List of Inventors and their Inventions
Banū Mūsā brothers, Muhammad (c. 800-873)
Ahmad (803-873)
Abbas Ibn Firnas (810-887)
Al-Andalus - fused quartz and silica glass, metronome
Julio Palmaz (born 1945)
Argentina - balloon-expandable, stent
Artem Mikoyan (1905-1970)
Armenia/Russia - MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most produced jet aircraft MiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraft MiG-21 (together with Mikhail Gurevich)
Ivan Knunyants (1906-1990)
Armenia/Russia - capron, Nylon 6, polyamide-6
Kia Silverbrook (born 1958)
Australia - Memjet printer, world's most prolific inventor
Alfred Traeger (1895-1980)
Australia - Pedal radio
Charlie Booth (1903-2008)
Australia - Starting blocks
Myra Juliet Farrell (1878-1957)
Australia - stitchless button, Press stud
Anthony Michell (1870-1959)
Australia - tilting pad thrust bearing, crankless engine
Gustav Tauschek (1899-1945)
Austria - Drum memory
Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929)
Austria - Gas mantle, ferrocerium
Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903-1992)
Austria - Giesl ejector
Friedrich Schmiedl (1902-1994)
Austria - rocket mail
Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000)
Austria and U.S. - Spread spectrum radio
Josef Popper (1838-1921)
Austria- discovered the transmission of power by electricity.
David Gestetner (1854-1939)
Austria-Hungary / UK - a.o. Gestetner copier
Paul Eisler (1907-1992)
Austria/U.S. - Printed circuit board (electronics)
Giovanni Luppis or Ivan Vukić (1813-1875)
Austrian Empire (ethnical Croatian, from Rijeka) - self-propelled torpedo
Charles K. Bliss (1897-1985)
Austro-Hungary/Australia - Blissymbols
Kerim Kerimov (1917-2003)
Azerbaijan and Russia - co-developer of human spaceflight, space dock, space station
Muhammad Yunus (born 1940)
Bangladesh - microcredit, microfinance
Fazlur Khan (1929-1982)
Bangladesh - structural systems for high-rise skyscrapers
Ida Rosenthal (1886-1973)
Belarus/Russia/United States - Bra (Maidenform)
Leo Baekeland (1863-1944)
Belgian-American - Velox photographic paper and Bakelite
Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir (1822-1900)
Belgium - internal combustion engine, motorboat
Joseph Plateau (1801-1883)
Belgium - phenakistiscope (stroboscope)
Adolphe Sax (1814-1894)
Belgium - saxophone
Robert Cailliau (born 1947)
Belgium - with Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
Lucien Olivier (1838-1883)
Belgium or France / Russia - Russian salad (Olivier salad)
Zénobe Gramme (1826-1901)
Belgium/France - Gramme dynamo
Miguel Nicolelis (born 1961)
Brazil - Brain-machine interfaces
Andreas Pavel (born 1945)
Brazil - audio devices
Bartolomeu de Gusmão (1685-1724)
Brazil - early air balloons
Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932)
Brazil - non-rigid airship and airplane
Archibald Low (1882-1956)
Britain - Pioneer of radio guidance systems
Charles Algernon Parsons (1854-1931)
British - steam turbine
Dimitar Paskov (1914-1986)
Bulgaria - Galantamine
Assen Jordanoff (1896-1967)
Bulgaria - airbag
Peter Petroff (1919-2004)
Bulgaria - digital wrist watch, heart monitor, weather instruments
Georgi Nadjakov (1896-1981)
Bulgaria - wikt:photoelectret
John Vincent Atanasoff (1903-1995)
Bulgaria/U.S. - digital computer
Elijah McCoy (1843-1929)
Canada - Displacement lubricator
Robert Swanson (1905-1994)
Canada - Invented and developed the first multi-chime air horn for use with diesel locomotives
Gilles Saint-Hilaire (born 1948)
Canada - Quasiturbine, Qurbine
Cyril Duquet (1841-1922)
Canada - Telephone handset
Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)
Canada - Universal Standard Time
Daniel David Palmer (1845-1913)
Canada - chiropractic
Simon Sunatori (born 1959)
Canada - inventor of MagneScribe and Magic Spicer
Lewis Urry (1927-2004)
Canada - long-lasting alkaline battery
Reginald Fessenden (1866-1932)
Canada - two-way radio
Thomas Chang (born 1933)
Canada/China - Artificial cell
Anthony R. Barringer (1925-2009)
Canada/U.S. - INPUT (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system
Earl W. Bascom (1906-1995)
Canada/U.S. - rodeo bucking chute (1916 and 1919)
James Naismith (1861-1939)
Canadian born, U.S. - invented basketball and American football helmet
Tu Youyou (born 1930)
China - Artemisinin
Yi Xing (683-727)
China - Astronomical clock
Zhang Heng (78-139)
China - Seismometer, first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere
Huang Hongjia (born 1924)
China - Single-mode optical fiber.
Bi Sheng (Chinese: 畢昇) (c. 990-1051)
China - clay movable type printing
Su Song (1020-1101)
China - first chain drive
Shen Kuo (1031-1095)
China - improved gnomon, armillary sphere, clepsydra, and sighting tube
Tang Zhongming (1897-1980)
China - internal combustion engine powered by charcoal
Cai Lun, 蔡倫 (50-121 AD)
China - paper
Ma Jun (fl. 220-265)
China - south-pointing chariot (see differential gear)
Lin Yutang (1895-1976)
China/U.S. - Chinese language typewriter
Hon Lik (born 1951)
Chinese. electronic cigarette
Ivan Vučetić (1858-1925)
Croatia - Method of fingerprint classification
Marin Soljačić (born 1974)
Croatia - Resonant inductive coupling
Marcel Kiepach (1894-1915)
Croatia - dynamo, maritime compass that indicates north regardless of the presence of iron or magnetic forces
Josip Belušić (1847-?)
Croatia - electric speedometer
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871-1922)
Croatia - mechanical pencil
David Schwarz (1852-1897)
Croatia, - rigid ship, later called Zeppelin
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
Croatia/Serbia - induction motor, high-voltage / high-frequency power experiments, the transmission of electrical power
Stanislav Brebera (1925-2012)
Czech Republic - Semtex explosive
Josef Ressel (1793-1857)
Czechoslovakia - ship propeller
Otto Wichterle (1913-1989)
Czechoslovakia - soft contact lens
Bjarne Stroustrup (born 1950)
Denmark - C++ (programming language)
Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891-1958)
Denmark - Creator of Lego
Lasse Hessel (born 1940)
Denmark - Female condom
Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851)
Denmark - electromagnetism, aluminium
Valdemar Poulsen (1869-1942)
Denmark - magnetic wire recorder, arc converter
Hans Christian Gram (1853-1938)
Denmark / Germany - Gram staining (histology)
Goldsworthy Gurney (1793-1875)
England - Gurney Stove
William Griggs (1832-1911)
England - a process of photolithography
Robert Salmon (1763-1821)
England - agricultural implements
William Reynolds (1758-1803)
England - canal inclined plane
Joseph Glass (1791-1867)
England - chimney-sweeping apparatus
Thomas Parker (1843-1915)
England - electric car
Robert Ransome (1753-1830)
England - improvement to the plough
Nicholas Halse (died 1636)
England - malt kiln
Ralph Hart Tweddell (1843-1895)
England - portable hydraulic riveter
Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935)
Estonia/Germany - Schmidt camera
Pavel Schilling (1786-1837)
Estonia/Russia - first electromagnetic telegraph, mine with an electric fuse
Jarkko Oikarinen (born 1967)
Finland - Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Eric Tigerstedt (1887-1925)
Finland - Sound-on-film, triode vacuum tube
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895-1973)
Finland - a.o. AIV fodder
Spede Pasanen (1930-2001)
Finland - a.o. ski jumping sling, boat ski
Ami Argand (1750-1803)
France - Argand lamp
Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (1785-1870)
France - Arithmometer
Lucien Vidi (1805-1866)
France - Barograph
Émile Baudot (1845-1903)
France - Baudot code
Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907)
France - Berthelot's reagent (chemistry)
Louis Braille (1809-1852)
France - Braille writing system, Braille musical notation
Charles Chamberland (1851-1908)
France - Chamberland filter
Auguste and Louis Lumière (1862-1954 and 1864-1948, resp.)
France - Cinématographe
Édouard Branly (1844-1940)
France - Coherer
Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700-1770)
France - Electroscope
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725-1804)
France - First steam-powered road vehicle
Léon Serpollet (1858-1907)
France - Flash boiler, Gardner-Serpollet steam car
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819-1868)
France - Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827)
France - Fresnel lens
Antoine Louis (1723-1792)
France - Guillotine
Yves Klein (1928-1962)
France - International Klein Blue
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (1845-1921)
France - Lippmann plate, Integral imaging, Lippmann electrometer
Charles Mantoux (1877-1947)
France - Mantoux test (tuberculosis)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
France - Pascal's calculator
Hippolyte Pixii (1808-1835)
France - Pixii dynamo
Gilles de Roberval (1602-1675)
France - Roberval balance
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754-1785)
France - Rozière balloon
Claude Chappe (1763-1805)
France - Semaphore line
Auguste Victor Louis Verneuil (1856-1913)
France - Verneuil process (crystal growth)
Pierre Vernier (1580-1637)
France - Vernier scale (1631)
Nicolas Appert (1749-1841)
France - canning (food preservation) using glass bottles, see also Peter Durand
Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997)
France - co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera
Montgolfier brothers (1740-1810) and (1745-1799)
France - hot air balloon
Roland Moreno (1945-2012)
France - inventor of the smart card
Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817-1880)
France - margarine
Georges Claude (1870-1960)
France - neon lamp
Joseph Nicephore Niépce (1765-1833)
France - photography
Édouard Michelin (1859-1940)
France - pneumatic tire
Henri Giffard (1825-1882)
France - powered airship, injector
René Laennec (1781-1826)
France - stethoscope
Benoît Fourneyron (1802-1867)
France - water turbine
Marc Seguin (1786-1875)
France - wire-cable suspension bridge
Alfred Binet (1857-1911)
France - with his student Théodore Simon (1872-1961)
Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874)
France/Belgium - Body mass index (BMI)
Adolphe Kégresse (1879-1943)
France/Russia - Kégresse track (first half-track and first off-road vehicle with continuous track)
Alexander Nadiradze (1914-1987)
Georgia/Russia - first mobile ICBM (RT-21 Temp 2S)
Nicolas Florine (1891-1972)
Georgia/Russia/Belgium - first tandem rotor helicopter to fly freely
Christian Schnabel (1878-1936)
German - simplistic food cutleries
Ralph H. Baer (1922-2014)
German born American - video game console
Erhard Kietz (1909-1982)
Germany
Felix Hoffmann (Bayer) (1868-1949)
Germany - Aspirin
Friedrich Bergius (1884-1949)
Germany - Bergius process (synthetic fuel from coal)
Max Bielschowsky (1869-1940)
Germany - Bielschowsky stain (histology)
Robert Bunsen (1811-1899)
Germany - Bunsen burner
Ernst Karl Abbe (1840-1905)
Germany - Condenser (microscope)
Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913)
Germany - Diesel engine
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780-1849)
Germany - Döbereiner's lamp (chemistry)
Emil Erlenmeyer (1825-1909)
Germany - Erlenmeyer flask
Robert Feulgen (1884-1955)
Germany - Feulgen stain (histology)
Hans Wilhelm Geiger (1882-1945)
Germany - Geiger counter
Gustav Giemsa (1867-1948)
Germany - Giemsa stain (histology)
Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe (1872-1931)
Germany - Gyrocompass
Fritz Haber (1868-1934)
Germany - Haber process (ammonia synthesis)
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894)
Germany - Helmholtz pitch notation, Helmholtz resonator, ophthalmoscope
Wilhelm Normann (1870-1939)
Germany - Hydrogenation of fats
Philipp von Jolly (1809-1884)
Germany - Jolly balance
Ralf Reski (born 1958)
Germany - Moss bioreactor 1998
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860-1940)
Germany - Nipkow disk
Eugen Baumann (1846-1896)
Germany - PVC
Julius Richard Petri (1852-1921)
Germany - Petri dish
Friedrich Soennecken (1848-1919)
Germany - Ring binder, Hole punch
Hugo Schiff (1834-1915)
Germany - Schiff test (histology)
Wilhelm Schlenk (1879-1943)
Germany - Schlenk flask (chemistry)
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn (1853-1927)
Germany - Taximeter
Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917)
Germany - Zeppelin
Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917)
Germany - a.o. Fluorescein, synthetic Indigo dye, Phenolphthalein
Werner von Siemens (1816-1892)
Germany - a.o. electric elevator, Electromote (= first trolleybus)
Karl Jatho (1873-1933)
Germany - aeroplane
Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918)
Germany - cathode-ray tube oscilloscope
Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick (1829-1901)
Germany - contact lens
Friedrich Clemens Gerke (1801-1888)
Germany - current international Morse code
Karl Drais (1785-1851)
Germany - dandy horse, Draisine
Ernst Ruska (1906-1988)
Germany - electron microscope
Hans Berger (1873-1941)
Germany - first human EEG and its development
Julius Fromm (1883-1945)
Germany - first seamless Condom
Gerhard Sessler (born 1931)
Germany - foil electret microphone, silicon microphone
Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896)
Germany - hang glider
Heinrich Göbel (1818-1893)
Germany - incandescent lamp
Konrad Zuse (1910-1995)
Germany - invented the first programmable general-purpose computer (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4)
Fritz Pfleumer (1881-1945)
Germany - magnetic tape
Wilhelm Schickard (1592-1635)
Germany - mechanical calculator
Robert Koch (1843-1910)
Germany - method for culturing bacteria on solid media
Johann Gutenberg (c. 1398-1468)
Germany - movable type printing press
Justus von Liebig (1803-1873)
Germany - nitrogen-based fertilizer
Melitta Bentz (1873-1950)
Germany - paper Coffee filter
Karl von Reichenbach (1788-1869)
Germany - paraffin, creosote oil, phenol
Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894)
Germany - radio telegraphy, electromagnetic radiation
Sir William Siemens (1823-1883)
Germany - regenerative furnace
Ottomar Anschütz (1846-1907)
Germany - single-curtain focal-plane shutter, electrotachyscope
Rudolf Hell (1901-2002)
Germany - the Hellschreiber
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923)
Germany - the X-ray machine
Karl Benz (1844-1929)
Germany - the petrol-powered automobile
Otto von Guericke (1602-1686)
Germany - vacuum pump, manometer, dasymeter
Fritz Klatte (1880-1934)
Germany - vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride
Gunther von Hagens (born 1945)
Germany - whole body Plastination
Herman Frasch (1851-1914)
Germany / U.S. - Frasch process (petrochemistry)
Karl-Hermann Geib (1908-1949)
Germany / USSR - Girdler sulfide process
Emile Berliner (1851-1929)
Germany and U.S. - the disc record gramophone
Emmy Noether (1882-1935)
Germany, groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics; Noether's Theorem
Moritz von Jacobi (1801-1874)
Germany/Russia - electrotyping, electric boat
Michael Grätzel (born 1944)
Germany/Switzerland- a.o. Dye-sensitized solar cell
Karl Nessler (1872-1951)
Germany/U.S. - a.o. Permanent wave machine, artificial eyebrows
Rudolf Jaenisch (born 1942)
Germany/U.S. - first Genetically modified mouse
Gerhard Fischer (1899-1988)
Germany/U.S. - hand-held metal detector
Augustus Siebe (1788-1872)
Germany/UK - Inventor of the standard diving dress
Johann Maria Farina (1685-1766)
Germany; Eau de Cologne
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
Greece - Archimedes' screw
Georgios Papanikolaou (1883-1962)
Greece / U.S. - Papanicolaou stain, Pap test = Pap smear
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968)
Greenland/Canada - PHP (programming language)
Dennis Gabor (1900-1979)
Hungarian-British - holography
László Bíró (1899-1985)
Hungary - Ballpoint pen
Charles Simonyi (born 1948)
Hungary - Hungarian notation
Ányos Jedlik (1800-1898)
Hungary - Jedlik dynamo
Ernő Rubik (born 1944)
Hungary - Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Clock
John von Neumann (1903-1957)
Hungary - Von Neumann computer architecture
Miksa Deri (1854-1938)
Hungary - co-inventor of an improved closed-core transformer
Kalman Tihanyi (1897-1947)
Hungary - co-inventor of cathode ray tube and iconoscope
Otto Blathy (1860-1939)
Hungary - co-inventor of the transformer, wattmeter, alternating current (AC) and turbogenerator
Bela Schick (1877-1967)
Hungary - diphtheria test
Gyula Takátsy (1914-1980)
Hungary - first Microtiter plate
Edward Teller (1908-2003)
Hungary - hydrogen bomb
János Irinyi (1817-1895)
Hungary - noiseless match
George de Hevesy (1885-1966)
Hungary - radioactive tracer
Tivadar Puskas (1844-1893)
Hungary - telephone exchange
Peter Carl Goldmark (1906-1977)
Hungary - vinyl record (LP)
György Gömöri (1904-1957)
Hungary / U.S. - Gömöri trichrome stain, Gömöri methenamine silver stain (histology)
Leó Szilárd (1898-1964)
Hungary/U.S. - Co-developed the atomic bomb, patented the nuclear reactor, catalyst of the Manhattan Project
Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858-1937)
India - Crescograph
Praveen Kumar Gorakavi (born 1989)
India - low-cost Braille Typewriter
C. Kumar N. Patel (born 1938)
India/U.S. - Carbon dioxide laser
Bhargav Sri Prakash (born 1977)
India/U.S. - Learnification platform at FriendsLearn, Virtual Reality System, electromagnetic collision avoidance system, OBD based in-vehicle powertrain performance measurement, rate based driver controls for drive by wire systems
Arogyaswami Paulraj (born 1944)
India/U.S. - MIMO
Sennacherib (705-681 BC)
Iraq (Mesopotamia) - screw pump
Nebuchadrezzar II (634-562 BC)
Iraq (Mesopotamia) - screw, screwpump
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965-1039)
Iraq - camera obscura, pinhole camera, magnifying glass
Al-Jazari (1136-1206)
Iraq - 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, lamination, static balancing, paper model, sand casting, molding sand, intermittency, linkage
Al-Ma'mun (786-833)
Iraq - singing bird automata, terrestrial globe
Al-Kindi (Alkindus) (801-873)
Iraq/Yemen - unambiguously described the distillation of wine in the 9th century, cryptanalysis, frequency analysis
Aeneas Coffey (1780-1852)
Ireland - Coffey still
Frank Pantridge (1916-2004)
Ireland - Portable defibrillator
John Howard Kyan (1774-1850)
Ireland - The process of Kyanization used for wood preservation
Nicholas Callan (1799-1864)
Ireland - a.o. Induction coil
Francis Beaufort (1774-1857)
Ireland/UK - Beaufort scale, Beaufort cipher
Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel) (1028-1087)
Islamic Spain - almanac, equatorium, universal astrolabe
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) (936-1013)
Islamic Spain - catgut surgical suture, various surgical instruments and dental devices
Arturo Caprotti (1881-1938)
Italy - Caprotti valve gear
Giovanni Battista Amici (1786-1863)
Italy - Dipleidoscope, Amici prism
Camillo Golgi (1843-1926)
Italy - Golgi's method (histology)
Guido of Arezzo (c. 991-c. 1033)
Italy - Guidonian hand, musical notation, see also staff (music)
Michele Ferrero (1925-2015)
Italy - Kinder Surprise = Kinder Eggs, Nutella
Antonio Pacinotti (1841-1912)
Italy - Pacinotti dynamo
Ignazio Porro (1801-1875)
Italy - Porro prism, strip camera
Tullio Campagnolo (1901-1983)
Italy - Quick release skewer
Giacomo da Lentini (13th Century)
Italy - Sonnet
Enrico Forlanini (1848-1930)
Italy - Steam helicopter, hydrofoil, Forlanini airships
Alberto Gianni (1891-1930)
Italy - Torretta butoscopica
Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764-1815)
Italy - Vermouth
Corradino D'Ascanio (1891-1981)
Italy - Vespa scooter
Giuseppe Zamboni (1776-1846)
Italy - Zamboni pile (early battery)
Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576)
Italy - a.o. Cardan grille (cryptography)
Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647)
Italy - barometer
Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
Italy - battery, see also Voltaic pile
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Italy - helicopter, tanks, and parachutes for safety
Federico Faggin (born 1941)
Italy - microprocessor
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)
Italy - nuclear reactor
Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731)
Italy - piano
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)
Italy - radio telegraphy
Luigi Palmieri (1807-1896)
Italy - seismometer
Giovanni Caselli (1815-1891)
Italy/France - Pantelegraph
Antonio Meucci (1808-1889)
Italy/U.S. - a.o. various early telephones, a hygrometer, a milk test
Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born 1928)
Japan - "PyonPyon" spring shoes, digital watch, CinemaScope, armchair "Cerebrex", sauce pump, taxicab meter
Shuji Nakamura (born 1954)
Japan - Blue laser
Mutsuo Sugiura (1918-1986)
Japan - Esophagogastroduodenoscope
Fujio Masuoka (born 1943)
Japan - Flash memory
Gunpei Yokoi (1941-1997)
Japan - Game Boy
Hanaoka Seishū (1760-1835)
Japan - General anaesthetic
Momofuku Ando (1910-2007)
Japan - Instant noodles
Kyota Sugimoto (1882-1972)
Japan - Japanese language typewriter
Kotaro Honda (1870-1954)
Japan - KS steel
Daisuke Inoue (born 1940)
Japan - Karaoke machine
Tokushichi Mishima (1893-1975)
Japan - MKM magnetic steel
Nagai Nagayoshi (1844-1929)
Japan - Methamphetamine
Tanaka Hisashige (1799-1881)
Japan - Myriad year clock
Katsuhiko Okamoto (?-)
Japan - Okamoto Cubes = modifications of Rubik's Cube
Jun-Ichi Nishizawa (born 1926)
Japan - Optical communication system, SIT/SITh (Static Induction Transistor/Thyristor)
Ken Kutaragi (born 1950)
Japan - PlayStation
Mamoru Imura (born 1948)
Japan - RFIQin (automatic cooking device)
Yoshiyuki Sankai (born c. 1957)
Japan - Robotic exoskeleton for motion support (medicine)
Ryōichi Yazu (1878-1908)
Japan - Yazu Arithmometer
Kazuo Hashimoto (died 1995)
Japan - a.o. Caller-ID, answering machine
Konosuke Matsushita (1894-1989)
Japan - a.o. battery-powered Bicycle lighting
Masatoshi Shima (born 1943)
Japan - microprocessor
Shunpei Yamazaki (born 1942)
Japan - patents in a.o. computer science and solid-state physics, see List of prolific inventors
Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973-1025)
Japan - psychological novel
Toshitada Doi (born 1943)
Japan, together with Joop Sinjou, Netherlands - Compact disc
Walter Zapp (1905-2003)
Latvia/Estonia/Germany - Minox (subminiature camera)
Mstislav Keldysh (1911-1978)
Latvia/Russia - co-developer of Sputnik 1 (the first artificial satellite) together with Korolyov and Tikhonravov
Paul Walden (1863-1957)
Latvia/Russia/Germany - Walden inversion, Ethylammonium nitrate (the first room temperature ionic liquid)
Andrei Sychra (c.1773/76-1850)
Lithuania/Russia, Czech descent - Russian seven-string guitar
William Justin Kroll (1889-1973)
Luxemburg/U.S. - Kroll process
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (born 1972)
Malaysia - cell growth in outer space, crystallization of proteins and microbes in space
Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi (c. 1187)
Middle East - counterweight trebuchet, mangonel
Abu Yusuf Yaqub (c. 1274)
Morocco/Spain - siege cannon
Fathullah Shirazi (c. 1582)
Mughal India - early volley gun
Muhammad Salih Tahtawi (fl.1659-1660)
Mughal India - seamless globe and celestial globe
Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692-1761)
Netherlands - Leyden jar, pyrometer
Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (born 1946)
Netherlands - Major contributor to development of Compact Disc
Willem Johan Kolff (1911-2009)
Netherlands - artificial kidney hemodialysis machine
Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801-1887)
Netherlands - cocoa powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk
Simon Stevin (1548-1620)
Netherlands - land yacht
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926)
Netherlands - liquid helium
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
Netherlands - pendulum clock
Bernard Tellegen (1900-1990)
Netherlands - pentode
Hub van Doorne (1900-1979)
Netherlands, Variomatic continuously variable transmission
Iwan Serrurier (1878-1953)
Netherlands/U.S. - inventor of the Moviola for film editing
Alfred William Gallagher (1911-1990)
New Zealand - Electric fence for farmers
Colin Murdoch (1929-2008)
New Zealand - a.o. Tranquillizer gun, disposable hypodermic syringe
Ri Sung-gi (1905-1996)
North Korea - Vinylon
Thor Bjørklund (1889-1975)
Norway - Cheese slicer
Ole Evinrude (1877-1934)
Norway - outboard motor
Raymond Kurzweil (born 1948)
Optical character recognition; flatbed scanner
Muhammad al-Fazari (died 796/806)
Persia - astrolabe
Abu-Mahmud Khojandi (c. 940-1000)
Persia/Iran - astronomical sextant
Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi (Rhazes) (865-965)
Persia/Iran - distillation and extraction methods, sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, soap kerosene, kerosene lamp, chemotherapy, sodium hydroxide
Al-Sijzi (c. 945-1020)
Persia/Iran - heliocentric astrolabe
Al-Khazini (fl.1115-1130)
Persia/Iran - hydrostatic balance
Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī (1135-1213)
Persia/Iran - linear astrolabe
Abi Bakr of Isfahan (c. 1235)
Persia/Iran - mechanical geared astrolabe with lunisolar calendar
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Algoritmi) (c. 780-850)
Persia/Iran - modern algebra, mural instrument, horary quadrant, Sine quadrant, shadow square
Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (1201-1274)
Persia/Iran - observatory, Tusi-couple
Jamshīd al-Kāshī (c. 1380-1429)
Persia/Iran - plate of conjunctions, analog planetary computer
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980-1037)
Persia/Iran - 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
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) (903-986)
Persia/Iran - timekeeping astrolabe, navigational astrolabe, surveying astrolabe
Fe del Mundo (1911-2011)
Philippines - non-electric incubator
Remi Swierczek (born 1958)
Poland - Inventor of Music Identification System and the Mico Changer (coin hopper and dispenser used in casinos)
Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822-1882)
Poland - Kerosene lamp
Jan Czochralski (1885-1953)
Poland / Germany - Czochralski process (crystal growth)
Franz San Galli (1824-1908)
Poland/Russia (Italian and German descent) - radiator, central heating
Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862-1919)
Poland/Russia - three-phase electric power
Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996)
Poland/Switzerland - Reichstein process (industrial vitamin C synthesis)
Heron (c. 10-70)
Roman Egypt - usually credited with invention of the aeolipile, although it may have been described a century earlier
Victor Babeș (1854-1926)
Romania - Babesia, the founder of serum therapy
Henri Marie Coandă (1886-1972)
Romania - Coandă effect
Anastase Dragomir (1896-1966)
Romania - Ejection seat
George Constantinescu (1881-1965)
Romania - creator of the theory of sonics, a new branch of continuum mechanics
Aurel Persu (1890-1977)
Romania - first aerodynamic car, aluminum body with wheels included under the body, 1922
Petrache Poenaru (1799-1875)
Romania - fountain pen
Gheorghe Marinescu (1863-1938)
Romania - the first science films in the world in the neurology clinic in Bucharest (1898-1901)
Mordecai Meirowitz (born c. 1925)
Roumania / Israel - Mastermind (board game)
Ephraim Hertzano (around 1950)
Roumania / Israel - Rummikub
Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (1927-2006)
Russia - 3D holography
Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919-2013)
Russia - AK-47 and AK-74 assault rifles (the most produced ever)
Evgeny Murzin (1914-1970)
Russia - ANS synthesizer
Vladimir Simonov (born 1935)
Russia - APS Underwater Assault Rifle, SPP-1 underwater pistol
Vladimir Syromyatnikov (1933-2006)
Russia - Androgynous Peripheral Attach System and other spacecraft docking mechanisms
Vladimir Bekhterev (1857-1927)
Russia - Bekhterev's Mixture
Aleksandr Dianin (1851-1918)
Russia - Bisphenol A, Dianin's compound
Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (1909-2001)
Russia - Buran (spacecraft)
Boris Rosing (1869-1933)
Russia - CRT television (first television system using CRT on the receiving side)
Yevgeny Zavoisky (1907-1976)
Russia - EPR spectroscopy, co-developer of NMR spectroscopy
Eugene Roshal (born 1972)
Russia - FAR file manager, RAR file format, WinRAR file archiver
Vladimir Fyodorov (1874-1966)
Russia - Fedorov Avtomat (first self-loading battle rifle, arguably the first assault rifle)
Nestor Genko (1839-1904)
Russia - Genko's Forest Belt (the first large-scale windbreak system)
Stepan Makarov (1849-1904)
Russia - Icebreaker Yermak, the first true icebreaker able to ride over and crush pack ice
Gavriil Ilizarov (1921-1992)
Russia - Ilizarov apparatus, external fixation, distraction osteogenesis
Eugene Kaspersky (born 1965)
Russia - Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Mobile Security anti-virus products
Semyon Lavochkin (1900-1960)
Russia - La-series aircraft, first operational surface-to-air missile S-25 Berkut
Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896-1964)
Russia - Maksutov telescope
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)
Mikhail Gurevich (1893-1976)
Russia - MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most produced jet aircraft MiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraft MiG-21 (together with Artem Mikoyan)
Alexander Mikulin (1895-1985)
Russia - Mikulin AM-34 and other Soviet aircraft engines, co-developer of the Tsar Tank
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849-1902)
Russia - Mosin-Nagant rifle
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907)
Russia - Periodic table, pycnometer, pyrocollodion
Nikolai Polikarpov (1892-1944)
Russia - Po-series aircraft, including Polikarpov Po-2 Kukuruznik (world's most produced biplane)
Pavel Molchanov (1893-1941)
Russia - Radiosonde
Anatoly Kharlampiyev (1906-1979)
Russia - Sambo (martial art)
Igor Spassky (born 1926)
Russia - Sea Launch platform
Pavel Sukhoi (1895-1975)
Russia - Su-series fighter aircraft
Mikhail Koshkin (1898-1940)
Russia - T-34 medium tank, the best and most produced tank of World War II[2]
Alexander Morozov (1904-1979)
Russia - T-54/55 (the most produced tank in history)
Fedor Tokarev (1871-1968)
Russia - TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and SVT-40 self-loading rifle
Aleksandr Porokhovschikov (1892-1941)
Russia - Vezdekhod (the first prototype tank, or tankette, and the first caterpillar amphibious ATV)
Pavel Yablochkov (1847-1894)
Russia - Yablochkov candle (first commercially viable electric carbon arc lamp)
Alexander Yakovlev (1906-1989)
Russia - Yak-series aircraft, including Yakovlev Yak-40 (the first regional jet)
Nikolai Zhukovsky (1847-1921)
Russia - an early wind tunnel, co-developer of the Tsar Tank
Nikolay Kamov (1902-1973)
Russia - armored battle autogyro, Ka-series coaxial rotor helicopters
Sergei Yudin (1891-1954)
Russia - cadaveric blood transfusion and other medical operations
Vitaly Abalakov (1906-1986)
Russia - camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread) gearless ice climbing anchor
Boris Grabovsky (1901-1966)
Russia - cathode commutator, an early electronic TV pickup tube
Alexander Sablukov (1783-1857)
Russia - centrifugal fan
Yulii Khariton (1904-1996)
Russia - chief designer of the Soviet atomic bomb, co-developer of the Tsar Bomba
Mikhail Tsvet (1872-1919)
Russia - chromatography (specifically adsorption chromatography, the first chromatography method)
Boris Stechkin (1891-1969)
Russia - co-developer of Sikorsky Ilya Muromets and Tsar Tank, developer of Soviet heat and aircraft engines
Mikhail Tikhonravov (1900-1974)
Russia - co-developer of Sputnik 1 (the first artificial satellite) together with Korolyov and Keldysh, designer of further Sputniks
Yuri Trutnev (born 1927)
Russia - co-developer of the Tsar Bomb
Igor Tamm (1895-1971)
Russia - co-developer of tokamak
Alexander Prokhorov (1916-2002)
Russia - co-inventor of laser and maser
Nikolay Basov (1922-2001)
Russia - co-inventor of laser and maser
Sergei Lebedev (1874-1934)
Russia - commercially viable synthetic rubber
Alexey Dushkin (1904-1977)
Russia - deep column station
Konstantin Konstantinov (1817 or 1819-1871)
Russia - device for measuring flight speed of projectiles, ballistic rocket pendulum, launch pad, rocket-making machine
Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881)
Russia - early use of ether as anaesthetic, first anaesthesia in a field operation, various kinds of surgical operations
Ivan Kulibin (1735-1818)
Russia - egg-shaped clock, candle searchlight, elevator using screw mechanisms, a self-rolling carriagefeaturing a flywheel, brake, gear box, and bearing, an early optical telegraph
Fyodor Pirotsky (1845-1898)
Russia - electric tram
Alexander Lodygin (1847-1923)
Russia - electrical filament, incandescent light bulb with tungsten filament
Boris Borisovich Galitzine (1862-1916)
Russia - electromagnetic seismograph
Gersh Budker (1918-1977)
Russia - electron cooling, co-inventor of collider
Guy Severin (1926-2008)
Russia - extra-vehicular activity supporting system
Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov (1875-1960)
Russia - feathering spectrograph
Aleksandr Loran (1849 - after 1911)
Russia - fire fighting foam, foam extinguisher
Arkhip Lyulka (1908-1984)
Russia - first double jet turbofan engine, other Soviet aircraft engines
Nikolay Popov (1931-2008)
Russia - first fully gas turbine main battle tank (T-80)
Andrey Nartov (1683-1756)
Russia - first lathe with a mechanic cutting tool-supporting carriage and a set of gears, fast-fire battery on a rotating disc, screw mechanism for changing the artillery fire angle, gauge-boring lathe for cannon-making, early telescopic sight
Ivan Elmanov
Russia - first monorail (horse-drawn)
Igor Kurchatov (1903-1960)
Russia - first nuclear power plant, first nuclear reactors for submarines and surface ships
Vladimir Barmin (1909-1993)
Russia - first rocket launch complex (spaceport)
Leonty Shamshurenkov (1687-1758)
Russia - first self-propelling carriage (a precursor to both bicycle and automobile)
Aleksandr Stoletov (1839-1896)
Russia - first solar cell based on the outer photoelectric effect
Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921-2003)
Russia - first space exploration rover (Lunokhod)
Victor Makeev (1924-1985)
Russia - first submarine-launched ballistic missile
Sergey Nepobedimiy (1921-2014)
Russia - first supersonic anti-tank guided missile Sturm, other Soviet rocket weaponry
Ivan Polzunov (1728-1766)
Russia - first two-cylinder steam engine
Pyotr Kapitsa (1894-1984)
Russia - first ultrastrong magnetic field creating techniques, basic low-temperature physics inventions
Georgy Gause (1910-1986)
Russia - gramicidin S, neomycin, lincomycin and other antibiotics
Aleksey Krylov (1863-1945)
Russia - gyroscopic damping of ships
Vladimir Petlyakov (1891-1942)
Russia - heavy bomber
Valentyn Glushko (1908-1989)
Russia - hypergolic propellant, electric propulsion, Soviet rocket engines (including world's most powerful liquid-fuel rocket engine RD-170)
Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (1847-1923)
Russia - incandescent lamp
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989)
Russia - invented explosively pumped flux compression generator, co-developed the Tsar Bomb and tokamak
Ivan Plotnikov (1902-1995)
Russia - kirza leather
Gleb Kotelnikov (1872-1944)
Russia - knapsack parachute, drogue parachute
Oleg Losev (1903-1942)
Russia - light-emitting diode, crystadine
Leonid Gobyato (1875-1915)
Russia - man-portable mortar
Dmitry Lachinov (1842-1902)
Russia - mercury pump, economizer for electricity consumption, electrical insulation tester, opticaldynamometer, photometer, electrolyser
Mikhail Pomortsev (1851-1916)
Russia - nephoscope
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765)
Russia - night vision telescope, off-axis reflecting telescope, coaxial rotor, re-invented smalt
Evgeniy Chertovsky (born 1902-Unknown)
Russia - pressure suit
Nikolai Nikitin (1907-1973)
Russia - prestressed concrete with wire ropes structure (Ostankino Tower)
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (1845-1916)
Russia - probiotics
Georgii Karpechenko (1899-1941)
Russia - rabbage (the first ever non-sterile hybrid obtained through the crossbreeding)
Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927-2000)
Russia - radial keratotomy
Alexander Popov (1859-1906)
Russia - radio pioneer, created a radio receiver that worked as a lightning detector
Boris Mamyrin (1919-2007)
Russia - reflectron (ion mirror)
Nikolay Slavyanov (1854-1897)
Russia - shielded metal arc welding
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)
Russia - spaceflight
Vladimir Veksler (1907-1966)
Russia - synchrophasotron, co-inventor of synchrotron
Alexei Tupolev (1925-2001)
Russia - the Tupolev Tu-144 (first supersonic passenger jet)
Nikolay Zelinsky (1861-1953)
Russia - the first effective filtering coal gas mask in the world
Léon Theremin (1896-1993)
Russia - theremin, interlace, burglar alarm, terpsitone, Rhythmicon (first drum machine)
Vladimir Shukhov (1853-1939)
Russia - thermal cracking (Shukhov cracking process)
Andrei Tupolev (1888-1972)
Russia - turboprop powered long-range airliner (Tupolev Tu-114)
Konstantin Khrenov (1894-1984)
Russia - underwater welding
Igor Gorynin (1926-2015)
Russia - weldable titanium alloys, high strength aluminium alloys, radiation-hardened steels
Vera Mukhina (1889-1953)
Russia - welded sculpture
Sergei Winogradsky (1856-1953)
Russia / USSR - Winogradsky column for culturing microorganisms
Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)
Russia, - classical conditioning
Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (1888-1944)
Russia/France - Optophonic Piano
Alexandre Alexeieff (1901-1982)
Russia/France - Pinscreen animation (with his wife Claire Parker)
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)
Russia/France - early colour photography method based on three colour channels, also colour film slides and colour motion pictures
Ladislas Starevich (1882-1965)
Russia/France - puppet animation, live-action/animated film
Vladimir Yourkevitch (1885-1964)
Russia/France/U.S. - ship hull design
Aleksandr Makarov (?-)
Russia/Germany - Orbitrap mass spectrometer
Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof (1859-1917)
Russia/Poland - Esperanto
Ivan Fyodorov (c. 1510-1583)
Russia/Poland-Lithuania - invented multibarreled mortar, introduced printing in Russia
Waldemar Haffkine (1860-1930)
Russia/Switzerland - first anti-cholera and anti-plague vaccines
Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982)
Russia/U.S. - Iconoscope, kinescope.
Georges Lakhovsky (1869-1942)
Russia/U.S. - Multiple Wave Oscillator
Alexey Pajitnov (born 1956)
Russia/U.S. - Tetris
Dmitri Garbuzov (1940-2006)
Russia/U.S. - continuous-wave-operating diode lasers (together with Zhores Alferov)
Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972)
Russia/U.S. - first four-engine fixed-wing aircraft (Russky Vityaz)
Sam Born (1891-1959)
Russia/U.S. - lollipop-making machine
Rostislav Alexeyev (1916-1980)
Russia/USSR - Ekranoplan
Yury Lomonosov (1876-1952)
Russia/United Kingdom - first successful mainline diesel locomotive
Andrey Geim (born 1958)
Russia/United Kingdom - graphene
Pyotr Shilovsky (1871-1957)
Russia/United Kingdom - gyrocar
Alexander Procofieff de Seversky (1894-1974)
Russia/United States of America - first gyroscopically stabilized bombsight, ionocraft, also developed air-to-air refueling
Nikolay Benardos (1842-1905)
Russian Empire - arc welding (specifically carbon arc welding, the first arc welding method)
Nikolai Korotkov (1874-1920)
Russian Empire - auscultatory technique for blood pressure measurement
Petro Prokopovych (1775-1850)
Russian Empire - early beehive frame, queen excluder and other beekeeping novelties
Semyon Korsakov (1787-1853)
Russian Empire - punched card for information storage
William Murdoch (1754-1839)
Scotland - Gas lighting
James Gregory (1638-1675)
Scotland - Gregorian telescope
Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
Scotland - Penicillin
Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (1790-1878)
Scotland - Stirling engine
John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
Scotland - an electromechanical television, electronic color television
John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836)
Scotland - improved "macadam" road surface
James Watt (1736-1819)
Scotland - improved Steam engine
John Napier (1550-1617)
Scotland - logarithms
Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
Scotland - microwave radar
James Nasmyth (1808-1890)
Scotland - steam hammer
Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)
Scotland - waterproof raincoat, life vest
Henry Burden (1791-1871)
Scotland and U.S. - Horseshoe machine, first usable iron railroad spike
Joseph Henry (1797-1878)
Scotland/U.S. - electromagnetic relay
Michael I. Pupin (1858-1935)
Serbia - pupinization (loading coils)
Ognjeslav Kostović (1851-1916)
Serbia/Russia - arborite (high-strength plywood, an early plastic)
Aurel Stodola (1859-1942)
Slovakia - gas turbines
Jozef Murgas (1864-1929)
Slovakia - inventor of the wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio)
Jozef Karol Hell (1713-1789)
Slovakia - the water pillar
Franc Trkman (1903-1978)
Slovenia - electrical switches, accessories for opening windows
Terry Keith Ashwin (born 1956)
South Africa - Link-It
James Henry Greathead (1844-1896)
South Africa - tunnel boring machine, tunnelling shield technique
Mulalo Doyoyo (born 1970)
South Africa/U.S. - Cenocell - cementless concrete
Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol (1819-1885)
Spain - steam powered submarine
Juan de la Cierva (1895-1936)
Spain - the autogyro
Nils Gustaf Dalén (1869-1937)
Sweden - AGA cooker, Dalén light, Agamassan, Sun valve for lighthouses and buoys
Theodor Svedberg (1884-1971)
Sweden - Analytical ultracentrifuge
Anders Celsius (1701-1744)
Sweden - Celsius temperature scale
Pehr Victor Edman (1916-1977)
Sweden - Edman degradation for Protein sequencing
Carl Edvard Johansson (1864-1943)
Sweden - Gauge blocks
Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862-1931)
Sweden - Kerosene stove operated by compressed air
Christopher Polhem (1661-1751)
Sweden - Padlock
Johan Petter Johansson (1853-1943)
Sweden - Pipe wrench and adjustable spanner
Anders Knutsson Ångström (1888-1981)
Sweden - Pyranometer
Alfred Nobel (1833-1896)
Sweden - dynamite
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Sweden - formal Binomial nomenclature for living organisms, Horologium Florae
Baltzar von Platen (1898-1984)
Sweden - gas absorption refrigerator
Rune Elmqvist (1906-1996)
Sweden - implantable pacemaker
Victor Hasselblad (1906-1978)
Sweden - invented the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera
Gustav de Laval (1845-1913)
Sweden - invented the milk separator and the milking machine
Gustaf Erik Pasch (1788-1862)
Sweden - safety match
Carl Richard Nyberg (1858-1939)
Sweden - the blowtorch
Helge Palmcrantz (1842-1880)
Sweden - the multi-barrel, lever-actuated, machine gun
Nils Bohlin (1920-2002)
Sweden - the three-point seat belt
John Ericsson (1803-1889)
Sweden - the two screw-propeller
Jonas Wenström (1855-1893)
Sweden - three-phase electrical power
Ludvig Nobel (1831-1888)
Sweden/Russia - first successful oil tanker
Theophil Wilgodt Odhner (1845-1903)
Sweden/Russia - the Odhner Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator
Auguste Piccard (1884-1962)
Switzerland - Bathyscaphe
Jacques E. Brandenberger (1872-1954)
Switzerland - Cellophane
Gustav Guanella (1909-1982)
Switzerland - DSSS, Guanella-Balun
Adolph Rickenbacker (1886-1976)
Switzerland - Electric guitar
Albert Hofmann (1906-2008)
Switzerland - LSD
Eduard Locher (1840-1910)
Switzerland - Locher rack railway system
Niklaus Wirth (born 1934)
Switzerland - Pascal (programming language)
Niklaus Riggenbach (1817-1899)
Switzerland - Riggenbach rack railway system, Counter-pressure brake
Emil Strub (1858-1909)
Switzerland - Strub rack railway system
George de Mestral (1907-1990)
Switzerland - Velcro
Andreas Stihl (1896-1973)
Switzerland/Germany - Electric chain saw
Ibn al-Shatir (1304-1375)
Syria - "jewel box" device which combined a compass with a universal sundial
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf (1526-1585)
Syria/Egypt/Turkey - steam turbine, six-cylinder 'Monobloc' suction pump, framed sextant
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736)
The Netherlands - Fahrenheit temperature scale, Mercury-in-glass thermometer
Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808-1864)
The Netherlands - Kipp's apparatus (chemistry)
Frits Zernike (1888-1966)
The Netherlands - Phase contrast microscope
Guido van Rossum (born 1956)
The Netherlands - Python (programming language)
Hans Lippershey (1570-1619)
The Netherlands - associated with the appearance of the telescope
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
The Netherlands - development of the microscope
Willem Einthoven (1860-1927)
The Netherlands - the electrocardiogram
Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550-1607)
The Netherlands - wind powered sawmill
Fe del Mundo (1911-2011)
The Philippines - medical incubator made out of bamboo for use in rural communities without electrical power
Peter I the Great (Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov)
Tsar and Emperor of Russia (1672-1725)
Ibn Al-Jazzar (Algizar) (895-979)
Tunisia - sexual dysfunction and erectile dysfunction treatment drugs
Gazi Yasargil (born 1925)
Turkey - Microneurosurgery
Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385-1468)
Turkey - illustrated surgical atlas
Ub Iwerks (1901-1971)
U. S. - Multiplane camera for animation
Chuck Hull (born 1939)
U.S. - 3D printer
Charles Leiper Grigg (1868-1940)
U.S. - 7 Up
Ed Seymour (inv. c. 1949)
U.S. - Aerosol paint
George Westinghouse (1846-1914)
U.S. - Air brake (rail)
Gilmore Schjeldahl (1912-2002)
U.S. - Airsickness bag
James McLurkin (born 1972)
U.S. - Ant robotics (robotics)
Jules Montenier (1895-1962)
U.S. - Anti-perspirant deodorant
Virginia Apgar (1909-1974)
U.S. - Apgar score (for newborn babies)
Steve Wozniak (born 1950)
U.S. - Apple I
Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
U.S. - Apple Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone, iPad and other devices, software operating systems and applications.
Ruth Handler (1916-2002)
U.S. - Barbie doll
Tom Knight (? - )
U.S. - BioBricks (synthetic biology)
Charles F. Brannock (1903-1992)
U.S. - Brannock Device (shoe size)
Donald A. Glaser (1926-2013)
U.S. - Bubble chamber
Ward Christensen (born 1945)
U.S. - Bulletin board system
Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)
U.S. - C (programming language)
Ed Lowe (1920-1995)
U.S. - Cat litter
Philip Diehl (1847-1913)
U.S. - Ceiling fan
Leland Clark (1918-2005)
U.S. - Clark electrode (medicine)
Ellen Eglin (1849-c. 1890)
U.S. - Clothes wringer
John Pemberton (1831-1888)
U.S. - Coca-Cola
Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
U.S. - Compiler
John Thompson Dorrance (1873-1930)
U.S. - Condensed soup
Bette Nesmith Graham (1924-1980)
U.S. - Correction fluid, Liquid Paper
Annie Malone (1869-1957)
U.S. - Cosmetics for African American women
Wallace H. Coulter (1913-1998)
U.S. - Coulter principle
Samuel W. Alderson (1914-2005)
U.S. - Crash test dummy
William C. Brown (1916-1999)
U.S. - Crossed-field amplifier
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958)
U.S. - Cyclotron
Andrew Kay (1919-2014)
U.S. - Digital voltmeter
Randi Altschul (born 1960)
U.S. - Disposable cellphone
Ray Dolby (1933-2013)
U.S. - Dolby noise-reduction system
Charles Dow (1851-1902)
U.S. - Dow Jones Industrial Average
Robert H. Dennard (born 1932)
U.S. - Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)
J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995)
U.S. - ENIAC - the first general purpose programmable digital computer
John W. Mauchly (1907-1980)
U.S. - ENIAC - the first general purpose programmable digital computer
Alfred P. Southwick (1826-1898)
U.S. - Electric chair
Lloyd Groff Copeman (1865-1956)
U.S. - Electric stove
John Bennett Fenn (1917-2010)
U.S. - Electrospray ionization
Thomas J. Fogarty (born 1934)
U.S. - Embolectomy catheter (medicine)
David Boggs (born 1950)
U.S. - Ethernet
Robert Metcalfe (born 1946)
U.S. - Ethernet
Mark Publicover (born 1958)
U.S. - First affordable trampoline safety net enclosure
Ray Tomlinson (inv. 1971)
U.S. - First inter-computer email
Clarence Birdseye (1886-1956)
U.S. - Flash freezing
Kenyon Taylor (inv. 1961)
U.S. - Flip-disc display
Walter Frederick Morrison (1920-2010)
U.S. - Flying disc
C. W. Fuller (inv. 1953)
U.S. - Gilhoolie
Richard Hamming (1915-1998)
U.S. - Hamming code
Reynold B. Johnson (1906-1998)
U.S. - Hard disk drive
Walton Musser (1909-1998)
U.S. - Harmonic drive gear
John Heysham Gibbon (1903-1973)
U.S. - Heart-lung machine
Henry Heimlich (1920-2016)
U.S. - Heimlich maneuver
Norman Holter (1914-1983)
U.S. - Holter monitor
Jimmy Hotz (born 1953)
U.S. - Hotz MIDI Translator, Atari Hotz Box
Ted Nelson (born 1937)
U.S. - Hypertext, Hypermedia
Frank Zamboni (1901-1988)
U.S. - Ice resurfacer
Albert Coons (1912-1978)
U.S. - Immunofluorescence (microscopy)
Joseph G. Gall (born 1928)
U.S. - In situ hybridization (cell biology)
Dean Kamen (born 1951)
U.S. - Invented the Segway HT scooter and the IBOT Mobility Device
Jerome H. Lemelson (1923-1997)
U.S. - Inventions in the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.
James Gosling (born 1955)
U.S. - Java (programming language)
Brendan Eich (born 1961)
U.S. - JavaScript (programming language)
Stephanie Kwolek (1923-2014)
U.S. - Kevlar
Gene Dolgoff (born 1950)
U.S. - LCD projector
Nick Holonyak (born 1928)
U.S. - LED (Light Emitting Diode)
Theodore Maiman (1927-2007)
U.S. - Laser, see also Gordon Gould
Gordon Gould (1920-2005)
U.S. - Laser, see also Theodore Maiman
Nicholas McKay Sr. (1920-2014)
U.S. - Lint roller
Sidney Rosenthal (1907-1979)
U.S. - Magic Marker
Forrest Parry (1921-2005)
U.S. - Magnetic stripe card
Sylvester Marsh (1803-1884)
U.S. - Marsh rack railway system
Richard Drew (1899-1980)
U.S. - Masking tape
John Landis Mason (1826-1902)
U.S. - Mason jars
Martin Cooper (born 1928)
U.S. - Mobile phone
Hyman George Rickover (1900-1986)
U.S. - Nuclear submarine
Wallace Carothers (1896-1937)
U.S. - Nylon and Neoprene (together with Arnold Collins)
Rachel Fuller Brown (1898-1980)
U.S. - Nystatin, the world's first antifungal antibiotic
B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)
U.S. - Operant conditioning chamber
Richard F. Lyon (born 1952)
U.S. - Optical mouse
Steve Kirsch (born 1956)
U.S. - Optical mouse
Kary Mullis (born 1944)
U.S. - PCR
Marjorie Joyner (1896-1994)
U.S. - Permanent wave machine
Lee DeForest (1873-1961)
U.S. - Phonofilm, triode
Bran Ferren (born 1953)
U.S. - Pinch-to-zoom (multi-touch)
Ted Selker (inv. 1987)
U.S. - Pointing stick
Edwin H. Land (1909-1991)
U.S. - Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera
Arthur Fry (born 1931)
U.S. - Post-it note
George Pullman (1831-1897)
U.S. - Pullman sleep wagon
Charles Cantor (born 1942)
U.S. - Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (molecular biology)
Charles H. Henry (born 1937)
U.S. - Quantum well laser
Samuel Colt (1814-1862)
U.S. - Revolver development
Charles Francis Richter (1900-1985)
U.S. - Richter magnitude scale
Jacob Davis (1868-1908)
U.S. - Riveted jeans
Francis Rogallo (1912-2009)
U.S. - Rogallo wing
Frederick Sanger (1918-2013)
U.S. - Sanger sequencing (= DNA sequencing)
Tabitha Babbit (1779-1853)
U.S. - Saw mill circular saw
Otto Schmitt (1913-1998)
U.S. - Schmitt trigger (electronics)
August Schrader (1807-1894)
U.S. - Schrader valve for Pneumatic tire
Mark Serrurier (1904-1988)
U.S. - Serrurier truss for Optical telescopes
Lori Greiner (born 1969)
U.S. - Silver Safekeeper anti-tarnish lining (jewelry organizers) and multiple consumer products, 120 US and foreign patents
Michael Smith (1932-2000)
U.S. - Site-directed mutagenesis (molecular biology)
Edwin Southern (born 1938)
U.S. - Southern blot (molecular biology)
Paul C. Fisher (1913-2006)
U.S. - Space Pen
Joseph Shivers (1920-2014)
U.S. - Spandex
Lyman Spitzer (1914-1997)
U.S. - Stellarator (physics)
Edward A. Calahan (1838-1912)
U.S. - Stock ticker tape
J. Stuart Blackton (1875-1941)
U.S. - Stop-motion film
Gerard K. O'Neill (1927-1992)
U.S. - Storage ring (physics)
George Ballas (1925-2011)
U.S. - String trimmer
Harry Coover (1917-2011)
U.S. - Super Glue
Richard T. Whitcomb (1921-2009)
U.S. - Supercritical airfoil, Winglet
John "Jack" Higson Cover Jr. (1920-2009)
U.S. - Taser
Hubert Schlafly (1919-2011)
U.S. - Teleprompter = Autocue
Alexander Coucoulas (born 1933)
U.S. - Thermosonic bonding
Rudolf Kompfner (1909-1977)
U.S. - Traveling-wave tube
John Goffe Rand (1801-1873)
U.S. - Tube (container)
Ira Van Gieson (1866-1913)
U.S. - Van Gieson's stain (histology)
Marion O'Brien Donovan (1917-1998)
U.S. - Waterproof diaper
Hugh Bradner (1915-2008)
U.S. - Wetsuit
James Homer Wright (1869-1928)
U.S. - Wright's stain (histology)
Chester Carlson (1906-1968)
U.S. - Xerographic copier
Abraham Albert Yuzpe (inv. c. 1974)
U.S. - Yuzpe regimen (= form of Emergency contraception)
Edgar Villchur (1917-2011)
U.S. - a.o. Acoustic suspension (loudspeaker)
Floyd Paxton (1918-1975)
U.S. - a.o. Bread clip
Vincent Joseph Schaefer (1906-1993)
U.S. - a.o. Cloud seeding by dry ice
Marvin Minsky (1927-2016)
U.S. - a.o. Confocal microscopy
William Morrison (dentist) (1860-1926)
U.S. - a.o. Cotton candy machine
Dudley Allen Buck (1927-1959)
U.S. - a.o. Cryotron, content-addressable memory
David Chaum (born 1955)
U.S. - a.o. Digital signatures, ecash
S. Scott Crump (inv. c. 1989)
U.S. - a.o. Fused deposition modeling
David L. Mills (born 1938)
U.S. - a.o. Fuzzball router, Network Time Protocol
Miller Reese Hutchison (1876-1944)
U.S. - a.o. Klaxon, electric hearing aid
Jacob Rabinow (1910-1999)
U.S. - a.o. Magnetic particle clutch, various Phonograph-related patents
Ruth R. Benerito (1916-2013)
U.S. - a.o. Permanent press (no-iron clothing)
Robert N. Hall (1919-2016)
U.S. - a.o. Semiconductor laser
Benjamin Eisenstadt (1906-1996)
U.S. - a.o. Sugar packet
Norm Larsen (1923-1970)
U.S. - a.o. WD-40
Hal Anger (1920-2005)
U.S. - a.o. Well counter (radioactivity measurements)
Philo Farnsworth (1906-1971)
U.S. - a.o. electronic television
Charles Hall (1863-1914)
U.S. - aluminum production
Almon Strowger (1839-1902)
U.S. - automatic telephone exchange
Maria Beasley (1847-1904)
U.S. - barrel-hooping machine, improved life raft
Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919)
U.S. - beauty and hair products for African American women
Levi Strauss (1829-1902)
U.S. - blue jeans
Beulah Louise Henry (1887-1973)
U.S. - bobbin-free sewing machine, vacuum ice cream freezer
Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906)
U.S. - bolometer
John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1920)
U.S. - celluloid manufacturing.
Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975)
U.S. - chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants
Ruth Graves Wakefield (1903-1977)
U.S. - chocolate chip cookie
John Bardeen (1908-1991)
U.S. - co-inventor of the transistor, with Brattain and Schockley
William Bradford Shockley (1910-1989)
U.S. - co-inventor of transistor
Philip M. Parker (born 1960)
U.S. - computer automated book authoring
Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926)
U.S. - computerized telephone switching system
Samuel Face (1923-2001)
U.S. - concrete flatness/levelness technology; Lightning Switch
Scott A. Jones (born 1960)
U.S. - created one of the most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Search, a human-assisted internet search engine
Linus Yale Jr. (1821-1868)
U.S. - cylinder lock
Ronald Price Hickman (1932-2011)
U.S. - designed the original Lotus Elan, the Lotus Elan +2 and the Lotus Europa, as well as theBlack
Samuel Guthrie (physician) (1782-1848)
U.S. - discovered chloroform
Josephine Cochrane (1839-1913)
U.S. - dishwasher
Samuel Morse (1791-1872)
U.S. - early Morse code, see also Morse Code controversy
Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
U.S. - electric pH meter
R. G. LeTourneau (1888-1969)
U.S. - electric wheel, motor scraper, mobile oil drilling platform, bulldozer, cable control unit for scrapers
Royal Earl House (1814-1895)
U.S. - first Printing telegraph
Aaron D. O'Connell (born 1981)
U.S. - first Quantum machine
Ross Granville Harrison (1870-1959)
U.S. - first successful animal Tissue culture, Cell culture
Harry Houdini (1874-1926)
U.S. - flight time illusion
Elmer R. Gates (1859-1923)
U.S. - foam fire extinguisher, electric loom mechanisms, magnetic
Irving Langmuir (1851-1957)
U.S. - gas filled incandescent light bulb, hydrogen welding
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
U.S. - geodesic dome
Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860-1930)
U.S. - gyroscope-guided automatic pilot
John J. Montgomery (1858-1911)
U.S. - heavier-than-air gliders
A. Baldwin Wood (1879-1956)
U.S. - high volume pump
Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922-1999)
U.S. - home security system
Joy Mangano (born 1956)
U.S. - household appliances
Lewis Latimer (1848-1928)
U.S. - improved carbon-filament light bulb
James Fergason (1934-2008)
U.S. - improved liquid crystal display
Jonas Edward Salk (1914-1995)
U.S. - injection Polio vaccine
Samuel Morey (1762-1843)
U.S. - internal combustion engine
Eric Fossum (born 1957)
U.S. - intra-pixel charge transfer in CMOS image sensors
Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958)
U.S. - invented automobile self-starter ignition, Freon ethyl gasoline and more
Raymond Scott (1908-1994)
U.S. - inventor and developer of electronic music technology
Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963)
U.S. - inventor of the smoke hood
John Haven Emerson (1906-1997)
U.S. - iron lung
Gary Starkweather (born 1938)
U.S. - laser printer, color management
George H. Heilmeier (1936-2014)
U.S. - liquid crystal display (LCD)
Robert Goddard (1882-1945)
U.S. - liquid fuel rocket
Margaret E. Knight (1838-1914)
U.S. - machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags
Stanley Mazor (born 1941)
U.S. - microprocessor
Ted Hoff (born 1937)
U.S. - microprocessor
Percy Spencer (1894-1970)
U.S. - microwave oven
Les Paul (1915-2009)
U.S. - multitrack recording
Seth Boyden (1788-1870)
U.S. - nail-making machine
Joseph John O'Connell (1861-1959)
U.S. - number of inventions relating to telephony and electrical engineering
Albert Bruce Sabin (1906-1993)
U.S. - oral Polio vaccine
Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974)
U.S. - organ perfusion pump
Jack Kilby (1923-2005)
U.S. - patented the first integrated circuit
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
U.S. - phonograph, commercially practical incandescent light bulb, etc.
Linus Yale Sr. (1797-1858)
U.S. - pin tumbler lock
Wright brothers, Orville (1871-1948) and Wilbur (1867-1912)
U.S. - powered airplane
John Hays Hammond Jr. (1888-1965)
U.S. - radio control
Karl Guthe Jansky (1905-1950)
U.S. - radio telescope
Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980)
U.S. - radiocarbon dating
Herman Hollerith (1860-1929)
U.S. - recording data on a machine readable medium, tabulator, punched cards
Norman Gaylord (1923-2007)
U.S. - rigid gas-permeable contact lens
George Eastman (1854-1932)
U.S. - roll film
James Leonard Plimpton (1828-1911)
U.S. - roller skates
Ira Remsen (1846-1927)
U.S. - saccharin
Elisha Otis (1811-1861)
U.S. - safety system for elevators
Benjamin Chew Tilghman (1821-1897)
U.S. - sandblasting
Mary Kenner (1912-2006)
U.S. - sanitary belt
Elias Howe (1819-1867)
U.S. - sewing machine
Isaac Singer (1811-1875)
U.S. - sewing machine
Henry Perky (1843-1906)
U.S. - shredded wheat
Tracy Hall (1919-2008)
U.S. - synthetic diamond
Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934)
U.S. - television and movie projector (Phantoscope)
Arthur M. Young (1905-1995)
U.S. - the Bell Helicopter
Olivia Poole (1889-1975)
U.S. - the Jolly Jumper baby harness
Robert Moog (1934-2005)
U.S. - the Moog synthesizer
Granville Woods (1856-1910)
U.S. - the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph
Paul Winchell (1922-2005)
U.S. - the artificial heart
Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013)
U.S. - the computer mouse
Eli Whitney (1765-1825)
U.S. - the cotton gin
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
U.S. - the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, the glass harmonica
Chester Greenwood (1858-1937)
U.S. - thermal earmuffs
Charles Goodyear (1800-1860)
U.S. - vulcanization of rubber
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
U.S. - waterbed
Richard J. Gatling (1818-1903)
U.S. - wheat drill, first successful machine gun
Larry Page (born 1973)
U.S. - with Sergey Brin invented Google web search engine
Whitcomb Judson (1836-1909)
U.S. - zipper
Esther Takeuchi (born 1953)
U.S. -- Holds more than 150 US-patents, the largest number for any woman in the United States
Maurice Hilleman (1919-2005)
U.S. -- vaccines against childhood diseases, Mumps, Measels, Rubella, and over 40 other vaccines
Hiram Maxim (1840-1916)
U.S. born, UK - First self-powered machine gun
Bruce Ames (born 1928)
U.S.- Ames test (Cell biology)
Walter Houser Brattain (1902-1987)
U.S.- co-inventor of the transistor
Ahmed Majan (born 1963)
UAE - instrumented racehorse saddle and others
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
UK - Analytical engine (semi-automatic)
John Blenkinsop (1783-1831)
UK - Blenkinsop rack railway system
Sir Henry Cole (1808-1882)
UK - Christmas card
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959)
UK - Cloud chamber
Tommy Flowers (1905-1998)
UK - Colossus an early electronic computer.
Sir William Congreve (1772-1828)
UK - Congreve rocket
William Crookes (1832-1919)
UK - Crookes radiometer, Crookes tube
Humphry Davy (1778-1829)
UK - Davy miners lamp
Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971)
UK - Dazzle camouflage
James Dyson (born 1947)
UK - Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, incorporating the principles of cyclonic separation.
Henry John Horstman Fenton (1854-1929)
UK - Fenton's reagent (chemistry)
George William Manby (1765-1854)
UK - Fire extinguisher
William Cullen (1710-1790)
UK - First artificial refrigerator
Christopher Cockerell (1910-1999)
UK - Hovercraft
Charles Clagget (1740-1795)
UK - Improvements for musical instruments
Joseph Swan (1828-1914)
UK - Incandescent light bulb
Frederick Walton (c. 1834-1928)
UK - Linoleum
John Hadley (1682-1744)
UK - Octant
Joseph Aspdin (1788-1855)
UK - Portland cement
Alec Reeves (1902-1971)
UK - Pulse-code modulation
Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842)
UK - Shrapnel shell ammunition
William Lee (1563-1614)
UK - Stocking frame knitting machine
James Dewar (1842-1923)
UK - Thermos flask
John Ambrose Fleming (1848-1945)
UK - Vacuum diode
John Venn (1834-1923)
UK - Venn diagram (1881)
Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865)
UK - Wheatstone bridge
Trevor Baylis (1937-2018)
UK - a wind-up radio
Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875)
UK - a.o. concertina, stereoscope, microphone, Playfair cipher, pseudoscope, dynamo
John Stringfellow (1799-1883)
UK - aerial steam carriage
Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (1820-1894)
UK - aileron
Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
UK - balance wheel, iris diaphragm, acoustic telephone
Barnes Wallis (1887-1979)
UK - bouncing bomb
Alexander Parkes (1831-1890)
UK - celluloid
William Howard Livens (1889-1964)
UK - chemical warfare - Livens Projector
William Friese-Greene (1855-1921)
UK - cinematography
Frank Whittle (1907-1996)
UK - co-inventor of the jet engine
Arthur Wynne (1862-1945)
UK - creator of crossword puzzle
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
UK - electric transformer, electric motor
Thomas Wedgwood (1771-1805)
UK - first (not permanent) photograph
John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921)
UK - first practical pneumatic tyre
John Barber (1734-1801)
UK - gas turbine
Richard Trevithick (1771-1833)
UK - high-pressure steam engine, first full-scale steam locomotive
William George Armstrong (1810-1900)
UK - hydraulic accumulator
Frank Hornby (1863-1936)
UK - invented Meccano
Edwin Beard Budding (1795-1846)
UK - lawnmower
John Roebuck (1718-1794)
UK - lead chamber process for sulfuric acid synthesis
John Harrison (1693-1776)
UK - marine chronometer
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
UK - motion picture
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (1860-1935)
UK - motion picture camera
Katharine B. Blodgett (1898-1979)
UK - nonreflective glass
John Herschel (1792-1871)
UK - photographic fixer (hypo)
Rowland Hill (1795-1879)
UK - postage stamp
David Edward Hughes (1831-1900)
UK - printing telegraph
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
UK - reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration)
Stephen Perry, (19th Century)
UK - rubber band
Henry Maudslay (1771-1831)
UK - screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer
Richard Hall Gower (1768-1833)
UK - ship's hull and rigging
William Oughtred (1575-1660)
UK - slide rule
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)
UK - soda water
James Hargreaves (1720-1778)
UK - spinning jenny
Thomas Savery (1650-1715)
UK - steam engine
George Stephenson (1781-1848)
UK - steam railway
John Fowler (1826-1864)
UK - steam-driven ploughing engine
Alan Blumlein (1903-1942)
UK - stereo
John Bennet Lawes (1814-1900)
UK - superphosphate or chemical fertilizer
George Cayley (1773-1857)
UK - tension-spoke wheels
Joseph Day (1855-1946)
UK - the crankcase-compression two-stroke engine
John Harington (1561-1612)
UK - the flush toilet
Neil Arnott (1788-1874)
UK - waterbed
Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955)
UK - with Robert Cailliau, the World Wide Web
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
UK, Canada, and U.S. - telephone
Elihu Thomson (1853-1937)
UK, U.S. - Prolific inventor, Arc lamp and many others
William Saville-Kent (1845-1908)
UK/Australia - Pearl culture, see also Mikimoto Kōkichi
William Painter (1838-1906)
UK/U.S. - a.o. Crown cork, Bottle opener
Emmett Chapman (born 1936)
US - Chapman Stick
David J. Gingery (1932-2004)
USA
Pavel Cherenkov (1904-1990)
USSR - Cherenkov detector
Sergei Korolev (1907-1966)
USSR - first successful intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7 Semyorka)
Nikolay Brusentsov (1925-2014)
USSR, Russia - ternary computer (Setun)
Vladimir Chelomey (1914-1984)
USSR- First space station (Salyut)
Hovannes Adamian (1879-1932)
USSR/Russia - tricolor principle of the color television
Nestor Makhno (1888-1934)
Ukraine/Russia - tachanka
Alexander Smakula (1900-1983)
Ukraine/Russia/U.S. - anti-reflective coating
Alec John Jeffreys (born 1950)
United Kingdom - DNA profiling (forensics)
John Frederic Daniell (1790-1845)
United Kingdom - Daniell cell
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925-2013)
United Kingdom - In vitro fertilisation
David Brewster (1781-1868)
United Kingdom - Kaleidoscope
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907)
United Kingdom - Kelvin absolute temperature scale
Tom Parry Jones (1935-2013)
United Kingdom - first electronic Breathalyzer
William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)
United Kingdom - first synthetic organic chemical dye Mauveine
Bernard de Neumann (born 1943)
United Kingdom - massively parallel self-configuring multi-processor
William Snow Harris (1791-1867)
United Kingdom - much improved naval Lightning rods
Ransom Eli Olds (1864-1950)
United States - Assembly line
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
United States - Atomic bomb
William H. Dobelle (1943-2004)
United States - Dobelle Eye
Robert W. Gore (born 1937)
United States - Gore-Tex
Roy Plunkett (1910-1994)
United States - Teflon
Robert Fulton (1765-1815)
United States - first commercially successful steamboat, first practical submarine
Arthur Pitney (1871-1933)
United States - postage meter
Theophilus Van Kannel (1841-1919)
United States - revolving door (1888)
Mary Anderson (1866-1953)
United States - windshield wiper blade
Eugene Polley (1915-2012)
United States - wireless remote control (with Robert Adler)
Paul Offit (born 1951)
United States, along with Fred Clark and Stanley Plotkin, invented a pentavalent Rotavirus vaccine
Sushruta (600 BC)
Vedic India - inventor of Plastic Surgery, Cataract Surgery, Rhinoplasty
Humberto Fernández Morán (1924-1999)
Venezuela - Diamond scalpel, Ultra microtome
William Robert Grove (1811-1896)
Wales - fuel cell
Miriam Benjamin (1861-1947)
Washington, D.C. - Gong and signal chair (adopted by House of Representatives and precursor to flight attendant signal system)
John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943)
cornflake breakfasts
Anatol Josepho (1894-1980)
patented the first coin-operated photo booth called the "Photomaton" in 1925.
Bernard Vonnegut (1914-1997)
together with Henry Chessin, and Richard E. Passarelli Jr., U.S. - a.o. Cloud seeding by silver iodide
Larry Sanger (born 1968)
together with Jimmy Wales, U.S. - Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales (born 1966)
together with Larry Sanger, U.S. - Wikipedia
Christoph Gerber (?-)
with Calvin Quate (1923-)
Gerd Binnig (born 1947)
with Christoph Gerber, Calvin Quate and Heinrich Rohrer, Germany/Switzerland/U.S. - Atomic force microscope and Scanning tunneling microscope
Calvin Quate (born 1923)
with Gerd Binnig (born 1947)
Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831-1916)
writer and inventor (portable folding mosquito net frame)
