Does anyone know an inventor besides thomas edison ,louie patseur,da vinci and the wright brothers?
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alexander graham bell- invented telephone
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Thomas Edison invented MANY things in his life:\n\n1. Incandescent lamp (aka the light bulb)\n2. Invented the microphone inside of telephones\n3. The locomotive train was a biggie.
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Leo Baekeland\nSetting out to make an insulator, he invented the first true plastic and transformed the world\n1907
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Designer, inventor and innovator Nikola Tesla.
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The identity of the inventor of the electric telephone remains in dispute. Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, and Alexander Graham Bell, amongst others, have all been credited with the invention.
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There are new inventions / discoveries practically every day.  The best catalog of them I've seen used to be the McGraw Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology.  But the IEEE and ACM both have great tech newsletters talking about new discoveries and inventions.\n\nIf you're tlaking about non-tech stuff, you only need look as far as the discovery of new islands just off Togo... a couple of weeks ago, a yachter discovered "pumice rafts" drifting in the ocean from an underwater volcano, and within a week an island had formed.\n\nFor a start, check out the Science News section of Yahoo.
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Michael Faraday (1791-1867) \nBritish physicist and chemist, best known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis. His biggest breakthrough in electricity was his invention of the electric motor.\nOh check out link on Peter Barlow too!
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Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor. Today, Bell is still widely considered to be the foremost inventor of the telephone, although this matter has become controversial, with a number of people claiming that Antonio Meucci was the "real" inventor (in June 2002, the United States House of Representatives passed a symbolic bill officially recognizing Meucci for his contributions to the invention of the telephone).\n\nMore at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell\n\nor\n\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone2.htm\n\nor\n\nhttp://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/11.html
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1.Inventors:  McEvoy; Paul (San Marcos, CA)  \n\n2. Inventors:  Beard; Daniel John (Southampton, Hampshire, GB)  \n\n3. More results.
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Thomas Edison bought a concrete factory, and tried to get people to buy cement houses. What a flop that was. Look at these sites:\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledisonfailures.htm\nhttp://flyingmoose.org/truthfic/edison.htm\nhttp://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/event.php?taid=&id=3456959&lid=1\nhttp://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/pdf/201_edison.pdf#search='Thomas%20Edison%20concrete%20houses'\nhttp://www.wrhs.net/webdesignprojects_spring2004/sjc_final_project2/failed_inventions.htm
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OK, let's all recognize the following Filipino inventors:\nRoberto Del Rosario is the inventor of the Karaoke Sing Along System.\nDaniel Dingel claims to have invented a water-powered car.\nFilipino scientist, Pedro Escuro is best known for his isolation of nine rice varieties.\nAgapito Flores has been acclaimed by some as being the inventor of the first fluorescent lamp.\nPedro Flores was the first person to manufactured the yo-yo in the United States.\nFelix Maramba built a coconut oil-fueled power generator.\nI'm not sure how useful a coconut oil-fueled power generator is is in the Scandinavian countries or in Russia, where coconuts are scarce. :-)
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Here you are:\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/france.shtml\nhttp://inventors.about.com/od/frenchinventors/\nhttp://www.vency.com/inventions.html\nhttp://corporate.britannica.com/press/inventions.html\nhttp://www.teacheroz.com/inventors.htm
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Still Bill Gates\nhttp://www.forbes.com/2004/02/25/bill04land.html\n\nAnd, no, he didn't invent the computer.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wright_%28inventor%29
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This site has a timeline of everyday inventions; it covers more than the fifty years you want, but it is fairly short and there seems to be some other useful information on the site.\n\nhttp://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0768871.html
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You can go here :\n\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgum.htm
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tierrecarter, Bill Gates didn't invent the PC. IBM invented the PC, but got its OS from Microsoft (who didn't write it, they bought it from another firm, who didn't "invent" it either, as it was a clone of Digital Research's CP/M).\n\nSince Charles Babbage has already been mentioned, I'd like to drop a word in for Alan Turing, whose theroies are essential for modern computing, or Tommy Flowers, who used Turing's theories to produce Colossus, the first digital, programmable, electronic computer.