famous inventors and their inventions
Famous Inventors and Their Inventions
This article gives you a list of some of the famous inventors and their inventions. Read ahead to learn more about them.
Inventor | Inventions | Year | Country |
Johannes Gutenberg | Printing Press | 1440 | Germany |
Heinrich Rudolph Hertz | Electromagnetic theory of light and electromagnetic waves. Radio and electrical frequencies (Hz) | 1880s | Germany |
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | Electro Magnetic Radiations or X-Ray | 1895 | Germany |
Alfred Nobel | Dynamite | 1867 | Sweden |
Eli Whitney | Milling machine and cotton gin | 1793 | America |
Mary Anderson | Windshield wipers | 1903 | America |
Wilber and Orville Wright (Wright Brothers) | Airplanes | 1903 | America |
Archimedes | Archimedes screw, a device used to raise the water level, explained the principle behind levers, Archimedes principle, accurate value of the 'pi', and many more | 3rd century B.C. | Greece |
Richard G. Drew | Adhesive tape | 1923 | America |
Peter Henlein | Pocket watch | 1504-1508 | Germany |
Sir Isaac Newton | Discovered gravity and also invented the reflecting telescope | 1668 | England |
John Napier | Logarithms, Napier Bones, and decimal point | 1590s | Scotland |
Jacques Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan | Aqualungs | 1943 | France (Emile was a French Canadian) |
Thomas Newcomen | Atmospheric steam engine | 1710 | England |
Karl Friedrich von Drais | Bicycle, typewriter with keyboard, and wood saving cooker | 1820s | Germany |
Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone | 1875 | Scotland |
Willis Carrier | Air conditioner | 1914 | America |
Jean Nollet (Also known as Abbe Nollet) | Electroscope | 1748 | France |
Ransome Eli Olds | Assembly line | 1901 | America |
Earle Dickson | Band Aid | 1920 | America |
James Naismith | Basketball | 1891 | Canada |
Levi Strauss | Blue jeans | 1873 | Germany/USA |
Louis Braille | Braille for the blind | 1829 | France |
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen | Bunsen burner | 1855 | Germany |
Alfred Mosher Butts | Scrabble | 1938 | America |
Sir Humphrey Davy | Miner's safety lamp or the Davy lamp | 1815 | England |
Charles Richter | Richter magnitude scale for measuring earthquake | 1935 | America |
Heinrich Göbel | Incandescent light bulb | 1890s | Germany/America |
Jesse Langsdorf | Neck tie | 1920 | America |
Thomas Edison | Phonograph and electric light bulb | 1877 and 1879 (respectively) | America |
Benjamin Franklin | Lighting rod, bifocals, Franklin stove, glass armonica, swim fins, urinary catheter, and also the carriage odometer | 1750s | America |
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel | Diesel engine | 1890s | Germany |
Otto von Guericke | Air pump or vacuum pump | 1650 | Germany |
Galileo Galilei | Geometric compass, better 30X magnification telescope, 'invented' that the sun was the center of the solar system and not the earth | 1590s onwards | Italy |
Nikola Tesla | AC motor and transformer, vacuum tube amplifier, Tesla coil, X-Ray technology | 1880s | Austria/America |
Chester Carlson | Xerography photocopying | 1937-38 | America |
Jacques Edwin Brandenberger | Cellophane | 1908 | Switzerland |
Ruth Wakefield | Chocolate chip and chocolate chip cookies | 1930 | America |
Leonardo da Vinci | Lens grinding machine, parachute, Strut bridge, automatic bobbin winder, and also machine for testing tensile strength of wires | 1500s | Italy |
Abd al-Latif al Baghdadi | Ventilator | 1162-1231 | Iraq/Egypt |
Jagdish Chandra Bose | Crescograph | 1920s | India |
C ai Lun | Paper and paper making process | 105 AD | China |
Evgeniy Chertovsky | Pressure suit | 1931 | Russia |
Dr. John Stith Pemberton | Coca Cola | 1886 | America |
Zacharias Janssen | Compound microscope | 1595 | Holland |
Arthur Wynne | Crossword puzzle | 1913 | England |
Charles Richard Drew | Blood bank | - | America |
Thomas Davenport | Electric streetcar | 1834 | America |
Lala Balhumal Lahuri | Seamless globe, celestial globe | Late 1842 | Mughal India |
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar and K.N. Mathur | Bhatnagar-Mathur Magnetic Interference Balance | 1928 | India |
Jesse W. Reno | Escalator | 1891 | America |
Lewis E. Waterman | Fountain pen | 1884 | America |
Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin | Guillotin | 1790s | France |
Elias Howe | Sewing machine | 1846 | America |
Ida Henrietta Hyde | Micro electrode | 1930s | America |
Charles Mackintosh | Waterproof raincoat and life vest | 1820s | Scotland |
Edwin Beard Budding | Lawn mower | 1830 | England |
Garrett Augustus Morgan | Traffic signal, gas mask, and several other things | - | African-American |
Louis Pasteur | Pasteurization | Late 19th century | France |