Inventors and their inventions biography

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This is a list of notable inventors.

Alphabetical list

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• Vitaly Abalakov (1906–1986), Russia – camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread), gearless ice climbing anchor
• Ernst Karl Abbe (1840–1905), Germany – Condenser (microscope), apochromatic lens, refractometer
• Hovannes Adamian (1879–1932), USSR/Russia/Armenia – tricolor principle of the color television
• Samuel W.

  Alderson (1914–2005), U.S. – crash test dummy

• Alexandre Alexeieff (1901–1982), Russia/France – Pinscreen animation (with his wife Claire Parker)
• Rostislav Alexeyev (1916–1980), Russia/USSR – Ekranoplan
• Randi Altschul (born 1960), U.S.

  – Disposable cellphone

• Abram Alikhanov (1904–1970), Armenia/USSR – Soviet atomic bomb, nuclear reactor
• Bruce Ames (born 1928), U.S. – Ames test (Cell biology)
• Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), Italy – Dipleidoscope, Amici prism
• Ruth Amos (born 1989), UK – StairSteady
• Mary Anderson (1866–1953), U.S.

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