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Famous Inventors : A to Z

Research the history of great inventors - past and present.

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Dean Kamen

Dean Kamen invented a portable medication technology.

Nathan Kane

Invented an improved bellows, a modular hydrostatic bearing for machine tools, an opaque overhead projector for children to view artwork and even a TV remote control embedded in a Nerf-like football.

John Kay

Invented the flying shuttle.

Donald Keck

Known for his fiber-optic communications inventions, Donald Keck co-invented fiber-optic wire.

Anna Keichline

Architect, Anna Keichline created inventions for the home.

Lord Kelvin

Lord Kelvin invented the Kelvin Scale in 1848, the Kelvin Scale measures the ultimate extremes of hot and cold.

Johannes Kepler

Invented log books that he used as a tool for calculating planetary positions, eyeglasses for near and far sighted persons, the convex eyepiece, and the quintile and biquintile (astronomy) aspects.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Invented the first electrical ignition system for the car and the first practical engine-driven generator.

Mary Kies

The first women to receive a US patent on May 15, 1809.

Jack St Clair Kilby

Electrical engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit aka the microchip.

Gabriele Knecht

Patented the Forward Sleeve design for creating clothing.

Richard Knerr

Co-invented the modern hula hoop.

Phil Knight

Co-invented the modern athletic shoe or sneakers.

Margaret Knight

An employee in a paper bag factorywho invented a new machine part to make square bottoms for paper bags.

Willem Kolff

The inventor of the artificial kidney dialysis machine.

Roscoe Koontz

Designed a pinhole gamma ray camera and collimator and helped to design and fabricate automatic air and water sampling equipment and radiation activity measuring devices.

Ray Kurzweil

He invented the flatbed scanner, the Kurzweil reading machine, the Kurzweil 1000 OCR software, the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech-recognition software, and the Kurzweil 250 Music Synthesizer.

Stephanie Louise Kwolek

Invented para-aramid fibers (Kevlar), used in mooring ropes, fiber-optic cables, aircraft parts, canoes and bullet-resistant vests.

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