Inventor
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Accomplishment
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| Archimedes |
Invented the Archimedean screw |
| Leo Baekeland |
Inventor of Bakelite, the first plastic |
| Frederick Banting |
Discoverer of insulin |
| Alexander Graham Bell |
Inventor of the telephone |
| Karl Benz |
Inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile |
| Tim Berners-Lee |
Inventor of the World Wide Web |
| Henry Bessemer |
Inventor of the Steel Converter |
| Clarence Birdseye |
Inventor of the frozen food process |
| Katharine Blodgett |
Inventor of Non-Reflective Glass |
| Louis Braille |
Inventor of the Braille system of writing for the blind |
| Rachel Brown |
Co-Creator of the first antifungal antibiotic |
| William Burroughs |
Inventor of the adding machine |
| W.H. Carothers |
Inventor of Nylon |
| Willis H. Carrier |
Inventor of air conditioning |
| George Washington Carver |
Inventor, Farmer, and Food Scientist |
| Jacques Cousteau |
Inventor of SCUBA Diving Equipment |
| Seymour Cray |
Inventor of the supercomputer |
| Leonardo Da Vinci |
Developed early designs for the airplane, helicopter, parachute, and bicycle |
| Gottlieb Daimler |
Inventor of the motorcycle, and pioneer in gasoline engines |
| Raymond Damadian |
Inventor of the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner |
| George De Maestral |
Inventor of VELCRO |
| John Deere |
Inventor of the steel plow |
| Rudolf Diesel |
Inventor of the diesel engine |
| Herbert Henry Dow |
Pioneer in chemicals for industry |
| George Eastman |
Inventor of rolled photographic film and the hand-held camera |
| Thomas Alva Edison |
Inventor of over 1,000 items, including the carbon filament light bulb, the phonograph, and the movie projector |
| Gertude Bell Elion |
Invented cancer drugs |
| Daniel Fahrenheit |
Inventor of the Fahrenheit temperature scale |
| Philo Farnsworth |
Inventor of electronic television |
| Alexander Fleming |
Discoverer of penicillin |
| Henry Ford |
Automotive pioneer, invented the moving assembly line |
| Benjamin Franklin |
Inventor of the lighting rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove |
| Robert Fulton |
Developer of the high-pressure steam engine |
| Galileo Galilei |
Mathematician and inventor of the thermometer |
| Bill Gates |
Founder of Microsoft and software pioneer |
| King Gillette |
Inventor of the safety razor |
| Robert Goddard |
Inventor of the liquid fuel rocket |
| Gordon Gould |
Inventor of the laser |
| Temple Grandin |
Inventor of devices for humane livestock treatment |
| Wilson Greatbatch |
Inventor of the Implantable Cardiac Pacemaker |
| Johannes Gutenberg |
Inventor of the printing press using movable type |
| Elizabeth Lee Hazen |
Co-Creator of the Fisrt Anti-Fungal Antibiotic |
| Elias Howe |
Inventor of the sewing machine |
| Edward Jenner |
Pioneer in smallpox vaccination |
| Steven Jobs |
Co-Founder of Apple computer |
| Dean Kamen |
Inventor of the iBot and the Segway |
| W.K. Kellogg |
Inventor of corn flakes |
| Willem Kolff |
Inventor of the Kidney Dialysis Machine |
| Stepanie Kwolek |
Inventor of Kevlar |
| Rene Laennec |
Inventor of the stethoscope |
| Edwin Land |
Inventor of instant photography |
| Jerome Lemelson |
Inventor of over 500 products |
| Joseph Lister |
Pioneerred antiseptic surgery |
| Guglielmo Marconi |
Inventor of successful long-distance transmission of radio |
| Cyrus McCormick |
Inventor of the mechanical reaper |
| Elijah McCoy |
Inventor of the automatic oil cup (for railroad locomotives) |
| Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier |
Inventors of the first practical hot air balloon |
| Garrett Morgan |
Inventor of the two-way traffic signal and the gas mask |
| Samuel F.B. Morse |
Inventor of the first practical electric telegraph and Morse Code |
| Isaac Newton |
Inventor of the reflecting telescope and calculus |
| Alfred Nobel |
Inventor of dynamite |
| Ellen Ochoa |
Inventor of optical systems |
| Louis Pasteur |
Inventor of Pasteurization |
| Roy J. Plunkett |
Inventor of Teflon |
| Wilhelm Roentgen |
Inventor of the x-ray machine |
| Jonas Salk |
Developed the first polio vaccine |
| Patsy Sherman |
Inventor of Scotchgard |
| Christopher Sholes |
Inventor of the First Practical Typewriter and the "QWERTY" Keyboard |
| Igor Sikorsky |
Inventor of the helicopter |
| Percy L. Spencer |
Inventor of the microwave oven |
| George Stephenson |
Pioneer of the successful steam-powered railroad locomotive |
| Levi Strauss |
Inventor of blue jeans |
| Nikola Tesla |
Inventor of the induction motor and applications for alternating current (AC) |
| Alessandro Volta |
Inventor of the battery |
| James Watt |
Inventor of an improved steam engine |
| George Westinghouse |
Inventor of air brakes |
| Eli Whitney |
Inventor of the cotton gin |
| Frank Whittle |
Inventor of the jet propulsion system |
| Steve Wozniak |
Co-Founder of Apple computer |
| Orville and Wilbur Wright |
Inventors of the first aircraft capable of powered, sustained controlled flight. |
| Vladimir Zworykin |
Pioneer in the field of Electronic Television |
