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List of Inventors

List of Inventors

List of Inventors
Vitaly Mikhaylovich Abalakov, (1906-1986), Russia - camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread) gearless ice climbing anchor.
Hovannes Adamian, (1879-1932), Armenia/Russia - tricolor principle of the color television
Robert Adler, (1913-2007), Austria/United States - wireless remote control
Turhan Alelik (c. 2006), Turkey - non-glaring headlamp
Rostislav Alexeyev, (1916-1980) , Russia - Ekranoplan.
Mary Anderson, (1866-1953), United States - windshield wiper blade
Nicolas Appert, (1749-1841), France - canning (airtight food preservation)
Archimedes, (c. 287-212 BC), Greece - Archimedes' screw
Ami Argand, (1750-1803), France - Argand lamp
Edwin H. Armstrong, (1890-1954), U.S. - FM radio
William George Armstrong, (1810-1900), UK - hydraulic crane
Neil Arnott, (1788-1874), UK - waterbed
Lev Artsimovich, (1909-1973), Russia - Tokamak
Al-Ashraf, (fl. 1282-1296), Yemen - dry compass
Joseph Aspdin, (1788-1855), England - Portland cement
John Vincent Atanasoff, (1903-1995), United States - modern programmable computer
Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), UK - analytical engine (semi-automatic computer)
Roger Bacon, (1214-1292), England - magnifying glass
Leo Baekeland, (1863-1944), Belgian-American - Velox photographic paper and Bakelite
Ralph H. Baer, (1922-), German born American - video game console
Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, (1162-1231), Iraq/Egypt - ventilator
John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), Scotland - an electromechanical television
Ibn al-Baitar, (d. 1248), Islamic Spain - three hundred drugs and foods, cancer therapy, pharmacotherapy, Hindiba, pharmacopoeia
Abi Bakr of Isfahan, (c. 1235), Persia - mechanical geared astrolabe with lunisolar calendar analog computer
Donat Banki, (1859-1922), Hungary - inventor of the carburetor
John Bardeen, (1908-1991), U.S. - co-inventor of the transistor
Anthony R. Barringer Canadian - American - INPUT (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system
Earl W. Bascom, (1906-1995), Canada and United States - side-delivery rodeo chute, hornless rodeo saddle, rodeo bareback rigging, rodeo chaps
Ibn Bassal, (fl. 1038-1075), Islamic Spain - flywheel, flywheel-driven noria, flywheel-driven saqiya chain pump
Muhammad ibn Jbir al-Harrn al-Battn (Albatenius), (853-929), Syria/Turkey - observation tube
Eugen Baumann, (1846-1896), Germany - PVC
Trevor Baylis, (1937-), UK - a wind-up radio
Francis Beaufort, (1774-1857), France - Beaufort scale
Arnold O. Beckman, (1900-2004), U.S. - pH meter
Ulugh Beg, 1394-1449, |Persia - Fakhri sextant, mural sextant
Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Canada, Scotland, and U.S. - telephone
Karl Benz, (1844-1929), Germany - the petrol-powered automobile
Emile Berliner, (1851-1929), Germany and U.S. - the disc record gramophone
Tim Berners-Lee, (1955-), UK - with Robert Cailliau, the World Wide Web
Abu Mansoor Nizar al-Aziz Billah, (955-996), Egypt - airmail, homing pigeon
Bi Sheng (Chinese: ), (ca. 990-1051), China - clay movable type printing
Laszlo Biro, (1899-1985), Hungary - modern ballpoint pen
Clarence Birdseye, (1886-1956), U.S. - frozen food process
Ab Rayhn al-Brn, (973-1048), Persia - mechanical geared lunisolar calendar analog computer, fixed-wired knowledge processing machine, conical measure, laboratory flask, Orthographical astrolabe, hodometer, pycnometer
J. Stuart Blackton, (1875-1941), U.S. - stop-motion film
Otto Blathy (1860-1939), Hungary - co-inventor of the transformer, wattmeter, alternating current (AC) and turbogenerator
Katharine B. Blodgett, (1898-1979), UK - nonreflective glass
Nils Bohlin, (1920-2002), Sweden - the three-point seat belt
Joseph-Armand Bombardier, (1907-1964), Canada - snowmobile
Jagdish Chandra Bose, (1858 -1937), India - Crescograph
Robert W. Bower, (1936-), U.S. - self-aligned-gate MOSFET
Seth Boyden, (1788-1870), U.S. - nail-making machine
Walter Houser Brattain, (1902-1987), U.S. - co-inventor of the transistor
Louis Braille, (1809-1852), France - the Braille writing system
Karl Ferdinand Braun, (1850-1918), Germany - cathode-ray tube oscilloscope
Harry Brearley, (1871-1948), UK - stainless steel
Sergey Brin, (1973-), Russia/U.S. - with Larry Page invented Google web search engine
Rachel Fuller Brown, (1898-1980), U.S., Nystatin, the world's first antifungal antibiotic
John Moses Browning, (1855-1926), U.S. - automatic handgun
Maria Christina Bruhn, (1732-1802)
Edwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846), UK - lawnmower
Corliss Orville Burandt, U.S. - Variable valve timing
Robert Cailliau, (1947 -), Belgium - with Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
C`ai Lun, " (50 AD - 121), China - paper
Marvin Camras, (1916 - 1995), U.S. - magnetic recording
Chester Carlson, (1906 - 1968), U.S. - Xerography
Wallace Carothers, (1896 - 1937), U.S. - Nylon
Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, (fl. 1630-1632), long-distance flight, artificial wings
Lagari Hasan elebi, (fl. 1633-1640), Turkey - manned rocket, artificially-powered aircraft, rocket aircraft
Joseph Constantine Carpue, (1764 - 1846), France - rhinoplastic surgery
George Cayley, (1773 - 1857), (UK) - glider, tension-spoke wheels, Caterpillar track
Roxey Ann Caplin, (1793 - 1888) - Corsets
Adriano Cavalcanti, (1971 -), Australia - hardware architecture for nanorobots
Adrian Chernoff, (1971 -), U.S. - GM Autonomy, GM Hy-wire, Rubber Bandits
Evgeniy Chertovsky, Russia - Pressure suit
Niels Christensen (1865 - 1952), U.S. - O-ring
Samuel Hunter Christie, (1784 - 1865), UK - Wheatstone bridge
Juan de la Cierva, (1895 - 1936), Spain - the autogyro
Alexandru Ciurcu, (1854 - 1922), Romania - Reaction engine
Georges Claude, (1870 - 1960), France - neon lamp
Henri Coand, (1886 - 1972), Romania - Jet engine
Josephine Cochrane, (1839 - 1913), U.S. - dishwasher
Christopher Cockerell, (1910 - 1999), UK - Hovercraft
Aeneas Coffey, (1780 - 1852), Ireland - heat exchanger, Coffey still
George Constantinescu, (1881 - 1965), Romania - Interrupter gear
Lloyd Groff Copeman, (1865 - 1956), U.S. - Electric stove
Cornelis Corneliszoon, (1550 - 1607), The Netherlands - sawmill
Jacques Cousteau, (1910 - 1997), France - co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera
Holger Crafoord, (1908 - 1982), Sweden - inventor of the artificial kidney
Thomas Crapper, (1836 - 1910), England - plumber.
Bartolomeo Cristofori, (1655 - 1731), Italy - piano
Jnos Csonka, (1852 - 1939), Hungary - co-inventor of carburetor
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, (1725 - 1804), France - first steam-powered road vehicle
William Cumberland Cruikshank, (1745 - 1800), UK - chlorinated water
William Cullen, (1710 - 1790), UK - first artificial refrigerator
Glenn Curtiss, (1878 - 1930), U.S. - ailerons
Gustaf Daln, (1869-1937), Sweden - AGA cooker; Daln light; Agamassan
Salvino D'Armate, (?-?), Italy - credited for inventing eyeglasses in 1284
Jacob Davis, (1868-1908), U.S. - riveted jeans
Edmund Davy, (1785-1857), Ireland - acetylene
Humphry Davy, (1778-1829), UK - Davy miners lamp
Joseph Day, (1855-1946), UK - the crankcase-compression two-stroke engine
Lee DeForest, (1873-1961), U.S. - triode
Miksa Deri (1854-1938), Hungary - co-inventor of an improved closed-core transformer
James Dewar, (1842-1923), UK - Thermos flask
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, (1860-1935), UK - motion picture camera
Philip Diehl, (1847-1913), U.S. - Ceiling fan, electric sewing machine
Rudolf Diesel, (1858-1913), Germany - Diesel engine
Taqi al-Din, (1526-1585), Syria/Egypt/Turkey - steam turbine, smoke jack, six-cylinder 'Monobloc' suction pump, mechanical alarm clock, spring-powered pocket watch measured in minutes, spring-powered astronomical clock measured in minutes and seconds, framed sextant
Al-Dinawari, (828-896), Persia - more than a hundred plant drugs
William H. Dobelle, (1943-2004), United States - first functioning artificial eye
Bryan Donkin, (1768-1855), UK - print industry composition roller
Hub van Doorne, (1900-1979), Netherlands, Variomatic continuously variable transmission
Anastase Dragomir, (1896-1966), Romania - Ejection seat
Karl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany - dandy horse (Draisine)
Cornelius Drebbel, (1572-1633), The Netherlands - first navigable submarine
Richard Drew, (1899-1980), U.S. - Masking tape
John Boyd Dunlop, (1840-1921) UK - first practical pneumatic tyre
James Dyson, (1947- ) UK - Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, incorporating the principles of cyclonic separation.
George Eastman, (1854-1932), U.S. - roll film
Thomas Edison, (1847-1931), U.S. - phonograph, commercially practical light bulb, motion picture projector, stock ticker, etc
Willem Einthoven, (1860-1927), The Netherlands - the electrocardiogram
Rune Elmqvist, (1857-1924), Sweden - implantable pacemaker
Douglas Engelbart, (1925-), U.S. - the computer mouse [1]
John Ericsson, (1803-1889), Sweden - the two screw-propeller
Lars Magnus Ericsson, (1846-1926), Sweden - the handheld micro telephone
Ole Evinrude, (1877-1934), Norway - outboard motor
Samuel Face, (1923-2001), U.S. - concrete flatness/levelness technology; Lightning Switch
Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), England - electric transformer
Johann Maria Farina, (1685-1766), Germany; Eau de Cologne
Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971), U.S. - electronic television
Muhammad al-Fazari, (d. 796/806), Iraq or Persia - brass astrolabe
Svyatoslav Fyodorov, (1927-2000), Russia - radial keratotomy
James Fergason, (1934-), U.S. - improved liquid crystal display
Enrico Fermi, (1901-1954), Italy - nuclear reactor
Humberto Fernndez Morn, (1924-1999), Venezuela - Diamond scalpel, Ultra microtome
Reginald Fessenden, (1866-1932), Canada - two-way radio
Adolf Eugen Fick, (1829-1901), Germany - contact lens
Fatima al-Fihri, (c. 859), Tunisia/Morocco - university
Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman), (810-887), Islamic Spain - eye glasses, parachute, hang glider, artificial wings, controlled flight, watch, fused quartz and silica glass, artificial thunder and lightning, metronome
Artur Fischer, (1919-) Germany - fasteners including fischertechnik.
Gerhard Fischer, Germany/U.S. - hand-held metal detector
Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), Scotland - penicillin
John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), England - vacuum diode
Sandford Fleming, (1827-1915), Canada - Universal Standard Time
Tommy Flowers, (1905-1998), England - Colossus an early electronic computer.
Jean Bernard Lon Foucault, (1819-1868), France - Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current
Benot Fourneyron, (1802-1867), France - water turbine
John Fowler, (1826-1864), England - steam-driven ploughing engine
Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), U.S. - the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, the glass harmonica
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, (1788-1827), France - Fresnel lens
William Friese-Greene, (1855-1921), England - cinematography
Buckminster Fuller, (1895-1983), U.S. - geodesic dome
Dennis Gabor, (1900-1979), Hungary - holography
Boris Borisovich Galitzine, (1862-1916), Russia - Electromagnetic seismograph.
Elmer R. Gates, (1859-1923), USA - foam fire extinguisher, electric loom mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, educational toy ("box & blocks")
Richard J. Gatling, (1818-1903), U.S. - wheat drill, first successful machine gun
Hans Wilhelm Geiger, (1882-1945), Germany - Geiger counter
Henri Giffard, (1825-1882), France - powered airship, injector
Heinrich Gbel, (1818-1893), Germany - first functional incandescent lamp
Leonid Gobyato, (1875-1915), Russia - first modern man-portable mortar
Robert Goddard, (1882-1945), U.S. - liquid fuel rocket
Peter Carl Goldmark, (1906-1977), Hungary - vinyl record (LP), CBS color television
Charles Goodyear, (1800-1860), U.S. - vulcanization of rubber
Gordon Gould, (1920-2005), U.S. - co-inventor of laser
Richard Hall Gower, (1768-1833), England - ship's hull and rigging
Bette Nesmith Graham, (1924-1980), U.S. - Liquid Paper
James Henry Greathead, (1844-1896), South Africa - tunnel boring machine, tunnelling shield technique
Chester Greenwood, (1858-1937), U.S. - thermal earmuffs
James Gregory, (1638-1675), Scotland - Gregorian telescope
William Robert Grove, (1811-1896), Wales - fuel cell
Otto von Guericke, (1602-1686), Germany - vacuum pump, manometer, dasymeter
Hakan Grsu, (c. 2007), Turkey - Volitan
Johann Gutenberg, (c. 1390s-1468), Germany - movable type printing press
Samuel Guthrie, (1782-1848), U.S. - discovered chloroform
John Hadley, (1682-1744), England - Octant
Waldemar Haffkine, (1860-1930), Russia/Switzerland - first anti-cholera and anti-plague vaccines
Tracy Hall, (1919- ), U.S. - synthetic diamond
Christopher Hansteen, (1783-1873), Norway - discovery of terrestrial magnetism
James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), England - spinning jenny
John Harrison, (1693-1776), England - marine chronometer
Victor Hasselblad, (1906-1978), Sweden - invented the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), (965-1039), Iraq - camera obscura, pinhole camera, magnifying glass, concave and convex mirrors, spherical mirror
Robert A. Heinlein, (1907-1988), U.S. - waterbed
Jozef Karol Hell, (1713-1789), Slovakia - the water pillar
Rudolf Hell, (1901-2002), Germany - the Hellschreiber
Joseph Henry, (1797-1878), Scotland/U.S. - electromagnetic relay
Heron, (c. 10-70), Roman Egypt - aeolipile
Heinrich Hertz, (1857-1894), Germany - radio telegraphy, electromagnetic radiation
George de Hevesy, (1885-1966), Hungary - radioactive tracer
Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), UK - postage stamp
Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), (1868-1949), Germany - Aspirin
Herman Hollerith, (1860-1929), U.S. - recording data on a machine readable medium, tabulator, punched cards
Nick Holonyak, (1928- ), U.S. - LED (Light Emitting Diode)
Robert Hooke, (1635-1703), England - balance wheel, iris diaphragm
Erna Schneider Hoover, (1926-), U.S. - computerized telephone switching system
Frank Hornby, (1863-1936), England - invented Meccano
Coenraad Johannes van Houten, (1801-1887), Netherlands - cocoa powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk
Elias Howe, (1819-1867), U.S. - sewing machine
Muhammad Husayn, (fl. 1600s), Persia - cartographic Qibla indicator with sundial and compass
Christiaan Huygens, (1629-1695), Netherlands - pendulum clock
John Wesley Hyatt, (1837-1920), U.S. - celluloid manufacturing
Ibn Yunus, (950-1009), Egypt - pendulum
Sumio Iijima, (1939- ), Japan - nanotubes
Gavriil Ilizarov, (1921-1992), Russia - Ilizarov apparatus and distraction osteogenesis.
Jnos Irinyi, (1817-1895), Hungary - noiseless match
Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber), (c. 1100-1150), Islamic Spain - portable celestial globe
Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber), (c. 721-815), Yemen/Persia - pure distillation, calcination, crystallization, filtration, liquefaction, purification, alembic, still, retort, mineral acids, nitric and sulfuric acids, uric and hydrochloric acids, aqua regia, alum, alkali, borax, pure sal ammoniac, lead carbonatic, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, pure mercury and sulfur, plated mail, artificial pearl and gemstone, lusterware
Karl Jatho, (1873-1933), Germany - aeroplane
Al-Jazari, (1136-1206), Iraq - crankshaft, connecting rod, crank-driven and hydropowered saqiya chain pump, crank-driven screw and screwpump, elephant clock, weight-driven clock, weight-driven pump, reciprocating piston suction pump, geared and hydropowered water supply system, programmable humanoid robots, robotics, hand washing automata, flush mechanism, combination lock, lamination, static balancing, paper model, sand casting, molding sand, intermittency, linkage
Ibn Al-Jazzar (Algizar), (c. 898-980), Tunisia - sexual dysfunction and erectile dysfunction treatment drugs
Gyrgy Jendrassik, (1898-1954), Hungary - turboprop
Carl Edvard Johansson, (1864-1943), Sweden - Gauge blocks
Johan Petter Johansson, (1853-1943), Sweden - the pipe wrench and the modern adjustable spanner
Nancy Johnson, U.S. - American version of the hand cranked ice cream machine in (1843)
Scott A. Jones, (1960-), U.S. - created one of the most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Search, a human-assisted internet search engine.
Whitcomb Judson, (1836-1909), U.S. - zipper
Mikhail Kalashnikov, (1919-), Russia - AK-47 and AK-74 assault rifles
Dean Kamen, (1951-), U.S. - Invented the Segway HT scooter and the IBOT Mobility Device
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, (1853-1926), Netherlands - liquify helium
Jamshd al-Ksh, (c. 1380-1429), Persia - plate of conjunctions, analog planetary computer
Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad ibn Naser ibn Saghir ibn Khalid al-Kaysarani, (c. 1154), Syria - striking clock, clock tower
John Harvey Kellogg, (1852-1943), cornflake breakfasts
John George Kemeny, (1926-1992), Hungary - co-inventor of BASIC
Alexander Kemurdzhian, (1921-2003), Russia - first space exploration rover (Lunokhod)
Kerim Kerimov, (1917-2003), Azerbaijan and Russia - human spaceflight, space dock, space station
Charles F. Kettering, (1876-1958), U.S. - invented automobile self-starter ignition, Freon ethyl gasoline and more
Khalid, (fl. 800s), Ethiopia - coffee
Fazlur Khan, (1929-1982), Bangladesh - structural systems for high-rise skyscrapers
Al-Khazini, (fl. 1115-1130), Persia - hydrostatic balance
Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi, (c. 940-1000), Persia - astronomical sextant
Muhammad ibn Ms al-Khwrizm (Algoritmi), (c. 780-850), Persia - modern algebra, mural instrument, quadrant, horary quadrant, sine quadrant, Quadrans Vetus, shadow square
Jack Kilby, (1923-2005), U.S. - patented the first integrated circuit
Al-Kindi (Alkindus), (801-873), Iraq/Yemen - ethanol, pure distilled alcohol, cryptanalysis, frequency analysis
Fritz Klatte, (1880-1934), Germany - vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride
Margaret E. Knight, (1838-1914), U.S. - machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags
Ivan Knunyants, (1906-1990), Armenia/Russia - invented Nylon-6
Robert Koch, (1843-1910), Germany - method for culturing bacteria on solid media
Willem Johan Kolff, (1911-2009), Netherlands - artificial kidney hemodialysis machine
Rudolf Kompfner, (1909-1977), U.S. - Traveling-wave tube
Sergey Korolyov, (1907-1966), Ukraine/Russia - invented R-7 rocket family, designed Sputniks (including first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite), supervised Vostok program (including first human spaceflight)
Gleb Kotelnikov, (1872-1944), Russia - knapsack parachute
Ivan Kulibin, (1735-1818), Russia - Elevator using screw mechanisms. Also invented an automobile that featured a flywheel, brake, gear box, and bearing.[1]
Igor Kurchatov, (1903-1960), Russia - first nuclear power plant, first nuclear reactors for submarines and surface ships
Raymond Kurzweil, (1948-), Optical character recognition; flatbed scanner
Stephanie Kwolek, (1923-), U.S. - Kevlar
John Howard Kyan (1774-1850), Ireland - The process of Kyanization used for wood preservation
Ren Lannec, (1781-1826), France - stethoscope
Lala Balhumal Lahuri, (c. 1842), Mughal India - seamless globe and celestial globe, lost-wax casting
Georges Lakhovsky, (1869-1942), Russia - Multiple Wave Oscillator.
Hedy Lamarr, (1913-2000), Austria and U.S. - Spread spectrum radio
Edwin H. Land, (1909-1991), U.S. - Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera
Samuel P. Langley, (1834-1906), U.S. - bolometer
Irving Langmuir, (1851-1957), U.S. - gas filled incandescent light bulb, hydrogen welding
Lewis Latimer, (1848-1928), - worked with Thomas Edison and patented an improved lightbulb manufacturing process
Gustav de Laval, (1845-1913), Sweden - invented the milk separator and the milking machine
John Bennet Lawes, (1814-1900), England - superphosphate or chemical fertilizer
Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev, (1874-1934), Russia - synthetic rubber
Tim Berners-Lee, (1955- ) England - World Wide Web
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, (1632-1723), Netherlands - development of the microscope
Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir, (1822-1900), Belgium - internal combustion engine, motorboat
R. G. LeTourneau, (1888-1969), U.S.- electric wheel, motor scraper, mobile oil drilling platform, bulldozer, cable control unit for scrapers
Willard Frank Libby, (1908-1980), U.S. - radiocarbon dating
Justus von Liebig, (1803-1873), Germany - nitrogen-based fertilizer
Otto Lilienthal, (1848-1896), Germany - hang glider
Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, (1862-1931), Sweden - Kerosene stove operated by compressed air
Hans Lippershey, (1570-1619), Netherlands - telescope
William Howard Livens, (1889-1964), England - chemical warfare - Livens Projector.
Alexander Lodygin, (1847-1923), Russia - Electrical filament, incandescent light bulb with tungsten filament.
Oleg Losev, (1903-1942), Russia - Light-emitting diode.
Archibald Low, (1882-1956), Britain - Pioneer of radio guidance systems
Auguste and Louis Lumire, France - Cinmatographe
Ignacy ukasiewicz, (1822-1882), Poland - modern kerosene lamp
Giovanni Luppis, (1813-1875), Austrian Empire (ethnical Italian) - self-propelled torpedo
Ali Kashmiri ibn Luqman, (fl. 1589-1590), Mughal India - seamless globe and celestial globe, lost-wax casting
Ma Jun, (c. 200-265), China - South Pointing Chariot (see differential gear), mechanical puppet theater, chain pumps, improved silk looms
Charles Macintosh, (1766-1843), Scotland - waterproof raincoat, life vest
Sake Dean Mahomet, (c. 1759), India - shampoo
Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov, (1896-1964), Russia - Maksutov telescope
Al-Ma'mun, (786-833), Iraq - singing bird automata, terrestrial globe
George William Manby, (1765-1854), England - Fire extinguisher
Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937), Italy - radio telegraphy
John Landis Mason, (1826-1902), U.S. - Mason jars
Henry Maudslay, (1771-1831), England - screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer
Hiram Maxim, (1840-1916), USA born, England - First self-powered machine gun
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) and Thomas Sutton Scotland - colour photography
Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili, (9th century), Iraq - syringe, hypodermic needle, cataract extraction, injection, suction
John McAdam, (1756-1836), Scotland - improved "macadam" road surface
Elijah McCoy, (1843-1929), Canada - Displacement lubricator
Hippolyte Mge-Mouris, (1817-1880), France - margarine
Dmitri Mendeleev, (1834-1907), Russia - Periodic table, pyrocollodion.
Antonio Meucci, (1808-1889), Italy - telephone (prototype)
Edouard Michelin, (1859-1940), France - pneumatic tyre
Anthony Michell, (1870 - 1959), Australia - tilting pad thrust bearing, crankless engine
Pavel Molchanov, (1893-1941), Russia - Radiosonde.
Jules Montenier, (c. 1910), U.S. - modern anti-perspirant deodorant
Montgolfier brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), France - 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. - the Moog synthesizer
Samuel Morey, (1762-1843), U.S. - internal combustion engine
Garrett A. Morgan, (1877-1963), U.S. - inventor of the gas mask, and traffic signal.
Samuel Morse, (1791-1872), U.S. - telegraph
Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi, (fl. 1000s), Islamic Spain - geared mechanical clock, segmental gear, epicyclic gearing
William Murdoch, (1754-1839), Scotland - Gas lighting
Jozef Murgas, (1864-1929), Slovakia - inventor of the wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio)
Al-Muqaddasi, (c. 946-1000), Palestine - restaurant
Ban Ms brothers, Muhammad (c. 800-873), Ahmad (803-873), Al-Hasan (810-873), Iraq - valve, float valve, feedback controller, automatic control, float chamber, mechanical trick devices, hurricane lamp, self-trimming and self-feeding lamp, gas mask, grab, clamshell grab, fail-safe system, mechanical musical instrument, automatic flute player, programmable machine
Pieter van Musschenbroek, (1692-1761), Netherlands - Leyden jar, pyrometer
Ibn al-Nafis, (1213-1288), Syria/Egypt - circulatory physiology, otolaryngology, theological novel, science fiction novel
John Napier, (1550-1617), Scotland - logarithms
James Naismith, (1861-1939), Canadian born, USA - invented basketball and American football helmet
Yoshiro Nakamatsu, (b. 1928), Japan - floppy disk, "PyonPyon" spring shoes, digital watch, CinemaScope, armchair "Cerebrex", sauce pump, taxicab meter
James Nasmyth, (1808-1890), Scotland - steam hammer
Nebuchadrezzar II, (c. 630-562 BC), Iraq (Mesopotamia) - screw, screwpump
John von Neumann, (1903-1957), Hungary - Von Neumann computer architecture
Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), England - reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration)
Joseph Nicephore Nipce, (1765-1833), France - photography
Jun-Ichi Nishizawa, (1926-), Japan - Optical communication system, SIT/SITh (Static Induction Transistor/Thyristor), Laser diode, PIN diode
Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Sweden - dynamite
Carl Rickard Nyberg, (1858-1939), Sweden - the blowtorch
Theophil Wilgodt Odhner, (1845-1903), Sweden - the Odhner Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator
J. Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967), United States - Atomic bomb
Hans Christian rsted, (1777-1851), Denmark - electromagnetism, aluminium
Elisha Otis, (1811-1861), U.S. - passenger elevator with safety device
William Oughtred, (1575-1660), England - slide rule
Larry Page, (1973-), U.S. - with Sergey Brin invented Google web search engine
Helge Palmcrantz, (1842-1880), Sweden - the multi-barrel, lever-actuated, machine gun
Daniel David Palmer, (1845-1913), Canada - Chiropractic
Luigi Palmieri, (1807-1896), Italy - seismometer
Alexander Parkes, (1831-1890), England - celluloid
Charles Algernon Parsons, (1854-1931), British - steam turbine
Spede Pasanen, (1930-2001), Finland - The ski jumping sling
Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662), France - barometer
Les Paul, (1915-), U.S. - Multitrack recording
Nicolae Paulescu, (1869 - 1931), Romania - Insulin
Gustaf Erik Pasch, (1788-1862), Sweden - the safety match
Arthur Paul Pedrick, England - chromatically selective cat flap and others
John Pemberton, (1831-1888), U.S. - Coca-Cola
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, (1871-1922), Croatia - mechanical pencil
Henry Perky, (1843-1906), U.S. - Shredded wheat
Stephen Perry, England - rubber band
Peter Petroff, (1919-2004), Bulgaria - digital wrist watch, heart monitor, weather instruments
Fritz Pfleumer, (1881-1945), Germany - Magnetic Tape
Arthur Pitney, (1871-1933), United States - Postage meter
Joseph Plateau, (1801-1883), Belgium - phenakistiscope (stroboscope)
Baltzar von Platen, (1898-1984), Sweden - refrigerator
James Leonard Plimpton, U.S. - roller skates
Petrache Poenaru, (1799 - 1875), Romania - Fountain pen
Christopher Polhem, (1661-1751), Sweden - the modern padlock
Ivan Polzunov, (1728-1766), Russia - first two-cylinder motor
Olivia Poole, (1889-1975), U.S., - the Jolly Jumper baby harness
Alexander Stepanovich Popov, (1859-1906), Russia - Lightning detector.
George Pullman, (1831-1897), U.S. - Pullman sleep wagon
Michael I. Pupin, (1858-1935), Serbia - pupinization (loading coils), tunable oscillator
Tivadar Puskas, (1844-1893), Hungary - telephone exchange
Mario Rabinowitz, (1936-), U.S. - solar concentrator with tracking micromirrors
Hasan al-Rammah, (fl. 1270s), Syria - purified potassium nitrate, explosive gunpowder, torpedo
Harun al-Rashid, (763-809), Iraq/Persia - public hospital, medical school
Muhammad ibn Zakarya Rzi (Rhazes), (865-965), Persia - distillation and extraction methods, sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, soap, kerosene, kerosene lamp, chemotherapy, red lead, copper acetate, lead sulfide, zinc oxide, bismuth oxide, iron acetate, cinnabar, arsenic trioxide, sodium hydroxide, aludel, rose water, heated bath, funnel, sieve
Karl von Reichenbach, (1788-1869), paraffin, creosote oil, phenol
Ira Remsen, (1846-1927), U.S. - saccharin
Ralf Reski, (* 1958), Germany - Moss Bioreactor 1998
Josef Ressel, (1793-1857), Czechoslovakia - ship propeller
Charles Francis Richter, (1900-1985), U.S. - Richter magnitude scale
Hyman George Rickover, (1900-1986), U.S. - Nuclear submarine
John Roebuck, (1718-1794) England - lead chamber process for sulfuric acid synthesis
Wilhelm Conrad Rntgen, (1845-1923), Germany - the X-ray machine
Ern' Rubik, (1944-), Hungary - Rubik's cube, Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Clock
Ernst Ruska, (1906-1988), Germany - electron microscope
Alexander Sablukov, (1783-1857), Russia - centrifugal fan
erafeddin Sabuncuolu, (1385-1468), Turkey - illustrated surgical atlas
Andrei Sakharov, (1921-1989), Russia - invented explosively pumped flux compression generator, developed tokamaks for controlled nuclear fusion
Ibn Samh, (c. 1020), Middle East - mechanical geared astrolabe
Ibn Sina (Avicenna), (973-1037), Persia - thermometer, thermoscope, steam distillation, essential oil, pharmacopoeia, clinical pharmacology, clinical trial, randomized controlled trial, quarantine, cancer surgery, cancer therapy, pharmacotherapy, phytotherapy, Hindiba, Taxus baccata L, calcium channel blocker
Alberto Santos-Dumont, (1873-1932), Brazil - non-rigid airship and airplane
Thomas Savery, (1650-1715), England - steam engine
Adolphe Sax, (1814-1894), Belgium - saxophone
Bela Schick, (1877-1967), Hungary - diphtheria test
Christian Schnabel (1878-1936), German - simplistic food cutleries
Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (1946- ), Netherlands - Major contributor to development of Compact Disc
August Schrader, U.S. - Schrader valve for Pneumatic tire
David Schwarz, (1852-1897), Croatia, - rigid ship, later called Zeppelin
Marc Seguin, (1786-1875), France - wire-cable suspension bridge
Sennacherib, (705-681 BC), Iraq (Mesopotamia) - screw pump
Iwan Serrurier, (active 1920s), Netherlands/U.S. - inventor of the Moviola for film editing.
Mark Serrurier, (190?-1988), U.S. - Serrurier truss for Optical telescopes
Gerhard Sessler, (1931-), Germany - foil electret microphone, silicon microphone
Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, 1894-1974, Russia/United States of America - Air-to-air refueling
Ibn al-Shatir, (1304-1375), Syria - astrolabic clock, compendium instrument, polar-axis sundial, compass dial
Shen Kuo, (1031-1095), China - improved gnomon, armillary sphere, clepsydra, and sighting tube
Pavel Schilling, (1780-1836), Estonia/Russia - first electromagnetic telegraph
Murasaki Shikibu, (c. 973-1025), - novel, psychological novel
Fathullah Shirazi, (c. 1582), Mughal India - autocannon, multi-barrel gun
Al-Sijzi, (c. 945-1020), Persia - heliocentric astrolabe
William Bradford Shockley, (1910-1989), U.S. - co-inventor of transistor
Henry Shrapnel, (1761-1842), England - Shrapnel shell ammunition
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, (b. 1972), Malaysia - cell growth in outer space, crystallization of proteins and microbes in space
Vladimir Shukhov, (1853-1939), Russia - Shukhov cracking process, thin-shell structure, tensile structure, built one of the first pipelines
Augustus Siebe, (1788-1872), Germany/England - Inventor of the standard diving dress
Werner von Siemens, (1816-1892), Germany - an electromechanical "dynamic"
Sir William Siemens, (1823-1883), Germany - regenerative furnace
Igor Sikorsky, (1889-1972), Russia/U.S. - helicopter
Charles Simonyi, (1948-), Hungary - Hungarian notation
Isaac Singer, (1811-1875), U.S. - sewing machine
Elmer Ambrose Sperry, (1860-1930), U.S. - gyroscope-guided automatic pilot
George Stephenson, (1781-1848), England - steam locomotive
Simon Stevin, (1548-1620), Netherlands - land yacht
Aurel Stodola, (1859-1942), Slovakia - gas turbines
Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (1790-1878), Scotland - Stirling engine
Levi Strauss, (1829-1902), U.S. - blue jeans
John Stringfellow, (1799-1883), England - airplane
Almon Strowger, (1839-1902), U.S. - automatic telephone exchange
Su Song, (1020-1101), China - first chain drive
Simon Sunatori, (1959-), Canada - inventor of MagneScribe and Magic Spicer
Sushruta, (600 BC), Vedic India - inventor of Platic Surgery, Cataract Surgery, Rhinoplasty
Joseph Swan, (1828-1914), England - Incandescent light bulb
Percy Spencer, (1894-1970), U.S. - microwave oven
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi), (903-986), Persia - timekeeping astrolabe, navigational astrolabe, surveying astrolabe
Le Szilrd, (1898-1964), Hungary/U.S. - Co-developed the atomic bomb, patented the nuclear reactor, catalyst of the Manhattan Project
Salih Tahtawi, (fl. 1659-1660), Mughal India - seamless globe and celestial globe, lost-wax casting
Igor Tamm, (1895-1971), Russia - with Andrey Sakharov, developed first tokamak
Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi, (c. 1187), Middle East - counterweight trebuchet, mangonel
Bernard Tellegen, (1900-1990), Netherlands - pentode
Edward Teller, (1908-2003), Hungary - hydrogen bomb
Nikola Tesla, (1856-1943), Serbian-Croatian-American - Tesla Coil, induction motor, wireless communication
Eric Tigerstedt, (1887-1925), Finland - triode vacuum tube
Kalman Tihanyi, (1897-1947), Hungary - co-inventor of cathode ray tube and iconoscope
Benjamin Chew Tilghman, (1821-1897), U.S. - sandblasting
Tipu Sultan, (1750-1799), India - iron-cased and metal-cylinder rocket
Alfred Traeger, (1895-1980), Australia - the pedal radio
Franc Trkman, (1903-1978), Slovenia - electrical switches, accessories for opening windows
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, (1857-1935), Russia - spaceflight
Mikhail Tsvet, (1872-1919), Russia - adsorption chromatography
Ibn Tufail, (c. 1105-1185), Islamic Spain - philosophical novel
Nasr al-Dn al-Ts, (1201-1274), Persia - observatory, research institute
Sharaf al-Dn al-Ts, (1135-1213), Persia - linear astrolabe
Lewis Urry, (1927-2004), Canada - long-lasting alkaline battery
Theophilus Van Kannel, (1841-1919), United States - revolving door (1888)
Louis R. Vitullo, (1924?-2006), United States - developed the first sexual assault evidence kit
Alessandro Volta, (1745-1827), Italy - battery
Faust Vrani, (1551-1617), Croatia - parachute
Barnes Wallis, (1887-1979), England - bouncing bomb
Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), Scotland - microwave radar
James Watt, (1736-1819), Scotland - improved Steam engine
Thomas Wedgwood, (1771-1805), England - first (not permanent) photograph
Jonas Wenstrm, (1855-1893), Sweden - three-phase electrical power
George Westinghouse, (1846-1914), U.S. - Air brake (rail)
Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1875), England - concertina, stereoscope, microphone, Playfair cipher
Eli Whitney, (1765-1825), U.S. - the cotton gin
Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), England - co-inventor of the jet engine
Otto Wichterle, (1913-1989), Czechoslovakia - invented modern contact lenses
Paul Winchell, (1922-2005), U.S. - the artificial heart
A. Baldwin Wood, (1879-1956), U.S. - high volume pump
Granville Woods, (1856-1910), U.S. - the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph
Wright brothers, Orville (1871-1948) and Wilbur (1867-1912) - U.S. - powered airplane
Arthur Wynne, (1862-1945), England - creator of crossword puzzle
Pavel Yablochkov, (1847-1894), Russia - Yablochkov candle.
Hidetsugu Yagi, (1886-1976), Japan - Yagi antenna
Khalid ibn Yazid, (635-704), Syria/Egypt - potassium nitrate
Yi Xing, (683-727), China, invented the escapement mechanism
Arthur M. Young, (1905-1995), U.S. - the Bell Helicopter
Muhammad Yunus, (b. 1940), Bangladesh - microcredit, microfinance
Abu Yaqub Yusuf, (c. 1274), Morocco/Spain - siege cannon
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis), (936 - 1013), Islamic Spain - cosmetic dentistry, tooth bleaching, hair care, hair dye, solid lipstick, Hand cream and lotion, suntan lotion, [disambiguation needed] roll-on deodorant, epilepsy and seizure medications, nasal spray, topical cream, adhesive bandage and plaster, bone saw, catgut, cotton dressing and bandage, curette, retractor, sound, surgical spoon, surgical hook and rod, ligature
Ab Ishq Ibrhm al-Zarql (Arzachel), (1028-1087), Islamic Spain - almanac, equatorium, universal astrolabe
Nikolay Zelinsky, (1861-1953), Russia - the first effective filtering coal gas mask in the world
Zhang Heng, (78-139), China - invented the first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere
Zheng He, (1371-1433), China - treasure ship
Ziryab, (789-857), Iraq/Syria/Tunisia/Spain - bangs, beauty parlour, cosmetology school, chemical depilatory, toothpaste, under-arm deodorant, three-course meal
Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar), (1091-1161), Islamic Spain - general anaesthesia, general anaesthetic, oral anesthesia, inhalational anaesthetic, narcotic-soaked sponge, tracheotomy, parasitology, pharmacopoeia
Konrad Zuse, (22. June 1910 - 18. December 1995), Germany - invented the first Computer (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4)
Vladimir Zworykin, (1889-1982), Russia/U.S. - Iconoscope, kinescope.

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