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Famous Inventors : A to Z

Research the history of famous inventors - past and present.

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Aviation Inventor - Samuel Langley

Aviation Inventor - Samuel Langley

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Hedy Lamarr

Famous movie star and inventor.

John W Lambert

America's first gasoline-powered automobile was the 1891 Lambert car.

Edwin Herbert Land

The history of polaroid photography.

Samuel Pierpont Langley

Aviation innovator.

Irving Langmuir

Invented the incandescent electric lamp and the high-vacuum electron tube.

Lewis Howard Latimer

Invented the water closet for railroad cars, an electric lamp with an inexpensive carbon filament and a threaded wooden socket for light bulbs.

Imants Lauks

Canadian, Imants Lauks invented the silicon chip blood analyzer in 1986.

Ernest Orlando Lawrence

Invented the cyclotron, a device that greatly increased the speed with which projectiles could be hurled at atomic nuclei.

William P Lear

Invented the eight track tape. The history of car radios.

Hugh Le Caine

Music synthesizer invented by Hugh Le Caine in 1945.

Robert S Ledley

Received a patent for diagnostic X-Ray scanner or Cat-Scan.

Joseph Lee

Patented two machines for the food service industry.

Antony Van Leeuwenhoek

Invented the first practical microscope.

Jerome Lemelson

One of the most prolific American of all history and received countless patents.

Dr. Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

Lilienfeld received a patent for a method of cryogenic separation of gases in 1915. He received patents for X-Ray tube technology, point junction transistors, and numerous other inventions.

James Bowman Lindsay

He made early progress on several innovations which were not fully developed until long after his death, including the electric light bulb, wireless telegraphy, and arc-welding. The history of welding.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln had a strong interest in new technology and was the only United States President to hold a patent

Ed Link

Father of flight simulation who received a patent on a device he called the "Pilot Maker".

Pierre Lorillard

Invented the tuxedo.

John Lee Love

Love's invention was the very simple and portable pencil sharpener that many artists use today.

Ada Lovelace

Wrote a scientific paper in 1843 that anticipated the development of computer software artificial intelligence and computer music.

Edward Lowe

Made the trademark name "Kitty Litter" a part of the American vocabulary.

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