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List of inventorsThis is a list of inventors. See this: list of scientists, List of inventions named after people, timeline of invention, inventor, and :Category:Inventors. A* Nils Alwall, ( 1904- 1986), Sweden — the dialysis machine* Archimedes, ( c 287 BC- 212 BC), Greece * Manfred von Ardenne, ( 1907- 1997), Germany* Ami Argand, ( 1750- 1803, Switzerland — Argand lamp* Edwin H. Armstrong,( 1890- 1954), USA — FM radio* William George Armstrong, ( 1810- 1900), England — hydraulic crane* Joseph Aspdin, ( 1788â€" 1855), England — Portland cement* John Vincent Atanasoff, ( 1903- 1995), United States — modern unprogrammable computerB* Charles Babbage, ( 1791- 1871), England — Analytical engine* Leo Baekeland, ( 1863- 1944), Belgian– American — Velox photographic paper and Bakelite* Ralph Baer, ( 1922-), German born American — the home video game console * John Logie Baird, ( 1888- 1946), Scotland — a working television* John Bardeen, ( 1908- 1991), USA — co-inventor of the transistor* Trevor Baylis, ( 1937-), England — a wind-up radio* Donát Bánki, ( 1859- 1922), Hungary — inventor of the carburetor* Arnold O. Beckman, ( 1900- 2004), USA — pH meter * Alexander Graham Bell, ( 1847- 1922), Canada — telephone* Karl Benz, ( 1844â€" 1929), Germany — the petrol-powered automobile* Emile Berliner, ( 1851- 1929), Germany and USA — the disc record gramophone* Tim Berners-Lee, ( 1955-), England — with Robert Cailliau, the World Wide Web* Bi Sheng, (?- 1052), China — primitive movable printing types * Lászlo BÃró, ( 1899- 1985), Hungary — modern ballpoint pen* Ottó Bláthy ( 1860- 1939), Hungary — co-inventor of the transformer, wattmeter, alternating current (AC) and turbogenerator* Katherine Blodgett, ( 1898- 1979), England — nonreflective glass* Nils Bohlin, ( 1920- 2002), Sweden — the three-point seat belt* János Bolyai ( 1802- 1860), Hungary — discoverer of non-Euclidean geometry* Joseph-Armand Bombardier, ( 1907- 1964), Canada — snowmobile* Seth Boyden, ( 1788- 1870), USA — nail-making machine * Walter Houser Brattain, ( 1902- 1987), USA — co-inventor of the transistor* Louis Braille, ( 1809- 1852), France — the Braille writing system * Karl Ferdinand Braun, ( 1850- 1918), Germany — cathode-ray tube oscilloscope* Imre Bródy, ( 1891- 1944), Hungary — co-inventor of krypton-filled fluorescent lamps* Edwin Beard Budding, ( 1795- 1846), England — lawnmower* Roger Bacon, ( 1214- 1292), England — magnifying glassC* Cà i Lún, (50 AD â€" 121), China — paper* Marvin Camras, ( 1916 - 1995), USA — magnetic recording* Chester Carlson, ( 1906- 1968), USA — electrophotography* Wallace Carothers, ( 1896- 1937), USA — Nylon* Dennis Charter, ( 1952-), Australia — Secure Electronic Payment System* Adrian Chernoff, ( 1971-), USA — GM Autonomy, GM Hy-wire, Rubber Bandits* Niels Christensen ( 1865-?), USA — O-ring* Samuel Hunter Christie, ( 1784- 1865), England — Wheatstone bridge* Christopher Cockerell, ( 1910- 1999), England — Hovercraft* Jacques Cousteau, ( 1910â€" 1997), France — co-inventor of the aqualung* Holger Crafoord, ( 1908- 1982), Sweden — inventor of the artificial kidney* János Csonka, ( 1852- 1939), Hungary — co-inventor of carburetor* Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, ( 1725- 1804), France — automobile* Juan de la Cierva, ( 1895- 1936), Spain — the autogyro* William Cullen, ( 1710- 1790), Scotland — first artificial refrigeratorD* Gustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), Sweden — invented the AGA Lighthouse* Salvino D'Armate, (?-?), Italy — credited for inventing eyeglasses in 1284* Joseph Day, (1855-1946), England — the crankcase compression two stroke engine * Lee DeForest, (1873-1961), USA — triode*Sir James Dewar, (1842-1923), Scotland — Thermos flask* Miksa Déri (1854-1938), Hungary — co-inventor of transformer* William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, (1860-1935), Scotland — motion picture camera * Rudolf Diesel, (1858-1913), Germany — Diesel engine* Karl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany — dandy horse ( Draisine) * Cornelius Drebbel, (1572-1633), The Netherlands — first navigable submarine * Richard Drew, (1899-1980), USA — Scotch (or cellophane) tape E* George Eastman, (1854-1932), USA — film-roll * Thomas Edison, (1847-1931), USA — phonograph, commercially practical light bulb, motion picture projector, stock ticker * Willem Einthoven, (1860-1927), The Netherlands — the electrocardiogram* Douglas Engelbart, (1925-), USA — the computer mouse [ 1] * Rune Elmqvist, (1857-1924), Sweden — implantable pacemaker * John Ericsson, (1803-1889), Sweden — the two screw-propeller * Lars Magnus Ericsson, (1846-1926), Sweden — the handheld micro telephone F* Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971), USA — vacuum tube television display * James Fergason, (1934-), USA — improved liquid crystal display* Reginald Fessenden, (1866-1932), Canada — two-way radio* Adolf Eugen Fick, (1829-1901), Germany — contact lens* Alexander Fleming, (1881â€"1955), England — penicillin * John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), England — vacuum diode * Albert Fonó, (1881-1972), Hungary — jet propulsion engine * Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), USA — the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocals* William Friese-Greene, (1855-1921), England — cinematography* Buckminster Fuller, (1895-1983), USA — geodesic domeG* Dennis Gabor, (1900-1979), Hungary — holography* William Henry Gates III, (1955-), Windows operating system, chief architect of Visual Basic* Robert Goddard, (1882-1945), USA — liquid fuel rocket * Heinrich Göbel, (1818-1893), Germany — first functional incandescent lamp * Peter Carl Goldmark, (1906-1977), Hungary — vinyl record (LP) * Gordon Gould, (1920-2005), USA — co-inventor of laser* Richard Hall Gower, (1768-1833), England — ship's hull and rigging * Bette Nesmith Graham, (1924-1980), USA — Liquid Paper* Chester Greenwood, (1858-1937), USA — thermal earmuffs* James Gregory, (1638-1675), Scotland — reflecting telescope* William Robert Grove, (1811â€"1896), Wales — fuel cell* Otto von Guericke, (1602-1686), Germany — vacuum pump* Johann Gutenberg, ( c 1390s-1468), Germany — modern movable type printing pressH* John Hadley, (1682-1744), England — the sextant * James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), England — invented the spinning jenny* John Harrison, (1693-1776), England — marine chronometer * Victor Hasselblad, (1906-1978), Sweden — invented the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera* Rudolf Hell, (1901-2002), Germany — the Hellschreiber* Avram Hershko, (1937-), Hungary — Ubiquitin* Jozef Karol Hell, (1713-1789), Slovakia — the water pillar * Joseph Henry, (1797-1898), USA — electromagnetic relay* George de Hevesy, (1885-1966), Hungary — radioactive tracer* Erna Schneider Hoover, (1926-), USA — computerized telephone switching system * Frank Hornby, (1863-1936), England — invented MeccanoI* János Irinyi, (1817-1895), Hungary — noiseless match* Sumio Iijima, (1939- ), Japan — nanotubesJ* Jan Janský, (1873-1921), Czechoslovakia — discoverer of blood types * Karl Jatho, (1873-1933), Germany — airplane* György Jendrassik, (1898-1954), Hungary — turboprop* Steve Jobs, (1955-), Macintosh operating system * Carl Edvard Johansson, (1864-1943), Sweden — Gauge blocks* Johan Petter Johansson, (1853-1943), Sweden — the pipe wrench and the modern adjustable spanner* Nancy Johnson, USA — American version of the hand cranked ice cream machine in ( 1843) K* Dean Kamen, (1951-), USA — Invented the Segway HT scooter and the IBOT Mobility Device * Maurice Kanbar, United States; Invented the multiplex cinema, the D-Fuzz-It sweater comb, SKYY vodka, Vermeer Dutch Chocolate Cream Liqueur and more * John George Kemeny, (1926-1992), Hungary — co-inventor of BASIC* Charles F. Kettering, (1876-1958), USA — invented automobile self-starter ignition, Freon ethyl gasoline and more * Jack Kilby, (1923-2005), USA — patented the first integrated circuit* Fritz Klatte, (1880-1934), Germany — vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride* Margaret Knight, (1838-1914), USA — machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags * Ivan Knunyants, (1906-1990), Ukraine — invented Nylon-6 * Gleb Kotelnikov, (1872-1944), Russia — knapsack parachute* Stephanie Kwolek, (1923-), USA — KevlarL* Hedy Lamarr, (1913-2000), Austria and USA — Spread spectrum* Edwin H. Land, (1909-1991), USA — Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera* HÃ¥kan Lans, (1942-), Sweden — STDMA datalink (Self organising Time Division Multiple Access), colour computer graphics * Irving Langmuir, (1851-1957), USA — gas filled incandescent lamp, 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 * Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev, (1874-1934), Russia — synthetic rubber* Tim Berners-Lee, (1955-) England — world wide web * Leonardo da Vinci, (1452-1519), Italy* Justus von Liebig, (1803-1873), Germany — nitrogen-based fertilizer* Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, (1862-1931), Sweden — Kerosene stove operated by compressed air * Archibald Low, (1882-1956), Britain — Pioneer of radio guidance systems * Giovanni Luppis, (1813-1875), Austrian Empire (ethnical Italian) — self-propelled torpedoM* Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937), Italy — radio* Elijah McCoy, (1844-1929), USA — automatic lubricator for oiling steam engines * Antonio Meucci, (1808-1896), Italy — the telephone* Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol, (1819-1885), Spain — steam powered submarine* Robert Moog, (1934-2005), USA — the Moog synthesizer* Montgolfier brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), France — hot-air balloon * Samuel Morey, (1762-1843), USA — internal combustion engine * Garrett A. Morgan, (1877-1963), USA — inventor of the gas mask, and traffic signal. * Samuel Morse, (1791-1872), USA — telegraph * Jozef MurgaÅ¡, (1864-1929), Slovakia — inventor of the wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio) N* Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Sweden &ffsfsa * Jun-Ichi Nishizawa, (1926-), Japan — Optical communication system, SIT/SITh (Static Induction Transistor/Thyristor), Laser diode, PIN diode* John von Neumann (János Neumann), (1903-1957), Hungary — Von Neumann computer architecture * Isaac Newton,(1642-1727), England — reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration) * Carl Rickard Nyberg, (1858-1939), Sweden — the blowtorchO* Theophil Wilgodt Odhner, (1845-1903), Sweden — the Odhner Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator* Elisha Otis, (1811-1861), USA — passenger elevator and concommitant safety device P* Helge Palmcrantz, (1842-1880), Sweden — the multi-barrel, lever-actuated, machine gun* Spede Pasanen, (1930-2001), Finland — The ski jumping sling* Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, (1871-1922), Croatia — ball point pen* Gustaf Erik Pasch, (1788-1862), Sweden — the safety match* Henry Perky, (1843-1906), USA — Shredded wheat* Peter Petroff, (1919-2004), Bulgaria — digital wrist watch, heart monitor, weather instruments * Christopher Polhem, (1661-1751), Sweden — the modern padlock* Olivia Poole, (1889-1975), USA, White Earth Indian Reserve — the Jolly Jumper baby harness * Baltzar von Platen, (1898-1984), Sweden — refrigerator* Mihajlo Pupin, (1858â€"1935), Serbia — pupinisation, tunable oscillator, Pupin coil * Tivadar Puskás, (1844-1893), Hungary — telephone exchangeQR* Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, (1845-1923), Germany — the X-ray machine* Josef Ressel, (1793-1857), Czechoslovakia — ship propeller* John Roebuck, (1718-1794) England — lead chamber process for sulfuric acid synthesis * ErnÅ‘ Rubik, (1944-), Hungary — Rubik's cube, Rubik's Magic and Rubik's ClockS* Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah, (1895-1935), Lebanon — solar power, cathode ray tube * Augustus Siebe, (1788-1872), Saxony& England Inventor of the standard diving dress* Alberto Santos-Dumont, (1873-1932), Brazil — non-rigid airship and airplane* Isidor Sauers, ( 1948- ), inventor of a process for measuring the degradation of SF 6 in high-voltage systems * Adolphe Sax, (1814-1894), Belgium — saxophone* Christian Schnabel (1878-1936), German, designed simplistic food cutleries * August Schrader, USA — Schrader valve for Pneumatic tire* David Schwarz, (1852-1897), Croatia, — rigid ship, later called Zeppelin* Béla Schick, (1877-1967), Hungary — diphtheria test* William Bradford Shockley, (1910-1989), USA — co-inventor of transistor* Werner von Siemens, (1816-1892), Germany — an electromechanical "dynamic" * Sir William Siemens, (1823-1883), Germany — regenerative furnace * Igor Sikorsky, (1889-1972), Ukraine — helicopter* Charles Simonyi, (1948-), Hungary — Hungarian notation* Aurel Stodola, (1859-1942), Slovakia â€" gas turbines * Elmer Ambrose Sperry, (1860â€"1930), USA — gyroscope-guided automatic pilot * Levi Strauss, (1829-1902), USA — blue jeans* John Stringfellow, (1799-1883), England — airplane* Almon Strowger, (1839-1902), USA — automatic telephone exchange* Simon Sunatori, (1959-), Canada — inventor of Sunatori Pen * Joseph Swan, (1828-1914), England — inventor, physicist * Albert Szent-Györgyi, (1893-1986), Hungary — discoverer of Vitamin CT* Edward Teller (Ede Teller), (1908-2003), Hungary — hydrogen bomb* Nikola Tesla, (1856-1943), Serbian- Croatian- American Tesla Coil— inventor of the induction motor, alternating current polyphase power distribution system, wireless communication, robotics, logic gates, the bladeless turbine, radio and VTOL aircraft* Kálmán Tihanyi, (1897-1947), Hungary — co-inventor of cathode ray tube and iconoscope* Benjamin Chew Tilghman, (1821-1897), USA — sandblasting* Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, (1852-1936), Spain* Alfred Traeger, (1895-1980), Australia — the pedal radio * Franc Trkman, (1903-1978), Slovenia — electrical switches, accessories for opening windows * Alan Turing, (1912-1954), England — the Turing machineU* Lewis Urry, (1927-2004), Canada — long-lasting alkaline batteryV* Alessandro Volta, (1745-1827), Italy — battery* Faust VranÄić, (1551-1617), Croatia, parachuteW* Barnes Wallis, (1887-1979), England — bouncing bomb* Ghulam Sediq Wardak, (1942-), Afghanistan — 341 unpatented inventions * Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), Scotland — microwave radar* James Watt, (1736]]-1819), Scotland — improved Steam engine* Jonas Wenström, (1855-1893), Sweden — the three-phase electrical system * George Westinghouse, (1846-1914), USA — Air brake* Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1875), England — concertina, stereoscope, microphone, Playfair cipher* Eli Whitney, (1765-1825), USA — 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), USA — the artificial heart* A. Baldwin Wood, (1879-1956), USA — inventor & engineer * Granville Woods, (1856-1910), USA — the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph * The Wright brothers, Orville Wright, (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright, (1867-1912), USA — aeroplane* Arthur Wynne, (1862-1945), England — creator of crossword puzzleY* Hidetsugu Yagi, (1886-1976), Japan — Yagi antenna* Asen Yordanoff, (1886-1967), Bulgaria — Douglas DC-3* Arthur M. Young, (1905-1995), USA — the Bell HelicopterExternal Links* A list ggg of famous inventors
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