American
Inventors by State - American Inventions
Each American inventor listed below in red is listed under the state that they were born in. Yes, not all states have an American inventor listed. Let me know if your favorite American inventor is missing.
| Alabama
Percy Lavon Julian - enter Waldo L. Semon - enter |
Montana |
| Alaska | Nebraska
Harold Edgerton - enter Jay W. Forrester - enter |
| Arizona | Nevada |
| Arkansas | New Hampshire |
| California
Luis Walter Alvarez - enter Robert Bower - enter Frederick G. Cottrell - enter Charles P. Ginsburg - enter Theodore Harold Maiman - enter |
New Jersey
Lloyd H. Conover - enter Donald Fletcher Holmes - enter Eger V. Murphree - enter Edward J. Rosinski - enter |
| Colorado
Robert J. Seiwald - enter |
New Mexico |
| Connecticut
Samuel Colt - enter Charles Goodyear - enter Robert N. Hall - enter Edwin H. Land - enter Kenneth H. Olsen - enter |
New
York
George Babcock - enter Willis Haviland Carrier - enter Clarence Crane - enter Thomas Elkins - enter George Eastman - enter Gertrude Belle Elion - enter George Lerner - enter Pierre Lorillard - enter George Pullman - enter Charles Roser - enter Jonas Salk - enter Elmer Sperry - enter John Stevens - enter George Westinghouse Jr. - enter |
| Delaware
Oliver Evans - enter Henry Heimlich - enter |
North
Carolina
Caleb Bradham - enter Richard Gatling - enter Chester Greenwood - enter |
| Florida | North Dakota |
| Georgia | Ohio
Willard H. Bennett - enter William Meriam Burton - enter Thomas Alva Edison - enter Charles Martin Hall - enter Charles F. Kettering - enter Lester Pelton - enter Ernest H. Volwiler - enter Orville Wright - enter |
| Hawaii | Oklahoma |
| Idaho | Oregon
Douglas Engelbart - enter |
| llinois
Inventors
Arnold O. Beckman - enter Stanley Mazor - enter George Pullman - enter Lewis Hastings Sarett - enter |
Pennsylvania
Edward Goodrich Acheson - enter Walter E. Diemer - enter Oliver Evans - enter Robert Fulton - enter William Edward Hanford - enter Stephanie Louise Kwolek - enter |
| Indiana
Inventors
Andrew J. Moyer - enter Wilbur Wright - enter |
Rhode Island
Stephen Wilcox - enter |
| Iowa Inventors
Donald L. Campbell - enter Wallace Hume Carothers - enter Lee DeForest - enter |
South Carolina
Joseph H. Burckhalter -enter |
| Kansas | South Dakota
Ernest Orlando Lawrence - enter |
| Kentucky | Tennessee
David Crosthwait - enter Mark Dean - enter |
| Louisiana | Texas
Robert Dennard - enter |
| Maine
Hiram Stevens Maxim - enter Percy Lebaron Spencer - enter Francis & Freelan Stanley - enter |
Utah
John M. Browning - enter Philo Farnsworth - enter |
| Maryland | Vermont
Thomas Davenport - enter John Deere - enter Elisha Graves Otis - enter |
| Massachusetts
Alfred Ely Beach - enter Forrest M. Bird - enter Harold Stephen Black - enter Rachel Fuller Brown - enter William D. Coolidge - enter Elias Howe - enter Samuel F. B. Morse - enter Jacob Perkins - enter Robert H. Rines - enter Max Tishler - enter Eli Whitney - enter |
Virginia
Cyrus Hall McCormick - enter |
| Michigan
Henry Ford - enter William R. Hewlett - enter Donald B. Keck - enter John T. Parsons - enter John C. Sheehan - enter |
Washington
Chester F. Carlson - enter |
| Minnesota
Edward Lowe - enter Alexander Miles - enter Ralph Samuelson - enter Patsy Sherman - enter |
West Virginia |
| Mississippi
Elizabeth Lee Hazen - enter |
Wisconsin
John Bardeen - enter Les Paul - enter |
| Missouri
George Washington Carver - enter Charles Stark Draper - enter James Fergason - enter Jack S. Kilby - enter William Lear - enter Robert D. Maurer - enter |
Wyoming |
The American inventors listed on this page were born in the state they are placed under.
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