FAMOUS INVENTORS ~ 1900 - 1949
1. Inventors 1900 - 1949 (birth dates)Dennis Gabor
(1900-1979)
Hungarian
holography
Leighton A. Wilkie
(1900-1993)
American
the metal-cutting band saw (contour band machine)
Enrico Fermi
(1901-1954
Italian
nuclear reactor
Rudolf Hell
(1901-2002)
German
the Hellschreiber
John von Neumann (Janos Neumann)
(1903-1957)
Hungarian
Von Neumann computer architecture
Franc Trkman
(1903-1978)
Slovenia
electrical switches - accessories for opening windows
John Vincent Atanasoff
(1903-1995)
American
modern programmable computer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
(1904-1967)
American
the father of the atomic bomb
Arthur M. Young
(1905-1995)
American
the Bell Helicopter
Philo Farnsworth
(1906-1971)
American
electronic television
Peter Carl Goldmark
(1906-1977)
Hungarian
vinyl record (LP)
Victor Hasselblad
(1906-1978)
Swedish
invented the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera
Ivan Knunyants
(1906-1990)
British
invented Nylon-6
Frank Whittle
(1907-1996)
British
co-inventor of the jet engine
Holger Crafoord
(1908-1982)
Swedish
inventor of the artificial kidney
Edward Teller (Ede Teller)
(1908-2003)
Hungarian
hydrogen bomb
Edwin H. Land
(1909-1991)
American
Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera
William Bradford Shockley
(1910-1989)
American
co-inventor of transistor
Jacques Cousteau
(1910-1997)
French
co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera
Christopher Cockerell
(1910-1999)
British
hovercraft
Willem Johan Kolff
(1911-xxxx)
Dutch
artificial kidney hemodialysis machine
Alan Turing
(1912-1954)
British
the Turing machine
Otto Wichterle
(1913-1989)
Czech
invented modern contact lenses
Hedy Lamarr
(1913-2000)
Austria and American
Spread spectrum radio
Peter Petroff
(1919-2004)
Bulgaria
digital wrist watch heart monitor - weather instruments
Gordon Gould
(1920-2005)
American
co-inventor of laser
Paul Winchell
(1922-2005)
American
the artificial heart
Ralph Baer
(1922-xxxx)
German/American
the home video game console
Jack Kilby
(1923-2005)
American
patented the first integrated circuit
Stephanie Kwolek
(1923-xxxx)
American
Kevlar
Bette Nesmith Graham
(1924-1980)
American
Liquid Paper
Louis R. Vitullo
(1924-2006)
United States
" developed the first ""sexual assault evidence kit"""
Douglas Engelbart
(1925-xxxx)
American
computer mouse
John George Kemeny
(1926-1992)
Hungarian
co-inventor of BASIC
Erna Schneider Hoover
(1926-xxxx)
American
computerized telephone switching system
Jun-Ichi Nishizawa
(1926-xxxx)
Japanese
Optical communication system - SIT/SITh (Static Induction Transistor/Thyristor) - PIN diode - Laser diode
Lewis Urry
(1927-2004)
Canadian
long-lasting alkaline battery
Yoshiro Nakamatsu
(1928-xxxx)
Japanese
Floppy disk (world record holder for over 3000 patented inventions)
Spede Pasanen
(1930-2001)
Finland
The ski jumping sling
Robert Moog
(1934-2005)
American
the Moog synthesizer
James Fergason
(1934-xxxx)
American
improved liquid crystal display
Avram Hershko
(1937-xxxx)
Hungarian
Ubiquitin
Sumio Iijima
(1939-xxxx)
Japanese
nanotubes
Haakan Lans
(1942-xxxx)
Swedish
STDMA datalink (Self organising Time Division Multiple Access) - colour computer graphics
William H. Dobelle
(1943-2004)
United States
first functioning artificial eye
Erno Rubik
(1944-xxxx)
Hungarian
Rubik's cube - Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Clock
Andreas Pavel
(1945-xxxx)
German
the walkman
Isidor Sauers
(1948-xxxx)
Austrian/American
inventor of a process for measuring the degradation of SF6 in high-voltage systems
Charles Simonyi
(1948-xxxx)
Hungarian
Hungarian notation
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