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2005 Robert Moog, American Inventor
2004 Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91 2002 Denys Fisher, inventor, created the Spirograph, dies at 84 2002 Ed Headrick, inventor, popularized the Frisbee, dies at 80 2002 Ruth Handler, inventor, invented Barbie, dies at 85 2002 Gordon Matthews, engineer, inventor of voice mail, dies at 65 2000 Hedy Lamarr, actress/inventor, Samson and Deliah, dies at 86 1998 Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93 1998 Walter Diemer, inventor/accountant, invented bubble gum, dies at 93 1997 Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81 1996 Frank Whittle, English Inventor 1996 Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89 1996 Max Factor, Jr., makeup inventor, dies at 91 1996 Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80 1996 Sam Green, industrialist/inventor, dies at 88 1996 Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician, dies at 86 1995 Konrad Zuse, German Inventor 1995 Max Factor, Jr., makeup inventor, dies 1994 Nathan I. Daniel, inventor (Guitars), dies at 82 1994 Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75 1994 Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79 1993 Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor, dies at 97 1993 Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84 1993 Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77 1993 George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71 1992 Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies 1992 Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50 1992 Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90 1992 Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic and Span), dies at 98 1992 Christian K Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98 1991 Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65 1991 George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91 1991 Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies 1991 Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81 1985 James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies 1985 Victor W. Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies 1983 R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87 1983 R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor 1982 Colin Chapman, English Inventor 1973 Laurens Hammond, American Inventor 1972 Henri Coanda, Romanian Inventor 1969 Linus Torvalds, born in Helsinki, Finland, inventor, software engineer, pioneered development of the Linux kernel, a free, open source software operating system 1969 Bert [Lambertus] Bakker, director Free Netherland/inventor, dies 1968 Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62 1967 John Romero, American Inventor 1967 Charles Darrow, U.S. inventor of Monopoly, dies 1964 Alfred Blalock, American Inventor 1962 Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64 1961 Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies 1961 Earle Dickson, inventor (band-aid), dies at 68 1961 Lee de Forest, inventor of the electron Tube, dies at 87 1960 Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies 1959 Gordon Armstrong, inventor (baby incubator), dies 1958 Charles Kettering, American Inventor 1958 Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57 1957 Bernard Spooner, U.S. inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies 1957 Jeff Hawkins, American Inventor 1957 Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70 1955 Tim Bray, Canadian Inventor 1955 Tim Berners-Lee, English Inventor 1955 Tim Berners Lee, English Inventor 1954 Edwin Armstrong, American Inventor 1954 Edwin H Armstrong, U.S. radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63 1953 Andy Hertzfeld, American Inventor 1953 Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor of (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92 1951 Dean Kamen, American Inventor 1951 Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75 1948 Ray Kurzweil, American Inventor 1946 Robert Jarvik, surgeon/inventor, Jarvik 7 artificial heart 1944 Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies 1944 Erno Rubik, born in Budapest, inventor, Rubik's cube 1944 Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor (Bakelite), dies 1943 Vinton Cerf, American Inventor 1943 Burt Rutan, born in Estacada, Oregon, Elbert Leander Burt Rutan, inventor, aerospace engineer, created the Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and SpaceShipOne, which entered space two times in fourteen days 1940 Walter Chrysler, American Inventor 1940 Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor, ZX Spectrum 1939 James Naismith, Basketball inventor, dies 1936 Frank Hornby, English Inventor 1935 Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies 1934 Robert A Moog, inventor, Moog Synthesizer 1934 Robert Moog, American Inventor 1934 Niklaus Wirth, born in Switzerland, computer programmer and inventor, PASCAL 1933 Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools 1933 Ray Dolby, sound expert/inventor, Dolby noise limiting system 1931 Melvil Dewey, American Inventor 1931 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84 1931 Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor 1931 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76 1931 Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, dies 1930 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, U.S. inventor (gyroscope compass), dies 1930 C-E Auguste Rateau, French inventor (R-steam turbine), dies at 66 1928 Bert Geoffrey Achong, inventor, electron microscopist 1928 Colin Chapman, English Inventor 1928 Scottish inventor J. Blaird demonstrates color-TV 1925 Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor, 1st man-powered aircraft 1925 Seymour Cray, inventor, Cray I computer 1925 Douglas Engelbart, American Inventor 1924 John Backus, inventor, FORTRAN computer language 1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies 1921 John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81 1920 John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies 1920 Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor, Heimlich maneuver 1919 Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian Inventor 1918 Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor, Endoscope 1917 Arthur C. Clarke, born in Somerset, England, science fiction author, inventor, wrote '2001: A Space Odyssey' 1915 Les Paul, born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, guitarist/inventor, Les Paul guitar 1915 Les Paul, guitarist inventor, Les Paul 1913 Rudolf Diesel, German Inventor 1913 Maurice Wilkes, inventor, stored program concept for computers 1911 Willem J. Kolff, Dutch/U.S. internist/inventor, Artificial Kidney 1910 Konrad Zuse, German Inventor 1910 Christopher Cockerell, inventor, Hovercraft 1910 Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies 1909 Edwin H Land, inventor, instant photography, Polaroid, 1909 Edwin H. Land, American Inventor 1909 Jay Morris Arena, inventor and pediatrician 1908 Willard Frank Libby, inventor, carbon-14 "atomic clock", Nobel 1960, 1907 Earl S Tupper, inventor, Tupperware 1907 Frank A. Whittle, England inventor, jet engine 1907 Frank Whittle, English Inventor 1907 Sam Green, industrialist/inventor 1906 U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting 1906 Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies 1906 Philo T Farnsworth, Beaver Utah, inventor, electronic TV 1906 Chester F Carlson, inventor, photocopy 1905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, Hughes Aircraft, inventor 1905 Piet Hein, poet/inventor 1903 Richard J Gatling, U.S. inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84 1902 Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75 1902 Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor, Wankel rotary-piston engine 1901 Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 1901 Allen B DuMont, inventor, perfected coml practical cathode ray tube 1901 Elisha Gray, American Inventor 1900 Fred Waring, Tyrone, Pennsylvania, musician/conductor/inventor, Waring Blender 1899 Alfred Moser Butts, game inventor, Scrabble 1899 Alfred Blalock, American Inventor 1898 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70 1896 George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., inventor (Ferris wheel), dies 1896 Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor 1896 Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor, nylon 1895 R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor, geodesic dome 1895 R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor 1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector 1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge 1895 Laurens Hammond, American Inventor 1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York City) 1890 Edwin Howard Armstrong, New York City, radio pioneer inventor, FM 1890 James Nasmyth, Scottish Inventor 1889 Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies 1889 Vladimir K Zworykin, U.S.S.R., electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV 1888 John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor, father of TV 1888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour 1888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, German inventor, 1st rocket-powered aircraft 1886 Louis Hazeltine, inventor, neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible 1886 Henri Coanda, Romanian Inventor 1884 Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies 1881 Percy Lesueur, hockey player/inventor, large goalie glove 1881 Irving Langmuir, inventor, tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932 1880 Joshua L Cowen, inventor, electric train 1879 W. H. Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage 1878 Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor 1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, U.S., inventor, hydroplane 1877 Ole Evinrude, inventor, outboard marine engine 1877 Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor 1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor, elecrostatic precipitator 1876 Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor, auto self-starter 1876 Charles Kettering, American Inventor 1876 A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor 1875 Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor, Porsche, Volkswagen 1875 Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63 1874 Guglielmo Marconi, born in Bologna, Italy, inventor, radio, Nobel 1909 1873 Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor, Audion vacuum, radio, tube 1872 Henry Warren, born in Boston, Massachusetts, inventor, Telechon electric clock 1871 Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns 1870 Pieter van Essen, Dutch artillery officer/inventor, grape-shot shells 1870 Georges Claude, inventor, neon light 1870 George Cormack, cereal inventor, Wheaties 1869 J Frank Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S. 1867 John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor, shorthand 1865 Charles J Sax, Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74 1864 Clement Hoffman Stevens, U.S. banker/inventor/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 42 1863 Frank Hornby, English Inventor 1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor, tackling dummy 1862 Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47 1861 Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S. 1861 James A Naismith, inventor, basketball 1861 Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor 1860 Elmer A Sperry, inventor, gyrocompass 1860 Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor, electrocardiograph 1860 Charles Gordon Curtis, U.S. attorney/inventor, Curtis Turbine 1860 Herman Hollerith, inventor, 1st electric tabulating machine 1859 George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., engineer/inventor, Ferris Wheel 1859 DeWitt B Brace, inventor, spectrophotometer 1857 Maytag, inventor, washing machine 1856 Nikola Tesla, born in Croatia, electrical engineer/inventor, Tesla Coil 1855 August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75 1855 William Seward Burroughs, New York, inventor, recording adding machine 1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor, safety razor 1854 George Eastman, born in Waterville, New York, inventor, Kodak camera 1854 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor, steam turbine 1854 Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor, linotype 1854 Dugald Clerk, inventor, 2-stroke motorcycle engine 1854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant, Telephone 1852 Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor, shoe lacing machine 1851 Melvil Dewey, American Inventor 1851 Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor, flat phonograph record 1850 Lawrence Hargrave, inventor, box kite 1849 Ambrose Fleming, inventor, diode 1848 Lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer 1848 Antoine Joseph Sax, inventor, saxophone 1847 Alexander Graham Bell, born in Scotland, inventor of the telephone 1847 Thomas A. Edison, born in Milan, Ohio, American Inventor 1846 George Sax, inventor, saxophone 1846 William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor 1844 William Archibald Spooner, London, reverend/inventor, spoonerisms 1844 Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents 1841 Clement Ader, French inventor, 1st to fly a heavier-than-air craft 1840 Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor, automatic single-barrel rifle 1839 Chardonnet, inventor, rayon 1838 Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor, rigid dirigibles 1838 William Perkin, inventor, 1st artificial dye 1838 Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison" 1837 John Wesley Hyatt, inventor, celluloid 1836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor, cable car 1835 Elisha Grey, inventor, Telephone 1835 Elisha Gray, American Inventor 1834 Gottlieb Daimler, born in Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle 1833 Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62 1832 William Griggs, inventor, photo chromo lithography 1832 Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor 1832 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor, electricstatic generator 1831 David Edward Hughes, inventor, microphone, teleprinter 1831 George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car 1831 Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies 1829 Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lamp), dies at 84 1827 Frederick A. Able, English chemist/inventor, cordiet 1827 Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny), dies at 73 1826 Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor 1826 Ebenezer Butterick, inventor, tissue paper dress pattern 1826 Zenobe Theophile Gramme, inventor, electric motor 1825 Eli Whitney, American Inventor 1824 Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor, Plimsoll line for ships 1823 Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor, laid undersea cables 1821 Linus Yale, U.S., portrait painter and inventor, Yale cylinder lock 1820 James Buchanan Eads, U.S., engineer/inventor, Eads Bridge-St. Louis 1819 Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor, typewriter 1818 Richard Jordan Gatling, U.S., inventor, hand-cranked machine gun 1816 E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor 1814 Adolphe Sax, Belgium, musician/inventor, saxophone 1814 Samuel Colt, U.S. inventor, Colt 6 shot revolver 1813 Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor, Bessemer engine 1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor, 1st coml useable barbed wire 1813 Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor, stenographic shorthand 1811 Issac Merrit Singer, inventor, 1st practical home sewing machine 1811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor, safe elevator 1809 John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon 1809 Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, Mechanical reaper 1808 James Nasmyth, Scottish Inventor 1806 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood 1806 Norbert Rillieux, inventor, sugar refiner 1804 Robert Parker Parrott, Inventor 1803 John Gorrie, inventor, cold-air process of refrigeration 1803 John Ericsson, U.S., inventor, screw propeller, shipbuilder-USS Monitor 1800 Charles Goodyear, inventor, vulcanization process for rubber 1800 James Bogardus, U.S. inventor/builder, made cast-iron buildings 1798 John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies 1797 Joseph Henry, U.S., scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism 1792 Charles Babbage, English inventor, calculating machine 1791 Samuel Finley Breece Morse, U.S. painter/inventor, telegraph 1790 August Ferdinand Mobius, mathematician, inventor, Mobius strip 1790 Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor 1790 Benjamin Franklin, statesman and inventor, dies at 84 1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr. Greathead, the inventor 1785 British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle 1783 John Heathcoat, inventor, lace-making machinery 1781 David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor, kaleidoscope 1781 George Stephenson, Newcastle England, inventor, RR locomotive 1781 Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor, stethoscope 1780 August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician, 1st Prussian Railway 1779 Peter Roget, thesaurus fame/inventor, slide rule, pocket chessboard 1778 James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies 1771 Alois Senefelder, inventor, lithography 1771 Richard Trevithick, Cornwall, inventor, steam locomotive 1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor, dialectic 1769 Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor 1765 Eli Whitney, inventor, Cotton Gin 1765 Joseph N. Niepce, French inventor, photography 1761 Henry Scrapnel, English inventor, shrapnel shell 1761 Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83 1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor, modern pencil 1753 Samuel Crompton, English inventor, mule-jenny spinning machine 1752 Nicolas Appert, inventor, food canning, bouillon tablet 1748 Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55 1745 Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor, battery 1744 John Hadley, inventor (sextant), dies 1743 Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor, power loom 1743 John Fitch, inventor, had a working steamboat years before Fulton 1741 Charles Willson Peale, U.S., portrait painter and inventor, George Washington 1738 Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor, guillotine 1736 James Watt, Scotland, inventor, steam engine 1732 Richard Arkwright, inventor, spinning frame 1730 Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79 1723 Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90 1718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor, sandwich 1712 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75 1706 John Baskerville, English printer, typeface inventor 1706 Benjamin Franklin, Boston, kite flyer, statesman, and inventor 1701 Anders Celsius, Sweden, scientist/inventor, centigrade temp scale 1695 Christiaen Huygens, inventor/astronomer, dies at 66 1695 Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66 1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor, thermometer 1682 John Hadley, mathematician/inventor, 1st reflecting telescope 1680 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern), dies 1655 Johann Christoph Denner, inventor, clarinet 1637 John van der Heyden, Dutch painter and inventor, fire extinguisher 1633 Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies 1619 John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried 1617 John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies 1609 Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 1602 Otto von Guericke, inventor, air pump 1601 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor, magic lantern 1574 William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor, slide rule 1468 John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies |
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