This is a List of inventors (in alphabetic order by surname):
- Charles Babbage, (1791-1871) -- Analytical engine
- Leo Baekeland (1863) - (1944) -- plastic
- John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), television
- John Bardeen, (1908-1991) -- co-inventor of the transistor
- Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922) -- telephone
- Karl Benz -- automobile
- Emile Berliner, (1851-1929) -- gramophone
- Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898) -- Bessemer process
- Tim Berners-Lee -- World Wide Web
- Walter Houser Brattain, (born 1902), co-inventor of the transistor
- Louis Braille, (1809-1852)
- Edwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846) -- lawnmower[?] and adjustable spanner
- Robert Bunsen, (1811-1899), chemist
- Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971) -- vacuum tube television display
- James Fergason[?] -- liquid crystal display
- Reginald Fessenden -- two-way radio
- John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), vacuum diode
- Henry Ford, (1863-1947) -- modern assembly line
- Samuel Fox[?] -- steel ribbed umbrella
- Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) -- lightning rod, bifocals
- William Friese-Greene, (1855-1921) -- cinematography
- Buckminster Fuller, (1895-1983) -- geodesic domes, others
- Robert Fulton, (1765-1815) -- steamboat
- Alberto Santos-Dumont, (1873-1932) -- non-rigid airship and airplane
- Adolphe Sax, (1814-1894) -- saxophone
- Claude E. Shannon, (1916-2001) -- information theory
- William Bradford Shockley, co-inventor of transistor
- Werner von Siemens, (1816-1892)
- Percy Shaw[?] -- cat's eyes
- William Bradford Shockley -- co-inventor of the transistor
- Henry Miller Shreve, (1785-1854) -- sidewheeler[?], snagboat[?], various other steamboat and steam engine improvements
- Lucien B. Smith[?] -- barbed wire
- George Stephenson, (1781-1848), civil engineer, inventor
- Levi Strauss[?]
- John Stringfellow[?] -- airplane
- Joseph Swan, (1828-1914), inventor, physicist