This is a List of inventors (in alphabetic order by surname):
A
B
- Charles Babbage -- Analytical engine
- Leo Baekelund -- plastic
- John Logie Baird-- television
- John Bardeen -- co-inventor of the transistor
- Alexander Graham Bell -- telephone
- Karl Benz -- automobile
- Henry Bessemer -- Bessemer process
- Tim Berners-Lee -- World Wide Web
- Walter Houser Brattain -- co-inventor of the transistor
- Louis Braille
- Edwin Beard Budding -- lawnmower and adjustable spanner
- Robert Bunsen
C
- Marvin Camras -- magnetic recording
- George Washington Carver
- Arthur C. Clarke -- geostationary satellite
- Jacques Cousteau -- aqualung
- Charles Cros -- phonograph... almost
- William Cullen -- mechanical / chemical refrigeration
D
- Salvino D'Armate -- eyeglasses
- Leonardo DaVinci
- Lee DeForest -- triode, amongst others
- Sir James Dewar -- Thermos
- William Kennedy Laurie Dickson -- motion picture camera
- Rudolf Diesel -- Diesel engine
- Richard Drew -- Scotch (or cellophane) tape
E
- George Eastman -- roll film
- Thomas Edison -- phonograph, amongst others
- Douglas Engelbart - the computer mouse [1]
F
- Philo Farnsworth -- vacuum tube television display
- James Fergason -- liquid crystal display
- Reginald Fessenden -- two-way radio
- John Ambrose Fleming -- vacuum diode
- Henry Ford -- modern assembly line
- Samuel Fox -- steel ribbed umbrella
- Benjamin Franklin -- lightning rod, bifocals
- William Friese-Greene -- cinematography
- Buckminster Fuller -- geodesic domes, others
- Robert Fulton -- steamboat
G
- Galileo Galilei -- thermometer
- Hans Geiger
- Robert Goddard -- liquid fuel rocket
- Gordon Gould -- laser
- James Gregory -- reflecting telescope
- Sir William Grove -- fuel cell
- Otto von Guericke -- vacuum pump
- Johann Gutenberg -- movable type press
H
- John Hadley -- quadrant
- James Hargreaves
- John Harrison -- marine chronometer
- Rudolf Hell
- John Philip Holland -- "true" submarine
I
J
K
L
- Edwin H. Land -- ploarizing filters and the Land camera
- Irving Langmuir -- gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding
- Justus von Liebig -- fertilizer
M
- Guglielmo Marconi -- radio
- Robert Moog
- Montgolfier brothers -- hot-air balloon
- Samuel Morse
N
- Alfred Nobel -- dynamite
- Thomas Newcomen
- Isaac Newton -- reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration)
O
- Hans von Ohain -- co-founder of the jet engine
P
- Blaise Pascal -- adding machine
- Stephen Perry -- rubber band
- Ashwin Kochiyil Philips -- personal audio recorder
Q
R
- Norbert Rilleaux
- Otto Frederick Rohwedder - sliced bread
- James Russell -- compact disk
S
- Alberto Santos-Dumont -- non-rigid airship and airplane
- Claude E. Shannon -- information theory
- William Bradford Shockley
- Werner von Siemens
- Percy Shaw -- cat eyes
- William Bradford Shockley -- co-inventor of the transistor
- George Stephenson
- Levi Strauss
- John Stringfellow -- airplane
- Joseph Swan
T
- Nikola Tesla
- Edward Teller -- fusion bomb
- Ray Tomlinson -- Internet-based e-mail
- Leonardo Torres y Quevedo
U
V
W
- Robert Watson-Watt -- microwave radar
- James Watt -- practical steam engine
- George Westinghouse -- air brake
- Eli Whitney -- cotton gin
- Frank Whittle -- co-inventor of the jet engine
- A. Baldwin Wood
X
Y
Z
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin -- rigid airship
- Konrad Zuse
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