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Famous Inventors

A

Alvarez, Luis - Hydrogen Bubble Chamber

Anderson, Mary - Windshield Wiper

B

Banneker, Benjamin - Farmer's Almanac
Bath, Patricia - Laser Technology

Bardeen, John - Transistor Semiconductor amplifier
Beaufort, Francis - Beaufort Scale
Beers, William George - Lacrosse
Bell, Alexander Graham - Telephone
Benjamin, Miriam E. - Gong and Signal Chair
Berliner, Emile - Music Record
Blair, Henry - Seed Planter
Blodgett, Katherine - Color Gauge
Blount, Bessie - Feeding device for the disabled
Blumberg & Millman - Hepatitis B Vaccine
Boone, Sarah - Ironing Board
Boyle, Robert - Boyle's Law
Braille, Louis - Braille
Burr, John Albert - Rotary Blade Lawnmower

C

Carver, George Washington - Cosmetic and Process of Producing
Chappelle, Emmett - Scientist and Engineer
Cochran, Josephine - Dishwasher
Collis, Robert - Feeding Systems
Coolidge, William D. - Vaccume Tube

D

Deere, John - Cast Steel Plow
Dickson, Earle - Band Aids
Dorticus, Clatonia Joaquin - Photographic development

E

Edison, Thomas
Elion, Gertrude - AZT
Emeagwali, Philip - Computing

F

Finlay, Carlos - Yellow Fever Cure
Ford, Henry - Automobile
Frayne, John - Sound on Film Technology

G

Ginsburg, Charles P. - Video Tape Recorder
Goddard, Robert Hutchings - Rockets
Goldberg, Rube - Various Inventions
Greene, Leonard Michael - Airplane Stall Warning

H

Hamilton, William - Quaternions
Chris Haney and Scott Abbott - Trivial Pursuit
Handler, Ruth - Barbie Doll
Heafitz, Andrew - Photography
Henry, Beulah - Various Inventions
Hings, Donald L. - Walkie-Talkie
Hopper, Grace – Computing
Howe, Elias - Sewing Machine

I

IMAX

J

Jennings, Thomas - Dry Scouring
Johnson, Lonnie - Supersoaker
Jones, Frederick M. - Automatic refrigeration (trucking)
Jorasch, James - Serial Inventor
Joyner, Marjorie Stewart - Hair Perms
Judson, Whitcomb L. – Zipper

K

Kies, Mary - Weaving
Knight, Margaret - Paper bag manufacturing
Kwolek, Stephanie – Kevlar

L

Lamarr, Hedy - Various Inventions
László József Bíró - Ballpoint Pen
Latimer, Lewis Howard - Carbon Filament (Lighting)
Lear, William P. - Radio Apparatus

M

Mason, Stanley - Inventor of Everyday Ordinary Products
Masters, Sybilla - Food Processing
Matzeliger, Jan Ernst - Shoe Technology
McCoy, Elijah - Various Inventions
McBurney, Charles - Medical Advances
McCormick, Cyrus - Mechanical Reaper
Milstein, Cesar - Immunology
Miro, Ruth - Personalized Paper Rings
Monturiol, Narciso - Submarine
Morgan, Garrett Augustus - Traffic Signal
Morse, Samuel F. B. – Telegraph
Munro, Donald - Table Hockey

N

Naismith, James – Basketball
Nesmith-Graham, Bette - Liquid Paper

O

O'Sullivan, Humphrey - Rubber Heel Shoes

P

Pedro Flores - Yo-Yo
Plunkett, Roy J. – Teflon

R

Ramun y Cajal, Santiago - Nervous system research
Rubin, Benjamin A. - Vaccination Needle

S

Sherman, Patsy - Scotchgard™
Simmons, Russell - Godfather of Hip-Hop
Spencer, Dr. Percy – Microwave
Stibitz, George R. - Complex Computer
Sundback, Gideon – Zipper

T

Townes, Charles - Physicist

W

Walker, Madame CJ -Hair Products
West, James - Microphone
Whitney, Eli - Cotton Gin
Woods, Granville - Telegraph Induction

 

 
 
 

 
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