creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things

patentee - the inventor to whom a patent is issued

Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell, Bell - United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

Bessemer, Sir Henry Bessemer - British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898)

Browning, John M. Browning, John Moses Browning - United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)

Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs - United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898)

Bushnell, David Bushnell, Father of the Submarine - American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824)

Cartwright, Edmund Cartwright - English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)

Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre - French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851)

De Forest, Lee De Forest, The Father of Radio - United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961)

Eastman, George Eastman - United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)

Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, Thomas Edison - United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)

Fulton, Robert Fulton - American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)

Gatling, Richard Jordan Gatling - United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903)

Gillette, King Camp Gilette - United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932)

Goldmark, Peter Carl Goldmark, Peter Goldmark - United States inventor (born in Hungary) who made the first TV broadcast in 1940 and invented the long-playing record in 1948 and pioneered video cassette recording (1906-1977)

Charles Goodyear, Goodyear - United States inventor of vulcanized rubber (1800-1860)

Hargreaves, James Hargreaves - English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778)

Hero of Alexandria, Heron, Hero - Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

Herman Hollerith, Hollerith - United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)

Elias Howe, Howe - United States inventor who built early sewing machines and won suits for patent infringement against other manufacturers (including Isaac M. Singer) (1819-1867)

Jacquard, Joseph M. Jacquard, Joseph Marie Jacquard - French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)

Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land, Land - United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)

Samuel Pierpoint Langley, Langley - United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906)

Mauser, P. P. von Mauser, Peter Paul Mauser, von Mauser - German arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914)

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, Maxim - English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)

Cyrus Hall McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, McCormick - United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884)

Mergenthaler, Ottmar Mergenthaler - United States inventor (born in Germany) of the Linotype machine (1854-1899)