Nils Alwall, (1904-1986), Sweden – the dialysis machine<\/p>\n
Archimedes<\/a> – (circa 287 BC-212 BC), Greece – various machines<\/p>\n Manfred von Ardenne<\/a>, (1907-1997), Germany – elektron microscope and various technology inventions<\/p>\n William George Armstrong<\/a>, (1810-1900), England – hydraulic crane<\/p>\n Joseph Aspdin<\/a>, (1788-1855), England – artificial cement<\/p>\n John Vincent Atanasoff<\/a>, (1903-1995), Bulgaria – modern computer<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/p>\n Charles Babbage<\/a>, (1791-1871), England – Analytical engine<\/p>\n Leo Baekeland<\/a> (1863-1944), Belgian-American – Velox photographic paper and Bakelite<\/p>\n Ralph Baer<\/a>, (1922-), German born American – the home video game console<\/p>\n John Logie Baird<\/a>, (1888-1946), Scotland – a working television<\/p>\n John Bardeen<\/a>, (1908-1991), USA – co-inventor of the transistor<\/p>\n Trevor Baylis<\/a>, (1937- ) – a wind-up radio<\/a><\/p>\n Arnold O. Beckman<\/a>, (1900-2004), USA – pH meter<\/p>\n Karl Benz<\/a>, (1844-1929), Germany – the petrol-powered automobile<\/p>\n Emile Berliner<\/a>, (1851-1929), Germany and USA – the disc record gramophone<\/p>\n Tim Berners-Lee<\/a>, (1955-), England – with Robert Cailliau<\/a>, the World Wide Web<\/p>\n Bi Sheng<\/a>, (?-1052), China – primitive movable printing<\/a> types<\/p>\n Katherine Blodgett<\/a>, (1898-1979), England – nonreflective glass<\/p>\n Claudio Artemio Blotta, b. 1936 Argentina, cutting circle device for pastry.<\/p>\n Nils Bohlin<\/a>, (1920-2002), Sweden – the three-point seat belt<\/p>\n Joseph-Armand Bombardier<\/a>, (1907-1964), Canada – snowmobile<\/p>\n Seth Boyden<\/a>, (1788-1870), USA – invented a nail-making machine<\/p>\n Walter Houser Brattain<\/a>, (1902-1987), USA – co-inventor of the transistor<\/p>\n Louis Braille<\/a>, (1809-1852), France – the Braille writing system<\/p>\n Karl Ferdinand Braun<\/a>, (1850-1918), Germany – cathode-ray tube oscilloscope<\/p>\n Edwin Beard Budding<\/a>, (1795-1846) England – lawnmower<\/p>\n Roger Bacon<\/a>, (1214-1292) England – magnifying glass<\/a><\/p>\n C<\/strong><\/p>\n Ci Ln<\/a>, (c. AD 50-121), China – paper<\/p>\n Marvin Camras<\/a>, (1916 – 1995), USA – magnetic recording<\/p>\n Chester Carlson<\/a>, (1906-1968) USA – electrophotography<\/p>\n Wallace Carothers<\/a>, (1896-1937), USA – Nylon<\/p>\n Samuel Hunter Christie<\/a>, (1784-1865), England – Wheatstone bridge<\/p>\n Christopher Cockerell<\/a>, (1910-1999), England – Hovercraft<\/p>\n Jacques Cousteau<\/a>, (1910-1997), France – co-inventor of the aqualung<\/p>\n Holger Crafoord<\/a>, (1908-1982), Sweden – inventor of the artificial kidney<\/p>\n Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot<\/a>, (1725-1804), France – automobile<\/p>\n Juan de la Cierva<\/a>, (1895–1936), Spain – the autogyro<\/p>\n Richard Cinque, (1960-Current), USA – Sock Clip, Plate Caddy<\/p>\n William Cullen<\/a>, (1710-1790), Scotland – first artificial refrigerator<\/p>\n D<\/strong><\/p>\n Gustaf Daln<\/a>, (1869-1937), Sweden – invented the AGA Lighthouse<\/a><\/p>\n Salvino D’Armate<\/a> – credited for inventing eyeglasses<\/a> in 1284<\/p>\n Lee DeForest<\/a>, (1873-1961), USA – triode, amongst others<\/p>\n James Dewar<\/a>, (1842-1923), Scotland – Thermos flask<\/p>\n William Kennedy Laurie Dickson<\/a>, (1860-1935), Scotland – motion picture camera<\/p>\n Rudolf Diesel<\/a>, (1858-1913), Germany – Diesel engine<\/p>\n Karl Drais<\/a> (1785-1851), Germany – bicycle<\/a> (Draisine)<\/p>\n Cornelius Drebbel<\/a>, (1572-1633), The Netherlands – first navigable submarine<\/a><\/p>\n Richard Drew<\/a>, USA – Scotch (or cellophane) tape<\/p>\n E<\/strong><\/p>\n George Eastman<\/a>, (1854-1932), USA – roll film<\/p>\n Thomas Edison<\/a>, (1847-1931), USA – phonograph, commercially practical light bulb, amongst others<\/p>\n Willem Einthoven<\/a>, (1860-1927), Netherlands – the electrocardiogram<\/p>\n Douglas Engelbart<\/a>, (1925-), USA – the computer mouse<\/a><\/p>\n Rune Elmqvist<\/a> (1857-1924), Sweden – implantable pacemaker<\/p>\n John Ericsson<\/a> (1803-1889), Sweden – the two screw-propeller<\/p>\n Lars Magnus Ericsson<\/a> (1846-1926), Sweden – the handheld micro telephone<\/p>\n F<\/strong><\/p>\n Philo Farnsworth<\/a>, (1906-1971), USA – vacuum tube television display<\/p>\n James Fergason<\/a>, (1934-), USA – improved liquid crystal display<\/p>\n Reginald Fessenden<\/a>, (1866-1932), Canada – two-way radio<\/a><\/p>\n Adolf Eugen Fick<\/a>, (1829-1901), Germany – contact lens<\/p>\n Alexander Fleming<\/a> (August 6, 1881 – March 11, 1955) England – penicillin<\/p>\n John Ambrose Fleming<\/a>, (1848-1945), England – vacuum diode<\/p>\n Benjamin Franklin<\/a>, (1706-1790), USA – the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocals<\/p>\n William Friese-Greene<\/a>, (1855-1921), England – cinematography<\/p>\n Buckminster Fuller<\/a>, (1895-1983), USA – geodesic dome<\/p>\n G<\/strong><\/p>\n Robert Goddard<\/a>, (1882-1945), USA – liquid fuel rocket<\/p>\n Heinrich Gbel<\/a>, (1818-1893), Germany – first functional incandescent lamp<\/p>\n Gordon Gould<\/a>, (1920-2005), USA – laser<\/p>\n Richard Hall Gower<\/a>, (1768-1833), United Kingdom – ship’s hull and rigging<\/p>\n Bette Nesmith Graham<\/a>, (1924-1980), USA – Liquid Paper<\/p>\n Chester Greenwood<\/a>, (1858-1937), USA – thermal earmuffs<\/p>\n James Gregory<\/a>, (1638-1675), Scotland – reflecting telescope<\/p>\n William Robert Grove<\/a>, (1811-1896), Wales – fuel cell<\/p>\n Otto von Guericke<\/a>, (1602-1686), Germany – vacuum pump<\/p>\n Johann Gutenberg<\/a>, (circa 1390s-1468), Germany – modern movable type printing press<\/p>\n H<\/strong><\/p>\n John Hadley<\/a>, (1682-1744) – the sextant<\/p>\n James Hargreaves<\/a>, (1720-1778) England – invented the spinning jenny<\/p>\n John Harrison<\/a>, (1693-1776) England – marine chronometer<\/p>\n Victor Hasselblad<\/a>, (1906-1978), Sweden – invented the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera<\/p>\n Rudolf Hell<\/a>, (1901-2002), Germany – the Hellschreiber<\/p>\n Jozef Karol Hell<\/a>, (1713-1789) Slovakia -the water pillar<\/p>\n Joseph Henry<\/a>, (1797-1898), USA – electromagnetic relay<\/p>\n Erna Schneider Hoover<\/a>, USA – computerized telephone switching system<\/p>\n Frank Hornby<\/a>, (1863-1936) England – invented Meccano<\/p>\n J<\/strong><\/p>\n Jan Jansk<\/a>, (1873-1921), Czechoslovakia – discoverer of blood types<\/p>\n Karl Jatho<\/a>, (1873-1933), Germany – airplane inventor<\/p>\n Carl Edvard Johansson, (1864-1943), Sweden – gage block sets<\/p>\n Johan Petter Johansson<\/a>, (1853-1943), Sweden – the pipe wrench and the modern adjustable spanner<\/p>\n Nancy Johnson<\/a> – American version of the hand cranked ice cream machinein (1843)<\/p>\n K<\/strong><\/p>\n Charles F. Kettering<\/a> (1876-1958) USA – invented automobile self-starter ignition, Freon ethyl gasoline and more<\/p>\n Jack Kilby<\/a>, (1923-2005) USA – patented the first integrated circuit<\/p>\n Fritz Klatte<\/a>, (1880-1934), Germany – vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride<\/p>\n Margaret Knight<\/a>, (1838-1914), USA – machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags<\/p>\n Ivan Knunyants<\/a> – (1906-1990) Ukraine invented Nylon-6<\/p>\n Gleb Kotelnikov<\/a>, (1872-1944), Russia – knapsack parachute<\/p>\n Stephanie Kwolek<\/a>, (1923-), USA – Kevlar<\/p>\n L<\/strong><\/p>\n Hedy Lamarr<\/a>, (1913-2000), Austria and USA – Spread spectrum<\/p>\n Edwin H. Land<\/a>, (1909-1991), USA – Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera<\/p>\n Hkan Lans<\/a>, (1942-), Sweden – STDMA datalink (Self organising Time Division Multiple Access), colour computer graphics<\/p>\n Irving Langmuir<\/a>, (1851-1957), USA – gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding<\/p>\n Lewis Latimer<\/a> – worked with Thomas Edison<\/a> and patented an improved lightbulb manufacturing process<\/p>\n Gustav de Laval<\/a> (1845-1913), Sweden – invented the milk separator and the milking machine<\/p>\n Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev<\/a>, (1874-1934), Russia – synthetic rubber<\/p>\n Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>, (1452-1519) – parachute, high heel shoes and many other inventions<\/p>\n Justus von Liebig<\/a>, (1803-1873), Germany – nitrogen-based fertilizer<\/p>\n Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist<\/a>, (1862-1931), Sweden – Kerosene stove operated by compressed air<\/p>\n Ivan Lupis-Vukic’<\/a>, (1813-1875), Croatia – self-propelled torpedo<\/p>\n M<\/strong><\/p>\n Guglielmo Marconi<\/a>, (1874-1937), Italy – radio<\/a><\/p>\n Elijah McCoy<\/a>, (1844-1929), USA – automatic lubricator for oiling steam engines<\/p>\n Antonio Meucci<\/a>, (1808-1896), Italy – telephone<\/p>\n Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol<\/a>, (1819-1885), Spain – steam powered submarine<\/a><\/p>\n Robert Moog<\/a>, (1934-2005), USA – the Moog synthesizer<\/p>\n Montgolfier<\/a> brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), France – hot-air balloon<\/a><\/p>\n Samuel Morey<\/a>, (1762-1843), USA – internal combustion engine<\/p>\n Garrett A. Morgan<\/a>, (1877-1963), USA – inventor of the gas mask<\/p>\n Samuel Morse<\/a>, (1791-1872), USA – telegraph<\/p>\n Jozef Murgas<\/a> (1864-1929), Slovakia – inventor of the wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio).<\/p>\n N<\/strong><\/p>\n Alfred Nobel<\/a>, (1833-1896), Sweden – dynamite<\/p>\n Isaac Newton<\/a>,(1642-1727), England – reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration)<\/p>\n Carl Rickard Nyberg<\/a>, (1858-1939), Sweden – the blowtorch<\/p>\n