List of inventors

This is a list of inventors.

See also: List of scientists, Timeline of invention, List of inventions named after people, List of inventors killed by their own inventions, and Category:Inventors.

Alphabetical list

A

• Vitaly Mikhaylovich Abalakov, (1906-1986), Russia - Camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread) gearless ice climbing anchor.
• Abbas Ibn Firnas, (810-887), Andalusia — eye glasses, hang glider, watch
• Robert Adler, (1913-2007), Austria/United States – wireless remote control
• Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi, (940-1000), Persia — astronomical sextant
• Alhacen (Ibn al-Haytham), (965-1039), Iraq (Mesopotamia) or Persia — camera obscura, pinhole camera
• Al-Fazari, (d. 796/806), Iraq (Mesopotamia) or Persia — brass astrolabe
• Al-Jazari, (1136-1206), Iraq (Mesopotamia) or Persia — crankshaft, connecting rod, crank mechanism, combination lock, elephant clock, programmable humanoid robots, robotics, reciprocating piston engine, suction pump, segmental gear, valve, etc.
• Al-Khwarizmi (780-850), Persia — modern algebra
• Al-Razi (Rhazes), (865-965), Persia — distillation and extraction methods, sulfuric acid and alcohol, soap bar
• Rostislav Alexeyev, (1916-1980) , Russia - Ekranoplan.
• Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili, (9th century), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — syringe used for cataract removal
• Archimedes, (c. 287-212 BC), Greece — Archimedes screw
• Ami Argand, (1750-1803), France — Argand lamp
• Armen Firman, (c. 852), Andalusia — parachute
• Edwin H. Armstrong,(1890-1954), USA — FM radio
• William George Armstrong, (1810-1900), UK — hydraulic crane
• Neil Arnott, (1788-1874), UK — waterbed
• Joseph Aspdin, (1788-1855), England — Portland cement
• John Vincent Atanasoff, (1903-1995), United States — modern programmable computer

B

• Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), UK — analytical engine (semi-automatic computer)
• Roger Bacon, (1214-1292), England — magnifying glass
• Leo Baekeland, (1863-1944), Belgian–American — Velox photographic paper and Bakelite
• Ralph H. Baer, (1922-), German born American — video game console
• John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), UK — an electromechanical television
• Donat Banki, (1859-1922), Hungary — inventor of the carburetor
• John Bardeen, (1908-1991), USA — co-inventor of the transistor
• Anthony R. Barringer Canadian – American — INPUT (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system
• Earl W. Bascom, (1906-1995), Canada and United States — side-delivery rodeo chute, hornless rodeo saddle, rodeo bareback rigging, rodeo chaps
• Eugen Baumann, (1846-1896), Germany — PVC
• Trevor Baylis, (1937-), UK — a wind-up radio
• Francis Beaufort, (1774-1857), France — Beaufort scale
• Arnold O. Beckman, (1900-2004), USA — pH meter
• Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Canada — telephone
• Karl Benz, (1844-1929), Germany — the petrol-powered automobile
• Emile Berliner, (1851-1929), Germany and USA — the disc record gramophone
• Tim Berners-Lee, (1955-), UK — with Robert Cailliau, the World Wide Web
• Bi Sheng (Chinese:畢昇), (ca.990-1051), China — clay movable type printing
• Laszlo Biro, (1899-1985), Hungary — modern ballpoint pen
• Clarence Birdseye, (1886-1956), USA — frozen food process
• J. Stuart Blackton, (1875-1941), USA — stop-motion film
• Otto Blathy (1860-1939), Hungary — co-inventor of the transformer, wattmeter, alternating current (AC) and turbogenerator
• Katharine B. Blodgett, (1898-1979), UK — nonreflective glass
• Nils Bohlin, (1920-2002), Sweden — the three-point seat belt
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier, (1907-1964), Canada — snowmobile
• Robert W. Bower, (1936-), USA — self-aligned–gate MOSFET
• Seth Boyden, (1788-1870), USA — nail-making machine
• Walter Houser Brattain, (1902-1987), USA — co-inventor of the transistor
• Louis Braille, (1809-1852), France — the Braille writing system
• Karl Ferdinand Braun, (1850-1918), Germany — cathode-ray tube oscilloscope
• Harry Brearley, (1871-1948), UK — stainless steel
• John Moses Browning, (1855-1926), USA — automatic handgun
• Edwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846), UK — lawnmower
• Corliss Orville Burandt, USA — Variable valve timing

C

• Robert Cailliau, (1947–), Belgium — with Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
• C`ai Lun, 蔡倫 (50 AD - 121), China — paper
• Marvin Camras, (1916 - 1995), USA — magnetic recording
• Chester Carlson, (1906-1968), USA — Xerography
• Wallace Carothers, (1896-1937), USA — Nylon
• Joseph Constantine Carpue, (1764-1846), France — rhinoplastic surgery
• George Cayley, (1773-1857), (UK) — tension-spoke wheels, Caterpillar track
• Lagari Hasan Çelebi, (fl. 1633-1640), Turkey — rocket aircraft
• Adrian Chernoff, (1971-), USA — GM Autonomy, GM Hy-wire, Rubber Bandits
• Evgeniy Chertanovskiy, Russia - Skafander
• Niels Christensen (1865- 1952), USA — O-ring
• Samuel Hunter Christie, (1784-1865), UK — Wheatstone bridge
• Juan de la Cierva, (1895-1936), Spain — the autogyro
• Alexandru Ciurcu, (1854-1922), Romania — Reaction engine
• Georges Claude, (1870-1960), France — neon lamp
• Henri Coandă, (1886-1972), Romania — Jet engine
• Josephine Cochrane, (1839-1913), USA — dishwasher
• Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), UK — Hovercraft
• Aeneas Coffey, (1780-1852), Ireland, heat exchanger, inventor of the Coffey still
• George Constantinescu, (1881-1965), Romania — Interrupter gear
• Lloyd Groff Copeman, (1865- 1956), USA — Electric stove
• Cornelis Corneliszoon, (1550-1607), The Netherlands — sawmill
• Jacques Cousteau, (1910-1997), France — co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera
• Holger Crafoord, (1908-1982), Sweden — inventor of the artificial kidney
• Thomas Crapper, (1836-1910), England, plumber.
• Bartolomeo Cristofori, (1655-1731), Italy — piano
• János Csonka, (1852-1939), Hungary — co-inventor of carburetor
• Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, (1725-1804), France — automobile
• William Cumberland Cruikshank, (1745-1800), UK — chlorinated water
• William Cullen, (1710-1790), UK — first artificial refrigerator
• Glenn Curtiss, (1878 - 1930), USA — ailerons

D

• Gustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), Sweden — AGA cooker; Dalén light; Agamassan
• Salvino D'Armate, (?-?), Italy — credited for inventing eyeglasses in 1284
• Jacob Davis, (1868-1908), USA — riveted jeans
• Edmund Davy, (1785-1857), Ireland — acetylene
• Humphry Davy, (1778-1829), UK — Davy miners lamp
• Joseph Day, (1855-1946), UK — the crankcase-compression two-stroke engine
• Lee DeForest, (1873-1961), USA — triode
• Miksa Deri (1854-1938), Hungary — co-inventor of an improved closed-core transformer, the first so called
• James Dewar, (1842-1923), UK — Thermos flask
• William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, (1860-1935), UK — motion picture camera
• Philip Diehl, (1847-1913), USA — Ceiling fan, electric sewing machine
• Rudolf Diesel, (1858-1913), Germany — Diesel engine
• William H. Dobelle, (1943-2004), United States — first functioning artificial eye
• Bryan Donkin, (1768-1855), UK — print industry composition roller
• Hub van Doorne, (1900-1979), Netherlands, Variomatic continuously variable transmission
• Anastase Dragomir, (1896-1966), Romania — Ejection seat
• Karl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany — dandy horse (Draisine)
• Cornelius Drebbel, (1572-1633), The Netherlands — first navigable submarine
• Richard Drew, (1899-1980), USA — Masking tape
• John Boyd Dunlop, (1840-1921) UK — first practical pneumatic tyre
• James Dyson, (1947- ) UK — Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, incorporating the principles of cyclonic separation.

E

• George Eastman, (1854-1932), USA — roll film
• Thomas Edison, (1847-1931), USA — phonograph, commercially practical light bulb, motion picture projector, stock ticker, etc.
• Willem Einthoven, (1860-1927), The Netherlands — the electrocardiogram
• Rune Elmqvist, (1857-1924), Sweden — implantable pacemaker
• Douglas Engelbart, (1925-), USA — the computer mouse [1]
• John Ericsson, (1803-1889), Sweden — the two screw-propeller
• Lars Magnus Ericsson, (1846-1926), Sweden — the handheld micro telephone
• Ole Evinrude, (1877-1934), Norway — outboard motor
• Albert Einstein,(1879-1955), Germany

F

• Samuel Face, (1923-2001), USA — concrete flatness/levelness technology; Lightning Switch
• Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), England — electric transformer
• Johann Maria Farina, (1685–1766), Germany; Eau de Cologne
• Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971), USA — electronic television
• James Fergason, (1934-), USA — improved liquid crystal display
• Enrico Fermi, (1901-1954), Italy — nuclear reactor
• Reginald Fessenden, (1866-1932), Canada — two-way radio
• Adolf Eugen Fick, (1829-1901), Germany — contact lens
• Artur Fischer, (1919–) Germany — fasteners including fischertechnik.
• Gerhard Fischer, Germany/USA — hand-held metal detector
• Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), Scotland — penicillin
• John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), England — vacuum diode
• Sandford Fleming, (1827-1915), Canada — Universal Standard Time
• Tommy Flowers, (1905-1998), England — Colossus an early electronic computer.
• Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, (1819-1868), France — Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current
• Benoît Fourneyron, (1802-1867), France — water turbine
• John Fowler, (1826-1864), England — steam-driven ploughing engine
• Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), USA — the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, the glass harmonica
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel, (1788-1827), France — Fresnel lens
• William Friese-Greene, (1855-1921), England — cinematography
• Buckminster Fuller, (1895-1983), USA — geodesic dome

G

• Dennis Gabor, (1900-1979), Hungary – holography
• Boris Borisovich Galitzine, (1862-1916), Russia – Electromagnetic seismograph.
• Elmer R. Gates, (1859-1923), USA – foam fire extinguisher, electric loom mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, educational toy ("box & blocks")
• Richard J. Gatling, (1818-1903), USA – Wheat drill; first successful Machine Gun
• Hans Wilhelm Geiger, (1882-1945), Germany – Geiger counter
• Henri Giffard, (1825-1882), France – powered airship, injector
• Heinrich Göbel, (1818-1893), Germany – first functional incandescent lamp
• Robert Goddard, (1882-1945), USA – liquid fuel rocket
• Peter Carl Goldmark, (1906-1977), Hungary – vinyl record (LP), CBS color television
• Charles Goodyear, (1800-1860), USA – vulcanization of rubber
• Gordon Gould, (1920-2005), USA – co-inventor of laser
• Richard Hall Gower, (1768-1833), England – ship's hull and rigging
• Bette Nesmith Graham, (1924-1980), USA – Liquid Paper
• James Henry Greathead, (1844-1896), South Africa – tunnel boring machine, tunnelling shield technique
• Chester Greenwood, (1858-1937), USA – thermal earmuffs
• James Gregory, (1638-1675), Scotland – reflecting telescope
• William Robert Grove, (1811-1896), Wales – fuel cell
• Otto von Guericke, (1602-1686), Germany – vacuum pump, manometer, dasymeter,
• Johann Gutenberg, (c. 1390s-1468), Germany – movable type printing press
• Samuel Guthrie, (1782 - 1848), USA – discovered chloroform

H

• John Hadley, (1682-1744), England — Octant
• Tracy Hall, (1919- ), USA — synthetic diamond
• Christopher Hansteen, (1783-1873), Norway — discovery of terrestrial magnetism
• James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), England — spinning jenny
• John Harrison, (1693-1776), England — marine chronometer
• Victor Hasselblad, (1906-1978), Sweden — invented the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera
• Robert A. Heinlein, (1907-1988), USA — waterbed
• Henry J. Heinz, USA — tomato ketchup
• Jozef Karol Hell, (1713-1789), Slovakia — the water pillar
• Rudolf Hell, (1901-2002), Germany — the Hellschreiber
• Joseph Henry, (1797-1878), Scotland/USA — electromagnetic relay
• Heron, (c. 10-70), Roman Egypt — aeolipile
• Heinrich Hertz, (1857-1894), Germany — radio telegraphy, electromagnetic radiation
• George de Hevesy, (1885-1966), Hungary — radioactive tracer
• Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), UK — postage stamp
• Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), (1868-1949), Germany — Aspirin
• Herman Hollerith, (1860-1929), USA — mechanical tabulator based on punched cards
• Nick Holonyak, (1928- ), USA — LED (Light Emitting Diode)
• Joseph Hon – book index thumb notch system for dictionaries Patent #561888
• Robert Hooke, (1635-1703), England — balance wheel, iris diaphragm
• Erna Schneider Hoover, (1926-), USA — computerized telephone switching system
• Frank Hornby, (1863-1936), England — invented Meccano
• Coenraad Johannes van Houten, (1801-1887), Netherlands — cocoa powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk
• Elias Howe, (1819-1867), USA — sewing machine
• Christiaan Huygens, (1629-1695), Netherlands — pendulum clock
• John Wesley Hyatt, (1837-1920), USA — celluloid manufacturing

I

• Ibn Samh, (1000s), Andalusia — mechanical astrolabe
• Ibn Yunus, (950-1009), Egypt — pendulum
• Sumio Iijima, (1939- ), Japan — nanotubes
• János Irinyi, (1817-1895), Hungary — noiseless match

J

• Karl Jatho, (1873-1933), Germany — aeroplane
• György Jendrassik, (1898-1954), Hungary — turboprop
• Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), USA — swivel chair
• Carl Edvard Johansson, (1864-1943), Sweden — Gauge blocks
• Johan Petter Johansson, (1853-1943), Sweden — the pipe wrench and the modern adjustable spanner
• Nancy Johnson, USA — American version of the hand cranked ice cream machine in (1843)
• Scott A. Jones, (1960-), USA — created one of the most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Search, a human-assisted internet search engine.
• Whitcomb Judson, (1836-1909), USA — zipper

K

• Dean Kamen, (1951-), USA — Invented the Segway HT scooter and the IBOT Mobility Device
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, (1853-1926), Netherlands — liquify helium
• John Harvey Kellogg, (1852-1943), cornflake breakfasts
• John George Kemeny, (1926-1992), Hungary — co-inventor of BASIC
• Charles F. Kettering, (1876-1958), USA — invented automobile self-starter ignition, Freon ethyl gasoline and more
• Jack Kilby, (1923-2005), USA — patented the first integrated circuit
• Fritz Klatte, (1880-1934), Germany — vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride
• Margaret E. Knight, (1838-1914), USA — machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags
• Ivan Knunyants, (1906-1990), Ukraine — invented Nylon-6
• Robert Koch, (1843-1910), Germany---- method for culturing bacteria on solid media
• Willem Johan Kolff, (1911-), Netherlands — artificial kidney hemodialysis machine
• Rudolf Kompfner, (1909–1977), USA — Traveling-wave tube
• Gleb Kotelnikov, (1872-1944), Russia — knapsack parachute
• Ivan Kulibin, (1735-1818), Russia - Elevator using screw mechanisms.
• Stephanie Kwolek, (1923-), USA — Kevlar
• John Howard Kyan (1774-1850), Ireland — The process of Kyanization used for wood preservation

L

• René Laënnec, (1781-1826), France — stethoscope
• Hedy Lamarr, (1913-2000), Austria and USA — Spread spectrum radio
• Georges Lakhovsky, (1869-1942), Russia - Multiple Wave Oscillator.
• Edwin H. Land, (1909-1991), USA — Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera
• Samuel P. Langley, (1834-1906), USA — bolometer
• Irving Langmuir, (1851-1957), USA — gas filled incandescent light bulb, hydrogen welding
• Lewis Latimer, (1848-1928), — worked with Thomas Edison and patented an improved lightbulb manufacturing process
• Gustav de Laval, (1845-1913), Sweden — invented the milk separator and the milking machine
• John Bennet Lawes, (1814-1900), England — superphosphate or chemical fertilizer
• Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev, (1874-1934), Russia — synthetic rubber
• Tim Berners-Lee, (1955- ) England — World Wide Web
• Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, (1632-1723), Netherlands — development of the microscope
• Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir, (1822-1900), Belgium — internal combustion engine, motorboat
• Willard Frank Libby, (1908-1980), USA — Radiocarbon dating
• Justus von Liebig, (1803-1873), Germany — nitrogen-based fertilizer
• Otto Lilienthal, (1848-1896), Germany — air glider
• Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, (1862-1931), Sweden — Kerosene stove operated by compressed air
• Hans Lippershey, (1570-1619), Netherlands — telescope
• Alexander Lodygin, (1847-1923), Russia - Electrical filament, incandescent light bulb with tungsten filament.
• Oleg Losev, (1903-1942), Russia - Light-emitting diode.
• Archibald Low, (1882-1956), Britain — Pioneer of radio guidance systems
• Auguste and Louis Lumière, France — Cinématographe
• Giovanni Luppis, (1813-1875), Austrian Empire (ethnical Italian) — self-propelled torpedo

M

• Ma Jun, (c. 200-265), China — South Pointing Chariot (see differential gear), mechanical puppet theater, chain pumps, improved silk looms
• Charles Macintosh, (1766-1843), Scotland — waterproof raincoat, life vest
• Sake Dean Mahomet, (c. 1759), India — shampoo
• Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov, (1896-1964), Russia - Maksutov telescope.
• George William Manby, (1765-1854), England — Fire extinguisher
• Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937), Italy — radio telegraphy
• John Landis Mason, (1826-1902), USA — Mason jars
• Henry Maudslay, (1771-1831), England — screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer
• Hiram Maxim, (1840-1916), USA born, England — First self-powered machine gun
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) and Thomas Sutton Scotland — colour photography
• John McAdam, (1756-1836), Scotland — improved "macadam" road surface
• Elijah McCoy, (1843-1929), Canada — Displacement lubricator
• Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés, (1817-1880), France — margarine
• Dmitri Mendeleev, (1834-1907), Russia - Periodic table, pyrocollodion.
• Antonio Meucci, (1808-1889), Italy — telephone (prototype)
• Edouard Michelin, (1859-1940), France — pneumatic tyre
• Pavel Molchanov, (1893-1941), Russia - Radiosonde.
• Montgolfier brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), France — hot-air balloon
• John J. Montgomery, (1858-1911), USA — heavier-than-air gliders
• Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol, (1819-1885), Spain — steam powered submarine
• Robert Moog, (1934-2005), USA — the Moog synthesizer
• Samuel Morey, (1762-1843), USA — internal combustion engine
• Garrett A. Morgan, (1877-1963), USA — inventor of the gas mask, and traffic signal.
• Samuel Morse, (1791-1872), USA — telegraph
• William Murdoch, (1754-1839), Scotland — Gas lighting
• Jozef Murgas, (1864-1929), Slovakia — inventor of the wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio)
• Pieter van Musschenbroek, (1692-1761), Netherlands — Leyden jar, pyrometer

N

• John Napier, (1550-1617), Scotland — logarithms
• James Naismith, (1861-1939), Canadian born, USA---- Invented Basketball, Football helmet
• James Nasmyth, (1808-1890), Scotland — steam hammer
• John von Neumann, (1903-1957), Hungary — Von Neumann computer architecture
• Isaac Newton,(1642-1727), England — reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration)
• Joseph Nicephore Niépce, (1765-1833), France — photography
• Jun-Ichi Nishizawa, (1926-), Japan — Optical communication system, SIT/SITh (Static Induction Transistor/Thyristor), Laser diode, PIN diode
• Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Sweden — dynamite
• Carl Rickard Nyberg, (1858-1939), Sweden — the blowtorch

O

• Theophil Wilgodt Odhner, (1845–1903), Sweden — the Odhner Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator
• Hans Christian Ørsted, (1777–1851), Denmark — electromagnetism, aluminium
• Elisha Otis, (1811–1861), USA — passenger elevator with safety device
• William Oughtred, (1575–1660), England — slide rule

P

• Helge Palmcrantz, (1842-1880), Sweden — the multi-barrel, lever-actuated, machine gun
• Daniel David Palmer, (1845-1913), Canada — Chiropractic
• Luigi Palmieri, (1807-1896), Italy — seismometer
• Alexander Parkes, (1831-1890), England — celluloid
• Charles Algernon Parsons, (1854-1931), British — steam turbine
• Spede Pasanen, (1930-2001), Finland — The ski jumping sling
• Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662), France — barometer
• Les Paul, (1915-), USA — Multitrack recording
• Nicolae Paulescu, (1869 - 1931), Romania — Insulin
• Eugen Pavel, Romania — Hyper CD-ROM
• Gustaf Erik Pasch, (1788-1862), Sweden — the safety match
• Arthur Paul Pedrick, England — chromatically selective cat flap and others
• John Pemberton, (1831-1888), USA — Coca-Cola
• Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, (1871-1922), Croatia — mechanical pencil
• Henry Perky, (1843-1906), USA — Shredded wheat
• Stephen Perry, England — rubber band
• Peter Petroff, (1919-2004), Bulgaria — digital wrist watch, heart monitor, weather instruments
• Fritz Pfleumer, (1881-1945), Germany — Magnetic Tape
• Joseph Plateau, (1801-1883), Belgium — phenakistiscope (stroboscope)
• Baltzar von Platen, (1898-1984), Sweden — refrigerator
• James Leonard Plimpton, USA — roller skates
• Petrache Poenaru, (1799 - 1875), Romania — Fountain pen
• Christopher Polhem, (1661-1751), Sweden — the modern padlock
• Olivia Poole, (1889-1975), USA, — the Jolly Jumper baby harness
• Alexander Stepanovich Popov, (1859-1906), Russia - Lightning detector.
• George Pullman, (1831-1897), USA — Pullman sleep wagon
• Mihajlo Pupin, (1858-1935), Serbia — pupinization (loading coils), tunable oscillator
• Tivadar Puskas, (1844-1893), Hungary — telephone exchange

R

• Karl von Reichenbach, (1788-1869), paraffin, creosote oil, phenol
• Ira Remsen, (1846-1927), USA — saccharin
• Josef Ressel, (1793-1857), Czechoslovakia — ship propeller
• Charles Francis Richter, (1900-1985), USA — Richter magnitude scale
• John Roebuck, (1718-1794) England — lead chamber process for sulfuric acid synthesis
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, (1845-1923), Germany — the X-ray machine
• Erno Rubik, (1944-), Hungary — Rubik's cube, Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Clock
• Ernst Ruska, (1906-1988), Germany — electron microscope

S

• Alberto Santos-Dumont, (1873-1932), Brazil — non-rigid airship and airplane
• Thomas Savery, (1650-1715), England — steam engine
• Adolphe Sax, (1814-1894), Belgium — saxophone
• Bela Schick, (1877-1967), Hungary — diphtheria test
• Christian Schnabel (1878-1936), German, designed simplistic food cutleries
• Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (1946- ), Netherlands Major contributor to development of Compact Disc
• August Schrader, USA — Schrader valve for Pneumatic tire
• David Schwarz, (1852-1897), Croatia, — rigid ship, later called Zeppelin
• Marc Seguin, (1786-1875), France — wire-cable suspension bridge
• Sennacherib, (705–681 BC), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — screw pump
• Iwan Serrurier, (active 1920s), Netherlands/USA — inventor of the Moviola for film editing.
• Mark Serrurier, (190?-1988), USA — Serrurier truss for Optical telescopes
• Gerhard Sessler, (1931-), Germany — foil electret microphone, silicon microphone
• Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, 1894-1974, Russia/United States of America - Air-to-air refueling.
• Shen Kuo (1031-1095), China, improved gnomon, armillary sphere, clepsydra, and sighting tube
• William Bradford Shockley, (1910-1989), USA — co-inventor of transistor
• Henry Shrapnel, (1761-1842), England — Shrapnel shell ammunition
• Vladimir Shukhov, (1853-1939), Russia - Shukhov cracking process.
• Augustus Siebe, (1788-1872), Saxony&England Inventor of the standard diving dress
• Werner von Siemens, (1816-1892), Germany — an electromechanical "dynamic"
• Sir William Siemens, (1823-1883), Germany — regenerative furnace
• Igor Sikorsky, (1889-1972), Russia — helicopter
• Charles Simonyi, (1948-), Hungary — Hungarian notation
• Isaac Singer, (1811-1875), USA — sewing machine
• Elmer Ambrose Sperry, (1860-1930), USA — gyroscope-guided automatic pilot
• George Stephenson, (1781-1848), England — steam locomotive
• Simon Stevin, (1548-1620), Netherlands — land yacht
• Aurel Stodola, (1859-1942), Slovakia - gas turbines
• Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (1790-1878), Scotland — Stirling engine
• Levi Strauss, (1829-1902), USA — blue jeans
• John Stringfellow, (1799-1883), England — airplane
• Almon Strowger, (1839-1902), USA — automatic telephone exchange
• Su Song, (1020-1101), China, first chain drive
• Simon Sunatori, (1959-), Canada — inventor of Sunatori Pen
• Joseph Swan, (1828-1914), England — Incandescent light bulb
• Percy Spencer, (1894-1970), USA — microwave oven
• Leo Szilard, (1898-1964), [[Hungarian Born, USA---- — Co-developed the Atomic Bomb, patented the nuclear reactor, catalyst of the Manhattan Project

T

• Bernard Tellegen (1900-1990), Netherlands — pentode
• Edward Teller, (1908-2003), Hungary — hydrogen bomb
• Nikola Tesla, (1856-1943), Serbian-Croatian-American — Tesla Coil, induction motor, alternating current Polyphase system, wireless communication, modern robotics, logic gates, bladeless turbine, radio, VTOL aircraft, etc.
• Kalman Tihanyi, (1897-1947), Hungary — co-inventor of cathode ray tube and iconoscope
• Benjamin Chew Tilghman, (1821-1897), USA — sandblasting
• Tipu Sultan, (1750-1799), India — iron rocket
• Alfred Traeger, (1895-1980), Australia — the pedal radio
• Franc Trkman, (1903-1978), Slovenia — electrical switches, accessories for opening windows
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, (1857-1935), Russia - Spaceflight.
• Mikhail Tsvet, (1872-1919), Russia - Adsorption chromatography.

U

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

V

• Theophilus Van Kannel, (1841-1919), United States — revolving door (1888)
• Louis R. Vitullo, (1924?-2006), United States — developed the first sexual assault evidence kit
• Alessandro Volta, (1745-1827), Italy — battery
• Faust Vrancic, (1551-1617), Croatia — parachute

W

• Barnes Wallis, (1887-1979), England — bouncing bomb
• Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), Scotland — microwave radar
• James Watt, (1736-1819), Scotland — improved Steam engine
• Thomas Wedgwood, (1771-1805), England — first (not permanent) photograph
• Jonas Wenström, (1855-1893), Sweden — three-phase electrical system
• George Westinghouse, (1846-1914), USA — Air brake
• Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1875), England — concertina, stereoscope, microphone, Playfair cipher
• Eli Whitney, (1765-1825), USA — the cotton gin
• Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), England — co-inventor of the jet engine
• Otto Wichterle, (1913-1989), Czechoslovakia — invented modern contact lenses
• Paul Winchell, (1922-2005), USA — the artificial heart
• A. Baldwin Wood, (1879-1956), USA — high volume pump
• Granville Woods, (1856-1910), USA — the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph
• The Wright brothers, Orville Wright, (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright, (1867-1912), USA — powered airplane
• Arthur Wynne, (1862-1945), England — creator of crossword puzzle

Y

• Pavel Yablochkov, (1847-1894), Russia - Yablochkov candle.
• Hidetsugu Yagi, (1886-1976), Japan — Yagi antenna
• Yi Xing, (683-727), China, invented the escapement mechanism
• Arthur M. Young, (1905-1995), USA — the Bell Helicopter

Z

• Nikolay Zelinsky, (1861-1953), Russia - The first effective filtering coal gas mask in the world .
• Zhang Heng, (78-139), China, invented the first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere
• Konrad Zuse, (22. June 1910 - 18. December 1995), Germany, invented the first Computer (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4)
• Vladimir Zworykin, (1889-1982), Russia/USA - Iconoscope, kinescope.

See also

• Creativity techniques