Famous Inventors : A to Z

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Lisa M Vallino

The mother and daughter team that invented the intravenous catheter shield.

Tuan Vo-Dinh

Invented optical diagnostic equipment. Vo-Dinh's patents were for a badge worn on a worker's shirt that recorded exposure to toxic chemicals and for a optical scanner that would read that badge.

Alessandro Volta

Invented the voltaic pile, a forerunner to the electric battery. The history of batteries.

Ernest H Volwiler

Ernest Volwiler co-invented the general anesthetic, Pentothal.

Wernher Von Braun

The V-2 missile rocket was developed in Germany from 1936 through the efforts of scientists led by him.

Otto von Guericke

The inventor of the nothing we call a vacuum.

Georg Von Hevesy

Conceived the idea of using radioactive tracers

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