Inventor Archive

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

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

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

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

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

Have you ever used a Polaroid camera?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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