* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

The first automatic gate operators were later created in 1206 by the Arabic inventor, Al-Jazari.

Many other fictional languages and their associated conworlds are created privately by their inventor, known only to the inventor and perhaps a few friends.

Ralph H. Baer, inventor of television video games and the Magnavox Odyssey console, released in 1972, created the first video game joysticks in 1967.

A lifelong inventor, Lovelock has created and developed many scientific instruments, some of which were designed for NASA in its program of planetary exploration.

Roberto del Rosario, a prolific Filipino inventor, independently created a music system with accompaniment and a pre-recorded vocals that could be turned up or down on a separate track.

Meanwhile, Hercules Florence had already created a very similar process in 1832 in Brazil, naming it Photographie, and English inventor William Fox Talbot had earlier discovered another means to fix a silver process image but had kept it secret.

One very early experiment in electrical telegraphy was an electrochemical telegraph created by the German physician, anatomist and inventor Samuel Thomas von Sömmering in 1809, based on an earlier, less robust design of 1804 by Spanish-Catalan polymath and scientist Francisco Salva Campillo.

The earliest known zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD by the inventor Ting Huan ( 丁緩 ).

The Boehm system is a system of keywork for the flute, created by inventor and flautist Theobald Boehm between 1831 and 1847.

The most successful early outboard motor, was created by Norwegian-American inventor Ole Evinrude in 1909.

Although simple handheld roller gins have been used since at least 500 AD, the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793, and patented in 1794.

Borden County was created in 1876 from Bosque County and named for Gail Borden, Jr., the inventor of condensed milk.

Fulton County was created on April 19, 1850, from part of Bedford County and named for inventor Robert Fulton.

Fulton County was created in 1850 with land from Henry, Lucas, and Williams counties and is named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat.

William Moulton Marston ( May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947 ), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman.

The siege lasted for two long years, with the Roman effort being thwarted in part by the military machines created by the famous inventor Archimedes.

Telephone broadcasting began with the advent of Théâtrophone (" Theatre Phone ") systems, which were telephone-based distribution systems allowing subscribers to listen to live opera and theatre performances over telephone lines, created by French inventor Clément Ader in 1881.

Brentwood was created by Wallace A. Bartlett, a Civil War veteran, former foreman for the Government Printing Office, Patent Office examiner, and inventor originally from Warsaw, New York.

They used the Rohwedder Bread Slicer, a machine created by Iowa inventor, Otto Rohwedder.

Around 1820, the Japanese inventor Kunitomo Ikkansai developed various manufacturing methods for guns, and also created an air gun based on the study of Western knowledge (" rangaku ") acquired from the Dutch in Dejima.

Pemberton's French Wine Coca was a coca wine created by the druggist John Stith Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola.

Otto Frederick Rohwedder ( July 7, 1880 – November 8, 1960 ) was an American inventor and engineer who created the first automatic bread-slicing machine for commercial use.

He created an entire industry through his help to Heinrich Koppers, inventor of coke ovens which transformed industrial waste into usable products such as coal-gas, coal-tar, and sulfur.

The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K ( for Keys ) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well And Stay Well.

* Douglas Engelbart, as an internet pioneer, the inventor of the computer mouse, in human – computer interaction, committed, vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world ’ s increasingly urgent and complex problems

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

Although Doubleday achieved minor fame as a competent combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, he is more widely remembered as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

Strabo makes him the ( probably legendary ) inventor of the anchor with two flukes, and others made him the inventor of the potter's wheel.

Bruce Halpenny, a games inventor said when interviewed about his game, “ With crime you deal with every basic human emotion and also have enough elements to combine action with melodrama.

While the Browns ' on-field play in 1956 was uninspiring, off-the-field drama developed after a Cleveland-based inventor named George Sarles let Brown test a helmet with a radio transmitter inside.

He surrounded Donald Duck and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie with a cast of eccentric and colorful characters, such as the aforementioned Scrooge McDuck, the wealthiest duck in the world ; Gladstone Gander, Donald's obscenely lucky cousin ; inventor Gyro Gearloose ; the persistent Beagle Boys ; the sorceress Magica De Spell ; Scrooge's rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck ; Daisy's nieces April, May and June ; Donald's neighbor Jones, and The Junior Woodchucks organization.

One critic, the poet Armand Silvestre, credited Pissarro with being “ basically the inventor of this painting ”.

may be inclined to assign to the nameless inventor of the principle of limited liability, as applied to trading corporations, a place of honour with Watt and Stephenson, and other pioneers of the Industrial Revolution.

In 1906, while working at the National Cash Register company, inventor Charles F. Kettering designed a cash register with an electric motor.

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

Neither inventor was satisfied with this judgment, which was eventually rescinded with Mimault being ordered to pay all legal costs.

American chemist and inventor James Bert Garner is credited by American sources with the invention of the gas mask in April 1915.

The word Gram is always spelled with a capital, referring to Hans Christian Gram, the inventor of Gram staining.

The method is named after its inventor, the Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram ( 1850 – 1938 ), who developed the technique while working with Carl Friedländer in the morgue of the city hospital in Berlin.

Hayling Island was also the birthplace and home of actress Stephanie Lawrence who starred in many West End musical shows, she was for many years close friends with Windsurfing inventor Peter Chilvers also from Hayling.

Major success came in 1901 with the invention of the spiral hairpin by New Zealand inventor Ernest Godward.

Despite a friendship with Albert Spalding, Chadwick was scornful of the attempts to have Abner Doubleday declared the inventor of baseball.

Esperanto's inventor, L. L. Zamenhof, had suggested in an 1894 proposition for a Reformed Esperanto several changes that Ido adopted: eliminating the accented letters and the accusative case, changing the plural to an Italianesque-i, and replacing the table of correlatives with more Latinate words.

( November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929 ) was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile, and together with Bertha Benz pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz.