Tag: Prolific inventors

Prolific Inventors in Australia

Prolific inventors in Australia include David Warren (1925 – 2010), who invented and developed the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder (also known as FDR, CVR and “the black box”);...

Prolific Inventors in Israel

Prolific inventors in Israel include Abraham Lempel (1936 – 2023), one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms; Adi Shamir (1952), inventor of differential cryptanalysis and has made...

Prolific Inventors in Switzerland

Prolific inventors in Switzerland include George de Mestral (1907 – 1990), who is associated with the invention of the hook and loop fastener, which he named Velcro; Daniel Bovet (1907 –...

Prolific Inventors in the Netherlands

Prolific inventors in the Netherlands include Zacharias Janssen (1585 – 1632), who is associated with the invention of the optical telescope and/or the compound microscope; Christiaan Huygens...

Famous Female Inventors

Female inventors listed on patents have been historically rare. For example, in the US in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman; by 2002,...

Prolific Inventors in Italy

Prolific inventors in Italy include Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), famous for his works of art, he was also a prolific inventor who designed many machines and devices,...