inventions & inventors !

John Blenkinsop (1783–1831), UK – Blenkinsop rack railway system

Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985), Austro-Hungary/Australia – Blissymbols

Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979), U.S. – nonreflective glass

Alan Blumlein (1903–1942), UK – stereo

David Boggs (1950–2022), U.S. – Ethernet

Nils Bohlin (1920–2002), Sweden – the three-point seat belt

Sarah Boone (1832–1908), U.S. – improved ironing board design

Charlie Booth (1903–2008), Australia – Starting blocks

Sam Born (1891–1959), Russia/U.S. – lollipop-making machine

Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858–1937), India – Crescograph

Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (1820–1894), UK – aileron

Seth Boyden (1788–1870), U.S. – nail-making machine

Herbert Boyer (born 1936), together with Paul Berg (1926–), and Stanley Norman Cohen (1935–), U.S. – created first Genetically modified organism

Willard Boyle (1924–2011) together with George E. Smith (born 1930), U.S. – Charge-coupled device (CCD)

Hugh Bradner (1915–2008), U.S. – Wetsuit

Louis Braille (1809–1852), France – Braille writing system, Braille musical notation

Archie Brain (born 1942), UK - Laryngeal mask

Jacques E. Brandenberger (1872–1954), Switzerland – Cellophane

Édouard Branly (1844–1940), France – Coherer

Charles F. Brannock (1903–1992), U.S. – Brannock Device (shoe size)

Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987), U.S.– co-inventor of the transistor

Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), Germany – cathode-ray tube oscilloscope

Stanislav Brebera (1925–2012), Czech Republic – Semtex explosive

David Brewster (1781–1868), UK – Kaleidoscope

Charles B. Brooks (1865–?), U.S. - first self-propelled street sweeping truck

Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980), U.S. – Nystatin, the world's first antifungal antibiotic

William C. Brown (1916–1999), U.S. – Crossed-field amplifier

Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922–1999), U.S. – home security system

Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn (1853–1927), Germany – Taximeter

Nikolay Brusentsov (1925–2014), USSR, Russia – ternary computer (Setun)

Dudley Allen Buck (1927–1959), U.S. – Cryotron, content-addressable memory

Edwin Beard Budding (1795–1846), UK – lawnmower

Gersh Budker (1918–1977), Russia – electron cooling, co-inventor of collider

Edward Bull (1759–1798), England – Bull engine (a modified steam engine)

Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), Germany – Bunsen burner

Henry Burden (1791–1871), Scotland and U.S. – Horseshoe machine, first usable iron railroad spike

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