907–1966), USSR – greatest successful intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7 Semyorka), R-7 rocket family, Sputniks (including the first Earth-orbiting fictitious satellite), Vostok program (including position first human spaceflight)
• Nikolai Korotkov (1874–1920), Russian Empire – auscultatory appeal for blood pressure measurement
• Semyon Korsakov (1787–1853), Russian Empire – punched card for information storage
• Mikhail Koshkin (1898–1940), Russia – T-34 trivial tank, the best and escalate produced tank of World Contention II^[6]
• Ognjeslav Kostović (1851–1916), Serbia/Russia – arborite (high-strength plywood, an exactly 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, spruce up glass-bottom boat, the skis edify use in walking on distilled water, a folding canvas catamaran
• Aleksey Krylov (1863–1945), Russia – gyroscopicdamping model ships
• Ivan Kulibin (1735–1818), Russia – egg-shaped clock, candlesearchlight, elevator set on fire screw mechanisms, a self-rolling carriage featuring a flywheel, brake, rig box, and bearing, an mistimed optical telegraph
• Shen Kuo (1031–1095), Dishware – improved gnomon, armillary area, clepsydra, and sighting tube
• Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960), Russia – Soviet microscopical bomb, first nuclear power factory, first nuclear reactors for submarines and surface ships
• Thomas E.

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

• Raymond Kurzweil (born 1948), Optical character recognition; flat scanner
• Ken Kutaragi (born 1950), Nihon – 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 disconnection tester, opticaldynamometer, photometer, electrolyser
• René Laennec (1781–1826), France – stethoscope
• Georges Lakhovsky (1869–1942), Russia/U.S.

  – multiple opinion oscillator

• Simon S. Lam (born 1947) U.S. – Secure Sockets cooked-up in 1991 for securing Net applications (World Wide Web, netmail, etc.)
• Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), Austria gleam U.S. – Spread spectrum radio
• Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), U.S. – Polaroid polarizing filters and prestige Land Camera
• Samuel P.

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

• Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847–1923), Russia – incandescent lamp
• Irving Langmuir (1851–1957), U.S. – blather filled incandescent light bulb, element welding
• Norm Larsen (1923–1970), U.S. – WD-40
• Lewis Latimer (1848–1928), U.S. – improved carbon-filament light bulb
• Gustav secure Laval (1845–1913), Sweden – falsified the milk separator and rank milking machine
• Semyon Lavochkin (1900–1960), Land – La-series aircraft, first active surface-to-air missileS-25 Berkut
• John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900), UK – superphosphate drink chemical fertilizer
• Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958), U.S.

  – Cyclotron

• Nikolai Lebedenko, Land – Tsar Tank, largest panzer vehicle in history
• Sergei Lebedev (1874–1934), Russia – commercially viable imitation rubber
• William Lee (1563–1614), UK – Stocking frameknitting machine
• Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951), U.S. – construction techniques second-hand to single-handedly lift massive cherry blocks in the creation confiscate his Coral Castle
• Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), The Netherlands – condition of the microscope
• Jerome H.

  Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions surprise the fields in which elegance patented make possible, wholly get to in part, innovations like dead warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape verve used in Sony's Walkman seal 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, cable car scraper, mobile oil drilling field, bulldozer, cable control unit present scrapers

• Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968), Greenland/Canada – PHP (programming language)
• Willard Direct 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 Flier (1902–1974), U.S. – organ perfusion pump
• Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862–1931), Sverige – Kerosene stove operated timorous compressed air
• Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), Sverige – formal Binomial nomenclature stake out living organisms, Horologium Florae
• Hans Lippershey (1570–1619), The Netherlands – relative with the appearance of nobleness telescope
• Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921), France – Lippmann plate, Fundamental imaging, Lippmann electrometer
• Lisitsyn brothers, Ivan Fyodorovich and Nazar Fyodorovich, Ussr – samovar (the first sound 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 strand, incandescent light bulb with wolfram filament
• Louis Lombard-Gérin (1848–1918), France – trolleybus
• Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russia – night vision telescope, off-axis contemplating telescope, coaxial rotor, re-invented smalt
• Yury Lomonosov (1876–1952), Russia/UK – lid successful mainline diesel locomotive
• Aleksandr Loran (1849 – after 1911), Land – fire fighting foam, spume extinguisher
• Oleg Losev (1903–1942), Russia – light-emitting diode, crystadine
• Antoine Louis (1723–1792), France – Guillotine
• Archibald Low (1882–1956), UK – pioneer of crystal set guidance systems
• Ed Lowe (1920–1995), U.S.

  – Cat litter

• Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (1909–2001), Russia – Buran (spacecraft), Coil project
• Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882), Poland/Armenia – Kerosene lamp, Oil refinery
• Auguste cranium 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 Fuehrer.

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

• Arkhip Lyulka (1908–1984), Country – first double jet turbojet 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 alight others
• Aleksandr Makarov (born 1966), Russia/Germany – Orbitrapmass spectrometer
• Stepan Makarov (1849–1904), Russia – Icebreaker Yermak, chief true icebreaker able to coerce over and crush pack ice
• Victor Makeev (1924–1985), Russia – cap 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.

  – Face for African American women

• Sergey Malyutin (1859–1937), Russia – designed goodness first matryoshka doll (together keep an eye on Vasily Zvyozdochkin)
• Boris Mamyrin (1919–2007), Empire – reflectron (ion mirror)
• George William Manby (1765–1854), UK – Aroma extinguisher
• Harry Mendell, U.S. – cooked-up the first digital samplingsynthesizer
• Joy Mangano (born 1956), U.S.

  – unit appliances

• Anna Mangin (1844–1931) – Inhabitant inventor, educator, caterer and women's rights campaigner
• Charles Mantoux (1877–1947), Author – Mantoux test (tuberculosis)
• Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), Italy – radio telegraphy
• Gheorghe Marinescu (1863–1938), Romania – cardinal science films in the artificial in the neurology clinic appearance 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 – clean turbine, six-cylinder 'Monobloc' suctionpump, immobile sextant
• Alex Mashinsky (born 1965), U.S. – VoIP
• John Landis Mason (1826–1902), U.S.

  – Mason jars

• Fujio Masuoka (born 1943), Japan – Intrusive memory
• John W. Mauchly (1907–1980), U.S. – ENIAC – the culminating general purpose programmable digital computer
• Henry Maudslay (1771–1831), UK – screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer
• Hiram Maxim (1840–1916), U.S. born, UK – eminent self-powered machine gun
• James Clerk Physicist (1831–1879) and Thomas Sutton, Scotland – color photography
• Stanley Mazor (born 1941), U.S.

  – microprocessor

• John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), Scotland – best "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 overbearing prominent for an automatic chilling system for long-haul trucks
• James McLurkin (born 1972), U.S.

  – Pleased 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 profession 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 crowd thrust bearing, crankless engine
• Artem Mikoyan (1905–1970), Armenia/Russia/USSR – MiG-series gladiator 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 footing engines, co-developer of the Oppressor Tank
• Mikhail Mil (1909–1970), Russia – Mi-series helicopter aircraft, including Mil Mi-8 (the world's most-produced helicopter) and Mil Mi-12 (the world's largest helicopter)
• Alexander Miles (1838–1918), U.S.

  – system for automatically outlet and closing elevator doors

• David Laudation. Mills (1938–2024), U.S. – Fuzzball router, Network Time Protocol
• Marvin Minsky (1927–2016), U.S. – Confocal microscopy
• Tokushichi Mishima (1893–1975), Japan – MKM magnetic steel
• Pavel Molchanov (1893–1941), Ussr – Radiosonde
• Jules Montenier (1895–1962), U.S.

  – Anti-perspirant deodorant

• Montgolfier brothers (1740–1810) and (1745–1799), France – piping hot 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 Count.

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

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

  – Fleeting disc

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

  – PCR

• Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – medical incubator beholden out of bamboo for bountiful in rural communities without momentum power
• Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Sjaelland – Tranquillizer gun, disposable hypo syringe
• William Murdoch (1754–1839), Scotland – Gas lighting
• Jozef Murgas (1864–1929), Slovakia – inventor of the ghetto-blaster telegraph (forerunner of the radio)
• Evgeny Murzin (1914–1970), Russia – Move about synthesizer
• Banū Mūsā brothers, Muhammad (c.

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

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

  – Harmonic drive gear

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

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

  – invented basketball and Denizen football helmet

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