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	Browse inventors by last name: Waksman , Selman Streptomycin Selman Waksman revolutionized medicine and saved the lives of countles . . . . Wang , An Magnetic Core Memory An Wang made many notable contributions to the advancement of computer . . . . Wanlass , Frank Low stand-by power complementary field effect circuitry Frank Wanlass invented the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CM . . . . Waterman , Lewis Fountain pen Watson , Thomas A. Improvements to the Telephone Thomas Watson is best known for working as Alexander Graham Bell’s ass . . . . Welsbach , Carl A. von Improvements to Gas Lighting Carl Auer von Welsbach, an Austrian scientist and inventor, had a tale . . . . Wentorf Jr. , Robert Synthetic Diamond Robert Wentorf, along with Tracy Hall, Francis Bundy, and Herbert Stro . . . . West , James E. Electret Microphone In 1962, James West and Gerhard Sessler patented the electret micropho . . . . Westinghouse Jr. , George Alternating Current George Westinghouse invented a system of air brakes that made travel by train safe and built one of the greatest electric manufacturing organizations in the United States. After briefly attending . . . . Weston , Edward Portable voltmeter Whipple , Squire Iron Truss Bridge Whitcomb , Richard Supercritical Wing In the years after World War II, military aviators found it so hard to . . . . White , Rollin Henry Steam Generator; Controlled Differential Rollin H. White contributed to the development of steam generation in . . . . Whitney , Eli Cotton Gin American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer Eli Whitney is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin. He also affected the industrial development of the United States when, in manufacturing muskets for the government, he translated the concept of interchangeable parts into a manufacturing system, giving birth to the American mass-production concept. Whitney saw that a machine to clean the seed from cotton could make the South prosperous and make its inventor rich. He set to work at once and within days had drawn a sketch to explain his idea; 10 days later he constructed a crude model that separated fiber from seed. After perfecting his machine he filed an application for a patent on June 20, 1793; in February 1794 he deposited a model at the . . . . Whittle , Frank Jet Engine Inheriting an inventiveness and love of things mechanical from his fat . . . . Wichterle , Otto Soft Contact Lens Widlar , Robert J. Biasing scheme especially suited for integrated circuits Bob Widlar is considered the father of the analog monolithic integrate . . . . Wilcox , Stephen Steam Generator Stephen Wilcox worked with George Babcock to invent the water tube ste . . . . Williams , Robert R. Vitamins Robert R. Williams, Jr., was a telephone company researcher who in his spare time developed ways to synthesize vitamins that helped fight malnutrition and vitamin-deficiency diseases. The vitamin research was conducted in his spare time with the aid of grants and space provided by . . . . Williams , Sam Small Fan-Jet Engine "It's interesting to look back and see what the pioneers did and see h . . . . Willson , Robert Plasma Display Winslow , Field H. Polymer Cable Sheath By finding a way to stabilize the polymers used to coat communications . . . . Winton , Alexander Automobile, bicycle, and diesel applications Woodland , N. Joseph Classifying Apparatus and Method Joe Woodland and Bob Silver invented the first optically scanned barco . . . . Woods , Granville Railway Telegraphy Wozniak , Steve Personal Computer Wozniak's Apple II personal computer - introduced in 1977 and featurin . . . . Wright , Orville Airplane Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, a . . . . Wright , Wilbur Airplane Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, a . . . . Wynne , James J. LASIK Eye Surgery James Wynne is co-inventor of a process using a short pulse ultraviole . . . .