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Inventor | Invention | Year | Patent No. |
A |
Affel Herman Espenschied Lloyd | Coaxial Cable | 1929 | US1,835,031 |
Alexanderson Ernst | Radio Frequency (RF) Generator | 1909 | US1,008,577 |
Alford Andrew | Instrument Landing System (ILS) | 1951 | US2,682,050 |
Alfvén Hannes | Magnetohydrodynamics | 1970 |   |
Ampère André-Marie | Ampère's Law | 1820 |   |
Armstrong Edwin Howard | FM Radio | 1933 | US1,342,885 |
Armstrong Edwin Howard | Superheterodyne Receiver (Superhet) | 1918 | US1,342,885 |
Armstrong Edwin Howard | Regenerative Circuit | 1914 | US1,113,149 |
Armstrong Edwin Howard | Armstrong Oscillator (Tickler Oscillator) | 1914 | US1,113,149 |
Atalla John | MOSFET - Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor | 1960 |   |
B |
Babbage Charles | Computer (Analytical Engine) | 1837 |   |
Babbage Charles      Almon Strowger      Nikola Tesla | Logic Gate | 1837 1891 1898 | US447,918 US613,809 |
Bacon Francis Thomas | Fuel Cell | 1932 | GB667,298 |
Bain Alexander      James C Bryan | Earth Battery | 1841 1875 | US160,152 |
Bain Alexander | Fax Machine / Facsimile | 1842 |   |
Baird John Logie      Vladimir Kosma Zworykin      Philo Taylor Farnsworth | Television | 1924 1923 1927 | US2,141,059 US1,773,980 |
Bardeen John &      William Shockley &      Walter Brattain | Transistor (Bipolar Junction Transistor - BJT) | 1947 | US2,524,035 US2,569,347 |
Becquerel Alexandre Edmond | Photoelectric Effect | 1839 |   |
Bednorz Johannes      Karl Müller | High-Temperature Superconductivity | 1986 |   |
Begun Semi Joseph | Tape Recorder (magnetic) | 1934 | US2,048,487 US2,048,488 |
Bell Alexander Graham | Telephone | 1876 | US174,465 |
Berliner Emile | Microphone | 1877 | US224,573 |
Berliner Emile | Gramophone | 1887 | US372,786 |
Beverage Harold | Beverage Antenna | 1921 |   |
Biot Jean Baptiste      Felix Savart | Biot-Savart Law | 1820 |   |
Bosch Robert | Magneto Ignition | 1898 |   |
Bosch Robert      Nikola Tesla      Richard Simms | Spark Plug | 1898 1898 1898 | GB26907 US609,250 GB24859 |
Brattain Walter &      John Bardeen &      William Shockley | Transistor (Bipolar Junction Transistor - BJT) | 1947 | US2,524,035 US2,569,347 |
Braun Karl Ferdinand | Cathode Ray Tube (CTR) | 1897 |   |
Brugnatelli Luigi V. | Electroplating | 1805 |   |
C |
China, Ancient | Compass | 350 AD |   |
Christie Samuel Hunter      Sir Charles Wheatstone | Wheatstone Bridge | 1833 1843 |   |
Chrysler Corporation | Electronic Ignition | 1970 |   |
Claude Georges | Neon Lamp | 1910 | US1,125,476 |
Colpitts Edwin H. | Push-Pull Amplifier | 1912 |   |
Conrad Frank      Arthur Atwater Kent | Distributor | 1917 1920 | US1,219,704 US1,474,970 |
Cooper Martin | Cell Phone | 1973 | US3,906,166 |
Coulomb Charles-Augustin de | Coulomb's Law | 1787 |   |
Coulomb Charles-Augustin de      John Michell | Torsion Balance | 1777 1750 |   |
Crookes William | Crookes Tube | c1875 |   |
Curie Pierre | Curie's Law | 1895 |   |
Curie Pierre | Ferromagnetism | 1895 |   |
Curie Pierre | Paramagnetism | 1895 |   |
Curie Pierre      Jacques Curie | Piezoelectricity | 1880 |   |
D |
Daniell John Frederic | Daniell (Daniel) Cell | 1836 |   |
Darlington Sidney (Bell Laboratories) | Darlington Pair | 1953 | US2,663,806 |
d'Arsonval Jacques      Paul Marie Oudin | Oudin Coil | 1898 1898 |   |
Davenport Thomas | Electric Car | 1833 | US132 |
Davy Humphry | Davy Lamp | 1915 |   |
Department of Defense (DOD) | Global Positioning System (GPS) | 1960s |   |
E |
Edison Thomas Alva | Fuse Block | 1885 | US438,305 |
Edison Thomas Alva | Incandescent Light Bulb | 1879 | US223,898 |
Edison Thomas Alva | Phonograph | 1877 | US200,521 |
Edison Thomas Alva | Electric Distribution System | 1882 | US266,793 |
Edison Thomas Alva      David Edward Hughes | Carbon Microphone | 1877 1878 |   |
Edison Thomas Alva | Nickel-Iron (Ni-I) Battery | 1901 |   |
Einstein Albert | Special Relativity for Beginners Special Relativity | 1905 |   |
Esaki Leo (Sony) | Tunnel Diode (Esaki) | 1958 | US4,198,644 |
Ewing James Alfred      Charles Proteus Steinmetz
| Hysteresis | 1890 1891 |   |
F |
Faraday Michael | Diamagnetism | 1845 |   |
Faraday Michael | Electric Motor | 1821 |   |
Faraday Michael      Hippolyte Pixii | Electrical Generator (Dynamo) | 1832 1832 |   |
Faraday Michael | Electrolysis | 1832 |   |
Faraday Michael | Electromagnetic Induction (Faraday's Law) | 1831 |   |
Faraday Michael | Faraday Cage | 1836 |   |
Faraday Michael | Faraday Effect | 1845 |   |
Faraday Michael | Inductor (Induction Coil) | 1831 |   |
Farnsworth Philo Taylor      Robert Hirsch | Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor | 1966 1970 | US3,258,402 US3,530,036 |
Farnsworth Philo Taylor      Vladimir Kosma Zworykin      John Logie Baird | Television | 1927 1923 1924 | US1,773,980 US2,141,059 |
Fergason James | Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) | 1970 | US3,731,986 |
Fessenden Reginald | Fessenden Submarine Oscillator | 1914 |   |
Fessenden Reginald | Heterodyne Principle | 1906 |   |
Fleming John Ambrose | Diode | 1904 | US803,684 GB24,805 |
Forest Lee De | Vacuum Tube (Audion, Triode) | 1906 | US879,532 |
Franklin Benjamin | Lightning Rod | 1752 |   |
Frohman Dov | EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) | 1971 |   |
G |
Galilei Galileo      Evangelista Torricelli      Blaise Pascal | Vacuum | 1594 1643 1647 |   |
Galvani Luigi | Bioelectricity / Bioelectrogenesis | 1780s |   |
Galvani Luigi | Galvanic Cell | 1780 |   |
Galvin Paul      William Powell Lear | Car Radio | 1929 1930 | US1,944,139 |
Gauss Johann Carl Friedrich | Gauss's Law | 1867 |   |
Geiger Hans (Johannes Wilhelm) & Walther Müller (Mueller) | Geiger Counter Tube | 1908 |   |
Geissler Heinrich | Geissler Tube | 1857 |   |
General Electric (GE) | Compactron | 1961 |   |
General Electric (GE) | Silicon-Controlled Rectifier (SCR) | 1958 |   |
General Electric (GE) | Triac (TRIode for Alternating Current) | 1960s |   |
Germer Edmund &      Friedrich Meyer &      Hans J. Spanner | Fluorescent Lamp | 1926 | US2,182,732 |
Goldmark Peter      Alfred Schroeder | Color Television | 1940 1947 |   |
Graaff Robert Jemison Van de | Van de Graaf Generator | 1929 | US1,991,236 |
Greece, Ancient | Magnet (Lodestones) | 600 BC |   |
Gross Al | Citizens' Band Radio (CB) | 1948 |   |
Gross Al | Pager | 1949 |   |
Gross Al      Henryk Magnuski | Walkie Talkie | 1938 1940 |   |
H |
Hall Edwin | Hall Effect | 1879 |   |
Hansen William &      Russell Varian &      Sigurd Varian | Klystron Tube | 1937 1937 1937 |   |
Hashimoto Kazuo | Digital TAD (Telephone Answering Device) | 1984 | US4,616,110 |
Henry Joseph | Relay | 1835 |   |
Hewlett William R. | Variable Frequency Oscillation Generator | 1942 | US2,268,872 |
Hirsch Robert      Philo Taylor Farnsworth | Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor | 1970 1966 | US3,530,036 US3,258,402 |
Hornbeck Larry      William E. Nelson | Digital Light Processing (DLP) | 1987 | US4,710,732 US4,662,746 |
Hornbeck Larry      William E. Nelson | Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) | 1987 |   |
Huelsmeyer Christian | Radar (RAdio Detection and Ranging) | 1904 | US810,150 |
Hughes David Edward      Thomas Edison | Carbon Microphone | 1878 1877 |   |
I |
Intel | CPU (Central Processing Unit) - PC (8080) | 1974 |   |
J |
Jacobi Moritz von | Maximum Power Theorem | 1839 |   |
Joule James Prescott | Magnetostriction | 1842 |   |
Joule James Prescott | Joule's Law | 1840 |   |
K |
Kent Arthur Atwater      Frank Conrad | Distributor | 1917 1920 | US1,219,704 US1,474,970 |
Kettering Charles | Ignition System | 1911 | US1,150,523 |
Kilby Jack      Robert Noyce | Integrated Circuit (Microchip) | 1961 1961 | US3,138,743 US2,981,877 |
Kirchhoff Gustav | Kirchhoff's Laws | 1845 |   |
Kleist Ewald Georg von | Capacitor | 1745 |   |
Koch Richard C. (Industrial Development Engineering Associates) | Transistor Radio | 1955 | US2,892,931 |
Kodak | Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) | 1980 | US4,356,429 |
L |
Langevin Paul | Crystal Oscillator | 1917 | FR505,703 |
Lavoisier Antoine | Silicon | 1787 |   |
Lear William Powell      Paul Galvin | Car Radio | 1930 1929 | US1,944,139 |
Lenz Heinrich Friedrich Emil | Lenz's Law | 1834 |   |
Lilienfeld Julius Edgar | Electrolytic Capacitor | 1928 | US2,013,564 |
Lilienfeld Julius Edgar | FET - Field Effect Transistor | 1928 | US1,745,175 |
Lodge Oliver Joseph      Ernst Siemens | Loudspeaker | 1898 1877 | GB4685 Ger2355 GB9712 |
Lodge Oliver Joseph | Monopole Antenna | 1898 |   |
Lodge Oliver Joseph | Biconical Antenna | 1898 | US609,154 |
Lorentz Hendrik Antoon | Lorentz Force Law |   |   |
M |
Magnuski Henryk      Al Gross | Walkie Talkie | 1940 1938 |   |
Marconi Guglielmo | Radio | 1901 | GB12039 GB7777 US763,772 |
Maxwell James Clerk | Conservation of Electric Charge | 1865 |   |
Maxwell James Clerk | Displacement Current | 1865 |   |
Maxwell James Clerk | Electromagnetism | 1865 |   |
Maxwell James Clerk | Maxwell's Equations | 1865 |   |
Maxwell James Clerk | Radio Waves (RF) | 1865 |   |
Mead Carver | Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI) | 1969 |   |
Meissner Walter      Robert Ochsenfeld | Meissner Effect | 1933 |   |
Michell John      Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | Torsion Balance | 1750 1777 |   |
Millikan Robert | Electron Charge (Oil-Drop Experiment) | 1909 |   |
Morse Samuel | Telegraph | 1838 | US1,647 |
Morse Samuel | Morse Code | 1840 | US1,647 |
Müller Karl      Johannes Bednorz | High-Temperature Superconductivity | 1986 |   |
Müller Willy | Answering Machine | 1935 | US2,816,167 |
Musschenbroek Pieter van | Leyden Jar | 1746 |   |
N |
NASA | Digital Camera | 1960s |   |
Nelson William E.      Larry Hornbeck | Digital Light Processing (DLP) | 1987 | US4,710,732 US4,662,746 |
Nelson William E.      Larry Hornbeck | Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) | 1987 |   |
Noyce Robert      Jack Kilby | Integrated Circuit (Microchip) | 1961 1961 | US3,138,743 US2,981,877 |
O |
Oersted (Ørsted) Hans Christian | Electromagnetic / Magnetic Field | 1820 |   |
Oersted (Ørsted) Hans Christian | Sturgeon's Galvanometer | 1820 |   |
Ohl Russell S. | Solar Cell (Silicon) | 1941 | US2,402,662 |
Ohl Russell S. | Semiconductor | 1940 |   |
Ohm Georg Simon | Ohm's Law | 1827 |   |
Onnes Heike Kamerlingh | Superconductivity | 1911 |   |
Ott John | Full Spectrum Lighting | 1950s | US4,091,441 |
Oudin Paul Marie      Jacques d'Arsonval | Oudin Coil | 1898 1898 |   |
P |
Pascal Blaise      Galileo Galilei      Evangelista Torricelli | Vacuum | 1647 1594 1643 |   |
Peltier Jean      Thomas Johann Seebeck | Thermoelectricity | 1834 1821 |   |
Philips | Cassette Tape | 1962 |   |
Philips, Sony, Toshiba, Time-Warner, Matsushita Electric, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Thomson, JVC, IBM | DVD (Digital Video Disc) | 1995 |   |
Pickard Greenleaf Whittier | Crystal Radio Receiver | 1900 | US836,531 |
Plücker Julius | Cathode Rays | 1859 |   |
Porsche Ferdinand | Hybrid Vehicle | 1899 |   |
Poulsen Valdemar | Telegraphone | 1898 | US661,619 |
R |
RCA / Sony | Walkman | 1979 |   |
Reber Grote | Radio Telescope | 1937 |   |
Roengten Wilhelm | X-ray Tube | 1895 |   |
Ruben Samuel | Thermistor | 1930 | US2,021,49 |
Russell James T. | Compact Disc (CD) | 1965 |   |
S |
Savart Felix      Jean Baptiste Biot | Biot-Savart Law | 1820 |   |
Schmitt Otto Herbert | Differential Amplifier | 1937 | Never Patented |
Schottky Walter H. | Schottky Diode | 1938 |   |
Schroeder Alfred      Peter Goldmark | Color Television | 1940 1947 |   |
Schweigger Johann S. | Galvanometer | 1822 |   |
Seebeck Thomas Johann      Jean Peltier | Thermoelectricity | 1821 1834 |   |
Shereshaw Ben      Ray Arden | Glow Plug | 1946 |   |
Shockley William      G. C. Dacey & I. M. Ross | JFET - Junction Field-Effect Transistor | 1952 1953 |   |
Shockley William &      John Bardeen &      Walter Brattain | Transistor (Bipolar Junction Transistor - BJT) | 1947 | US2,524,035 US2,569,347 |
Siemens Ernst      Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge | Loudspeaker | 1877 1898 | GB4685 Ger2355 GB9712 |
Simms Richard      Nikola Tesla      Robert Bosch | Spark Plug | 1898 1898 1898 | GB24859 US609,250 GB26907 |
Soljačić Marin | WiTricity | 2007 |   |
Sony | Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) | 1971 |   |
Spencer Percy LaBaron | Microwave Oven | 1945 | US2,495,429 |
Staite William Edwards | Arc Lamp | 1834 |   |
Stanley William | Transformer | 1886 | US349,611 |
Steinmetz Charles Proteus | Alternating Current Calculations | 1897 |   |
Steinmetz Charles Proteus      James Alfred Ewing | Hysteresis | 1891 1890 |   |
Strowger Almon      Charles Babbage      Nikola Tesla | Logic Gate | 1891 1837 1898 | US447,918
US613,809 |
Strowger Almon | Telephone Switching System (Telephone Exchange) | 1889 | US447,918 |
Sturgeon William | Electromagnet | 1825 |   |
T |
Tesla Nikola | Ignition Coil | 1898 | US609,250 |
Tesla Nikola      Richard Simms      Robert Bosch | Spark Plug | 1898 1898 1898 | US609,250 GB24859 GB26907 |
Tesla Nikola | Tesla Coil | 1891 | US454,622 US514,168 |
Tesla Nikola | Carbon Button Lamp | 1886 | US335,786 |
Tesla Nikola | Alternator | 1891 | US447,921 |
Tesla Nikola | Mechanical Oscillator | 1894 | US514,169 |
Tesla Nikola      Charles Babbage      Almon Strowger | Logic Gate | 1898 1837 1891 | US613,809
US447,918 |
Nikola Tesla Zenith Robert Adler | Remote Control | 1898 1950 1956 | US613,809
US2,817,025 |
Thales of Miletus | Electric Charge | 600 BC |   |
Thales of Miletus | Electric Field | 600 BC |   |
Thales of Miletus | Triboelectric Effect | 600 BC |   |
Theophrastus | Pyroelectricity | 314 BC |   |
Thomson Joseph John (J.J.) | Electron | 1897 |   |
Thompson William (Lord Kelvin) | Current Balance | 1894 | GB15,034 |
Thompson William (Lord Kelvin) | Mirror Galvanometer (Reflecting Galvanometer) | 1858 | GB329 |
Thompson William (Lord Kelvin) | Quadrant Electrometer | 1853 |   |
Thomson William (Lord Kelvin) | Strain Gauge | 1856 |   |
Torricelli Evangelista      Galileo Galilei      Blaise Pascal | Vacuum | 1643 1594 1647 |   |
U |
Uda Shintaro | Yagi-Uda Antenna | 1926 |   |
V |
Varian Russell &      Sigurd Varian &      William Hansen | Klystron Tube | 1937 1937 1937 |   |
Varian Sigurd &      Russell Varian &      William Hansen | Klystron Tube | 1937 1937 1937 |   |
Volta Alessandro | Battery (Voltaic Pile) | 1800 |   |
Volta Alessandro | Electrophorus | 1775 |   |
W |
Wanlass Frank (Fairchild Semiconductor) | CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) | 1963 | US3,356,858 |
Wheatstone Sir Charles | Potentiometer (Rheostat) | 1840 |   |
Wheatstone Sir Charles      Samuel Hunter Christie | Wheatstone Bridge | 1843 1833 |   |
Z |
Zener Clarence Melvin | Zener Diode | 1915 |   |
Zenith | Remote Control (TV) | 1950 |   |
Zuse Konrad | CPU (Central Processing Unit) - Relay | 1941 |   |
Zworykin Vladimir Kosma      John Logie Baird      Philo Taylor Farnsworth | Television | 1923 1924 1927 | US2,141,059
US1,773,980 |
Zworykin Vladimir Kosma | Kinescope | 1929 |   |
Zworykin Vladimir Kosma | Iconoscope | 1923 | US2,141,059 |
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