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Hedy
Lamarr
Famous movie star and inventor.
John
W Lambert
America's first gasoline-powered
automobile was the 1891 Lambert car.
Edwin
Herbert Land
The history of polaroid photography.
Samuel
Pierpont Langley
Aviation innovator.
Irving
Langmuir
Invented the incandescent electric
lamp and the high-vacuum electron tube.
Lewis
Howard Latimer
Invented the water closet for railroad
cars, an electric lamp with an inexpensive carbon filament and a threaded
wooden socket for light bulbs.
Imants
Lauks
Canadian, Imants Lauks invented
the silicon chip blood analyzer in 1986.
Ernest
Orlando Lawrence
Invented the cyclotron, a device
that greatly increased the speed with which projectiles could be hurled
at atomic nuclei.
William
P Lear
Invented the eight track tape. The
history of car radios.
Hugh
Le Caine
Music synthesizer invented by Hugh Le Caine in 1945.
Robert
S Ledley
Received a patent for diagnostic
X-Ray scanner or Cat-Scan.
Joseph
Lee
Patented two machines for the food
service industry.
Antony
Van Leeuwenhoek
Invented the
first practical microscope.
Jerome
Lemelson
One of the most prolific American
of all history and received countless patents.
Dr.
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
Lilienfeld received a patent for
a method of cryogenic separation of gases in 1915. He received patents
for X-Ray tube technology, point junction transistors, and numerous other
inventions.
James
Bowman Lindsay
He made early
progress on several innovations which were not fully developed until long
after his death, including the electric light bulb, wireless telegraphy,
and arc-welding. The history of welding.
Ed
Link
Father of flight simulation who received a patent on a device he called
the "Pilot Maker".
Pierre
Lorillard
Invented the tuxedo.
John
Lee Love
Love's invention was the very simple
and portable pencil sharpener that many artists use today.
Ada
Lovelace
Wrote a scientific paper in 1843 that anticipated the development of
computer software artificial intelligence and computer music.
Edward
Lowe
Made the trademark name "Kitty Litter"
a part of the American vocabulary.
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