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Nils Alwall, (1904-1986), Sweden the dialysis machine
Archimedes, (circa 287 BC-212 BC), Greece
Manfred von Ardenne, (1907-1997), Germany
William George Armstrong, (1810-1900), England hydraulic crane
Joseph Aspdin, (17881855), England artificial cement
John Vincent Atanasoff, (1903-1995), Bulgaria modern computer
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Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), England Analytical engine
Leo Baekeland (1863-1944), BelgianAmerican Velox photographic paper and Bakelite
Ralph Baer, (1922-), German born American the home video game console
John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), Scotland a working television
John Bardeen, (1908-1991), USA co-inventor of the transistor
Trevor Baylis, (1937- ) a wind-up radio
Arnold O. Beckman, (1900-2004), USA pH meter
Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Scotland telephone
Karl Benz, (18441929), Germany the petrol-powered automobile
Emile Berliner, (1851-1929), Germany and USA the disc record gramophone
Tim Berners-Lee, (1955-), England with Robert Cailliau, the World Wide Web
Bi Sheng, (?-1052), China primitive movable printing types
Katherine Blodgett, (1898-1979), England nonreflective glass
Nils Bohlin, (1920-2002), Sweden the three-point seat belt
Joseph-Armand Bombardier, (1907-1964), Canada snowmobile
Seth Boyden, (1788-1870), USA invented a 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
Edwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846) England lawnmower
Roger Bacon, (1214-1292) England magnifying glass
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Cài Lϊn, (c. AD 50121), China paper
Marvin Camras, (1916 - 1995), USA magnetic recording
Chester Carlson, (1906-1968) USA electrophotography
Wallace Carothers, (1896-1937), USA Nylon
Samuel Hunter Christie, (1784-1865), England Wheatstone bridge
Henri Coanda, (1886-1972), Romania jet
Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), England Hovercraft
Jacques Cousteau, (19101997), France co-inventor of the aqualung
Holger Crafoord, (1908-1982), Sweden inventor of the artificial kidney
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, (1725-1804), France automobile
Juan de la Cierva, (1895--1936), Spain the autogyro
Richard Cinque, (1960-Current), USA Sock Clip, Plate Caddy
William Cullen, (1710-1790), Scotland first artificial refrigerator
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Gustaf Dalιn, (1869-1937), Sweden invented the AGA Lighthouse
Salvino D'Armate credited for inventing eyeglasses in 1284
Lee DeForest, (1873-1961), USA triode, amongst others
Sir James Dewar, (1842-1923), Scotland Thermos flask
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, (1860-1935), Scotland motion picture camera
Rudolf Diesel, (1858-1913), Germany Diesel engine
Karl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany bicycle (Draisine)
Cornelius Drebbel, (1572-1633), The Netherlands first navigable submarine
Richard Drew, USA Scotch (or cellophane) tape
E
George Eastman, (1854-1932), USA roll film
Thomas Edison, (1847-1931), USA phonograph, commercially practical light bulb, amongst others
Douglas Engelbart, (1925-), USA the computer mouse [1]
Rune Elmqvist (1857-1924), Sweden - implantable pacemaker
John Ericsson (1803-1889), Sweden the two screw-propeller
Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846-1926), Sweden the handheld micro telephone
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Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971), USA vacuum tube television display
Reginald Fessenden, (1866-1932), Canada two-way radio
Adolf Eugen Fick, (1829-1901), Germany contact lens
John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), England vacuum diode
Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), USA the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocals
William Friese-Greene, (1855-1921), England cinematography
G
Bengt Gadefelt, (1924-2001), Sweden the turbo engine for cars
Robert Goddard, (1882-1945), USA liquid fuel rocket
Heinrich Gφbel, (1818-1893), Germany first functional incandescent lamp
Gordon Gould, (1920-2005), USA laser
Richard Hall Gower, (1768-1833), United Kingdom ship's hull and rigging
Bette Nesmith Graham, (1924-1980), USA Liquid Paper
Chester Greenwood, (1858-1937), USA thermal earmuffs
James Gregory, (1638-1675), Scotland reflecting telescope
William Robert Grove, (18111896), Wales fuel cell
Otto von Guericke, (1602-1686), Germany vacuum pump
Johann Gutenberg, (circa 1390s-1468), Germany modern movable type printing press
H
John Hadley, (1682-1744) the sextant
James Hargreaves, (1720-1778) invented the spinning jenny
John Harrison, (1693-1776) marine chronometer
Victor Hasselblad, (1906-1978), Sweden invented the 6 x 6cm single-lens reflex camera
Rudolf Hell, (1901-2002), Germany the Hellschreiber
Jozef Karol Hell, (1713-1789) Slovakia the water pillar
Joseph Henry, (1797-1898), USA electromagnetic relay
Erna Schneider Hoover, USA computerized telephone switching system
Frank Hornby, (1863-1936) England invented Meccano
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J
Karl Jatho, (1873-1933), Germany airplane
Carl Edvard Johansson, (1864-1943), Sweden gage block sets
Johan Petter Johansson, (1853-1943), Sweden the pipe wrench and the modern adjustable spanner
Nancy Johnson American version of the hand cranked ice cream machine in (1843)
Aleksandar Just Croatia, electric bulb
K
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 Knight, (1838-1914), USA machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags
Ivan Knunyants (1906-1990) Ukraine invented Nylon-6
Gleb Kotelnikov, (1872-1944), Russia knapsack parachute
Stephanie Kwolek, (1923-), USA Kevlar
L
Hedy Lamarr, (1913-2000), Austria and USA Spread spectrum
Edwin H. Land, (1909-1991), USA Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera
Håkan Lans, (1942-), Sweden STDMA datalink (Self organising Time Division Multiple Access), colour computer graphics
Irving Langmuir, (1851-1957), USA gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding
Lewis Latimer 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
Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev, (1874-1934), Russia synthetic rubber
Leonardo da Vinci, (1452-1519), Italy
Justus von Liebig, (1803-1873), Germany nitrogen-based fertilizer
Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, (1862-1931), Sweden Kerosene stove operated by compressed air
Ivan Lupis-Vukiζ, (1813-1875), Croatia self-propelled torpedo
M
Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937), Italy radio
Elijah McCoy, (1844-1929), USA automatic lubricator for oiling steam engines
Antonio Meucci, (1808-1896), Italy the telephone
Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol, (1819-1885), Spain steam powered submarine
Robert Moog, (1934-2005), USA the Moog synthesizer
Montgolfier brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), France hot-air balloon
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
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Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Sweden dynamite
Isaac Newton,(1642-1727), England reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration)
Carl Rickard Nyberg, (1858-1939), Sweden the blowtorch
O
Theophil Wilgodt Odhner, (1845-1903), Sweden the Odhner Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator
Elisha Otis, (1811-1861), USA passenger elevator and concommitant safety device
P
Helge Palmcrantz, (1842-1880), Sweden the multi-barrel, lever-actuated, machine gun
Spede Pasanen, (1930-2001), Finland The ski jumping sling
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, (1871-1922), Croatia ball point pen
Gustaf Erik Pasch, (1788-1862), Sweden the safety match
Henry Perky, (1843-1906), USA Shredded wheat
Peter Petroff, (1919-2004), Bulgaria digital wrist watch, heart monitor, weather instruments
Christopher Polhem, (1661-1751), Sweden the modern padlock
Olivia Poole, (1889-1975), USA, White Earth Indian Reserve the Jolly Jumper baby harness
Baltzar von Platen (1898-1984) Sweden refrigerator
Mihajlo Pupin (18581935) Serbia pupinisation, tunable oscillator, Pupin coil
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R
Wilhelm Conrad Rφntgen, (1845-1923), Germany the x-ray machine
S
Augustus Siebe,(1788-1872) Saxony&England Inventor of the standard diving dress
Alberto Santos-Dumont, (1873-1932), Brazil non-rigid airship and airplane
Adolphe Sax, (1814-1894), Belgium saxophone
August Schrader, USA Schrader valve for Pneumatic tire
David Schwarz, (1852-1897), Croatia, rigid ship, later called Zeppelin
William Bradford Shockley, (1910-1989), USA co-inventor of transistor
Werner von Siemens, (1816-1892), Germany an electromechanical "dynamic"
Sir William Siemens (1823-1883), Germany regenerative furnace
Igor Sikorsky, (1889-1972), Ukraine helicopter
Elmer Ambrose Sperry (18601930), USA gyroscope-guided automatic pilot
Levi Strauss, (1829-1902), USA blue jeans
John Stringfellow, (1799-1883), England airplane
Joseph Swan, (1828-1914), England inventor, physicist
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Nikola Tesla, (1856-1943), Serbian-Croatian-American inventor of the induction motor, alternating current polyphase power distribution system, wireless communication, robotics, logic gates, the bladeless turbine, radio and VTOL aircraft (among others).
Benjamin Chew Tilghman, (1821-), USA sandblasting
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, (1852-1936), Spain
Alfred Traeger, (1895-1980), Australia the pedal radio
Alan Turing, (1912-1954), England the Turing machine
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Lewis Urry, (1927-2004), Canada long-lasting alkaline battery
V
Alessandro Volta, (1745-1827), Italy battery
Faust Vranθiζ (1551-1617), Croatia, parachute
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Erik Wallenberg, (19151999), Sweden invented the Tetra Pak
Barnes Wallis, (1887-1979), England bouncing bomb
Ghulam Sediq Wardak, (1942-), Afghanistan 341 unpatented inventions
Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), Scotland microwave radar
Jonas Wenstrφm, (1855-93), Sweden the 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) co-inventor of the jet engine
Otto Wichterle, (1913-1989) Czechoslovakia invented modern contact lenses
Sven Wingquist, (1876-1953), Sweden Self-aligning ball bearing
A. Baldwin Wood, (1879-1956), US inventor & engineer
Granville Woods, (1856-1910), USA the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright, (1867-1912), USA aeroplane
Arthur Wynne, (1862 - 1945), USA crossword puzzle
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Hidetsugu Yagi, (1886-1976), Japan Yagi antenna
Asen Yordanoff (1886-1967) Bulgaria Douglas DC-3
Arthur M. Young, (1905-1995), USA the Bell Helicopter
Z
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, (1838-1917), Germany rigid airship
Konrad Zuse, (1910-1995), Germany first functional tape-stored-program-controlled computer
Vladimir Zworykin, (1889-1982), Russia the iconoscope and the kinescope