n. 25B6; noun ORIGINATOR, creator, innovator; designer, deviser, developer, maker, producer; author, architect; pioneer, mastermind, father. See list.
Inventors and Their Inventions
Abbe, Ernst apochromatic lens
Archimedes Archimedean screw
Arkwright, Richard water-powered spinning machine
Armstrong, Edwin FM radio
Auer, Karl incandescent gas mantle
Babbage, Charles calculating machine
Baekeland, Leo Bakelite
Baird, John Logie mechanical television system
Bell, Alexander Graham telephone
Berliner, Emile flat phonograph disc
Bessemer, Henry Bessemer process
Birdseye, Clarence process for freezing food in small packages
Biró, László the biro
Bodmer, Johann machine tools
Braille, Louis Braille raised-dot writing system
Bramah, Joseph hydraulic press
Braun, Karl coupled system of radio transmission
Bunsen, Robert Bunsen burner
Cartwright, Edmund power loom
Cayley, George caterpillar tractor
Cockerell, Christopher hovercraft
Colt, Samuel Colt revolver
Cooke, William Fothergill electric telegraph alarm
Creed, Frederick Creed teleprinter
Crompton, Samuel spinning mule
Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé first practical photographic process
Davy, Humphry Davy lamp
Deere, John first cast-steel plough
De Forest, Lee triode valve
Dewar, James vacuum flask
Diesel, Rudolf diesel engine
Dunlop, John pneumatic tyre
Dyson, James bagless vacuum cleaner
Eastman, George photographic roll film and Kodak box camera
Edison, Thomas phonograph and carbon filament lamp
Elion, Gertrude B. DNA-blocking drugs
Fahrenheit, Gabriel mercury thermometer
Fessenden, Reginald heterodyne receiver
Foucault, Jean gyroscope
Friese-Greene, William motion-picture camera
Fulton, Robert paddle-wheel steamboat
Gabor, Dennis holography
Gatling, Richard Gatling gun
Goldmark, Peter long-playing record
Goodyear, Charles vulcanized rubber
Guericke, Otto von air pump
Gutenberg, Johannes printing with movable type
Hargreaves, James spinning jenny
Helmholtz, Hermann von ophthalmoscope
Hero of Alexandria aeolipyle (earliest known steam engine)
Hoe, Richard first successful rotary printing press
Hollerith, Herman tabulating machine using punched cards
Hooke, Robert balance spring for watches
Hotchkiss, Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss gun
Howe, Elias sewing machine
Ives, Frederick halftone photography
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie Jacquard loom
Laënnec, René stethoscope
Land, Edwin Polaroid camera
Lumière, Auguste Cinématograph
Lumière, Louis Cinématograph
McAdam, John macadamization of roads
McCormick, Cyrus reaping machine
MacMillan, Kirkpatrick pedal cycle
Maxim, Hiram Maxim machine gun
Montgolfier, Jacques-Étienne hot-air balloon
Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel hot-air balloon
Morse, Samuel Finley telegraph and morse code
Newcomen, Thomas steam piston engine
Nobel, Alfred Bernhard dynamite and gelignite
Niépce, Joseph-Nicéphore permanent photographic images
Otis, Elisha first elevator with a safety device
Parsons, Charles steam turbine
Piccard, Auguste bathyscape
Senefelder, Aloys lithography
Shockley, William transistor
Sholes, Christopher typewriter
Shrapnel, Henry shrapnel shell
Siemens, William open-hearth steel furnace
Singer, Isaac first successful sewing machine
Stephenson, George steam locomotive
Su Sung an astronomical water clock
Tesla, Nikola transformer
Townes, Charles maser
Tull, Jethro seed drill
Volta, Alessandro, Count first electric battery
Watt, James improved steam engine
Wheatstone, Charles electric telegraph and rheostat
Whitney, Eli mechanical cotton-gin
Whittle, Frank jet aircraft engine