List of inventors - Definition and Overview

This is a list of inventors.

See also: list of scientists, List of inventions named after people, timeline of invention, inventor, and Category:Inventors.

Alphabetical list

Contents: Top - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Thomas Ahearn, inventor of the electric stove in 1892
• Archimedes, (circa 287 BC-212 BC), Greece
• Manfred von Ardenne, (1907-1997), Germany
• William George Armstrong — hydraulic crane, Armstrong breech-loading gun
• Edward Asselbergs,(1927 - June, 1996)of the Canadian Department of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
• Joseph Aspdin, British inventor of cement in 1824

B

• Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), England — Analytical engine
• Leo Baekeland (1863) - (1944), Belgium — plastic
• Ralph Baer - German born American — computer game
• John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), Scotland — television
• John Bardeen, (1908-1991) — co-inventor of the transistor
• Trevor Baylis, (1937- ) — Clockwork radio
• Arnold O. Beckman, (1900 - 2004), pH meter
• Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Scotland and Canada — telephone
• Karl Benz, Germany — automobile
• Emile Berliner, (1851-1929) Germany and USA — gramophone
• Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898),England — Bessemer process
• Tim Berners-Lee — World Wide Web
• Bi Sheng — primitive movable printing types
• Katherine Blodgett, (1898-1979) — nonreflective glass
• Theobald Boehm, (1794-1881), Germany — inventor of the modern flute
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier — snowmobile
• Hugo Borchardt (1844-1924) German/American inventor of the Borchardt C-93 semi automatic pistol
• Ruđer Bošković, (1711-1787) — Croatia, ring-micrometer, water telescope
• Walter Houser Brattain, (born 1902), co-inventor of the transistor
• Louis Braille, (1809-1852)
• Karl Ferdinand Braun, (1850-1918), Germany — cathode ray tube
• Wernher von Braun, (1912-1977), Germany and USA — rocket technology
• Edwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846) — lawnmower and adjustable spanner
• Robert Bunsen, (1811-1899), Germany — Bunsen burner

C

• Cai Lun — paper
• Marvin Camras — magnetic recording
• Chester Carlson, (1906-1968) USA — electrophotography
• George Washington Carver, (1860-1943), plant scientist
• Chang Heng — "Seismograph"
• Arthur C. Clarke, (born 1917),England, geosynchronous satellite
• Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999)England, — hovercraft
• Henri Coandă (1886-1972) — Jet aircraft
• Jacques Cousteau, France — aqualung
• Charles Cros, (1842-1888) — phonograph... almost
• Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725-1804) — automobile
• William Cullen — mechanical / chemical refrigeration
• Ward Cunningham — wiki

D

• Gustav Dahlén, (1869-1937) — invented the AGA Lighthouse
• Gottlieb Daimler, (1834-1900), Germany — automobile
• Salvino D'Armate — eyeglasses
• Leonardo DaVinci, (1452-1519), Italy — euclidean geometry
• Joseph Day --(1855-1946) Two Stroke Internal Combustion Engine
• Lee DeForest, (1873-1961) — triode, amongst others
• Sir James Dewar, (1842-1923) — Thermos bottle
• William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, motion picture camera
• Rudolf Diesel, (1858-1913), Germany — Diesel engine
• Karl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany — bicycle (Draisine)
• Cornelius Drebbel (1572-1633)
• Richard Drew — Scotch (or cellophane) tape

E

• George Eastman, (1854-1932), USA — roll film
• Thomas Edison, (1847-1931), USA — phonograph, amongst others
• Douglas Engelbart - the computer mouse [1] (http://eepatents.com/collection.html#006)
• Oliver Evans (1755-1819) - amphibious vehicle, amongst others
• John S. Eastwood (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple arch dam

F

• Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971) — vacuum tube television display
• James Fergason — liquid crystal display
• Reginald Fessenden — two-way radio
• Adolf Eugen Fick, (1829-1901) — contact lens
• John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), England — vacuum diode
• Henry Ford, (1863-1947), USA — modern assembly line
• Samuel Fox — steel ribbed umbrella
• Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), USA — lightning rod, bifocals
• William Friese-Greene, (1855-1921) — cinematography
• Buckminster Fuller, (1895-1983) — geodesic domes, others
• Robert Fulton, (1765-1815) — steamboat engine

G

• Galileo Galilei, (1564-1642), Italy — thermometer
• Hans Geiger, (1882-1945)
• Robert Goddard, (1882-1945), USA — liquid fuel rocket
• Heinrich Goebel — light bulb
• Gordon Gould — laser
• Bette Nesmith Graham — Liquid Paper
• Chester Greenwood, (1858-1937) — Ear muffs
• James Gregory, (1638-1675) — reflecting telescope
• Harry Grindell-Matthews, (1880-1941) — various products, & supposed death ray
• Sir William Grove — fuel cell
• William Gruber — View-master
• Otto von Guericke, (1602-1686) — vacuum pump
• Johann Gutenberg, (circa 1390s-1468), Germany — movable type printing press

H

• John Hadley — quadrant
• William Hamilton, jet boat in 1957
• Franjo Hanaman , Croatia, electric bulb
• James Hargreaves, (1720-1778)
• John Harrison, (1693-1776) — marine chronometer
• Robert Heinlein, (1907-1988), waterbed
• Rudolf Hell, (1901-2002)
• John Philip Holland, (1840-1914) — "true" submarine
• Erna Schneider Hoover, computerized telephone switching system

I

J

• Aleksandar Just — Croatia, electric bulb
• Karl Jatho — airplane
• Sam Jacks — ringette
• Carl Edvard Johansson
• Johan Petter Johansson

K

• William Kelly
• Mary Dixon Kies — method for weaving straw with silk for hat-making.
• Fritz Klatte — invented vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride
• Margaret Knight — (1838-1914) American, machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags.
• Gleb Kotelnikov - Russian inventor of the parachute.
• Stephanie Kwolek — Kevlar

L

• Hedy Lamarr, (1913-2000) — Spread spectrum
• Edwin H. Land, (1909-1991), USA — Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera
• Håkan Lans, (1942-) — Developed the Computer mouse by adding a heavy rubber ball to the underside of it.
• Irving Langmuir, (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding
• Lewis Latimer — worked with Thomas Edison and patented an improved lightbulb manufacturing process.
• Gottfried Leibniz — binary numeral system
• Justus von Liebig, (1803-1873) — fertilizer
• Ivan Lupis-Vukić (1813-1875) — Croatia, torpedo

M

• Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937), Italy — radio
• Jack Marks — boxer's gumshield
• Edgar Matias — Half Keyboard
• Elijah McCoy — son of former slaves, patented many lubrication devices
• Lise Meitner — nuclear chain reaction
• Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol, (1819-1885) — steam powered submarine
• Robert Moog — music synthesizer
• Montgolfier brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), France — hot-air balloon
• Samuel Morey, (1762-1843) — internal combustion engine
• Garrett A. Morgan, (1877-1963) — African-American Inventor of the gas mask, and traffic signal.
• Samuel Morse, (1791-1872), USA — telegraph

N

• Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Sweden — dynamite
• Thomas Newcomen, England(ca. 1664-1729) designed a steam engine
• Isaac Newton, England,(1642-1727) — reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration)

O

• Hans von Ohain — co-founder of the jet engine
• Elisha Otis — passenger elevator and concommitant safety device
• Nikolaus Otto, (1832-1891), Germany — four-stroke cycle engine

P

• Spede Pasanen, Finnish inventor
• Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, (1871-1922), Croatia, ball point pen
• Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662) — adding machine
• Steve Pasjack, Canadian who invented the tuck-away beer carton handle in 1957
• Stephen Perry — rubber band
• Ashwin Kochiyil Philips — personal audio recorder
• Olivia Poole, Mother of 7, invented the Jolly Jumper baby harness with her husband, circa. 1959

Q

R

• Johann Philipp Reis, (1834-1874), Germany — telephone
• Norbert Rilleaux, (1806-1894), USA — sugar processing
• Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923), Germany — x-ray machine
• Otto Frederick Rohwedder, USA — automatic bread-slicing machine
• James Russell — compact disc

S

• Alberto Santos-Dumont, (1873-1932) — non-rigid airship and airplane
• Adolphe Sax, (1814-1894) — saxophone
• David Schwarz, Croatia, rigid ship later called Zeppelin
• Claude E. Shannon, (1916-2001) — information theory
• William Bradford Shockley, (1910- ) — co-inventor of transistor
• Werner von Siemens, (1816-1892), Germany — dynamo (electrical generator), electrical railroad, electrical elevator
• Percy Shaw — cat's eyes
• Henry Miller Shreve, (1785-1854) — sidewheeler, snagboat, various other steamboat and steam engine improvements
• Lucien B. Smith — barbed wire
• George Stephenson, (1781-1848), England — steam locomotive, civil engineer, inventor
• Levi Strauss, (1829-1902), USA — blue jeans
• John Stringfellow — airplane
• Joseph Swan, (1828-1914), England — inventor, physicist

T

• Nikola Tesla, ( 1856-1943), Serbian-Croatia- American inventor of the induction motor, alternating current polyphase power distribution system, wireless communication, robotics, logic gates, the bladeless turbine, radio and VTOL aircraft (among others).
• Edward Teller — fusion bomb
• Ray Tomlinson — Internet-based e-mail
• Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, (1852-1936), Spanish inventor
• Alfred Traeger, (1895 - 1980), Australian inventor of the pedal radio
• Alan Turing, (1912–1954) a British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer, and is considered to be one of the fathers of modern computer science. He provided an influential formalisation of the concept of algorithm and computation: the Turing machine.

U

• Lewis Urry, (1927-2004), — long-lasting alkaline battery.

V

• Johann Vaaler, Paper clip
• Alessandro Volta, (1745-1827), Italy — battery
• Faust Vrančić (1551-1617), Croatia, parachute
• Ivan Vučetić - Croatia, fingerprinting

W

• Erik Wallenberg, — invented the Tetra Pak
• Ghulam Sediq Wardak — Afghan with 341 unpatented inventions
• Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973) — microwave radar
• James Watt, (1736-1819), Scotland — practical steam engine
• George Westinghouse, (1846-1914), USA — air brake
• Eli Whitney, (1765-1825) — cotton gin
• Frank Whittle, (1907-1996) — co-inventor of the jet engine
• A. Baldwin Wood, (December 1879-1956), US inventor & engineer
• Granville Woods, synchronous multiplex railway telegraph and other railroad-related technology
• Wolfhart Willimczik Wolfhart Engine, air mobile etc

X

Y

Z

• Ferdinand von Zeppelin, (1838-1917), Germany — rigid airship
• Konrad Zuse, (1910-1995), Germany — computers
• Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982), Russia — television