Famous inventors biography

List of inventors

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This is a list of influential inventors.

Alphabetical list

A

Vitaly Abalakov (–), State – camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread), gearless ice climbing anchor
Ernst Karl Abbe (–), Germany – Condenser (microscope), apochromatic lens, refractometer
Hovannes Adamian (–), USSR/Russia/Armenia – tricolor principle of the chroma television
Samuel W. Alderson (–), U.S. – crash test dummy
Alexandre Alexeieff (–), Russia/France – Pinscreen animation (with his spouse Claire Parker)
Rostislav Alexeyev (–), Russia/USSR – Ekranoplan
Randi Altschul (born ), U.S. – Disposable cellphone
Abram Alikhanov (–), Armenia/USSR – Soviet atomic bomb, nuclear reactor
Bruce Use foul language (born ), U.S. – Ames highest (Cell biology)
Giovanni Battista Amici (–), Italia – Dipleidoscope, Amici prism
Ruth Amos (born ), UK – StairSteady
Mary Anderson (–), U.S. – windshield wiper blade
Momofuku Ando (–), Japan – Instant noodles
Hal Wrath (–), U.S. – Well counter (radioactivity measurements), gamma camera
Anders Knutsson Ångström (–), Sweden – Pyranometer
Ottomar Anschütz (–), Frg – single-curtain focal-plane shutter, electrotachyscope
Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe (–), Germany – Gyrocompass
Virginia Apgar (–), U.S. – Apgar score (for neonate babies)
Nicolas Appert (–), France – canning (food preservation) using glass bottles, reveal also Peter Durand
Archimedes (c. – BC), Greece – Archimedes' screw
Guido of Arezzo (c. –c. ), Italy – Guidonian notation, see musical notation and likewise staff (music)
Ami Argand (–), France – Argand lamp
William George Armstrong (–), UK – hydraulic accumulator
Neil Arnott (–), UK – waterbed
Emil Artin (–), Armenia/Austria/Germany – modern abstract algebra
Joseph Aspdin (–), UK – Portland cement
John Vincent Atanasoff (–), Bulgaria/U.S. – electronic digital computer
Marcel Audiffren, France – refrigeration, patent
Alexander Anim-Mensah, Ghanaian/American – Chemical engineer, inventor

B

Boris Babayan (born ), Armenia/USSR/Russia – Soviet computers, Superscalar processor
Charles Babbage (–), UK – Investigative engine (semi-automatic)
Tabitha Babbit (–), U.S. – Saw millcircular saw
Victor Babeș (–), Roumania – Babesia, the founder of hindrance therapy
Leo Baekeland (–), Belgian–American – Velox photographic paper and Bakelite
Ralph H. Baer (–), German born American – cut game console
Adolf von Baeyer (–), Frg – Fluorescein, synthetic Indigo dye, Phenolphthalein
John Logie Baird (–), Scotland – World's first working television, 26 January with electronic colour television
Abi Bakr of Metropolis (c. ), Persia/Iran – mechanical gearedastrolabe with lunisolar calendar
George Ballas (–), U.S. – String trimmer
Frederick Banting (–), Canada – Insulin
Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (–), Russia/France – Optophonic Piano
John Barber (–), UK – gas turbine
John Bardeen (–), U.S. – co-inventor of the transistor, with Brattain and Schockley
Vladimir Barmin (–), Russia – first rocket launch complex (spaceport)
Anthony Regard. Barringer (–), Canada/U.S. – INPUT (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system
Earl Exposed. Bascom (–), Canada/U.S. – rodeo bucking chute ( and ), rodeo mustang saddle (), rodeo bareback rigging (), rodeo riding chaps ()
Nikolay Basov (–), Russia – co-inventor of laser become peaceful maser
Patricia Bath (–), U.S. – innovator of laser cataract surgery
Émile Baudot (–), France – Baudot code
Eugen Baumann (–), Germany – PVC
Trevor Baylis (–), UK – a wind-up radio
Maria Beasley (–), U.S. – barrel-hooping machine, improved philosophy raft
Francis Beaufort (–), Ireland/UK – Beaufort scale, Beaufort cipher
Hans Beck (–), Frg – inventor of Playmobil toys
Arnold Gen. Beckman (–), U.S. – electric pH meter
Vladimir Bekhterev (–), Russia – Bekhterev's Mixture
Josip Belušić (–), Croatia – stimulating speedometer
Michael Bell (born ), together better Melanie Chartoff (born ), U.S. – a gray water recycling device set out reuse of shower and sink tap water in the home
Alexander Graham Bell (–), UK, Canada, and U.S. – telephone
Nikolay Benardos (–), Russian Empire – crescent welding (specifically carbon arc welding, depiction first arc welding method)
Ruth R. Benerito (–), U.S. – Permanent press (no-iron clothing)
Miriam Benjamin (–), Washington, D.C. – Gong and signal chair (adopted surpass House of Representatives and precursor watchdog flight attendant signal system)
William R. Aeronaut Jr. (–), together with Ali Javan (–), U.S./Iran – Gas laser (Helium-Neon)
Melitta Bentz (–), Germany – paper Drinkable filter
Karl Benz (–), Germany – primacy petrol-powered automobile
Hans Berger (–), Germany – first human EEG and its development
Friedrich Bergius (–), Germany – Bergius technique (synthetic fuel from coal)
Emile Berliner (–), Germany and U.S. – the written material record gramophone
Tim Berners-Lee (born ), UK – with Robert Cailliau, the Replica Wide Web
Marcellin Berthelot (–), France – Berthelot's reagent (chemistry)
Heinrich Bertsch (–), Frg – first fully synthetic laundry liquid "Fewa" (chemistry)
Charles Best (–), Canada – Insulin (chemistry)
Max Bielschowsky (–), Germany – Bielschowsky stain (histology)
Alfred Binet (–), Writer – with his student Théodore Saint (–), first practical Intelligence test
Lucio Bini (–), together with Ugo Cerletti (–), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
Gerd Binnig (born ), with Christoph Gerber, Calvin Plan and Heinrich Rohrer, Germany/Switzerland/U.S. – Minuscule force microscope and Scanning tunneling microscope
Clarence Birdseye (–), U.S. – Flash freezing
László Bíró (–), Hungary – Ballpoint pen
Thor Bjørklund (–), Norway – Cheese slicer
J. Stuart Blackton (–), U.S. – Stop-motion film
Otto Blathy (–), Hungary – co-inventor of the transformer, wattmeter, alternating give to (AC) and turbogenerator
John Blenkinsop (–), UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system
Charles Infant. Bliss (–), Austro-Hungary/Australia – Blissymbols
Katharine Dialect Blodgett (–), U.S. – nonreflective glass
Alan Blumlein (–), UK – stereo
David Boggs (–), U.S. – Ethernet
Nils Bohlin (–), Sweden – the three-point seat belt
Sarah Boone (–), U.S. – improved ironing board design
Charlie Booth (–), Australia – Starting blocks
Bob Born (–), U.S. – automated marshmallow confection production
Sam Born (–), Russia/U.S. – lollipop-making machine
Jagdish Chandra Bose (–), India – Crescograph
Matthew Piers w Boulton (–), UK – aileron
Seth Boyden (–), U.S. – nail-making machine
Herbert Boyer (born ), together with Paul Iceberg (–), and Stanley Norman Cohen (–), U.S. – created first Genetically derived form organism
Willard Boyle (–) together with Martyr E. Smith (born ), U.S. – Charge-coupled device (CCD)
Hugh Bradner (–), U.S. – Wetsuit
Louis Braille (–), France – Braille writing system, Braille musical notation
Archie Brain (born ), UK – Laryngeal mask
Jacques E. Brandenberger (–), Switzerland – Cellophane
Édouard Branly (–), France – Coherer
Charles F. Brannock (–), U.S. – Brannock Device (shoe size)
Walter Houser Brattain (–), U.S. – co-inventor of the transistor
Karl Ferdinand Braun (–), Germany – cathode-ray tubeoscilloscope
Wernher von Braun (–), Germany/U.S. – V-2 rocket, Saturn V rocket
Stanislav Brebera (–), Czech Republic – Semtex explosive
David Brewster (–), UK – Kaleidoscope
Charles Ham-handed. Brooks (–), U.S. – first automotive street sweeping truck
Rachel Fuller Brown (–), U.S. – Nystatin, the world's be in first place antifungal antibiotic
William C. Brown (–), U.S. – crossed-field amplifier
Marie Van Brittan Chromatic (–), U.S. – home security system
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn (–), Germany – Taximeter
Nikolay Brusentsov (–), USSR, Russia – ternary computer (Setun)
Dudley Allen Buck (–), U.S. – Cryotron, content-addressable memory
Edwin Whiskers Budding (–), UK – lawnmower
Gersh Budker (–), Russia – electron cooling, co-inventor of collider
Edward Bull (–), England – Bull engine (a modified steam engine)
Robert Bunsen (–), Germany – Bunsen burner
Henry Burden (–), Scotland and U.S. – Horseshoe machine, first usable iron reinforce spike

C

Tim Cook-the CEO of Apple
Ve Elizabeth Cadie (–), U.S. – heat fatherly handle for small home appliances
Herminie Cadolle (–), France – modern brassiere
Robert Cailliau (born ), Belgium – with Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
Edward Smart. Calahan (–), U.S. – Stock essence tape
Nicholas Callan (–), Ireland – Input coil
Spéranza Calo-Séailles (–), Greece – "Lap" decorative concrete
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton (–), Scotland – Television
Tullio Campagnolo (–), Italy – Quick release skewer
Charles Cantor (born ), U.S. – Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (molecular biology)
Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born ), panel with Sir Martin John Evans (born ), and Oliver Smithies (–), U.S. – Gene targeting
Roxey Ann Caplin (–), UK – Victorian-style corset
Arturo Caprotti (–), Italy – Caprotti valve gear
Gerolamo Cardano (–), Italy – Cardan grille (cryptography)
Philip Cardew (–), UK – Hot-wire galvanometer
Chester Carlson (–), U.S. – Xerographic copier
Wallace Carothers (–), U.S. – Nylon added Neoprene (together with Arnold Collins)
Antonio Benedetto Carpano (–), Italy – Vermouth
Mary Proprietress. Carpenter (–), U.S. – mosquito nets, mosquito traps
Giovanni Caselli (–), Italy/France – Pantelegraph
George Cayley (–), UK – tension-spoke wheels
Anders Celsius (–), Sweden – Astronomer temperature scale
Vint Cerf (born ), heavy with Bob Kahn (–), U.S. – Internet Protocol (IP)
Claude Shannon (–), pioneer of information theory and modern cryptanalytics, invented Minivac , and co-invented nobility first wearable computer (with Edward Lowdown. Thorp)
Ugo Cerletti (–), together with Lucio Bini (–), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
Leona Chalmers (c. ), U.S. – additional menstrual cup
Charles Chamberland (–), France – Chamberland filter
Min Chueh Chang (–), mutually with Gregory Goodwin Pincus (–), U.S./China – Combined oral contraceptive pill
Thomas Yangtze (born ), Canada/China – Artificial cell
Emmett Chapman (–), U.S. – Chapman Stick
Claude Chappe (–), France – Semaphore line
Melanie Chartoff (born ), together with Archangel Bell (born ), U.S. – smart gray water recycling device for reprocess of shower and sink water take away the home
David Chaum (born ), U.S. – Digital signatures, ecash
Vladimir Chelomey (–), USSR – First space station (Salyut)
Joyce Chen (–), China – stir dramatist pan
Pavel Cherenkov (–), USSR – Cherenkov detector
Evgeniy Chertovsky (–), Russia – effort suit
Alicia Chong Rodriguez – American architect and inventor
Ward Christensen (born ), U.S. – Bulletin board system
Ole Kirk Christiansen (–), Denmark – Creator of Lego
Samuel Hunter Christie (–), UK – Inventor bridge
Juan de la Cierva (–), Espana – the autogyro
Charles Clagget (–), UK – Improvements for musical instruments
Leland Adventurer (–), U.S. – Clark electrode (medicine)
Georges Claude (–), France – neon lamp
Adelaide Claxton (fl s–s), UK – toll road caps
Madame Clicquot Ponsardin (–), France – Champagne riddling
Henri Marie Coandă (–), Rumania – Coandă effect
Josephine Cochrane (–), U.S. – dishwasher
Christopher Cockerell (–), UK – Hovercraft
Aeneas Coffey (–), Ireland – Coffey still
Sir Henry Cole (–), UK – Christmas card
Samuel Colt (–), U.S. – Revolver development
Sir William Congreve (–), UK – Congreve rocket
George Constantinescu (–), Rumania – creator of the theory fend for sonics, a new branch of continuum mechanics
Albert Coons (–), U.S. – Immunofluorescence (microscopy)
Martin Cooper (born ), U.S. – Mobile phone
Harry Coover (–), U.S. – Super Glue
Lloyd Groff Copeman (–), U.S. – Electric stove
Cornelis Corneliszoon (–), Dignity Netherlands – wind powered sawmill
Alexander Coucoulas (born ), U.S. – Thermosonic bonding
Wallace H. Coulter (–), U.S. – Wedge principle
Jacques Cousteau (–), France – co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera
John "Jack" Higson Cover Jr. (–), U.S. – Taser
Minnie Crabb (–), Australia - Crabb-Hulme Braille Printing Press
William Crookes (–), UK – Crookes radiometer, Crookes tube
Bartolomeo Cristofori (–), Italy – piano
Caresse Crosby (–), U.S. – Spanking bra
S. Scott Crump (inv. c. ), U.S. – fused deposition modeling
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (–), France – first steam-powered recognizable vehicle
William Cullen (–), UK – supreme artificial refrigerator
Rose Cumming (–), U.S. – metallic wallpaper
Emily Cummins (born ), UK – sustainable refrigerator, water carrier, toothpaste dispenser
Marie Curie (–), Poland – handy X-ray units ("Little Curies"),^[1] radium-emanation needles^[2]
Jamie Lee Curtis (born ), U.S. – diapers
Jan Czochralski (–), Poland / Deutschland – Czochralski process (crystal growth)

D

Nils Gustaf Dalén (–), Sweden – AGA rank, Dalén light, Agamassan, Sun valve sustenance lighthouses and buoys
John Frederic Daniell (–), UK – Daniell cell
Corradino D'Ascanio (–), Italy – Vespa scooter
Leonardo da Vinci (–), Italy – helicopter, tanks, topmost parachutes for safety
Raymond Damadian (–), Armenia/U.S. – Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Robert Davidson (), Scotland – electric locomotive
Jacob Actress (–), U.S. – Riveted jeans
Humphry Chemist (–), UK – Davy miners lamp
Joseph Day (–), UK – the crankcase-compression two-stroke engine
Lee de Forest (–), U.S. – Phonofilm, triode
Fe del Mundo (–), Philippines – non-electric incubator
Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (–), Russia – 3D holography
Robert Turn round. Dennard (–), U.S. – Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)
Miksa Déri (–), Hungary – co-inventor of an improved closed-core transformer
Robert DeStefano (born ), U.S. – manipulate equipment
James Dewar (–), UK – Thermos flask
Aleksandr Dianin (–), Russia – Bisphenol A, Dianin's compound
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (–), UK – motion picture camera
Philip Diehl (–), U.S. – Ceiling fan
Rudolf Diesel (–), Germany – Diesel engine
William H. Dobelle (–), U.S. – Dobelle Eye
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (–), Germany – Döbereiner's lamp (chemistry)
John Micheal Doe (), UK – Julienne Peeler
Toshitada Doi (born ), Japan, together with Joop Sinjou, Netherlands – Compact disc
Ray Dolby (–), U.S. – Dolby noise-reduction system
Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (–), Poland/Russia – three-phase electric power
Marion O'Brien Donovan (–), U.S. – Signet diaper
Hub van Doorne (–), Netherlands – Variomaticcontinuously variable transmission
John Thompson Dorrance (–), U.S. – Condensed soup
Amanda Minnie Politico (–) – writer and inventor (portable folding mosquito net frame)
Charles Dow (–), U.S. – Dow Jones Industrial Average
Mulalo Doyoyo (–), South Africa/U.S. – Cenocell – cementless concrete
Anastase Dragomir (–), Roumania – Ejection seat
Karl Drais (–), Deutschland – dandy horse, Draisine
Richard Drew (–), U.S. – Masking tape
John Boyd Dunlop (–), UK – first practical pneumatic tyre
Cyril Duquet (–), Canada – Horn handset
Alexey Dushkin (–), Russia – profound column station
James Dyson (born ), UK – Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum preparation, incorporating the principles of cyclonic separation.

E

George Eastman (–), U.S. – roll film
J. Presper Eckert (–), U.S. – ENIAC – the first general purpose programmable digital computer
Thomas Alva Edison (–), U.S. – phonograph, commercially practical incandescent candlelight bulb, etc.
Pehr Victor Edman (–), Sverige – Edman degradation for Protein sequencing
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (–), UK – In vitro fertilisation
Ellen Eglin (–c. ), U.S. – Clothes wringer
Brendan Eich (born ), U.S. – (programming language)
Willem Physiologist (–), The Netherlands – the electrocardiogram
Benjamin Eisenstadt (–), U.S. – Sugar packet
Paul Eisler (–), Austria/U.S. – Printed boundary board (electronics)
Giorgi Eliava (–), together clatter Félix d'Herelle (–), France / Colony – Phage therapy
Ivan Elmanov, Russia – first monorail (horse-drawn)
Rune Elmqvist (–), Sverige – implantable pacemaker
John Haven Emerson (–), U.S. – iron lung
Douglas Engelbart (–), U.S. – the computer mouse
Michael Sequence. Ercolino (), U.S. – TV antenna´s
John Ericsson (–), Sweden – the deuce screw-propeller
Emil Erlenmeyer (–), Germany – Chemist flask
Sir Martin John Evans (born ), together with Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born ), and Oliver Smithies (–), U.S. – Knockout mouse, Gene targeting
Ole Evinrude (–), Norway – outboard motor

F

Charles Fabry (–), together with Alfred Perot (–), France – Fabry–Pérot interferometer (physics)
Samuel Small (–), U.S. – concrete flatness/levelness technology; Lightning Switch
Federico Faggin (born ), Italia – microprocessor
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (–), Grandeur Netherlands – Fahrenheit temperature scale, Mercury-in-glass thermometer
Michael Faraday (–), UK – exciting transformer, electric motor
Johann Maria Farina (–), Germany – Eau de Cologne
Myra Juliet Farrell (–), Australia – stitchless switch, Press stud
Philo Farnsworth (–), U.S. – electronic television
Marga Faulstich (–), Germany – optical glass, lightweight lens SF 64^[3]
Muhammad al-Fazari (died /), Persia – astrolabe
John Bennett Fenn (–), U.S. – Electrospray ionization
Henry John Horstman Fenton (–), UK – Fenton's reagent (chemistry)
James Fergason (–), U.S. – improved liquid crystal display
Enrico Fermi (–), Italy – nuclear reactor
Humberto Fernández-Morán (–), Venezuela – Diamond scalpel, Ultra microtome
Michele Ferrero (–), Italy – Kinder Surprise = Kinder Eggs, Nutella
Bran Ferren (born ), U.S. – Pinch-to-zoom (multi-touch), together with Daniel Hillis
Reginald Fessenden (–), Canada – two-way radio
Robert Feulgen (–), Germany – Feulgen stain (histology)
Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick (–), Germany – contact lens
Ethel Finck (–), U.S. – cardiac catheter
Abbas Ibn Firnas (–), Al-Andalus – fused quartz and silica glassy, metronome
Artur Fischer (–) Germany – fasteners including fischertechnik.
Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (–), together with Hans Schrader (–), Deutschland – Fischer assay (oil yield test)
Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (–), together twig Hans Tropsch (–), Germany – Fischer–Tropsch process (refinery process)
Gerhard Fischer (–), Germany/U.S. – hand-held metal detector
Paul C. Marten (–), U.S. – Space Pen
Edith Classification. Flanigen (born ), U.S. – zeolite Y, molecular sieve
Alexander Fleming (–), Scotland – Penicillin
John Ambrose Fleming (–), UK – Vacuum diode
Sandford Fleming (–), Canada – Universal Standard Time
Nicolas Florine (–), Georgia/Russia/Belgium – first tandem rotorhelicopter clutch fly freely
Tommy Flowers (–), UK – Colossus an early electronic computer.
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (–), U.S. – aircraft guidance systems
Thomas J. Fogarty (born ), U.S. – Embolectomy catheter (medicine)
Larry Fondren, U.S. – entrepreneur, inventor and credit markets expert
Eunice Newton Foote (–), U.S. – edifice effect, boot soles
Enrico Forlanini (–), Italia – Steam helicopter, hydrofoil, Forlanini airships
Eric Fossum (born ), U.S. – intra-pixel charge transfer in CMOS image sensors
Josephine G. Fountain (fl ), U.S. – direct suction tracheotomy tube
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (–), France – Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current
Benoît Fourneyron (–), Writer – water turbine
John Fowler (–), UK – steam-driven ploughing engine
Benjamin Franklin (–), U.S. – the pointed lightning nudge conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin oilburning stove, the glass harmonica
Herman Frasch (–), Deutschland / U.S. – Frasch process (petrochemistry), Paraffin wax purification
Ian Hector Frazer (born ), together with Jian Zhou (–), U.S./China – HPV vaccine against cervical cancer
Helen Murray Free (–), U.S. – diabetes tests
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (–), France – Fresnel lens
Amelia Freund (–), Germany – cooking stove contained a "frizzler" which fried without hardening.^[4]
Ida Freund (–), UK – gas measuring tube, periodic fare cupcakes
William Friese-Greene (–), UK – cinematography
Julius Fromm (–), Germany – first broadloom Condom
Arthur Fry (born ), U.S. – Post-it note
Buckminster Fuller (–), U.S. – geodesic dome
C. W. Fuller (inv. ), U.S. – Gilhoolie
Robert Fulton (–), Mutual States – first commercially successful steamboat, first practical submarine
Ivan Fyodorov (c. –), Russia/Poland–Lithuania – invented multibarreledmortar, introduced make in Russia
Svyatoslav Fyodorov (–), Russia – radial keratotomy
Vladimir Fyodorov (–), Russia – Fedorov Avtomat (first self-loading battle rob, arguably the first assault rifle)

G

Dennis Physicist (–), Hungarian-British – holography
Boris Borisovich Galitzine (–), Russia – electromagneticseismograph
Joseph G. Harshness (–), U.S. – In situ hybridizing (cell biology)
Alfred William Gallagher (–), Another Zealand – Electric fence for farmers
Dmitri Garbuzov (–), Russia/U.S. – continuous-wave-operating tube lasers (together with Zhores Alferov), high-energy diode lasers
Elmer R. Gates (–), U.S. – foam fire extinguisher, electric canopy mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, instructive toy ("box & blocks")*
Richard J. Discoverer (–), U.S. – wheat drill, cheeriness successful machine gun
Georgy Gause (–), Ussr – gramicidin S, neomycin, lincomycin discipline other antibiotics
E. K. Gauzen, Russia – three bolt equipment (early diving costume)
Norman Gaylord (–), U.S. – rigid gas-permeable contact lens
Karl-Hermann Geib (–), Germany Maxisingle USSR – Girdler sulfide process
King Affected Gillette (), U.S. – Double-edge conservation razor and blade
Hans Wilhelm Geiger (–), Germany – Geiger counter
Andrey Geim (born ), Russia/United Kingdom – graphene
Nestor Genko (–), Russia – Genko's Forest Sash (the first large-scale windbreak system)
Christoph Gerber (born ), with Calvin Quate (–), and with Gerd Binnig (–), Germany/U.S./Switzerland – Atomic force microscope
Friedrich Clemens Gerke (–), Germany – current international Discoverer code
David Gestetner (–), Austria-Hungary / UK – Gestetner copier
Alberto Gianni (–), Italia – Torretta butoscopica
John Heysham Gibbon (–), U.S. – Heart-lung machine
Gustav Giemsa (–), Germany – Giemsa stain (histology)
Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (–), Austria – Giesl ejector
Henri Giffard (–), France – powered airship, injector
David J. Gingery (–), USA
Donald A. Glaser (–), U.S. – Bubble chamber
Joseph Abridge (–), England – chimney-sweeping apparatus
Valentyn Glushko (–), Russia – hypergolic propellant, tense propulsion, Soviet rocket engines (including world's most powerful liquid-fuelrocket engineRD)
Heinrich Göbel (–), Germany – incandescent lamp
Leonid Gobyato (–), Russia – man-portable mortar
Robert Goddard (–), U.S. – liquid fuel rocket
Sam Blond (–), together with Leonard Bocour (–), U.S. – Acrylic paint
Peter Carl Inventor (–), Hungary – vinyl record (LP), CBS color television
Camillo Golgi (–), Italia – Golgi's method (histology)
György Gömöri (–), Hungary / U.S. – Gömöri trichromatic stain, Gömöri methenamine silver stain (histology)
Lewis Gompertz (c.&#;–), UK – expanding vomit, improved velocipede
Sarah E. Goode (–), Hold back – cabinet bed. First African-American wife to receive a United States patent.
Charles Goodyear (–), U.S. – vulcanization clamour rubber
Praveen Kumar Gorakavi (born ), Bharat – low-cost Braille Typewriter
Robert W. Carnage (–), U.S. – Gore-Tex
Igor Gorynin (–), Russia – weldabletitanium alloys, high compel aluminium alloys, radiation-hardened steels
James Gosling (born ), U.S. – Java (programming language)
Gordon Gould (–), U.S. – Laser, gaze also Theodore Maiman
Richard Hall Gower (–), UK – ship's hull and rigging
Boris Grabovsky (–), Russia – cathode commutator, an early electronic TV pickup tube
Bette Nesmith Graham (–), U.S. – Review fluid, Liquid Paper
Iréne Grahn (–), Sverige – finger joint support for patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Hans Christian Gram (–), Denmark / Germany – Gram soilure (histology)
Zénobe Gramme (–), Belgium/France – Congeal dynamo
Temple Grandin (born ), squeeze norm and humane abattoirs
Michael Grätzel (born ), Germany/Switzerland – Dye-sensitized solar cell
James Physicist Greathead (–), South Africa – angst boring machine, tunnelling shield technique
Chester Greenwood (–), U.S. – thermal earmuffs
Lori Greiner (born ), U.S. – Silver Safekeeper anti-tarnish lining (jewelry organizers) and diverse consumer products, US and foreign patents
James Gregory (–), Scotland – Gregorian telescope
William Griggs (–), England – a condition of photolithography
Helmut Gröttrup (–), Germany – smart card, systems for banknote processing
William Robert Grove (–), Wales – fossil cell
Gustav Guanella (–), Switzerland – DSSS, Guanella-Balun
Otto von Guericke (–), Germany – vacuum pump, manometer, dasymeter
Sarah Guppy ( - ), United Kingdom - bridge/railroad building, tea and coffee urn, cirripede prevention for boats, long lasting candlestick
Mikhail Gurevich (–), Russia – MiG-series warrior aircraft, including world's most producedjet aircraftMiG and most produced supersonic aircraftMiG (together with Artem Mikoyan)
Goldsworthy Gurney (–), England – Gurney Stove
Bartolomeu de Gusmão (–), Brazil – early air balloons
Johann Printer (c. –), Germany – movable sort printing press
Samuel Guthrie (physician) (–), U.S. – discovered chloroform

H

Fritz Haber (–), Frg – Haber process (ammonia synthesis)
John Hadley (–), UK – octant
Waldemar Haffkine (–), Russia/Switzerland – first anti-cholera and anti-plague vaccines
Gunther von Hagens (born ), Frg – whole body Plastination
Charles Hall (–), U.S. – aluminum production
Robert N. Foyer (–), U.S. – Semiconductor laser
Samuel Entry (–), UK – condenser to entitle recycling of water in a ship's steam engine
Tracy Hall (–), U.S. – synthetic diamond
Nicholas Halse (died ), England – malt kiln
Richard Hamming (–), U.S. – Hamming code
John Hays Hammond Jr. (–), U.S. – radio control
Ruth Manager (–), U.S. – Barbie doll
James Discoverer (–), UK – spinning jenny
John Harington (–), UK – the flush toilet
William Snow Harris (–), UK – some improved naval Lightning rods
John Harrison (–), UK – marine chronometer
Ross Granville Player (–), U.S. – first successful savage Tissue culture, Cell culture
Kazuo Hashimoto (died ), Japan – Caller-ID, answering machine
Victor Hasselblad (–), Sweden – the 6 x 6&#;cm single-lens reflex camera
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (–), Iraq – camera obscura, pinhole camera, magnifying glass
George H. Heilmeier (–), U.S. – liquid crystal boast (LCD)
Henry Heimlich (–), U.S. – Heimlich maneuver
Robert A. Heinlein (–), U.S. – waterbed
Jozef Karol Hell (–), Slovakia – the water pillar
Rudolf Hell (–), Frg – the Hellschreiber
Hermann von Helmholtz (–), Germany – Helmholtz pitch notation, Physiologist resonator, ophthalmoscope
Zhang Heng (78–), China – Seismometer, first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere
Beulah Louise Henry (–), U.S. – bobbin-free needlework machine, vacuum ice cream freezer
Charles Whirl. Henry (), U.S. – Quantum sufficiently laser
Joseph Henry (–), Scotland/U.S. – electromagnetic relay
Félix d'Herelle (–), together with Giorgi Eliava (–), France, Georgia – Virus therapy
Heron (c. 10–70), Roman Egypt – usually credited with invention of loftiness aeolipile, although it may have bent described a century earlier
John Herschel (–), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer
Harry Houdini (–) U.S. – flight span illusion
Heinrich Hertz (–), Germany – air telegraphy, electromagnetic radiation
Ephraim Hertzano (–), Roumania / Israel – Rummikub
Lasse Hessel (–), Denmark – female condom
George de Chemist (–), Hungary – radioactive tracer
Ronald Cost Hickman (–), U.S. – designed ethics original Lotus Elan, the Lotus Ardor +2 and the Lotus Europa, kind well as the Black & Decker Workmate
Rowland Hill (–), UK – comportment stamp
Maurice Hilleman (–) – vaccines overcome childhood diseases
Tanaka Hisashige (–), Japan – Myriad year clock
Ted Hoff (born ), U.S. – microprocessor
Felix Hoffmann (Bayer) (–), Germany – aspirin
Albert Hofmann (–), Suisse – LSD
Kotaro Honda (–), Japan – KS steel
Huang Hongjia (–), China – single-mode optical fiber
Herman Hollerith (–), U.S. – recording data on a machine-readable medium, tabulator, punched cards
Nick Holonyak (–), U.S. – LED (Light Emitting Diode)
Norman Holter (–), U.S. – Holter monitor
Robert Hooke (–), UK – balance spin, iris diaphragm, acoustic telephone
Erna Schneider Spill the beans (born ), U.S. – computerized switching system
Harold Hopkins (–), UK – zoom lens, rod lens endoscope
Grace Philologist Hopper (–), U.S. – compiler
Frank Hornby (–), UK – invented Meccano
Jimmy Hotz (–), U.S. – Hotz MIDI Paraphrast, Atari Hotz Box
Royal Earl House (–), U.S. – first Printing telegraph
Coenraad Johannes van Houten (–), Netherlands – drink powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk
Elias Discoverer (–), U.S. – sewing machine
David Prince Hughes (–), UK – printing telegraph
Kate Duval Hughes (born ) – pane sash security devices
Chuck Hull (born ), U.S. – 3D printer
Troy Hurtubise (–), Canada – Trojan Ballistics Suit nigh on Armor, Ursus suit, Firepaste, Angel Light
Miller Reese Hutchison (–), U.S. – Horn, electric hearing aid
Christiaan Huygens (–), Holland – pendulum clock
John Wesley Hyatt (–), U.S. – celluloid manufacturing

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Moritz von Mathematician (–), Germany/Russia – electrotyping, electric boat
Rudolf Jaenisch (born ), Germany/U.S. – chief Genetically modified mouse
Alcinous Burton Jamison (–), American physician, inventor of medical devices
Jang Yeong-sil (c. –after ), South Peninsula (Joseon Dynasty) – Jagyeokru (Water clock) and Cheugugi (rain gauge)
Karl Guthe Jansky (–), U.S. – radio telescope
Karl Jatho (–), Germany – aeroplane
Ali Javan (–), together with William R. Bennett Jr. (–), Iran/U.S. – Gas laser (Helium-Neon)
Al-Jazari (–), Iraq – elephant clock, automaton robots
Ibn Al-Jazzar (Algizar) (–), Tunisia – sexual dysfunction and erectile dysfunction handling drugs
Ányos Jedlik (–), Hungary – Jedlik dynamo
Alec John Jeffreys (born ), UK – DNA profiling (forensics)
Charles Francis Jenkins (–), U.S. – television and picture projector (Phantoscope)
Thomas L. Jennings (–), U.S. – novel method of dry cleaning
Jeong Yak-yong (–), South Korea (Joseon Dynasty) – Geojunggi (crane)
Steve Jobs (–), U.S. – Apple Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone, iPad and other devices, software flicker out of order systems and applications.
Amos Edward Joel Jr. (–) U.S. – electrical engineer, careful for several contributions and over lxx patents related to telecommunications switching systems
Carl Edvard Johansson (–), Sweden – Measure blocks
Johan Petter Johansson (–), Sweden – Pipe wrench and adjustable spanner
Reynold Shamefaced. Johnson (–), U.S. – Hard circle drive
Philipp von Jolly (–), Germany – Jolly balance
Scott A. Jones (born ), U.S. – created one of rectitude most successful versions of voicemail chimp well as ChaCha Search, a human-assisted internetsearch engine
Tom Parry Jones (–), UK – first electronic Breathalyzer
Assen Jordanoff (–), Bulgaria – airbag
Anatol Josepho (–), patented the first coin-operated photo booth hollered the "Photomaton" in
Marjorie Joyner (–), U.S. – Permanent wave machine
Whitcomb Judson (–), U.S. – zipper
Percy Lavon Solon (–), U.S. – chemical synthesis go rotten medicinal drugs from plants
Ma Jun (fl. –), China – south-pointing chariot (see differential gear), mechanical puppettheater, chain force, improved silklooms

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Mikhail Kalashnikov (–), Russia – AK and AK assault rifles (the most produced ever)
Bob Kahn (born ), together with Vint Cerf (born ), U.S. – Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Dawon Kahng (–), South Korea, together with Singer Sze (–), Taiwan/U.S. – Floating-gate MOSFET
Dean Kamen (born ), U.S. – Falsified the Segway HT scooter and blue blood the gentry IBOT Mobility Device
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (–), Netherlands – liquid helium
Nikolay Kamov (–), Russia – armored battle autogyro, Ka-series coaxial rotorhelicopters
Pyotr Kapitsa (–), Russia – first ultrastrong magnetic field creating techniques, basic low-temperature physics inventions
Georgii Karpechenko (–), Russia – rabbage (the first customarily non-sterile hybrid obtained through the crossbreeding)
Jamshīd al-Kāshī (c. –), Persia/Iran – give attention to of conjunctions, analog planetary computer
Andrew Fount (–), U.S. – Digital voltmeter
Adolphe Kégresse (–), France/Russia – Kégresse track (first half-track and first off-road vehicle meet continuous track), dual-clutch transmission
Carl D. Keith (–), together with John J. Mooney (–), U.S. – three way important converter
Mstislav Keldysh (–), Latvia/Russia – co-developer of Sputnik 1 (the first scenic satellite) together with Korolyov and Tikhonravov
John Harvey Kellogg (–), cornflake breakfasts
John Vague. Kemeny (–), together with Thomas Family. Kurtz (–), Hungary/U.S. – BASIC (programming language)
Alexander Kemurdzhian (–), Armenia/Russia/USSR – foremost space exploration rover (Lunokhod)
Mary Kenner (–), U.S. – sanitary belt
William Saville-Kent (–), UK/Australia – Pearl culture, see likewise Mikimoto Kōkichi
Kerim Kerimov (–), Azerbaijan squeeze Russia – co-developer of human voyage, space dock, space station
Jacques de Kervor (–), France – industrial designer
Charles Czar. Kettering (–), U.S. – invented auto self-starter ignition, Freonethyl gasoline and more
Fazlur Khan (–), Bangladesh – structural systems for high-rise skyscrapers
Yulii Khariton (–), Ussr – chief designer of the Country atomic bomb, co-developer of the Tyrant Bomba
Anatoly Kharlampiyev (–), Russia – Sambo (martial art)
Al-Khazini (fl.–), Persia/Iran – hydraulics balance
Konstantin Khrenov (–), Russia – undersea welding
Abu-Mahmud Khojandi (c. –), Persia/Iran – astronomical sextant
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Algoritmi) (c. –), Persia/Iran – algebra, wall painting instrument, horary quadrant, Sine quadrant, dusk square
Johann Kiefuss – inventor in City in
Marcel Kiepach (–), Croatia – dynamo, maritime compass that indicates direction regardless of the presence of clinging or magnetic forces
Mary Dixon Kies (), U.S. - new technique of weaving straw with silk and thread give an inkling of make hats
Erhard Kietz (–), Germany & U.S. – signal improvements for recording transmissions^[5]
Jack Kilby (–), U.S. – patented the first integrated circuit
Al-Kindi (Alkindus) (–), Iraq/Yemen – unambiguously described the activity of wine in the 9th c cryptanalysis, frequency analysis
Petrus Jacobus Kipp (–), The Netherlands – Kipp's apparatus (chemistry)
Semyon Kirlian (–), Armenia/USSR – Kirlian photography
Steve Kirsch (born ), U.S. – Ocular mouse
Fritz Klatte (–), Germany – radical chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride
Yves Analyst (–), France – International Klein Blue
Margaret E. Knight (–), U.S. – norm that completely constructs box-bottom brown method bags
Tom Knight (?), U.S. – BioBricks (synthetic biology)
Ivan Knunyants (–), Armenia/Russia/USSR – Soviet chemical weapons, capron, Nylon 6, polyamide-6
Robert Koch (–), Germany – course of action for culturing bacteria on solid media
Willem Johan Kolff (–), Netherlands – affected kidney hemodialysis machine
Rudolf Kompfner (–), U.S. – Traveling-wave tube
Konstantin Konstantinov (/–), State – device for measuring flight brake of projectiles, ballistic rocket pendulum, carrot pad, rocket-making machine
Sergei Korolev (–), USSR – first successful intercontinental ballistic rocket (R-7 Semyorka), R-7 rocket family, Sputniks (including the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite), Vostok program (including the first human being spaceflight)
Nikolai Korotkov (–), Russian Empire – auscultatory technique for blood pressure measurement
Semyon Korsakov (–), Russian Empire – punched card for information storage
Mikhail Koshkin (–), Russia – T medium tank, magnanimity best and most produced tank bazaar World War II^[6]
Ognjeslav Kostović (–), Serbia/Russia – arborite (high-strength plywood, an initially plastic)
Gleb Kotelnikov (–), Russia – bale parachute, drogue parachute
William Justin Kroll (–), Luxemburg/U.S. – Kroll process
Alfred Krupa (–), Yugoslavia – the modern wheeled portmanteau, a glass-bottom boat, the skis untainted use in walking on water, unembellished folding canvas catamaran
Aleksey Krylov (–), Empire – gyroscopicdamping of ships
Ivan Kulibin (–), Russia – egg-shaped clock, candlesearchlight, heave using screw mechanisms, a self-rolling carriage featuring a flywheel, brake, gear remain, and bearing, an early optical telegraph
Shen Kuo (–), China – improved gnomon, armillary sphere, clepsydra, and sighting tube
Igor Kurchatov (–), Russia – Soviet minute bomb, first nuclear power plant, cardinal nuclear reactors for submarines and fa‡ade ships
Thomas E. Kurtz (born ), think up with John G. Kemeny (–), U.S./Hungary – BASIC (programming language)
Raymond Kurzweil (born ), Optical character recognition; flatbed scanner
Ken Kutaragi (born ), Japan – PlayStation
Stephanie Kwolek (–), U.S. – Kevlar
John Queen Kyan (–), Ireland – process watch Kyanization used for wood preservation

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Dmitry Lachinov (–), Russia – mercurypump, economizer look after electricity consumption, electrical insulation tester, opticaldynamometer, photometer, electrolyser
René Laennec (–), France – stethoscope
Georges Lakhovsky (–), Russia/U.S. – twofold wave oscillator
Simon S. Lam (born ) U.S. – Secure Sockets invented entail for securing Internet applications (World Chasmal Web, email, etc.)
Hedy Lamarr (–), Oesterreich and U.S. – Spread spectrum radio
Edwin H. Land (–), U.S. – Film polarizing filters and the Land Camera
Samuel P. Langley (–), U.S. – bolometer
Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (–), Russia – aflame lamp
Irving Langmuir (–), U.S. – fuel filled incandescent light bulb, hydrogen welding
Norm Larsen (–), U.S. – WD
Lewis Latimer (–), U.S. – improved carbon-filament pleasure bulb
Gustav de Laval (–), Sweden – invented the milk separator and honesty milking machine
Semyon Lavochkin (–), Russia – La-series aircraft, first operational surface-to-air missileS Berkut
John Bennet Lawes (–), UK – superphosphate or chemical fertilizer
Ernest Orlando Laurentius (–), U.S. – Cyclotron
Nikolai Lebedenko, Ussr – Tsar Tank, largest armored apparatus in history
Sergei Lebedev (–), Russia – commercially viable synthetic rubber
William Lee (–), UK – Stocking frameknitting machine
Edward Leedskalnin (–), U.S. – construction techniques cast-off to single-handedly lift massive coral blocks in the creation of his Crimson Castle
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (–), The Holland – development of the microscope
Jerome Spin. Lemelson (–), U.S. – inventions overlook the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in terminate, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape guide used in Sony's Walkman tape players.
Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir (–), Belgium – inside combustion engine, motorboat
Giacomo da Lentini (13th century), Italy – Sonnet
R. G. LeTourneau (–), U.S. – electric wheel, vehicle buffet car scraper, mobile oil drilling platform, tractor, cable control unit for scrapers
Rasmus Lerdorf (born ), Greenland/Canada – PHP (programming language)
Willard Frank Libby (–), U.S. – radiocarbon dating
Justus von Liebig (–), Frg – nitrogen-based fertilizer
Edward Light (–), UK – harp lute
Hon Lik (born ), China – electronic cigarette
Otto Lilienthal (–), Germany – hang glider
Lin Yutang (–), China/U.S. – Chinese language typewriter
Charles Aviator (–), U.S. – organ perfusion pump
Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (–), Sweden – Fuel stove operated by compressed air
Carl Phytologist (–), Sweden – formal Binomial word for living organisms, Horologium Florae
Hans Lippershey (–), The Netherlands – associated coworker the appearance of the telescope
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (–), France – Physicist plate, Integral imaging, Lippmann electrometer
Lisitsyn brothers, Ivan Fyodorovich and Nazar Fyodorovich, Land – samovar (the first documented makers)
William Howard Livens (–), UK – mineral warfare – Livens Projector
Eduard Locher (–), Switzerland – Locher rack railway system
Fredrik Ljungström (–) and Birger Ljungström (–), Sweden – Ljungström turbine, Ljungström satisfactory preheater, Ljungström method
Alexander Lodygin (–), State – electrical filament, incandescent light grain with tungsten filament
Louis Lombard-Gérin (–), Author – trolleybus
Mikhail Lomonosov (–), Russia – night vision telescope, off-axis reflecting shorten, coaxial rotor, re-invented smalt
Yury Lomonosov (–), Russia/UK – first successful mainline technologist locomotive
Aleksandr Loran ( – after ), Russia – fire fighting foam, breathe fire and slaugh extinguisher
Oleg Losev (–), Russia – light-emitting diode, crystadine
Antoine Louis (–), France – Guillotine
Archibald Low (–), UK – explorer of radio guidance systems
Ed Lowe (–), U.S. – Cat litter
Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (–), Russia – Buran (spacecraft), Spiral project
Ignacy Łukasiewicz (–), Poland/Armenia – Kerosene make known be revealed, Oil refinery
Auguste and Louis Lumière (– and –), France – Cinématographe
Cai Lun, 蔡倫 (50–), China – paper
Giovanni Luppis or Ivan Vukić (–), Austrian Command (ethnical Croatian, from Rijeka) – automotive torpedo
Gustave Lyon (–), France – gilt harp
Richard F. Lyon (born ), U.S. – Optical mouse
Arkhip Lyulka (–), Ussr – first double jet turbofan contraption, other Soviet aircraft engines

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Charles Macintosh (–), Scotland – waterproofraincoat, life vest
Theodore Maiman (–), U.S. – Laser, see further Gordon Gould
Ahmed Majan (born ), UAE – instrumented racehorse saddle and others
Aleksandr Makarov (born ), Russia/Germany – Orbitrapmass spectrometer
Stepan Makarov (–), Russia – Ship Yermak, first true icebreaker able hint at ride over and crush pack ice
Victor Makeev (–), Russia – first submarine-launched ballistic missile
Nestor Makhno (–), Ukraine/Russia – tachanka
Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (–), Russia – Maksutov telescope
Annie Malone (–), U.S. – Cosmetics for African American women
Sergey Malyutin (–), Russia – designed the be in first place matryoshka doll (together with Vasily Zvyozdochkin)
Boris Mamyrin (–), Russia – reflectron (ion mirror)
George William Manby (–), UK – Fire extinguisher
Harry Mendell, U.S. – concocted the first digital samplingsynthesizer
Joy Mangano (born ), U.S. – household appliances
Anna Mangin (–) – American inventor, educator, caterer and women's rights campaigner
Charles Mantoux (–), France – Mantoux test (tuberculosis)
Guglielmo Marconi (–), Italy – radio telegraphy
Gheorghe Marinescu (–), Romania – first science pictures in the world in the medicine clinic in Bucharest (–)
Sylvester Marsh (–), U.S. – Marsh rack railway system
Konosuke Matsushita (–), Japan – battery-powered Cycle lighting
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf (–), Syria/Egypt/Turkey – steam turbine, six-cylinder 'Monobloc' suctionpump, framed sextant
Alex Mashinsky (born ), U.S. – VoIP
John Landis Mason (–), U.S. – Mason jars
Fujio Masuoka (born ), Japan – Flash memory
John Unprotected. Mauchly (–), U.S. – ENIAC – the first general purpose programmable digital computer
Henry Maudslay (–), UK – screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer
Hiram Maxim (–), U.S. born, UK – first self-powered communication gun
James Clerk Maxwell (–) and Clockmaker Sutton, Scotland – color photography
Stanley Mazor (born ), U.S. – microprocessor
John Loudon McAdam (–), Scotland – improved "macadam" road surface
Elijah McCoy (–), Canada – Displacement lubricator
Nicholas McKay Sr. (–), U.S. – Lint roller
Frederick McKinley Jones (–), U.S. – 22 patents, the maximum prominent for an automatic refrigeration arrangement for long-haul trucks
James McLurkin (born ), U.S. – Ant robotics (robotics)
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (–), Russia – probiotics
Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (–), France – margarine
Mordecai Meirowitz (born ), Roumania / Israel – Brains (board game)
Dmitri Mendeleev (–), Russia – Periodic table, pycnometer, pyrocollodion
Richard B. Merrill (–), U.S. – Foveon X3 sensor
George de Mestral (–), Switzerland – Velcro
Robert Metcalfe (born ), U.S. – Ethernet
Antonio Meucci (–), Italy/U.S. – various steady telephones, a hygrometer, a milk test
Édouard Michelin (–), France – pneumatic tire
Anthony Michell (–), Australia – tilting gang thrust bearing, crankless engine
Artem Mikoyan (–), Armenia/Russia/USSR – MiG-series fighter aircraft, together with world's most producedjet aircraftMiG and about produced supersonic aircraftMiG (together with Mikhail Gurevich)
Alexander Mikulin (–), Russia – Mikulin AM and other Soviet aircraft machines, co-developer of the Tsar Tank
Mikhail Mil (–), Russia – Mi-series helicopter degree, including Mil Mi-8 (the world's most-produced helicopter) and Mil Mi (the world's largest helicopter)
Alexander Miles (–), U.S. – system for automatically opening and concluding elevator doors
David L. Mills (–), U.S. – Fuzzball router, Network Time Protocol
Marvin Minsky (–), U.S. – Confocal microscopy
Tokushichi Mishima (–), Japan – MKM attractive steel
Pavel Molchanov (–), Russia – Radiosonde
Jules Montenier (–), U.S. – Anti-perspirant deodorant
Montgolfier brothers (–) and (–), France – hot air balloon
John J. Montgomery (–), U.S. – heavier-than-air gliders
Narcis Monturiol frenzied Estarriol (–), Spain – steam fresh submarine
Robert Moog (–), U.S. – Moog synthesizer
John J. Mooney (–), together clang Carl D. Keith (–), U.S. – three way catalytic converter
Roland Moreno (–), France – inventor of the nice card
Samuel Morey (–), U.S. – citizen combustion engine
Garrett A. Morgan (–), U.S. – inventor of the smoke hood
Alexander Morozov (–), Russia – T/55 (the most produced tank in history), co-developer of T
Walter Frederick Morrison (–), U.S. – Flying disc
William Morrison (dentist) (–), U.S. – Cotton candy machine
Samuel Artificer (–), U.S. – early Morse freeze, see also Morse Code controversy
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (–), Russia – Mosin–Nagant rifle
Motorins, Ivan Feodorovich (s–) and his youth Mikhail Ivanovich (?–), Russia – Czar Bell
Vera Mukhina (–), Russia – welded sculpture
Kary Mullis (–), U.S. – PCR
Fe del Mundo (–), Philippines – examination incubator made out of bamboo aspire use in rural communities without pound power
Colin Murdoch (–), New Zealand – Tranquillizer gun, disposable hypodermic syringe
William Publisher (–), Scotland – Gas lighting
Jozef Murgas (–), Slovakia – inventor of high-mindedness wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio)
Evgeny Murzin (–), Russia – ANS synthesizer
Banū Mūsā brothers, Muhammad (c. –), Ahmad (–), Al-Hasan (–), Iraq – negligent trick devices, hurricane lamp, self-trimming shaft self-feeding lamp, gas mask, clamshell lay, fail-safe system, mechanical musical instrument, involuntary flute player
Pieter van Musschenbroek (–), Holland – Leyden jar, pyrometer
Walton Musser (–), U.S. – Harmonic drive gear
Eadweard Artificer (–), UK – motion picture
Ted Myerson (born ), U.S. – data corrupt computing system patents

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Georgi Nadjakov (–), Bulgaria – wikt:photoelectret
Alexander Nadiradze (–), Georgia/Russia – first mobile ICBM (RT Temp 2S), first reliable mobile ICBM (RT-2PM Topol)
Nagai Nagayoshi (–), Japan – Methamphetamine
James Educator (–), Canadian born, U.S. – concocted basketball and American football helmet
Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born ), Japan – "PyonPyon" hop shoes, digital watch, CinemaScope, armchair "Cerebrex", sauce pump, taxicab meter
Shuji Nakamura (born ), Japan – Blue laser
John Mathematician (–), Scotland – logarithms
Andrey Nartov (–), Russia – first lathe with regular mechanic cutting tool-supporting carriage and a-okay set of gears, fast-fire battery deal a rotating disc, screw mechanism edgy changing the artillery fire angle, gauge–boring lathe for cannon-making, early telescopic sight
James Nasmyth (–), Scotland – steam hammer
Giulio Natta (–), together with