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Willem Kolff

Kidney Dialysis Machine

Willem Kolff, creator of the first kidney dialysis machine, was born on February 14, 1911 in Leyden, Holland.

Raymond Kurzweil

Kurzweil Reading Machine

Raymond Kurzweil is one of the world’s true pioneers in the field of human-computer interfacing.

Stephanie Kwolek

Kevlar®

Relying on experience and instinct, Stephanie Kwolek invented one of the modern world’s most readily recognized and wid

Rene Laennec

Stethoscope

French physician and inventor René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec sealed his place in history with a number of important cont

Hedy Lamarr

Military Communications System

Silver Screen actress Hedy Lamarr, born on November 9, 1914 in Vienna, enjoyed one of the more memorable careers

Edwin Land

Instant Photography

Have you ever used a Polaroid camera?

Robert Langer

Controlled Drug Delivery

Years after receiving a Gilbert Chemistry Set as a young boy, Robert S.

Chelsea Lanmon

The Pocket Diaper

Chelsea Lanmon’s inspiration for her first and most prominent invention was completely practical.  At the age of f

Lewis Latimer

Improvement to the carbon-filament used for light bulbs

Lewis H. Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on September 4, 1848. Along with Granville T.

Ernest Lawrence

The Cyclotron

After earning a BS from his home state's University of South Dakota (1922) and a PhD in Physics from Yale University (1

Florence Lawrence

Vehicle Turn Indicator & Full-Stop Signal

It wasn’t an engineer, an auto mechanic, or a scientist who came up with two of the most indispensable early automobile

Robert Ledley

Computer Tomography (CT) Scanner

Robert S. Ledley, inventor of the full-body Computer Tomography (CT) scanner, was born in 1926 in New York City.

Nicki Lehrer

“The Gripper”

Inventors often speak of a phenomenon that they call the “aha moment” – the moment an ingenious solution to a problem p

Gottfried Leibniz

Differential and Integral Calculus

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1646. His father died when he was just five years old.

Jerome Lemelson

Machine Vision Technology

Jerome H. Lemelson (1923-1997) was one of the most prolific American inventors of all time.

David Lennox

Furnace

David Lennox was born in Detroit, Michigan on April 15, 1855.