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page 1American inventors

Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Robert Fulton
American engineer and inventor (1765–1815)
Igor Sikorsky
American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire (1889–1972)
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
James Naismith
Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball
Roderick MacKinnon
American neuroscientist
George Westinghouse
American inventor and businessman (1846–1914)

Robert Moog
American electronic music pioneer and inventor (1934-2005)
Mihajlo Pupin
Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist (1858–1935)

William G. Morgan
inventor of volleyball

King Camp Gillette
American entrepreneur (1855–1932)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Prussian-American mathematician, electrical engineer (1865–1923)
Ray Dolby
American engineer and inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system (1933-2013)

Loïe Fuller
American dancer (1862–1928)

Rudolf E. Kálmán
Hungarian-born American electrical engineer

Elizabeth Magie
American board game designer (1866–1948)
Elihu Thomson
American inventor (1853–1937)
Robert Jarvik
American inventor, creator of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart
Paul Winchell
American actor (1922–2005)
Dean Kamen
American businessman
Murray Leinster
novelist, short story writer (1896–1975)
Alexander Lodygin
Russian noble (1847-1923)
Ed Roberts
American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor (1941–2010)
John Wesley Hyatt
American inventor of plastic (1837-1920)
Caleb Bradham
American pharmacist, inventor of Pepsi-Cola

An Wang
American businessman (1920–1990)
Eugene Polley
Engineer, inventor of remote control, 1915-2012
William Gillette
American actor, inventor and writer (1853-1937)
David Rittenhouse
American astronomer (*1732 – †1796)
Norman Joseph Woodland
inventor of the barcode (1921–2012)
George Washington
American inventor and businessman of Anglo-Belgian origin (1871–1946)
Jacob W. Davis
American tailor (1831–1908)
Mary Engle Pennington
American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer (1872-1952)
Valerie Thomas
American scientist and inventor
Frank J. Sprague
American naval officer and railroad pioneer (1857-1934)

Michael Bell
American actor
Ching Wan Tang
Hong Kong-American chemist
Herbert Henry Dow
Canadian American chemical industrialist (1866–1930)
Joy Mangano
American inventor
Carl Akeley
American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, nature photographer (1864–1926)
Charles Sumner Tainter
American inventor and businessman (1854–1940)
Allene Jeanes
American chemical researcher (1906–1995)
Isaac Newton Lewis
American soldier and inventor of the Lewis gun (1858–1931)
Peter Cooper Hewitt
(1861-1921) American electrical engineer who invented the first mercury-vapor lamp
National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc.
American nonprofit organization, founded in 1973
G. W. Pierce
American physicist (1872–1956)
William John McGee
American geologist & anthropologist (1853-1912)
Schuyler Wheeler
American inventor of the two-blade electric fan
LaMarcus Adna Thompson
American businessman (1848–1919)

Francis Robbins Upton
American physicist (1852–1921)
Alan Gelfand
American skateboarder
Phil Robertson
American professional hunter, businessman and reality television personality
Theophilus Van Kannel
American engineer (1841–1919)
Charles Edward Taylor
American airplane mechanic (1868-1956)
Edwin J. Houston
American businessman (1847-1914)
Phineas Quimby
American writer (1802–1866)
Anne Klein
American fashion designer (1923–1974)

Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
American chemist and inventor (1832–1913)

Charles Kaman
American businessman, engineer and inventor (1919–2011)

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard
American radio pioneer (1877–1956)