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★ Abbas Ibn Firnas, (810-887), Andalusia — eye glasses, hang glider, watch

★ Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi, (940-1000), Persia — sextant

★ Alhacen (Ibn al-Haytham), (965-1039), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — camera obscura, pinhole camera

★ Al-Fazari, (d. 796/806), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — brass astrolabe

★ Al-Jazari, (1136-1206), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — crankshaft, connecting rod, crank mechanism, combination lock, elephant clock, programmable humanoid robots, robotics, reciprocating piston engine, suction pump, segmental gear, valve, etc.

★ Al-Khwarizmi (780-850), Persia — modern algebra

★ Al-Razi (Rhazes), (865-965), Persia — distillation and extraction methods, sulfuric acid and alcohol, soap bar

★ Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili, (9th century), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — injection syringe

★ Archimedes, (c. 287-212 BC), Greece — Archimedes screw

★ Ami Argand, (1750-1803), France — Argand lamp

★ Armen Firman, (c. 852), Andalusia — parachute

★ Edwin H. Armstrong,(1890-1954), USA — FM radio

★ William George Armstrong, (1810-1900), UK — hydraulic crane

★ Neil Arnott, (1788-1874), UK — waterbed

★ Joseph Aspdin, (1788-1855), England — Portland cement

★ John Vincent Atanasoff, (1903-1995), United States — modern programmable computer

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★ Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), UK — analytical engine

★ Roger Bacon, (1214-1292), England — magnifying glass

★ Leo Baekeland, (1863-1944), Belgian–American — Velox photographic paper and Bakelite

★ Ralph H. Baer, (1922-), German born American — video game console

★ John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), UK — an electromechanical television

★ Donat Banki, (1859-1922), Hungary — inventor of the carburetor

★ John Bardeen, (1908-1991), USA — co-inventor of the transistor

★ Anthony R. Barringer Canadian – American — INPUT (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system

★ Earl W. Bascom, (1906-1995), Canada and United States — side-delivery rodeo chute, hornless rodeo saddle, rodeo bareback rigging, rodeo chaps

★ Eugen Baumann, (1846-1896), Germany — PVC

★ Trevor Baylis, (1937-), UK — a wind-up radio

★ Francis Beaufort, (1774-1857), France — Beaufort scale

★ Arnold O. Beckman, (1900-2004), USA — pH meter

★ Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Canada — telephone

★ Karl Benz, (1844-1929), Germany — the petrol-powered automobile

★ Emile Berliner, (1851-1929), Germany and USA — the disc record gramophone

★ Tim Berners-Lee, (1955-), UK — with Robert Cailliau, the World Wide Web

★ Bi Sheng (Chinese:畢昇), (ca.990-1051), China — clay movable type printing

★ Laszlo Biro, (1899-1985), Hungary — modern ballpoint pen

★ J. Stuart Blackton, (1875-1941), USA — stop-motion film

★ Otto Blathy (1860-1939), Hungary — co-inventor of the transformer, wattmeter, alternating current (AC) and turbogenerator

★ Katharine B. Blodgett, (1898-1979), UK — nonreflective glass

★ Nils Bohlin, (1920-2002), Sweden — the three-point seat belt

★ Joseph-Armand Bombardier, (1907-1964), Canada — snowmobile

★ Robert W. Bower, (1936-), USA — self-aligned–gate MOSFET

★ Seth Boyden, (1788-1870), USA — nail-making machine

★ Walter Houser Brattain, (1902-1987), USA — co-inventor of the transistor

★ Louis Braille, (1809-1852), France — the Braille writing system

★ Karl Ferdinand Braun, (1850-1918), Germany — cathode-ray tube oscilloscope

★ Harry Brearley, (1871-1948), UK — stainless steel

★ John Moses Browning, (1855-1926), USA — automatic handgun

★ Edwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846), UK — lawnmower

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★ C`ai Lun, 蔡倫 (50 AD - 121), China — paper

★ Marvin Camras, (1916 - 1995), USA — magnetic recording

★ Chester Carlson, (1906-1968), USA — Xerography

★ Wallace Carothers, (1896-1937), USA — Nylon

★ Adrian Chernoff, (1971-), USA — GM Autonomy, GM Hy-wire, Rubber Bandits

★ Niels Christensen (1865- 1952), USA — O-ring

★ Samuel Hunter Christie, (1784-1865), UK — Wheatstone bridge

★ Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), UK — Hovercraft

★ Lloyd Groff Copeman, (1865- 1956), USA — Electric stove

★ Jacques Cousteau, (1910-1997), France — co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera

★ Aeneas Coffey, (1780-1852), Ireland, heat exchanger, inventor of the Coffey still

★ Holger Crafoord, (1908-1982), Sweden — inventor of the artificial kidney

★ János Csonka, (1852-1939), Hungary — co-inventor of carburetor

★ Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, (1725-1804), France — automobile

★ Juan de la Cierva, (1895-1936), Spain — the autogyro

★ William Cullen, (1710-1790), UK — first artificial refrigerator

★ Glenn Curtiss, (1878 - 1930), USA — ailerons

★ Corliss Orville Burandt, USA — Variable valve timing

★ Joseph Constantine Carpue, (1764-1846), France — rhinoplastic surgery

★ George Cayley, (1773-1857), (UK) — tension-spoke wheels, Caterpillar track

★ Georges Claude, (1870-1960), France — neon lamp

★ Josephine Cochrane, (1839-1913), USA — dishwasher

★ Cornelis Corneliszoon, (1550-1607), The Netherlands — sawmill

★ Bartolomeo Cristofori, (1655-1731), Italy — piano

★ William Cumberland Cruikshank, (1745-1800), UK — chlorinated water

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★ Gustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), Sweden — AGA cooker; Dalén light; Agamassan

★ Salvino D'Armate, (?-?), Italy — credited for inventing eyeglasses in 1284

★ Charles Brace Darrow, (1889-1967). USA — Monopoly

★ Jacob Davis, (1868-1908), USA — riveted jeans

★ Edmund Davy, (1785-1857), Ireland — acetylene

★ Humphry Davy, (1778-1829), UK — Davy miners lamp

★ Joseph Day, (1855-1946), UK — the crankcase compression two stroke engine

★ Lee DeForest, (1873-1961), USA — triode

★ Miksa Deri (1854-1938), Hungary — co-inventor of transformer

★ Sir James Dewar, (1842-1923), UK — Thermos flask

★ William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, (1860-1935), UK — motion picture camera

★ Rudolf Diesel, (1858-1913), Germany — Diesel engine

★ William H. Dobelle, (1943-2004), United States — first functioning artificial eye

★ Bryan Donkin, (1768-1855), UK — print industry composition roller

★ Hub van Doorne, (1900-1979), Netherlands, Variomatic continuously variable transmission

★ Karl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany — dandy horse (Draisine)

★ Cornelius Drebbel, (1572-1633), The Netherlands — first navigable submarine

★ Richard Drew, (1899-1980), USA — Masking tape

★ John Boyd Dunlop, (1840-1921) UK — first practical pneumatic tyre

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★ George Eastman, (1854-1932), USA — film-roll

★ Thomas Edison, (1847-1931), USA — phonograph, commercially practical light bulb, motion picture projector, stock ticker, etc.

★ Willem Einthoven, (1860-1927), The Netherlands — the electrocardiogram

★ 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

★ Ole Evinrude, (1877-1934), Norway — outboard motor

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★ Samuel Face, (1923-2001), USA — concrete flatness/levelness technology; Lightning Switch

★ Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), England — rubber balloon, electric transformer

★ Johann Maria Farina, (1685–1766), Germany; Eau de Cologne

★ Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971), USA — electronic television

★ James Fergason, (1934-), USA — improved liquid crystal display

★ Enrico Fermi, (1901-1954), Italy — nuclear reactor

★ Reginald Fessenden, (1866-1932), Canada — two-way radio

★ Adolf Eugen Fick, (1829-1901), Germany — contact lens

★ Gerhard Fischer, Germany/USA — hand-held metal detector

★ Artur Fischer, (1919–) Germany — fasteners including fischertechnik.

★ Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), Scotland — penicillin

★ John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), England — vacuum diode

★ Sandford Fleming, (1827-1915), Canada — Universal Standard Time

★ Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, (1819-1868), France — Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current

★ Benoît Fourneyron, (1802-1867), France — water turbine

★ Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), USA — the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, the glass harmonica

★ Augustin-Jean Fresnel, (1788-1827), France — Fresnel lens

★ William Friese-Greene, (1855-1921), England — cinematography

★ Buckminster Fuller, (1895-1983), USA — geodesic dome

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★ Dennis Gabor, (1900-1979), Hungary — holography

★ Elmer R. Gates, (1859-1923), foam fire extinguisher, electric loom mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, educational toy ("box & blocks")

★ William Henry Gates III, (1955-), Windows operating system, chief architect of Visual Basic

★ Robert Goddard, (1882-1945), USA — liquid fuel rocket

★ Heinrich Göbel, (1818-1893), Germany — first functional incandescent lamp

★ Peter Carl Goldmark, (1906-1977), Hungary — vinyl record (LP), CBS color television

★ Gordon Gould, (1920-2005), USA — co-inventor of laser

★ Richard Hall Gower, (1768-1833), England — ship's hull and rigging

★ Bette Nesmith Graham, (1924-1980), USA — Liquid Paper

★ Chester Greenwood, (1858-1937), USA — thermal earmuffs

★ James Gregory, (1638-1675), Scotland — reflecting telescope

★ William Robert Grove, (1811-1896), Wales — fuel cell

★ Otto von Guericke, (1602-1686), Germany — vacuum pump, manometer, dasymeter,

★ Johann Gutenberg, (c. 1390s-1468), Germany — modern movable type printing press

★ Hans Wilhelm Geiger, (1882-1945), Germany — Geiger counter

★ Henri Giffard, (1825-1882), France — powered airship, injector

★ Charles Goodyear, (1800-1860), USA — vulcanization of rubber

★ Samuel Guthrie, (1782 - 1848), USA — discovered chloroform

★ James Henry Greathead, (1844-1896), South Africa — tunnel boring machine, tunnelling shield technique

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★ John Hadley, (1682-1744), England — modern sextant

★ Tracy Hall, (1919- ), USA — synthetic diamond

★ James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), England — spinning jenny

★ John Harrison, (1693-1776), England — marine chronometer

★ Harun ar-Rammah Najm al-Din al-Ahdab, (c. 1275), Syria — torpedo

★ Victor Hasselblad, (1906-1978), Sweden — invented the 6 x 6 cm 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

★ George de Hevesy, (1885-1966), Hungary — radioactive tracer

★ Erna Schneider Hoover, (1926-), USA — computerized telephone switching system

★ Frank Hornby, (1863-1936), England — invented Meccano

★ Heron, (c. 10-70), Roman Egypt — aeolipile

★ Joseph Hon – book index thumb notch system for dictionaries Patent #561888

★ Christopher Hansteen, (1783-1873), Norway — discovery of terrestrial magnetism

★ William Harvey, (1578-1657), England — blood circulation in the human body

★ Robert A. Heinlein, (1907-1988), USA — waterbed

★ Henry J. Heinz, USA — tomato ketchup

★ Joseph Henry, (1797-1878), Scotland — electromagnetic relay

★ Heinrich Hertz, (1857-1894), Germany — radio telegraphy, electromagnetic radiation

★ Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), UK — postage stamp

★ Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), (1868-1949), Germany — Aspirin

★ Herman Hollerith, (1860-1929), USA — mechanical tabulator based on punched cards

★ Nick Holonyak, (1928- ), USA — LED (Light Emitting Diode)

★ Robert Hooke, (1635-1703), England — balance wheel, iris diaphragm

★ Coenraad Johannes van Houten, (1801-1887), Netherlands — cocoa powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk

★ Elias Howe, (1819-1867), USA — sewing machine

★ Christiaan Huygens, (1629-1695), Netherlands — pendulum clock

★ John Wesley Hyatt, (1837-1920), USA — celluloid manufacturing

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★ Ibn Samh, (1000s), Andalusia — mechanical astrolabe

★ Ibn Yunus, (950-1009), Egypt — pendulum

★ János Irinyi, (1817-1895), Hungary — noiseless match

★ Sumio Iijima, (1939- ), Japan — nanotubes

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★ Karl Jatho, (1873-1933), Germany — aeroplane

★ György Jendrassik, (1898-1954), Hungary — turboprop

★ Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), USA — swivel chair

★ Steve Jobs, (1955-), Macintosh operating system

★ Carl Edvard Johansson, (1864-1943), Sweden — Gauge blocks

★ Johan Petter Johansson, (1853-1943), Sweden — the pipe wrench and the modern adjustable spanner

★ Nancy Johnson, USA — American version of the hand cranked ice cream machine in (1843)

★ Scott A. Jones, (1960-), USA — created one of the most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Search, a human-assisted internet search engine.

★ Whitcomb Judson, (1836-1909), USA — ''zipper''

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★ Dean Kamen, (1951-), USA — Invented the Segway HT scooter and the IBOT Mobility Device

★ John George Kemeny, (1926-1992), Hungary — co-inventor of BASIC

★ Charles F. Kettering, (1876-1958), USA — invented automobile self-starter ignition, Freon ethyl gasoline and more

★ Jack Kilby, (1923-2005), USA — patented the first integrated circuit

★ Fritz Klatte, (1880-1934), Germany — vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride

★ Margaret E. Knight, (1838-1914), USA — machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags

★ Ivan Knunyants, (1906-1990), Ukraine — invented Nylon-6

★ Willem Johan Kolff, (1911-), Netherlands — artificial kidney hemodialysis machine

★ Gleb Kotelnikov, (1872-1944), Russia — knapsack parachute

★ Stephanie Kwolek, (1923-), USA — Kevlar

★ John Howard Kyan (1774-1850), Ireland — The process of Kyanization used for wood preservation

★ Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, (1853-1926), Netherlands — liquify helium

★ Theophilus Van Kannel, revolving door (1888)

★ John Harvey Kellogg, (1852-1943), cornflake breakfasts

★ Robert Koch, (1843-1910), method for culturing bacteria on solid media

★ Willem Johan Kolff, Netherlands/USA, (1911- ) — hemodialysis, pioneer in the field of other artificial organs

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★ Lagari Hasan Celebi, (fl. 1633-1640), Turkey — rocket aircraft

★ Hedy Lamarr, (1913-2000), Austria and USA — Spread spectrum radio

★ Edwin H. Land, (1909-1991), USA — Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera

★ Irving Langmuir, (1851-1957), USA — gas filled incandescent light bulb, hydrogen welding

★ Lewis Latimer, (1848-1928), — worked with Thomas Edison and patented an improved lightbulb manufacturing process

★ Gustav de Laval, (1845-1913), Sweden — invented the milk separator and the milking machine

★ Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev, (1874-1934), Russia — synthetic rubber

★ Tim Berners-Lee, (1955- ) England — World Wide Web

★ Justus von Liebig, (1803-1873), Germany — nitrogen-based fertilizer

★ Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, (1862-1931), Sweden — Kerosene stove operated by compressed air

★ Archibald Low, (1882-1956), Britain — Pioneer of radio guidance systems

★ Giovanni Luppis, (1813-1875), Austrian Empire (ethnical Italian) — self-propelled torpedo

★ René Laënnec, (1781-1826), France — stethoscope

★ Samuel P. Langley, (1834-1906), USA — bolometer

★ John Bennet Lawes, (1814-1900), England — superphosphate or chemical fertilizer

★ Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, (1632-1723), Netherlands — development of the microscope

★ Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir, (1822-1900), Belgium — internal combustion engine, motorboat

★ Willard Frank Libby, (1908-1980), USA — Radiocarbon dating

★ Otto Lilienthal, (1848-1896), Germany — air glider

★ Hans Lippershey, (1570-1619), Netherlands — telescope

★ Auguste and Louis Lumière, France — Cinématographe

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★ Mahomed, (c. 1759), India — shampoo

★ Ma Jun, (c. 200-265), China — South Pointing Chariot (see differential gear), mechanical puppet theater, chain pumps, improved silk looms

★ Charles Macintosh, (1766-1843), Scotland — waterproof raincoat, life vest

★ George William Manby, (1765-1854), England — Fire extinguisher

★ Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937), Italy — radio, transatlantic radiosignals

★ John Landis Mason, (1826-1902), USA — Mason jars

★ Henry Maudslay, (1771-1831), England — screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer

★ James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) and Thomas Sutton Scotland — colour photography

★ John McAdam, (1756-1836), Scotland — improved "macadam" road surface

★ Elijah McCoy, (1843-1929), Canada — Displacement lubricator

★ Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés, (1817-1880), France — margarine

★ Antonio Meucci, (1808-1889), Italy — telephone (prototype)

★ Edouard Michelin, (1859-1940), France — pneumatic tyre

★ 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

★ John J. Montgomery, (1858-1911), USA — heavier-than-air gliders

★ 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

★ Jozef Murgas, (1864-1929), Slovakia — inventor of the wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio)

★ William Murdoch, (1754-1839), Scotland — Gas lighting

★ Pieter van Musschenbroek, (1692-1761), Netherlands — Leyden jar, pyrometer

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★ Yoshiro Nakamatsu, (1928-), Japan — Floppy disk (world record holder for over 3,000 patented inventions)

★ John von Neumann, (1903-1957), Hungary — Von Neumann computer architecture

★ Isaac Newton,(1642-1727), England — reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration)

★ Jun-Ichi Nishizawa, (1926-), Japan — Optical communication system, SIT/SITh (Static Induction Transistor/Thyristor), Laser diode, PIN diode

★ Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Sweden — dynamite

★ Carl Rickard Nyberg, (1858-1939), Sweden — the blowtorch

★ John Napier, (1550-1617), Scotland — logarithms

★ James Nasmyth, (1808-1890), Scotland — steam hammer

★ Joseph Nicephore Niépce, (1765-1833), France — photography

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★ Theophil Wilgodt Odhner, (1845–1903), Sweden — the Odhner Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator

★ Elisha Otis, (1811–1861), USA — passenger elevator with safety device

★ William Oughtred, (1575–1660), England — slide rule

★ Hans Christian Ørsted, (1777–1851), Denmark — electromagnetism, aluminium

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★ Helge Palmcrantz, (1842-1880), Sweden — the multi-barrel, lever-actuated, machine gun

★ Les Paul, (1915-), USA — Multitrack recording

★ Spede Pasanen, (1930-2001), Finland — The ski jumping sling

★ Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, (1871-1922), Croatia — mechanical pencil

★ Gustaf Erik Pasch, (1788-1862), Sweden — the safety match

★ Arthur Paul Pedrick, England — chromatically selective cat flap and others

★ Stephen Perry, England — rubber band

★ 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, — the Jolly Jumper baby harness

★ Baltzar von Platen, (1898-1984), Sweden — refrigerator

★ Fritz Pfleumer, (1881-1945), Germany — Magnetic Tape In 1927, after experimenting with various materials, Pfleumer used very thin paper which he coated with iron oxide powder using lacquer as glue. He received a patent in 1928.

★ Mihajlo Pupin, (1858-1935), Serbia — pupinization (loading coils), tunable oscillator

★ Tivadar Puskas, (1844-1893), Hungary — telephone exchange

★ Daniel David Palmer, (1845-1913), Canada — Chiropractic

★ Luigi Palmieri, (1807-1896), Italy — seismometer

★ Alexander Parkes, (1831-1890), England — celluloid

★ Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662), France — barometer

★ Charles Algernon Parsons, (1854-1931), British — steam turbine

★ John Pemberton, (1831-1888), USA — Coca-Cola

★ Joseph Plateau, (1801-1883), Belgium — phenakistiscope (stroboscope)

★ James Leonard Plimpton, USA — roller skates

★ George Pullman, (1831-1897), USA — Pullman sleep wagon

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★ Karl von Reichenbach, (1788-1869), paraffin, creosote oil, phenol

★ Ira Remsen, (1846-1927), USA — saccharin

★ Josef Ressel, (1793-1857), Czechoslovakia — ship propeller

★ Charles Francis Richter, (1900-1985), USA — Richter magnitude scale

★ John Roebuck, (1718-1794) England — lead chamber process for sulfuric acid synthesis

★ Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, (1845-1923), Germany — the X-ray machine

★ Erno Rubik, (1944-), Hungary — Rubik's cube, Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Clock

★ Ernst Ruska, (1906-1988), Germany — electron microscope

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★ Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (1946- ), Netherlands Major contributor to development of Compact Disc

★ Augustus Siebe, (1788-1872), Saxony&England Inventor of the standard diving dress

★ Alberto Santos-Dumont, (1873-1932), Brazil — non-rigid airship and airplane

★ Isidor Sauers, (1948- ), inventor of a process for measuring the degradation of SF₆ in high-voltage systems

★ Adolphe Sax, (1814-1894), Belgium — saxophone

★ Christian Schnabel (1878-1936), German, designed simplistic food cutleries

★ August Schrader, USA — Schrader valve for Pneumatic tire

★ David Schwarz, (1852-1897), Croatia, — rigid ship, later called Zeppelin

★ Bela Schick, (1877-1967), Hungary — diphtheria test

★ Sennacherib, (705–681 BC), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — screw pump

★ Iwan Serrurier, (active 1920s), Netherlands/USA — inventor of the Moviola for film editing.

★ Mark Serrurier, (190?-1988), USA — Serrurier truss for Optical telescopes

★ Gerhard Sessler, (1931-), Germany — foil electret microphone, silicon microphone

★ Shen Kuo (1031-1095), China, improved gnomon, armillary sphere, clepsydra, and sighting tube

★ 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

★ Charles Simonyi, (1948-), Hungary — Hungarian notation

★ Aurel Stodola, (1859-1942), Slovakia - gas turbines

★ Elmer Ambrose Sperry, (1860-1930), USA — gyroscope-guided automatic pilot

★ Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (1790-1878), Scotland — Stirling engine

★ Levi Strauss, (1829-1902), USA — blue jeans

★ John Stringfellow, (1799-1883), England — airplane

★ Almon Strowger, (1839-1902), USA — automatic telephone exchange

★ Su Song, (1020-1101), China, first chain drive

★ Simon Sunatori, (1959-), Canada — inventor of Sunatori Pen

★ Joseph Swan, (1828-1914), England — Incandescent light bulb

★ Thomas Savery, (1650-1715), England — steam engine

★ Marc Seguin, (1786-1875), France — wire-cable suspension bridge

★ Henry Shrapnel, (1761-1842), England — Shrapnel shell ammunition

★ Augustus Siebe, (1788-1872), Germany — standard diving dress

★ Isaac Singer, (1811-1875), USA — sewing machine

★ Percy Spencer, (1894-1970), USA — microwave oven

★ George Stephenson, (1781-1848), England — steam locomotive

★ Simon Stevin, (1548-1620), Netherlands — land yacht

★ Leo Szilard, (1898-1964), Hungary — Co-developed the Atomic Bomb, patented the nuclear reactor, catalyst of the Manhattan Project

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★ Taqi al-Din, (1526-1585), Syria/Egypt — steam turbine

★ Bernhard Tellegen, (1900-1990), Netherlands — pentode

★ Edward Teller, (1908-2003), Hungary — hydrogen bomb

★ Nikola Tesla, (1856-1943), Serbian-Croatian-American — Tesla Coil, induction motor, alternating current Polyphase system, wireless communication, modern robotics, logic gates, bladeless turbine, radio, VTOL aircraft, etc.

★ Kalman Tihanyi, (1897-1947), Hungary — co-inventor of cathode ray tube and iconoscope

★ Benjamin Chew Tilghman, (1821-1897), USA — sandblasting

★ Tipu Sultan, (1750-1799), India — iron rocket

★ Alfred Traeger, (1895-1980), Australia — the pedal radio

★ Franc Trkman, (1903-1978), Slovenia — electrical switches, accessories for opening windows

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

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★ Louis R. Vitullo, (1924?-2006), United States — developed the first sexual assault evidence kit

★ Alessandro Volta, (1745-1827), Italy — battery

★ Faust Vrancic, (1551-1617), Croatia — parachute

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★ Barnes Wallis, (1887-1979), England — bouncing bomb

★ Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), Scotland — microwave radar

★ James Watt, (1736-1819), Scotland — improved Steam engine

★ Jonas Wenström, (1855-1893), Sweden — three-phase electrical system

★ George Westinghouse, (1846-1914), USA — Air brake

★ Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1875), England — concertina, stereoscope, microphone, Playfair cipher

★ Eli Whitney, (1765-1825), USA — the cotton gin

★ Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), England — co-inventor of the jet engine

★ Otto Wichterle, (1913-1989), Czechoslovakia — invented modern contact lenses

★ Paul Winchell, (1922-2005), USA — the artificial heart

★ A. Baldwin Wood, (1879-1956), USA — high volume pump

★ Granville Woods, (1856-1910), USA — the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph

★ The Wright brothers, Orville Wright, (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright, (1867-1912), USA — powered airplane

★ Arthur Wynne, (1862-1945), England — creator of crossword puzzle

★ Thomas Wedgwood, (1771-1805), England — first (not permanent) photograph

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★ Hidetsugu Yagi, (1886-1976), Japan — Yagi antenna

★ Yi Xing, (683-727), China, invented the escapement mechanism

★ Arthur M. Young, (1905-1995), USA — the Bell Helicopter

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★ Zhang Heng, (78-139), China, invented the first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere

★ Konrad Zuse, (22. June 1910 - 18. December 1995), Germany, invented the first Computer (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4)