List of American inventors and discoverers

The List of American Inventors and Discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from the United States in alphabetical order by family name.

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Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A.

• Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856–1931), USA - Carborundum 1891, Acheson graphite 1898
• Isaac Adams (1802–1883), USA - Platen printing press ( Boston press , platen machine with manual operation and toggle lever system) 1827/30 Patent 1836
• Thomas Adams (1818–1905), USA - chewing gum 1869
• Robert Adler (1913–2007), USA / Austria - television remote control 1948/50
• Carl Ethan Akeley (1864–1926), USA - sprayed mortar, shotcrete 1908, patent 1911
• Samuel W. Alderson (1914–2005), USA - crash test dummy 1950s
• Ernst Fredrik Werner Alexanderson (1878–1975), Sweden / USA - machine transmitter (Alexanderson alternator), electric motor amplifier (Amplidyne)
• Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988), USA - lens with variable focus, color television system, electronic “in door” golf machine, mercury vapor lamp
• Carl David Anderson (1905–1991), USA - Positron (together with Hess)
• Mary Anderson (1866–1953), USA - Windshield wipers 1903
• Hal Anger (1920–2005), USA - gamma camera
• George Antheil (1900–1959), USA - frequency hopping , torpedo guidance system
• William Arnold Anthony (1835–1908), USA - turbines 1857–1861, electrodynamic machine 1875, galvanometer

Edwin Howard Armstrong , ca.1954

• Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954), USA - radio (VHF)
• John Jacob Astor IV (1864–1912), USA - bicycle brake , turbine
• Richard Stanton Avery (1907–1997), USA - self-adhesive label 1935

B.

• George Babcock (1832–1893), USA - water tube boiler 1874 (with Stephen Wilcox)
• John W. Backus (1924–2007), USA - first high-level computer language Fortran 1954
• Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgium / USA - Bakelite 1907, Velox
• Ralph Baer (1922–2014), Germany / USA - game console Brown box 1968, video game console ( Magnavox Odyssey ) 1969
• Geoffrey R. Ball (* 1964), USA - Active middle ear implant
• Ernie Ball (1930–2004), USA - thin, quickly playable strings for electric guitars
• John L. Barker Sr. , USA - Laser Pistol , 1947
• Sanford Christie Barnum (1838–1885), USA - rubber dam 1864
• Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), Canada / USA - various rodeo equipment
• Claude Beck (1894–1971), USA - Defibrillator , 1947
• George Beauchamp (1899–1941), USA - electric guitar (together with Adolph Rickenbacher )
• Arnold Orville Beckman (1900–2004), USA - pH value measuring device
• Herbert Belar , USA - Synthesizer 1955 (with Harry Olson)
• Byron Benson , USA - Petroleum Pipeline , 1879
• John M. Bergey , USA - digital wristwatch ( digital watch ) 1970
• Emil Berliner (1851–1929): (Germany / USA) gramophone and record , 1887
• Eric Betzig (* 1960), USA - development of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy (together with William E. Moerner and Stefan Hell)
• Edwin Binney (1866–1934), USA - wax crayons 1903 (with C. Harold Smith)
• Forrest M. Bird (1921–2015), USA - ventilator or respirator around 1955
• Clarence Birdseye (1886–1956), USA - plate freezer deep-freezing process , frozen food around 1924
• Donald L. Bitzer (* 1934), USA - plasma screen 1964 (with H. Gene Slottow and Robert H. Willson)
• Harold Stephen Black (1898–1983), USA - negative feedback amplifier around 1930, patent 1937 (next to Paul Voigt and Bernard Tellegen)
• James Stuart Blackton (1875–1941), USA - stop motion , animated film 1905/06
• George Grant Blaisdell (1895–1978), USA - Zippo lighter 1932
• Hugo Borchardt (1844–1924), Germany / USA - Firearms ( Sharps-Borchardt model 1877, Borchardt C93 1893)
• Robert W. Bower (* 1936), USA - MOSFET
• Herbert W. Boyer (* 1936) USA - Recombinant DNA (together with Stanley N. Cohen )
• Seth Boyden (1788–1870), USA - nailing machine

Caleb Bradham .

• Caleb Bradham (1867-1934), USA - Pepsi-Cola 1893
• Charles Schenk Bradley (1853–1929), USA - three-phase current 1887–90 (with Haselwander, Dolivo-Dobrowolsky, Wenström)
• Harold P. Brown (1869–1932), USA - Electric chair 1888 (with Arthur E. Kennelly)
• John Moses Browning (1855–1926), United States - Handgun
• Johann Bruecker (1881–1965), Serbia / USA - dry razor 1915, electric razor 1937
• Charles Francis Brush (1849–1929), USA - Dynamo 1876, carbon arc lamp 1878
• William A. Bullock (1813–1867), USA - rotary printing press ( high-speed press ) 1863
• Corliss Orville Burandt , United States - camshaft adjustment (around 1965)
• John F. Burke , USA - synthetic skin 1981 (with Ioannis V. Yannas)
• Vannevar Bush (1890–1974), USA - Analog computer Rapid Selector 1940, Rockefeller Differential Analyzer 1942
• David Bushnell (1740–1824), USA - U-Boot Turtle 1775/76, time bomb
• Nolan Bushnell (born 1943), USA - video game 1972
• Albert Butz (1849–1904), Switzerland / USA - thermostat for furnace firing 1885

C.

• Walter Guyton Cady (1874–1974), USA - quartz filter , quartz oscillator
• Thaddeus Cahill (1867–1934), USA - Dynamophon (Telharmonium) 1897
• Marvin Camras (1916–1995), USA - Magnetic record
• Edward A. Calahan (1838–1912), USA - Stock Exchange Telegraph 1867
• Walter Camp (1859–1925), United States - American football
• Asa Griggs Candler (1851–1929) USA - voucher 1894
• JF Cantrell († 1945) USA - Laundromat 1934
• Chester Carlson (1906–1968), United States - Electrophotography (xerography) 1937/38
• Wallace Hume Carothers (1896–1937), United States - 1937 nylon , neoprene

Willis Carrier , 1915

• Willis Carrier (1876–1950) USA - Air conditioning 1902
• Garnet Carter (1883–1954), USA - Miniature Golf 1927
• Alexander Cartwright (1820-1892), United States - Rules of Baseball
• Adrian Chernoff (* 1971), USA - GM Autonomy, GM Hy-wire , Rubber Bandits
• Robert Chesebrough (1837–1933), USA - Petroleum jelly 1870s
• Niels Christensen (1865–1952), United States - O-ring
• John Walter Christie (1865–1944), USA - armored suspension , u. a. for the T-34 1930s
• William Church (* around 1778 to 1863) - type plate setting machine , Typengießmaschine 1822
• Eugene Clark (1873–1942), USA - forklift truck 1917

Josephine Cochrane .

• Josephine Cochrane (1839–1913) USA dishwasher 1886
• Irving Wightman Colburn (1861–1917), USA - flat glass 1902/05
• Arthur Holly Compton (1892–1962), USA - fluorescent incandescent lamp 1934
• Robert Conrad GB / USA - ball bearing patents 1903 and 1906
• Lynn Conway (* 1938), USA - "generalized dynamic instruction handling" 1960s

Martin Cooper , 2007

• Martin Cooper (* 1928), USA - mobile phone 1973
• Peter Cooper (1791-1883), USA - Gelatine Jell-O 1845
• Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), USA - 56 types of dinosaurs, e.g. B. Camarasaurus supremus and Coelophysis bauri
• Lloyd Groff Copeman (1881–1956), USA - Electric oven
• Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877–1948), USA - Electrostatic precipitator ( electrostatic precipitator) 1907
• Jack Cover (1920–2009), USA - Taser 1974
• Clarence Crafoord (1899–1984), USA / Sweden - aortic coarctation surgery 1944, heart-lung machine 1947/48 (with Ake Senning)
• George Crum (1822–1914), USA - Potato Chips 1853
• Michael J. Cullen (1884–1936), USA - Supermarket 1930
• Glenn Curtiss (1878–1930), USA - 1919 motorhome , ailerons
• Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), United States: he described as the first named after him Cushing's syndrome and contributed to the study of acromegaly in
• Willard Ray Custer (1899–1985), USA - Channelwing aircraft 1929

D.

• Celadon Daboll (1818–1866), USA - Nebelhorn 1851
• Raymond Damadian (* 1936), USA - image-free magnetic resonance tomography (magnetic resonance imaging) 1973
• Sidney Darlington (1906–1997), USA - pulse-compressing chirp - radar technology , Darlington circuit 1953
• Charles Brace Darrow (1889–1967), USA - 1934 Monopoly game
• Thomas Davenport (1802–1851), USA - first electric motor 1834
• Jacob Davis (1868–1908), USA - riveted jeans 1873
• Alonzo G. Decker (1884–1956), USA - hand drill with pistol grip and pressure switch 1914
• John Deere (1804–1886), USA - Steel Plow 1836
• Lee De Forest (1873–1961), USA - Audion amplifier tube , ( triode ), feedback circuit, sound recording
• Earle Dickson (1892–1961), USA - first aid bandage 1921
• William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (1860–1935), Scotland / USA - film camera , kinetograph , kinetoscope (with Edison)
• William H. Dobelle (1941-2004), USA - artificial eye
• John Dobson (1915–2014), USA - Dobsonian telescope 1950s

Ray Dolby .

• Ray Dolby (1933–2013), USA - noise suppression in magnetic sound recordings 1960s, multi-channel sound system 1974, Dolby Stereo 1976
• Marion Donovan (1917–1998), USA - Disposable diapers 1950
• Edwin Laurentine Drake (1819–1880), USA - Oil wells , oil production , oil drilling 1859
• Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987), USA - Inertial navigation system 1950s
• Charles Richard Drew (1904–1950), USA - blood bank in the late 1930s
• Richard Gurley Drew (1899–1980), USA - adhesive tape (painter's tape , masking tape) 1925/30
• Philip Drinker (1894–1972), USA - Iron Lung 1928 (with Louis Agassiz Shaw)

E.

• George Eastman (1854–1932), USA - roll film camera 1884 (with Hannibal Goodwin and William Walker), portable photo camera Kodak No. 1 1888
• John Presper Eckert (1919–1995), USA - calculating machine (electronic large calculating machine ENIAC ) 1945/46 (with John William Mauchly)

Thomas Alva Edison .

• Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), USA - u. a. Carbon grain microphone , phonograph 1877 (patent 1878) (with Charles Cros), carbon filament lamp ( incandescent lamp ) 1879, kinetograph , concrete casting process 1907,
• Robert Edwards : In Vitro Fertilization (with Patrick Steptoe ); (Nobel Prize)
• Brendan Eich (* 1961), USA - JavaScript
• Albert Einstein (Germany / Switzerland / United States): Nobel Prize Winner (1921); theoretical physicist. His research on the structure of space and time as well as the nature of gravity significantly changed the physical worldview.
• Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013), USA - computer mouse 1963/68
• John Ericsson (1803–1889), Sweden / USA - heat engine 1820s, two -blade ship propeller ( Ericsson propeller ) 1830s, solar machine
• Oliver Evans (1755–1819), USA - flour mill , amphibious vehicle , high-pressure steam engine, flour cooler , belt bucket elevator (elevator), conveyor, pusher

F.

• Samuel Face (1923–2001), USA - concrete smoothness measurement 1970s, light switch , cement mixer
• Tony Fadell (* 1969), USA - iPod
• Constantin Fahlberg (1850–1910), USA - Saccharin 1878/79 (with Ira Remsen)
• Scott Elliot Fahlman (* 1948), USA - Emoticons 1982
• James M. Faria , USA - Astroturf (artificial grass) 1965 (with Robert T. White)
• Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-1971), United States - cathode ray tube ( television ) 1923, 1927 (with Vladimir Kosma Zworykin)
• George Henry Felt (1831–1895), USA - signal rocket 1863, detonator 1866
• James Fergason (1934-2008), USA - Liquid crystal display
• George Washington Gale Ferris (1859-1896), USA - Ferris wheel 1893
• Charles Fey (1862–1944), Germany / USA - one -armed bandit (gambling machine) 1897
• Richard Feynman (1918–1988), USA - Nobel Prize 1965, contributions to quantum field theory ( Hellmann-Feynman theorem , Feynman-Kac formula , Feynman parameters )
• Louis Frederick Fieser (1899–1977), United States - Napalm
• Alva J. Fisher (1862-1947), USA - electric washing machine 1907, patent 1910
• Gary Fisher (* 1950), USA - mountain bike 1970s
• John Fitch (1743–1798), USA - screw-powered steamship 1783
• Earl W. Flosdorf , USA - Dry Freeze Process 1946
• Henry Ford (1863–1947), USA - assembly line production 1913
• James B. Francis (1815-1892), USA - Francis turbine 1849
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), USA - 1752 lightning rod , bifocall lenses , Franklin furnace , glass harmonica
• John E. Franz (* 1929), USA - discovered the herbicidal effect of glyphosate and developed the insecticide Roundup
• John Froehlich (1849–1933), USA - tractor 1892
• Arthur Fry (* 1931), USA - Post-it notes 1970s (with Spencer Silver)
• Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), USA - Geodesic Dome , Tensegrity (architecture) , Dymaxion
• Ray W. Fuller (1935–1996), USA - Prozac (fluoxetine) 1972 (with Bryan B. Molloy and David T. Wong)

Robert Fulton .

• Robert Fulton (1765–1815), USA - submarine 1801, paddle steamers 1807, steamships North River Steamboat 1809, USS Fulton 1809/1814

G

• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851), USA - American Sign Language ( American Sign Language ) 1817
• John C. Garand (1888–1974), USA - M1 Garand self-loading rifle 1930s, patent 1934
• Howard Garns (1905–1989), USA - Sudoku 1979

Bill Gates , (2013)

• William Henry Gates III (Bill Gates) (* 1955), USA - Windows operating system, chief architect of Visual Basic
• Joseph Gayetty USA - toilet paper 1857 (controversial because it was invented historically in ancient China)
• Dorothy Gerber (1904–1988), USA - pre-made baby food 1927
• Albert Ghiorso (1915–2010), USA - discoverer of various transuranics - americium approx. 1945 (element 95), curium 1944 (element 96), berkelium 1949 (element 97), californium 1950 (element 98), Einsteinium 1952 (element 99) , Fermium 1953 (Element 100), Mendelevium 1955 (Element 101), Nobelium 1958/1959 (Element 102), Lawrencium 1961 (Element 103), Rutherfordium 1969 (Element 104), Dubnium (then called Hahnium) 1970 (Element 105), Seaborgium 1974 (Element 106)
• Lawrence J. Giacoletto (1916–2004), USA - Giacoletto equivalent circuit diagram for transistors
• Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903), USA - Chemical Potential
• King Camp Gillette (1855–1932), USA - razor blade 1895
• Charles Ginsburg (1920–1992), USA - video cassette 1950s
• Louis C. Glass (1845–1924), USA - Jukebox (music automat) 1889 (with William S. Arnold)
• Carlos Glidden (1834–1877), USA - Typewriter 1867 Patent 1868 (with Sholes, Soulé)
• Joseph Glidden (1813–1906), USA - barbed wire 1874

Robert Goddard .

• Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882–1945), USA - solid rocket , Bazooka 1918, liquid rocket 1926
• Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749), USA - Octant (next to John Hadley)
• Sylvan Goldman (1898–1984), USA - shopping trolley 1937, patent 1940
• Leonard Goodall († 1971), USA - petrol lawn mower 1940
• Hannibal Goodwin (1822–1900), USA - roll film 1884 (with George Eastman)
• Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), USA - rubber vulcanization 1839, vulcanization of rubber patent 1844, hard rubber around 1850, rubber condom 1855
• James Power Gordon (1928–2013), USA - Maser 1954 (with Charles H. Townes and Herbert Jack Zeiger)
• Robert W. Gore (* 1937), USA - Gore-Tex
• John Gorrie (1802–1855), USA - Fridge 1842
• Gordon Gould (1920–2005), USA - Laser 1958 (with Charles H. Townes, Arthur L. Schawlow)
• Bette Nesmith Graham (1924–1980), USA - Tippex correction fluid (controversial)
• Elisha Gray (1835–1901), USA - telegraphic device 1867, telephone 1876 ​​(next to Bell), teleautograph 1893
• Benjamin Greene USA - Sunscreen (sunscreen) 1944 (controversial)
• Chester Greenwood (1858–1937), USA - earmuffs 1873
• Hanson Crockett Gregory USA - Annular Donut 1847
• Samuel Guthrie (1782–1848), USA - Chloroform 1830

H

• Ruth Handler (1916–2002), USA - Barbie doll
• Asaph Hall (1829–1907), USA - Martian moons Phobos and Deimos
• Edwin Hall (1855–1938), USA - Hall Effect
• Laurens Hammond (1895–1973), USA - Hammond organ
• Earle Haas (1885–1981), USA - modern women's tampon 1929
• Charles Martin Hall (1863–1914), USA - Fused metal electrolysis ( Hall-Héroult process ) for aluminum production 1886 (with Paul Heroult)
• Tracy Hall (1919-2008), USA - synthetic diamond
• Robert Hare (1781-1858), USA - cutting torch
• Henry Heimlich (1920–2016), USA - Heimlich handle
• Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), USA - water bed
• Henry John Heinz (1844–1919), USA - tomato ketchup
• Benjamin Tyler Henry (1821–1898), United States - Henrystutzen
• Joseph Henry (1797–1878), USA - electromagnet 1820s, electromagnetic relay 1835
• Donald Richard Herriott (1928–2007), USA - gas laser 1961 (with William Ralph Bennett Jr. and All Javan)
• John Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), USA - heart-lung machine
• Peter Cooper Hewitt (1861–1921), USA - mercury vapor lamp 1901 (with Martin Leo Arons)
• William Higinbotham (1910–1994), USA - first video game Tennis for Two , 1958
• Marcian Edward Hoff (Ted Hoff) (* 1937), USA - LMS algorithm 1960, microprocessor Intel 4004 1969/70
• Edward Joseph Hoffman (1942–2004), USA - positron emission tomography scanner
• Richard March Hoe (1812–1886), USA - rotary printing press

Herman Hollerith .

• Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), USA - punch cards (punch card machine) 1887
• Nick Holonyak (* 1928), USA - Light Emitting Diode ( LED) 1962 (controversial)
• Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926), United States - Computer Phone - Switching system

Norton Horsford .

• Eben Norton Horsford (1818–1893), USA - baking powder around 1856
• Kenneth House , USA - smoke detector 1969 (with Randolph Smith)
• Elias Howe (1819–1867), USA - sewing machine 1845
• Edwin Hubble (1889–1953), USA - expansion of the universe with redshift
• Charles A. Hufnagel (1916–1989), USA - artificial heart valve , 1952
• David Edward Hughes (1831–1900), GB / USA - type printed telegraph 1855, carbon microphone 1878
• Chuck Hull (* 1939), USA - 3D printer , 1984
• Walter Hunt (1796–1859), USA - safety pin 1849, flax spinner, knife sharpener, tram bell, coal furnace, artificial stone, street cleaning machine , tricycle, ice plow for ships, fountain pen, sewing machine 1834, Winchester repeating rifle
• John Wesley Hyatt (1837–1920), USA - Cellulose production ( celluloid ) 1870

I.

• Frederic Eugene Ives (1856-1937), United States - halftone photogravure 1878
• Herbert E. Ives (1882–1953), USA - telegraphic transmission of photographs, color fax 1924, television transmission 1927, Ives Stilwell experiment 1938

J

• Mary Phelps Jacob (1891-1970), USA - brassiere 1913 (controversial)

Karl Guthe Jansky

• Karl Jansky , USA - discoverer of radio astronomy
• Robert Jarvik (* 1946), USA - permanently implanted artificial heart
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), USA - swivel chair , coat hanger , Jefferson polygraph (forerunner of the copier)
• Thomas B. Jeffery (1845–1910) - clincher tire , forerunner of the safety rim
• Charles Francis Jenkins (1867–1934) - film projector
• William Le Baron Jenney (1832–1907), USA - steel frame high-rise ( Home Insurance Building ) 1884/85
• Steve Jobs (1955–2011), USA - Macintosh operating system
• Nancy Johnson , USA - hand operated ice cream maker 1843
• Reynold B. Johnson (1906-1998), U.S. - Hard Disk Drive , 1956
• Warren S. Johnson (1847–1911), USA - electric room thermostat 1883, humidistat ( hygrostat , humidity regulator ) 1900
• Albert Jones , USA - Corrugated Cardboard 1871
• Donald F. Jones , USA - corn hybrid 1917
• Scott A. Jones (* 1960), USA - Voicemail , ChaCha search engine (Internet search engine )
• Anatol Josepho (1894–1980) USA / Russia - photo booth
• Whitcomb Judson (1846-1909), USA - Zip 1890, patent 1893

K

• Dean Kamen (* 1951), USA - Segway electric scooter
• Joseph Kekuku (1874–1932), USA - Hawaiian guitar
• Edward W. Kellogg (1882–1960), USA - loudspeaker 1924 (with Chester W. Rice)

John Harvey Kellogg .

• John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943), USA - Cornflakes 1894
• John Forrest Kelly (1859–1922), USA - AC Transmission System 1890, Cooke-Kelly process
• John G. Kemeny (1926–1992), USA - BASIC programming language (together with Thomas E. Kurtz )
• Arthur Edwin Kennelly USA - Electric Chair 1888 (with Harold P. Brown)
• Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958), USA - electrical ignition and vehicle lighting , incubator , freon , tetraethyl lead , ethyl gasoline
• Jack Kilby (1923–2005), USA - integrated circuit (IC) 1958, electronic pocket calculator , thermal printer 1967
• Charles Yale Knight (1868–1940), USA - valve motor ("Knight motor")
• Margaret E. Knight (1838–1914), USA - Machine for the production of brown paper bags with a bottom 1870
• William B. Kouwenhoven (1886–1975), USA - defibrillator
• Julius Kröhl (1820–1867), Germany / USA - Sub Marine Explorer 1861 submarine , iron bending machine
• Stephanie Kwolek (1923-2014), USA - Kevlar 1965

L.

• Edwin Herbert Land (1909–1991), USA - polarization filter 1933, polaroid camera (instant camera, "Land Camera") 1947
• Eric Lander (* 1957), USA - Human Genome Project
• Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834–1906), USA - catapult flying object 1896, bolometer (radiation detector)

Irving Langmuir .

• Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), USA - high-vacuum incandescent lamp, gas-filled incandescent lamp , arcatom welding (arc welding) 1924
• Jaron Lanier (* 1960), USA - Virtual Reality 1980s
• John A. Larson (1892–1965), USA - polygraph ( lie detector ) 1921 (next to Vittorio Benussi 1913 and others)
• Lewis Latimer (1848–1928), USA - Improvement of light bulb manufacture (with Edison)
• Paul Christian Lauterbur (1929–2007), USA - Magnetic resonance imaging (magnetic resonance imaging) 1973 (with Peter Mansfield)
• Ernest Lawrence (1901–1958), USA - physicist, cyclotron (Nobel Prize)
• William P. Lear (1902–1978), USA - car radio 1920s (with Elmer Wavering), Learjet 1950s, 8-track cassette 1964, radio beacon (LearAvian), autopilot
• Henrietta Leavitt , USA - Cepheids as the standard for determining galactic distances
• Harry Ward Leonard (1861–1915), USA - Ward-Leonard converter (Leonardsatz) 1891
• Jean-Aimé LeRoy (1854–1932), USA - Cinématographe 1893
• Maurice Lévy , USA - lipstick in metal cylinders 1915
• Isaac Newton Lewis (1858–1931), USA - Lewis Gun 1911 machine gun
• Willard Frank Libby (1908–1980), USA - atomic clock 1946, radiocarbon dating 1949
• Edwin Albert Link (1904–1981), USA - flight simulator
• Samuel Loyd (1841-1911), United States
• William Lyman , USA - cutting wheel can opener 1870
• Harold Lyons , atomic clock

M.

• Earle S. MacPherson (1891-1960), USA - MacPherson strut , 1949
• Carl C. Magee (1872–1946), USA - parking meter 1932
• Anthony Maglica (* 1930), Croatia / USA - Maglite flashlights around 1979
• Theodore Harold Maiman (1927–2007), USA - Ruby laser , laser 1960

Othniel Charles Marsh .

• Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899), USA - Pterosaur fossils; fossil birds z. B. the toothed birds from the American Upper Cretaceous such as Ichthyornis and Hesperornis; airworthy reptiles, Cretaceous and Jurassic dinosaurs including Apatosaurus and Allosaurus
• John Landis Mason (1832–1902), USA - Mason jars 1858 (controversial)
• John William Mauchly (1907–1980) - Calculator (electronic large-scale calculator ENIAC ) 1945/46 (with J. Presper Eckert)
• Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840–1916), USA - Maxim machine gun 1885, aircraft 1894, mousetrap, hair wave iron, smoke-free gunpowder, silencer
• Charles McBurney , American surgeon, McBurney Point

Cyrus McCormick .

• Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884), USA - Bar mower (grain mower ) 1831 Patent 1834
• Warren McCulloch (1898–1969), USA - McCulloch-Pitts cell (together with the American Walter Pitts (1923–1969))
• Eugene F. McDonald (1886–1958), USA - world receiver 1920s
• Frank McNamara , USA - credit card 1949/50 (with Ralph Schneider)
• Noah and Joseph McVicker , USA - Play-Doh toys 1956
• Robert Metcalfe (* 1946), USA - Ethernet 1975
• Albert A. Michelson (1852–1931), USA - optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with them; Michelson interferometer (Nobel Prize)
• Morris Michtom (1870–1938), USA - Teddy Bear 1902 (next to Richard Steiff)
• Thomas Midgley (1889–1944) - Tetraethyl lead (gasoline additive) 1921, chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) 1929
• Min Chueh Chang (1908–1991), USA / People's Republic of China - birth control pill 1950s (with pincus, rock, Djerassi)
• Arthur B. Modine (1885–1981), USA - vehicle radiator
• Alfred M. Moen (1917–2001), USA - one-hand mixer 1947
• William E. Moerner (* 1953), USA - development of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy (together with Eric Betzig and Stefan Hell)
• Bryan B. Molloy (1939–2004), USA - Fluoxetine (antidepressant) 1970/72 (with David T. Wong, Robert Rathburn, Ray W. Fuller (?), Klaus Schmiegel )
• John Joseph Montgomery (1858–1911), USA - aircraft heavier than air in 1883, aircraft in 1906
• Robert Moog (1934-2005), USA - Moog synthesizer
• Samuel Morey (1762–1843), USA - pioneer of the internal combustion engine (controversial)
• Garrett Morgan (1877–1963), USA - gas mask 1914 (controversial next to the Canadian Cluny MacPherson ), traffic signal 1923
• Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945), USA - gene card , Nobel Prize in Medicine
• William G. Morgan (1870-1942), United States - volleyball 1895
• Walter Frederick Morrison (1920–2010), USA - Frisbee 1946/47 patent 1958
• William J. Morrison (1860–1926), USA - Cotton candy machine 1897, with John C. Wharton
• Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791–1872), USA - Morse code , electromagnetic telegraph 1833/37/38
• William Thomas Green Morton (1819–1868), USA - First use of ether in a tooth extraction
• Kary Mullis (1944–2019), USA - polymerase chain reaction (Nobel Prize)
• Joseph Edward Murray (1919–2012), USA - kidney transplant pioneer. In 1990 he and E. Donnall Thomas received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their introduction of the method of transferring tissue and organs as a clinical treatment practice in human medicine"
• Paul Maurice Zoll (1911–1999), USA - pacemaker
• Earl Bakken (1924), USA - battery-operated pacemaker
• William Thomas Green Morton (1819–1868), USA - Anesthesia

N

• Bette Nesmith Graham (1924–1980), USA - Correction fluid (Liquid Paper) ( Tipp-Ex ) 1951
• Henry Jotham Newton (1823–1895), USA - Bradbury piano ( piano ) 1850s, photographic chemicals
• Carl Lucas Norden (1880–1965), USA / Netherlands - bomb drop target

O

• Harry Ferdinand Olson (1901–1982), USA - synthesizer 1955 (with Herbert Belar)

Robert Oppenheimer (ca.1944)

• Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), USA - atomic bomb 1945 (with others)
• Samuel O'Reilly (18xx – 1908), Ireland / USA - electric rotating tattoo machine
• Elisha Graves Otis (1811–1861), USA - Passenger elevator with safety gear 1852/53
• Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935), USA - described and named some of the most famous dinosaurs, including Ornitholestes (1903), Tyrannosaurus rex (1905), Pentaceratops (1923) and Velociraptor (1924)
• Michael Joseph Owens (1859–1923), USA - Automatic glass blowing machine 1903

P

• Charles Grafton Page (1812–1868) USA - Induction coil 1836, trip-free circuit breaker , moving coil galvanometer , double helix for induction magnetism , electric locomotive
• William Painter (1838–1906) - Crown cap 1892
• Les Paul (1915–2009), USA - multi-track recorder 1954, solid body - electric guitar " Gibson Les Paul " 1952
• Albert J. Parkhouse , USA - wire coat hanger 1903
• Bradford W. Parkinson (* 1935), USA - Global Positioning System (together with Roger L. Easton and Ivan A. Getting )
• Linus Pauling (1901–1994), USA - Research on the nature of chemical bonds and their application in the elucidation of the structure of complex substances, (Nobel Prize)
• Lester Pelton (1829–1908), USA - Pelton turbine 1879, patent 1880

John Stith Pemberton .

• John Pemberton (1831–1888), USA - Coca-Cola 1887
• Arno Penzias (* 1933), USA / Germany - Cosmic Microwave Background (together with Robert Wilson )
• Edwin E. Perkins (1889–1961), USA - Kool-Aid fruit drink 1927
• Henry Perky (1843–1906), United States - Wheat - Cereals
• Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), USA - Pickering's fracture method ; Double stars
• John R. Pierce (1910–2002), USA - communications satellites Echo 1 in 1960 and Telstar in 1962

• Gregory Pincus (1903–1967), USA - birth control pill 1951 (with Carl Djerassi, John Rock, Min Chueh Chang)
• James Leonard Plimpton (1828–1911), USA - roller skates 1863
• Roy Plunkett (1910-1994), USA - Teflon 1938
• Stephen Poplawski (1895–1956), Poland / USA - blender 1922
• Wiley Post (1898–1935), USA - workable pressure suit 1935 (together with Russell S. Colley) (previously an impracticable pressure suit made by Russian Jewgeni Chertowski in 1931)
• George Pullman (1831–1897), USA - Pullman sleeping car patent 1863

R.

• Frederick Reines (1918–1998): experimental proof of the neutrino (jointly with Martin L. Perl ), 1995 (Nobel Prize in Physics)
• Ira Remsen (1846–1927), USA - Saccharin 1878/79 (with Constantin Fahlberg)
• Jesse Reno (1861–1947), USA - escalator 1891
• Bill and Mark Richards, USA - Skateboard 1958
• Charles Francis Richter (1900–1985), USA - Richter scale 1935 (with Beno Gutenberg )
• Adolph Rickenbacher (1887–1976), USA / Switzerland - electric guitar (together with George Beauchamp )
• Royal Rife (1888–1971), USA - light microscope 1933, therapeutic flash lamp “beam ray” 1954
• Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011), USA programming language C 1972 (together with Ken Thompson and Brian W. Kernighan)
• James Ritty (1836–1918), USA - Cash register 1879
• Ed Roberts (1941-2010) - first personal computer ( Altair 8800 ) 1974/75
• Eugene G. Rochow (1909-2002), USA - Müller-Rochow synthesis
• John Rock (1890–1984), USA - birth control pills in the early 1950s (with Gregory Pincus, Min Chueh Chang, Carl Djerassi)
• Francis Rogallo (1912–2009), USA - Rogallo wing (first hang glider ) 1948
• Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1880–1960), USA - bread slicer 1928
• David Edward Ross (1871–1943), USA - Ross Steering 1925
• Ira W. Rubel († 1908), USA - offset printing 1903/04 or 1907 (next to Caspar Hermann)
• Arthur C. Ruge (1905–2000), USA - strain gauges 1938, patent 1944 (next to Edward E. Simmons)

S.

• Augustine Sackett (1841–1914), USA - plasterboard 1894

Jonas Salk , 1988

• Jonas Edward Salk (1914–1995), USA - Polio vaccine 1955
• Ralph Samuelson (1904–1977), USA - waterskiing , waterskiing, waterskiing ramp
• Steven J. Sasson (* 1950), USA - digital camera 1975
• Isidor Sauers (* 1948), Austria / USA - Measurement of the breakdown of sulfur hexafluoride SF ₆ in high-voltage devices
• Arthur L. Schawlow (1921–1999), USA - Laser 1958 (next to Gordon Gould and Charles H. Townes)
• Jacob Schick (1877–1937), USA - electric razor 1928
• Hubert Schlafly (1919–2011), USA - teleprompter (together with Irving B. Kahn )
• James Schlatter , USA - aspartame sweetener 1965
• Klaus Schmiegel (* 1939), Germany / USA - drug fluoxetine
• Otto Schmitt (1913–1998), USA - Schmitt-Trigger 1934
• Ralph Schneider , USA - credit card 1950 (with Frank McNamara)
• August Schrader (* around 1820), USA - copper diving helmet 1849, Schrader valve for pneumatic tires 1891, valve cap 1896
• Arthur Scott , USA - toilet paper roll 1890, paper towel 1931
• Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999), USA - chemist and nuclear physicist. He was involved in the discovery of the elements plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and seaborgium. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on the isolation and identification of transuranium elements.
• Henry W. Seely , USA - electric iron 1882
• Iwan Serrurier (20th century), Netherlands / USA - Moviola film cutting machine 1924
• Mark Serrurier (190? –1988), USA - Serrurier truss for optical telescopes 1935
• Phillip Allen Sharp (* 1944), USA (Nobel Prize) - Identification of the discontinuous structure of some genetic makeup of cell organisms (together with Richard John Roberts )
• Patsy O'Connell Sherman (1930-2008) - Perfluorooctane sulfonate impregnation (Scotchgard) 1952 (with Samuel Smith)
• William B. Shockley (1910–1989), USA - Transistor 1948 (with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain)
• Christopher Latham Sholes (1819–1890), USA - QWERTY - Typewriter 1867 Patent 1868 (with Glidden, Soulé)
• Alan Shugart (1930–2006), USA - floppy disk 1969, SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)
• Spencer Silver (* 1941), USA - Post-it Notes 1970 (with Arthur Fry)
• Luther George Simjian (1905–1997), Ottoman Empire / USA - ATM 1939
• Edward E. Simmons , USA - strain gauges 1938, patent 1942 (next to Ruge)
• Isaac Merritt Singer (1811–1875), USA - Improvement of the sewing machine 1851, rock drilling machine 1839, machine for wood and metalworking 1849
• Rich Skrenta (* 1967), USA - Elk Cloner computer virus 1982
• Games Slayter (1896–1964), USA - Glass fiber reinforced plastic , 1938
• H. Gene Slottow (1921–1989), USA - plasma screen 1964 (with Bitzer and Robert H. Willson)
• C. Harold Smith (1860–1931), USA - wax crayons 1903 (with Edwin Binney)
• Randolph Smith , USA - Fire alarm (smoke detector) 1969 (with Kenneth House)
• Jeffrey Snover , USA - Windows PowerShell (Monad) 2003 command line interpreter , object pipeline
• Samuel W. Soulé , USA - Typewriter 1867 Patent 1868 (with Sholes, Glidden)
• Percy Spencer (1894–1970), USA - microwave oven 1945, patent 1946
• Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860-1930), USA - gyroscope autopilot
• Frank Julian Sprague (1857–1934), USA - dynamo 1881, pantograph 1880, constant rotating electric motor 1884/85
• George Owen Squier (1863–1934), USA - Muzak music shower 1922

William Stanley .

• William Stanley (1858–1916), USA - Transformer 1883
• John Paul Stapp (1910–1999), USA - 1947 rocket sled
• Leo Sternbach (1908–2005), Croatia / USA - Librium 1960, Valium 1963
• Robert Livingston Stevens (1787–1856), USA - Broad foot splint 1830
• John Stone Stone (1869–1943), USA - telephone technology
• Marvin Stone , USA - paper drinking straw 1888
• Levi Strauss (1829–1902), USA / Germany - Blue Jeans Patent 1873 (with Jacob Davis)
• Almon Strowger (1839–1902), USA - Automatic telephone operator 1889 Patent 1891
• Thomas Sullivan , USA - tea bags 1904 or 1908
• Thomas Sumner (1807–1876), USA - Sumner line, Sumner method ( astronomical navigation , location ) 1837

T

• David Watson Taylor (1864-1940), USA - bulbous bow 1929
• Edward Teller (1908–2003), Hungary / USA - hydrogen bomb 1952

Nikola Tesla

• Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), Croatia / Serbia / USA - AC 1880s, Tesla transformer , induction motor 1887, radio remote control 1898, three-phase alternating current , logic gate 1898, Tesla turbine 1900–1906, patent 1921, radio , VTOL aircraft, Violet Wand etc .
• The Martians , Hungary / USA - Physics and Mathematics, first half of the 20th century
• Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), USA - Rumford soup 1795, coffee maker
• LeMarcus A. Thompson († 1926), USA - roller coaster 1884
• Charles Thurber (1803–1886), USA - “Chirographer” typewriter , patent 1843
• Benjamin Chew Tilghman (1821–1901), USA - sandblasting blower 1870
• Clyde Tombaugh , United States - Pluto
• Ray Tomlinson (1941-2016), USA - Electronic mail ( e-mail ) 1971
• Charles Hard Townes (1915-2015) - Maser 1954/55 (with Herbert Jack Zeiger and James Power Gordon)
• Stephen Trokel (* 1934), USA - laser corneal correction ( photorefractive keratectomy ) 1983
• Earl Silas Tupper (1907-1983), United States - Tupperware
• Samuel Turner , USA - Stiftendrescher (pen thresher) 1831
• Paul Tutmarc (1896–1972), USA - electric bass

U

• Francis Robbins Upton (1852–1921), USA - flicker-free incandescent lamp , watt-hour meter , large dynamos 1870s (each with Edison)

Harold C. Urey .

• Harold C. Urey (1893–1981), USA - Discovery of heavy hydrogen, deuterium , 1931 (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934)

V

• James Van Allen (1914-2006), USA - Van Allen Belt
• Anthony Velonis (1911–1997), USA - screen print 1930 (with Carl Zigrosser)
• Craig Venter (* 1946), USA - project for sequencing the human genome; he was the first person in his own project to decipher the complete DNA
• Louis R. Vitullo (1924? –2006), USA - Standard equipment for forensic investigations after rape ("Vitullo kit") 1970s

W.

• To Wang (1920–1990), USA / People's Republic of China - Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
• Aaron Montgomery Ward (1844–1913), USA - Mail Order 1872
• Ezra Warner , USA - can opener 1858 (next to Robert Yeates )
• Lewis Edson Waterman (1837-1901), United States - fountain pen (Ideal Fountain Pen) 1883
• James Watson (* 1928), USA - Molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (together with Crick)
  

  James Watson , 2012
• Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905), USA - adding machines 1868, filling rifle cartridges in 1874
• George Westinghouse (1846–1914), USA - air brake 1868/69, patent 1872
• Donald Wetzel , USA - ATM 1965/71
• Schuyler S. Wheeler (1860–1923), USA - fan 1882
• Richard T. Whitcomb (1921–2009), USA - Winglet 1970s
• Eli Whitney (1765–1825), USA - Cotton ginning machine Egrenier machine 1793
• Robert Widlar (1937–1991), USA - Integrated circuit around 1963
• Stephen Wilcox (1830–1893), USA - water tube boiler 1874 (with George Babcock)
• Paul Winchell (1922–2005), USA - Artificial heart
• John Wise (1808–1879), USA - Reissbahn 1844 (next to Eugène Godard)
• David T. Wong (* around 1935), USA / People's Republic of China - Antidepressant Prozac 1972 (with Ray W. Fuller and Bryan B. Molloy)
• A. Baldwin Wood (1879–1956), USA - Screw pumps for New Orleans 1913, 1915
• Norman Joseph Woodland (1921–2012), USA - barcode 1949, patent 1952 (with Bernard Silver)
• Granville Woods (1856–1910), USA - telephone-telegraph "telegraphony" 1885, telegraphy communication 1887, power supply for railways 1888, steam heating 1889
• Robert T. Wright , USA - AstroTurf - artificial turf 1965 (with James M. Faria)

Wilbur Wright

• Wilbur (1867–1912) and Orville Wright (1871–1948), aviation pioneers, first flights with gliders
  

  Orville Wright

Y

• Linus Yale (1821–1868), USA - cylinder lock 1861
• Ioannis V. Yannas (* around 1940), USA - synthetic skin 1981 (with John F. Burke)
• William Yerazunis (* around 1960), USA - spam filter 2003
• Arthur M. Young (1905-1995), USA - Bell Helicopter

Z

• Frank J. Zamboni (1901–1988), USA - ice processing machine (Zamboni ice machine) 1949
• Herbert Jack Zeiger (1925–2011), USA - Maser 1954 (with Charles H. Townes and James Power Gordon)
• Carl Zigrosser (1891–1975), USA - screenprint 1930 (with Anthony Velonis)
• Walter Henry Zinn (1906–2000), Canada / USA - breeder reactor 1951
• Lou Zocchi (* around 1940), USA - game dice , Zocchihedron 1985, tabletop
• Paul Maurice Zoll (1911–1999), USA - Defibrillator 1952 (controversial see Claude Beck 1947) Pacemaker 1952