Celebrities - Inventors

	Iwan Serrurier	inventor of the Moviola for film editing.	born ca 1880
	Jacob Davis	riveted jeans	1868-1908
	Jacques Cousteau	co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera	1910-1997
	James Clerk Maxwell	colour photography	1831-1879
	James Dewar	Thermos flask	1842-1923
	James Fergason	improved liquid crystal display	born 1934
	James Gregory	reflecting telescope	1638-1675
	James Hargreaves	spinning jenny	1720-1778
	James Henry Greathead	tunnel boring machine, tunnelling shield technique	1844-1896
	James Leonard Plimpton	roller skates	1828-1911
	James Nasmyth	steam hammer	1808-1890
	James Watt	improved Steam engine	1736-1819
	János Csonka	co-inventor of carburetor	1852-1939
	János Irinyi	noiseless match	1817-1895
	Jean Bernard Léon Foucault	Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current	1819-1868
	Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir	internal combustion engine, motorboat	1822-1900
	Johan Petter Johansson	the pipe wrench and the modern adjustable spanner	1853-1943
	Johann Gutenberg	modern movable type printing press	1390-1468
	Johann Maria Farina	Eau de Cologne	1685–1766
	John Boyd Dunlop	first practical pneumatic tyre	1840-1921
	John Ericsson	the two screw-propeller	1803-1889
	John Harvey Kellogg	cornflake breakfasts	1852-1943
	John J. Montgomery	heavier-than-air gliders	1858-1911
	John Logie Baird	an electromechanical television	1888-1946
	John Napier	logarithms	1550-1617
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