Famous Inventors

• Allen, Paul

  The co-founder (with Bill Gates) of Microsoft

• Babbage, Charles

  The inventor of the Difference Engine

• Bell, Alexander Graham

  The inventor of the telephone

• Birdseye, Clarence

  The man who figured out how to flash-freeze foods

• Bradley, Milton

  Board game pioneer who invented The Game of Life

• Braille, Louis

  Inventor of the raised-point writing system for the blind

• Bunsen, Robert

  The spectrometer inventor with the gas burner name

• Burbank, Luther

  Creator of the Burbank potato

• Carvel, Thomas

  Founder of the Carvel ice cream empire

• Carver, George Washington

  America's great peanut innovator

• Colt, Samuel

  Inventor of the Colt revolver

• Diesel, Rudolf

  Inventor of the diesel engine

• Edgerton, Harold

  The professor who made strobe photography popular

• Edison, Thomas

  The man who invented the light bulb

• Farnsworth, Philo T.

  Inventor of the all-electronic television

• Fleischer, Max

  The creator of Betty Boop cartoons

• Ford, Henry

  Creator of the Ford Motor Company

• Franklin, Benjamin

  The Founding Father who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac

• Fuller, Buckminster

  the inventor of the geodesic dome

• Fulton, Robert

  The man who made steamships successful

• Gilbreth, Lillian

  The engineer and efficiency expert and mom of 'Cheaper by the Dozen'

• Gillette, King Camp

  Inventor of the disposable safety razor

• Heimlich, Henry

  The guy who developed the Heimlich Maneuver

• Hooke, Robert

  The author of 1665's Micrographia

• Howe, Elias

  The inventor of the sewing machine

• Kamen, Dean

  Inventor of the Segway transporter

• Land, Edwin

  The inventor of the Polaroid camera

• Lumière, Louis

  Pioneer inventor in moviemaking and projection

• Marconi, Guglielmo

  Italian pioneer of wireless telegraphy

• Moog, Robert

  The guy who invented the Moog synthesizer

• Moon, William

  Developer of raised lettering for blind readers

• Morgan, Garrett

  The inventor of the three-way traffic light

• Morse, Samuel F. B.

  The telegraphic pioneer who invented Morse Code

• Otis, Elisha Graves

  Inventor of the elevator brake

• Paul, Les

  Inventor of the solid-body electric guitar

• Rubik, Erno

  Inventor of the Rubik's Cube puzzle

• Sax, Adolphe

  The Belgian who invented the saxophone

• Singer, Isaac Merritt

  The maker of the first popular household sewing machine

• Strauss, Levi

  The creator of Levi's denim jeans

• Tesla, Nikola

  The electrical genius who invented alternating current

• Theremin, Leon

  Inventor of the electronic musical instrument

• Volta, Alessandro

  The Italian who built the first battery

• Von Kempelen, Wolfgang

  Creator of 'the Turk'

• Wakefield, Ruth

  The inventor of the Toll House chocolate chip cookie

• Wales, Jimmy

  The driving force behind Wikipedia

• Walker, Brian

  The "Rocket Guy"

• Watt, James

  Improver -- not inventor -- of the steam engine

• Westinghouse, George

  Air brake inventor and Edison's AC rival

• Whitney, Eli

  Inventor of the cotton gin

• Wright Brothers, The

  Inventors of the airplane

• Yale, Linus Jr.

  The inventor of the cylinder lock

See: Index by Occupation