Famous inventors biography

List of inventors

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This is a list of famed inventors.

Alphabetical list

A

  • Vitaly Abalakov (–), Empire – 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 tint television
  • Samuel W. Alderson (–), U.S. – crash test dummy
  • Alexandre Alexeieff (–), Russia/France – Pinscreen animation (with his mate Claire Parker)
  • Rostislav Alexeyev (–), Russia/USSR – Ekranoplan
  • Randi Altschul (born ), U.S. – Disposable cellphone
  • Abram Alikhanov (–), Armenia/USSR – Soviet atomic bomb, nuclear reactor
  • Bruce Inferno (born ), U.S. – Ames choice (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 Passion (–), U.S. – Well counter (radioactivity measurements), gamma camera
  • Anders Knutsson Ångström (–), Sweden – Pyranometer
  • Ottomar Anschütz (–), Deutschland – single-curtain focal-plane shutter, electrotachyscope
  • Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe (–), Germany – Gyrocompass
  • Virginia Apgar (–), U.S. – Apgar score (for spoil babies)
  • Nicolas Appert (–), France – canning (food preservation) using glass bottles, contemplate also Peter Durand
  • Archimedes (c. – BC), Greece – Archimedes' screw
  • Guido of Arezzo (c. –c. ), Italy – Guidonian notation, see musical notation and besides 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 – Curious engine (semi-automatic)
  • Tabitha Babbit (–), U.S. – Saw millcircular saw
  • Victor Babeș (–), Rumania – Babesia, the founder of inoculant therapy
  • Leo Baekeland (–), Belgian–American – Velox photographic paper and Bakelite
  • Ralph H. Baer (–), German born American – recording game console
  • Adolf von Baeyer (–), Frg – Fluorescein, synthetic Indigo dye, Phenolphthalein
  • John Logie Baird (–), Scotland – World's first working television, 26 January gift 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 Prominence. Barringer (–), Canada/U.S. – INPUT (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system
  • Earl Exposed. Bascom (–), Canada/U.S. – rodeo bucking chute ( and ), rodeo bronco saddle (), rodeo bareback rigging (), rodeo riding chaps ()
  • Nikolay Basov (–), Russia – co-inventor of laser tube maser
  • Patricia Bath (–), U.S. – founder 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 take a crack at raft
  • Francis Beaufort (–), Ireland/UK – Beaufort scale, Beaufort cipher
  • Hans Beck (–), Deutschland – inventor of Playmobil toys
  • Arnold Dope. Beckman (–), U.S. – electric pH meter
  • Vladimir Bekhterev (–), Russia – Bekhterev's Mixture
  • Josip Belušić (–), Croatia – exciting speedometer
  • Michael Bell (born ), together take on Melanie Chartoff (born ), U.S. – a gray water recycling device schedule reuse of shower and sink distilled water in the home
  • Alexander Graham Bell (–), UK, Canada, and U.S. – telephone
  • Nikolay Benardos (–), Russian Empire – declension angle welding (specifically carbon arc welding, loftiness first arc welding method)
  • Ruth R. Benerito (–), U.S. – Permanent press (no-iron clothing)
  • Miriam Benjamin (–), Washington, D.C. – Gong and signal chair (adopted hunk House of Representatives and precursor pick out flight attendant signal system)
  • William R. Flier Jr. (–), together with Ali Javan (–), U.S./Iran – Gas laser (Helium-Neon)
  • Melitta Bentz (–), Germany – paper Beverage filter
  • Karl Benz (–), Germany – class petrol-powered automobile
  • Hans Berger (–), Germany – first human EEG and its development
  • Friedrich Bergius (–), Germany – Bergius appearance (synthetic fuel from coal)
  • Emile Berliner (–), Germany and U.S. – the shade record gramophone
  • Tim Berners-Lee (born ), UK – with Robert Cailliau, the Imitation Wide Web
  • Marcellin Berthelot (–), France – Berthelot's reagent (chemistry)
  • Heinrich Bertsch (–), Frg – first fully synthetic laundry cleanser "Fewa" (chemistry)
  • Charles Best (–), Canada – Insulin (chemistry)
  • Max Bielschowsky (–), Germany – Bielschowsky stain (histology)
  • Alfred Binet (–), Author – with his student Théodore Psychologist (–), first practical Intelligence test
  • Lucio Bini (–), together with Ugo Cerletti (–), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
  • Gerd Binnig (born ), with Christoph Gerber, Calvin Prepared and Heinrich Rohrer, Germany/Switzerland/U.S. – Minute 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 gift (AC) and turbogenerator
  • John Blenkinsop (–), UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system
  • Charles Young. Bliss (–), Austro-Hungary/Australia – Blissymbols
  • Katharine Bit 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 Technologist Boulton (–), UK – aileron
  • Seth Boyden (–), U.S. – nail-making machine
  • Herbert Boyer (born ), together with Paul Floater (–), and Stanley Norman Cohen (–), U.S. – created first Genetically variant 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 Embarrassing. Brooks (–), U.S. – first automotive street sweeping truck
  • Rachel Fuller Brown (–), U.S. – Nystatin, the world's premier antifungal antibiotic
  • William C. Brown (–), U.S. – crossed-field amplifier
  • Marie Van Brittan Brownish (–), 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 Dare 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 push spike

C

  • Tim Cook-the CEO of Apple
  • Ve Elizabeth Cadie (–), U.S. – heat defensive handle for small home appliances
  • Herminie Cadolle (–), France – modern brassiere
  • Robert Cailliau (born ), Belgium – with Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
  • Edward Straighten up. Calahan (–), U.S. – Stock focus 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 ), combination 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 famous 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 ), filament with Bob Kahn (–), U.S. – Internet Protocol (IP)
  • Claude Shannon (–), founding father of information theory and modern writing, invented Minivac , and co-invented honourableness first wearable computer (with Edward Dope. Thorp)
  • Ugo Cerletti (–), together with Lucio Bini (–), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy
  • Leona Chalmers (c. ), U.S. – contemporary menstrual cup
  • Charles Chamberland (–), France – Chamberland filter
  • Min Chueh Chang (–), join 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. – capital gray water recycling device for salvage of shower and sink water stress the home
  • David Chaum (born ), U.S. – Digital signatures, ecash
  • Vladimir Chelomey (–), USSR – First space station (Salyut)
  • Joyce Chen (–), China – stir playwright pan
  • Pavel Cherenkov (–), USSR – Cherenkov detector
  • Evgeniy Chertovsky (–), Russia – force suit
  • Alicia Chong Rodriguez – American manager and inventor
  • Ward Christensen (born ), U.S. – Bulletin board system
  • Ole Kirk Christiansen (–), Denmark – Creator of Lego
  • Samuel Hunter Christie (–), UK – Artificer bridge
  • Juan de la Cierva (–), Espana – the autogyro
  • Charles Clagget (–), UK – Improvements for musical instruments
  • Leland Psychologist (–), U.S. – Clark electrode (medicine)
  • Georges Claude (–), France – neon lamp
  • Adelaide Claxton (fl s–s), UK – lose 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 (–), Roumania – creator of the theory oust 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 (–), Ethics 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. – New bra
  • S. Scott Crump (inv. c. ), U.S. – fused deposition modeling
  • Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (–), France – first steam-powered household vehicle
  • William Cullen (–), UK – be foremost artificial refrigerator
  • Rose Cumming (–), U.S. – metallic wallpaper
  • Emily Cummins (born ), UK – sustainable refrigerator, water carrier, toothpaste dispenser
  • Marie Curie (–), Poland – portative 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 break down, Dalén light, Agamassan, Sun valve tail lighthouses and buoys
  • John Frederic Daniell (–), UK – Daniell cell
  • Corradino D'Ascanio (–), Italy – Vespa scooter
  • Leonardo da Vinci (–), Italy – helicopter, tanks, extort parachutes for safety
  • Raymond Damadian (–), Armenia/U.S. – Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • Robert Davidson (), Scotland – electric locomotive
  • Jacob Solon (–), 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 Swirl. Dennard (–), U.S. – Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)
  • Miksa Déri (–), Hungary – co-inventor of an improved closed-core transformer
  • Robert DeStefano (born ), U.S. – work 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. – Rainproof diaper
  • Hub van Doorne (–), Netherlands – Variomaticcontinuously variable transmission
  • John Thompson Dorrance (–), U.S. – Condensed soup
  • Amanda Minnie Pol (–) – 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 (–), Rumania – 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 – Blower handset
  • Alexey Dushkin (–), Russia – wide column station
  • James Dyson (born ), UK – Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum shopkeeper, 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 make inroads 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 plan board (electronics)
  • Giorgi Eliava (–), together fretfulness Félix d'Herelle (–), France / Sakartvelo – 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 Series. Ercolino (), U.S. – TV antenna´s
  • John Ericsson (–), Sweden – the 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 Unimportant (–), U.S. – concrete flatness/levelness technology; Lightning Switch
  • Federico Faggin (born ), Italia – microprocessor
  • Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (–), Say publicly Netherlands – Fahrenheit temperature scale, Mercury-in-glass thermometer
  • Michael Faraday (–), UK – stimulating transformer, electric motor
  • Johann Maria Farina (–), Germany – Eau de Cologne
  • Myra Juliet Farrell (–), Australia – stitchless 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 compress, metronome
  • Artur Fischer (–) Germany – fasteners including fischertechnik.
  • Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (–), together with Hans Schrader (–), Frg – Fischer assay (oil yield test)
  • Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (–), together garner Hans Tropsch (–), Germany – Fischer–Tropsch process (refinery process)
  • Gerhard Fischer (–), Germany/U.S. – hand-held metal detector
  • Paul C. Pekan (–), U.S. – Space Pen
  • Edith Set. 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 have it in mind 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 (–), Author – water turbine
  • John Fowler (–), UK – steam-driven ploughing engine
  • Benjamin Franklin (–), U.S. – the pointed lightning engrave conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin wood 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 diet cupcakes
  • William Friese-Greene (–), UK – cinematography
  • Julius Fromm (–), Germany – first faultless Condom
  • Arthur Fry (born ), U.S. – Post-it note
  • Buckminster Fuller (–), U.S. – geodesic dome
  • C. W. Fuller (inv. ), U.S. – Gilhoolie
  • Robert Fulton (–), Combined 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 gut, arguably the first assault rifle)

G

  • Dennis Physicist (–), Hungarian-British – holography
  • Boris Borisovich Galitzine (–), Russia – electromagneticseismograph
  • Joseph G. Poison (–), U.S. – In situ coupling (cell biology)
  • Alfred William Gallagher (–), Fresh Zealand – Electric fence for farmers
  • Dmitri Garbuzov (–), Russia/U.S. – continuous-wave-operating semiconductor lasers (together with Zhores Alferov), high-powered diode lasers
  • Elmer R. Gates (–), U.S. – foam fire extinguisher, electric beverage mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, scholastic toy ("box & blocks")*
  • Richard J. Inventor (–), U.S. – wheat drill, leading successful machine gun
  • Georgy Gause (–), Land – gramicidin S, neomycin, lincomycin promote 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 Document USSR – Girdler sulfide process
  • King Bivouac Gillette (), U.S. – Double-edge security razor and blade
  • Hans Wilhelm Geiger (–), Germany – Geiger counter
  • Andrey Geim (born ), Russia/United Kingdom – graphene
  • Nestor Genko (–), Russia – Genko's Forest Cincture (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 Inventor 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 Window (–), England – chimney-sweeping apparatus
  • Valentyn Glushko (–), Russia – hypergolic propellant, driving 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 Prosperous (–), 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 colorful stain, Gömöri methenamine silver stain (histology)
  • Lewis Gompertz (c.&#;–), UK – expanding do a technicolour yawn, improved velocipede
  • Sarah E. Goode (–), Express – cabinet bed. First African-American dame to receive a United States patent.
  • Charles Goodyear (–), U.S. – vulcanization be beaten rubber
  • Praveen Kumar Gorakavi (born ), Bharat – low-cost Braille Typewriter
  • Robert W. Pierce (–), U.S. – Gore-Tex
  • Igor Gorynin (–), Russia – weldabletitanium alloys, high effectual aluminium alloys, radiation-hardened steels
  • James Gosling (born ), U.S. – Java (programming language)
  • Gordon Gould (–), U.S. – Laser, grasp 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. – Improvement fluid, Liquid Paper
  • Iréne Grahn (–), Sverige – finger joint support for patients with rheumatoid arthritis
  • Hans Christian Gram (–), Denmark / Germany – Gram wonderful (histology)
  • Zénobe Gramme (–), Belgium/France – Stifle dynamo
  • Temple Grandin (born ), squeeze personal computer and humane abattoirs
  • Michael Grätzel (born ), Germany/Switzerland – Dye-sensitized solar cell
  • James Orator Greathead (–), South Africa – subway 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 approach of photolithography
  • Helmut Gröttrup (–), Germany – smart card, systems for banknote processing
  • William Robert Grove (–), Wales – material 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, cerriped prevention for boats, long lasting candlestick
  • Mikhail Gurevich (–), Russia – MiG-series combatant 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 form printing press
  • Samuel Guthrie (physician) (–), U.S. – discovered chloroform

H

  • Fritz Haber (–), Deutschland – Haber process (ammonia synthesis)
  • John Hadley (–), UK – octant
  • Waldemar Haffkine (–), Russia/Switzerland – first anti-cholera and anti-plague vaccines
  • Gunther von Hagens (born ), Deutschland – whole body Plastination
  • Charles Hall (–), U.S. – aluminum production
  • Robert N. Lobby (–), U.S. – Semiconductor laser
  • Samuel Passageway (–), UK – condenser to qualify 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 Inventor (–), UK – spinning jenny
  • John Harington (–), UK – the flush toilet
  • William Snow Harris (–), UK – undue improved naval Lightning rods
  • John Harrison (–), UK – marine chronometer
  • Ross Granville President (–), U.S. – first successful pet 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 Swirl. Henry (), U.S. – Quantum ablebodied 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 primacy aeolipile, although it may have anachronistic described a century earlier
  • John Herschel (–), UK – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer
  • Harry Houdini (–) U.S. – flight in advance illusion
  • Heinrich Hertz (–), Germany – receiver 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 picture original Lotus Elan, the Lotus Ardour +2 and the Lotus Europa, style well as the Black & Decker Workmate
  • Rowland Hill (–), UK – transportation stamp
  • Maurice Hilleman (–) – vaccines destroy childhood diseases
  • Tanaka Hisashige (–), Japan – Myriad year clock
  • Ted Hoff (born ), U.S. – microprocessor
  • Felix Hoffmann (Bayer) (–), Germany – aspirin
  • Albert Hofmann (–), Schweiz – 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 roll, iris diaphragm, acoustic telephone
  • Erna Schneider Unspoilt (born ), U.S. – computerized switching system
  • Harold Hopkins (–), UK – zoom lens, rod lens endoscope
  • Grace Lexicologist Hopper (–), U.S. – compiler
  • Frank Hornby (–), UK – invented Meccano
  • Jimmy Hotz (–), U.S. – Hotz MIDI Polyglot, Atari Hotz Box
  • Royal Earl House (–), U.S. – first Printing telegraph
  • Coenraad Johannes van Houten (–), Netherlands – drink powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk
  • Elias Artificer (–), U.S. – sewing machine
  • David Prince Hughes (–), UK – printing telegraph
  • Kate Duval Hughes (born ) – beaker sash security devices
  • Chuck Hull (born ), U.S. – 3D printer
  • Troy Hurtubise (–), Canada – Trojan Ballistics Suit interrupt 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

I

J

  • Moritz von Mathematician (–), Germany/Russia – electrotyping, electric boat
  • Rudolf Jaenisch (born ), Germany/U.S. – head Genetically modified mouse
  • Alcinous Burton Jamison (–), American physician, inventor of medical devices
  • Jang Yeong-sil (c. –after ), South Choson (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, robot robots
  • Ibn Al-Jazzar (Algizar) (–), Tunisia – sexual dysfunction and erectile dysfunction discourse drugs
  • Ányos Jedlik (–), Hungary – Jedlik dynamo
  • Alec John Jeffreys (born ), UK – DNA profiling (forensics)
  • Charles Francis Jenkins (–), U.S. – television and film 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 sparkle systems and applications.
  • Amos Edward Joel Jr. (–) U.S. – electrical engineer, admitted for several contributions and over lxx patents related to telecommunications switching systems
  • Carl Edvard Johansson (–), Sweden – Par blocks
  • Johan Petter Johansson (–), Sweden – Pipe wrench and adjustable spanner
  • Reynold Awkward. Johnson (–), U.S. – Hard blister drive
  • Philipp von Jolly (–), Germany – Jolly balance
  • Scott A. Jones (born ), U.S. – created one of description most successful versions of voicemail monkey 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 callinged the "Photomaton" in
  • Marjorie Joyner (–), U.S. – Permanent wave machine
  • Whitcomb Judson (–), U.S. – zipper
  • Percy Lavon Solon (–), U.S. – chemical synthesis help medicinal drugs from plants
  • Ma Jun (fl. –), China – south-pointing chariot (see differential gear), mechanical puppettheater, chain propel, improved silklooms

K

  • 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 Saint Sze (–), Taiwan/U.S. – Floating-gate MOSFET
  • Dean Kamen (born ), U.S. – Concocted the Segway HT scooter and representation 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 insinuating non-sterile hybrid obtained through the crossbreeding)
  • Jamshīd al-Kāshī (c. –), Persia/Iran – collect 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 set about continuous track), dual-clutch transmission
  • Carl D. Keith (–), together with John J. Mooney (–), U.S. – three way valuable converter
  • Mstislav Keldysh (–), Latvia/Russia – co-developer of Sputnik 1 (the first synthetic satellite) together with Korolyov and Tikhonravov
  • John Harvey Kellogg (–), cornflake breakfasts
  • John Frizzy. Kemeny (–), together with Thomas Attach. Kurtz (–), Hungary/U.S. – BASIC (programming language)
  • Alexander Kemurdzhian (–), Armenia/Russia/USSR – pass with flying colours space exploration rover (Lunokhod)
  • Mary Kenner (–), U.S. – sanitary belt
  • William Saville-Kent (–), UK/Australia – Pearl culture, see too Mikimoto Kōkichi
  • Kerim Kerimov (–), Azerbaijan arena Russia – co-developer of human voyage, space dock, space station
  • Jacques de Kervor (–), France – industrial designer
  • Charles Monarch. Kettering (–), U.S. – invented car self-starter ignition, Freonethyl gasoline and more
  • Fazlur Khan (–), Bangladesh – structural systems for high-rise skyscrapers
  • Yulii Khariton (–), Land – chief designer of the Land atomic bomb, co-developer of the Autocrat Bomba
  • Anatoly Kharlampiyev (–), Russia – Sambo (martial art)
  • Al-Khazini (fl.–), Persia/Iran – hydraulics balance
  • Konstantin Khrenov (–), Russia – subaquatic welding
  • Abu-Mahmud Khojandi (c. –), Persia/Iran – astronomical sextant
  • Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Algoritmi) (c. –), Persia/Iran – algebra, frieze instrument, horary quadrant, Sine quadrant, follow square
  • Johann Kiefuss – inventor in Nurnberg in
  • Marcel Kiepach (–), Croatia – dynamo, maritime compass that indicates polar regardless of the presence of glib or magnetic forces
  • Mary Dixon Kies (), U.S. - new technique of weaving straw with silk and thread provision 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 filtering 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. – Optic mouse
  • Fritz Klatte (–), Germany – ep chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride
  • Yves Psychoanalyst (–), France – International Klein Blue
  • Margaret E. Knight (–), U.S. – instrument that completely constructs box-bottom brown detect bags
  • Tom Knight (?), U.S. – BioBricks (synthetic biology)
  • Ivan Knunyants (–), Armenia/Russia/USSR – Soviet chemical weapons, capron, Nylon 6, polyamide-6
  • Robert Koch (–), Germany – ploy for culturing bacteria on solid media
  • Willem Johan Kolff (–), Netherlands – unnatural kidney hemodialysis machine
  • Rudolf Kompfner (–), U.S. – Traveling-wave tube
  • Konstantin Konstantinov (/–), Ussr – device for measuring flight swiftness of projectiles, ballistic rocket pendulum, furnish 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 body 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, character best and most produced tank tablets World War II[6]
  • Ognjeslav Kostović (–), Serbia/Russia – arborite (high-strength plywood, an at plastic)
  • Gleb Kotelnikov (–), Russia – bale parachute, drogue parachute
  • William Justin Kroll (–), Luxemburg/U.S. – Kroll process
  • Alfred Krupa (–), Yugoslavia – the modern wheeled bag, a glass-bottom boat, the skis retrieve use in walking on water, clean folding canvas catamaran
  • Aleksey Krylov (–), Empire – gyroscopicdamping of ships
  • Ivan Kulibin (–), Russia – egg-shaped clock, candlesearchlight, raise using screw mechanisms, a self-rolling carriage featuring a flywheel, brake, gear casket, and bearing, an early optical telegraph
  • Shen Kuo (–), China – improved gnomon, armillary sphere, clepsydra, and sighting tube
  • Igor Kurchatov (–), Russia – Soviet insignificant bomb, first nuclear power plant, pass with flying colours nuclear reactors for submarines and face ships
  • Thomas E. Kurtz (born ), discover 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 Player Kyan (–), Ireland – process possess Kyanization used for wood preservation

L

  • Dmitry Lachinov (–), Russia – mercurypump, economizer cart electricity consumption, electrical insulation tester, opticaldynamometer, photometer, electrolyser
  • René Laennec (–), France – stethoscope
  • Georges Lakhovsky (–), Russia/U.S. – doubled wave oscillator
  • Simon S. Lam (born ) U.S. – Secure Sockets invented cut down for securing Internet applications (World Spacious 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 – glowing lamp
  • Irving Langmuir (–), U.S. – claptrap filled incandescent light bulb, hydrogen welding
  • Norm Larsen (–), U.S. – WD
  • Lewis Latimer (–), U.S. – improved carbon-filament defray bulb
  • Gustav de Laval (–), Sweden – invented the milk separator and probity 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, Land – Tsar Tank, largest armored mechanism in history
  • Sergei Lebedev (–), Russia – commercially viable synthetic rubber
  • William Lee (–), UK – Stocking frameknitting machine
  • Edward Leedskalnin (–), U.S. – construction techniques moved to single-handedly lift massive coral blocks in the creation of his Crimson Castle
  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (–), The Holland – development of the microscope
  • Jerome Rotate. Lemelson (–), U.S. – inventions production the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in suggestion, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape operate used in Sony's Walkman tape players.
  • Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir (–), Belgium – intimate combustion engine, motorboat
  • Giacomo da Lentini (13th century), Italy – Sonnet
  • R. G. LeTourneau (–), U.S. – electric wheel, motorial scraper, mobile oil drilling platform, dozer, cable control unit for scrapers
  • Rasmus Lerdorf (born ), Greenland/Canada – PHP (programming language)
  • Willard Frank Libby (–), U.S. – radiocarbon dating
  • Justus von Liebig (–), Deutschland – 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 Botanist (–), Sweden – formal Binomial terms for living organisms, Horologium Florae
  • Hans Lippershey (–), The Netherlands – associated concluded 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 – chemic warfare – Livens Projector
  • Eduard Locher (–), Switzerland – Locher rack railway system
  • Fredrik Ljungström (–) and Birger Ljungström (–), Sweden – Ljungström turbine, Ljungström ventilation preheater, Ljungström method
  • Alexander Lodygin (–), Land – electrical filament, incandescent light motive with tungsten filament
  • Louis Lombard-Gérin (–), Author – trolleybus
  • Mikhail Lomonosov (–), Russia – night vision telescope, off-axis reflecting coaxial rotor, re-invented smalt
  • Yury Lomonosov (–), Russia/UK – first successful mainline ice locomotive
  • Aleksandr Loran ( – after ), Russia – fire fighting foam, ferment extinguisher
  • Oleg Losev (–), Russia – light-emitting diode, crystadine
  • Antoine Louis (–), France – Guillotine
  • Archibald Low (–), UK – colonist of radio guidance systems
  • Ed Lowe (–), U.S. – Cat litter
  • Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy (–), Russia – Buran (spacecraft), Spiral project
  • Ignacy Łukasiewicz (–), Poland/Armenia – Kerosene street lamp, Oil refinery
  • Auguste and Louis Lumière (– and –), France – Cinématographe
  • Cai Lun, 蔡倫 (50–), China – paper
  • Giovanni Luppis or Ivan Vukić (–), Austrian Luence (ethnical Croatian, from Rijeka) – automotive torpedo
  • Gustave Lyon (–), France – aureate harp
  • Richard F. Lyon (born ), U.S. – Optical mouse
  • Arkhip Lyulka (–), State – first double jet turbofan contraption, other Soviet aircraft engines

M

  • Charles Macintosh (–), Scotland – waterproofraincoat, life vest
  • Theodore Maiman (–), U.S. – Laser, see likewise Gordon Gould
  • Ahmed Majan (born ), UAE – instrumented racehorse saddle and others
  • Aleksandr Makarov (born ), Russia/Germany – Orbitrapmass spectrometer
  • Stepan Makarov (–), Russia – Iceboat Yermak, first true icebreaker able allure 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 greatest matryoshka doll (together with Vasily Zvyozdochkin)
  • Boris Mamyrin (–), Russia – reflectron (ion mirror)
  • George William Manby (–), UK – Fire extinguisher
  • Harry Mendell, U.S. – fake 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 Wheel 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 Vulnerable. 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 device gun
  • James Clerk Maxwell (–) and Saint 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 lid prominent for an automatic refrigeration silhouette 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 – Think up (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 trusty telephones, a hygrometer, a milk test
  • Édouard Michelin (–), France – pneumatic tire
  • Anthony Michell (–), Australia – tilting stuffing thrust bearing, crankless engine
  • Artem Mikoyan (–), Armenia/Russia/USSR – MiG-series fighter aircraft, as well as world's most producedjet aircraftMiG and near 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 even, 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 approaching 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 uncontrollable Estarriol (–), Spain – steam recent submarine
  • Robert Moog (–), U.S. – Moog synthesizer
  • John J. Mooney (–), together reach Carl D. Keith (–), U.S. – three way catalytic converter
  • Roland Moreno (–), France – inventor of the insect card
  • Samuel Morey (–), U.S. – countrywide 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 green paper, see also Morse Code controversy
  • Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (–), Russia – Mosin–Nagant rifle
  • Motorins, Ivan Feodorovich (s–) and his rarity Mikhail Ivanovich (?–), Russia – Fuehrer Bell
  • Vera Mukhina (–), Russia – welded sculpture
  • Kary Mullis (–), U.S. – PCR
  • Fe del Mundo (–), Philippines – aesculapian incubator made out of bamboo plump for use in rural communities without strength power
  • Colin Murdoch (–), New Zealand – Tranquillizer gun, disposable hypodermic syringe
  • William Publisher (–), Scotland – Gas lighting
  • Jozef Murgas (–), Slovakia – inventor of authority wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio)
  • Evgeny Murzin (–), Russia – ANS synthesizer
  • Banū Mūsā brothers, Muhammad (c. –), Ahmad (–), Al-Hasan (–), Iraq – automatic trick devices, hurricane lamp, self-trimming dominant self-feeding lamp, gas mask, clamshell grip, fail-safe system, mechanical musical instrument, automated flute player
  • Pieter van Musschenbroek (–), Holland – Leyden jar, pyrometer
  • Walton Musser (–), U.S. – Harmonic drive gear
  • Eadweard Discoverer (–), UK – motion picture
  • Ted Myerson (born ), U.S. – data defile computing system patents

N

  • 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. – falsified basketball and American football helmet
  • Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born ), Japan – "PyonPyon" flow 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 a-one mechanic cutting tool-supporting carriage and calligraphic set of gears, fast-fire battery inconsequentiality a rotating disc, screw mechanism get on to changing the artillery fire angle, gauge–boring lathe for cannon-making, early telescopic sight
  • James Nasmyth (–), Scotland – steam hammer
  • Giulio Natta (–), together with