Conrad Hubert - flashlight, battery-operated portable
Walter Hunt - safety pin
Felix Hoffmann (Bayer) - aspirin
That was all fine and dandy dev... but you skipped over G...
(you may end up being reassigned to desk duty as alphabet police person)
So here I am now with Galileo and the thermometer
And Allen Gant...Pantyhose
Leo Gerstenzang...the Q-tip cotton swab
Robert Goddard...father of modern rocketry.
and the next letter up will be I since dev has given us the H...
Kikunae Ikeda
Sodium Glutamate MSG
(Not a heck of a lot of inventors starting with I)
(Your record is intact with me dev)
Zacharias Janssen...Compound microscope (more than one lens)
Oh, shoot. I wanted "j" for:
Mary Phelps Jacob - inventor of the brassiere. For without her many of us would be quite let down!
Thank you, danon, for you mercy and graciousness in overlooking my alphabetical transgression!
K
John Harvey Kellogg - cereal flakes, breakfast
I live an hour & a half away from Battle Creek, the home of Kellogg's!
Stephanie Kwolek - Kevlar, a military life-saver!
John W Lambert
America's first gasoline-powered automobile was the 1891 Lambert car.
Edwin Herbert Land
The history of polaroid photography.
William P Lear
Invented the eight track tape.
Ed Link
Father of flight simulation who received a patent on a device he called the "Pilot Maker".
Morse, Sam dot dot dash
Montgolfier - Hot air ballon
Dev, I like the way you slipped an alphaerror in on purpose just to test everyone, good work, keep it up.
James Naismith...basketball
Bessie Nesmith...Liquid Paper (White out).
Dr. Hans von Ohain
Co-inventor of the first jet engine.
Elisha Graves Otis
Invented the elevator brake making safe elevators possible.
Nicolaus August Otto
Invented the first practical alternative to the steam engine, the "Four-Stroke Internal-Combustion Engine" or gas motor engine in 1876.
Pliny the Elder (comprehensive work) - encyclopedia
Phoenicians (or Egyptians) - glass
and a little more recently:
Louis Pasteur - pasteurization
Enro Rubik
((Argggg - sorry, sombody do Q
Enro Rubik invented the most popular puzzle in history, Rubik's Cube.
James T Russell
James Russell invented the compact disc.
Benjamin A Rubin
Benjamin Rubin invented the vaccination needle.
James Ritty
Invented what was nicknamed the Incorruptible Cashier - or the first working mechanical cash register.
Jesse W Reno
In 1891, Jesse Reno created a new novelty ride at Coney Island. This lead to the invention of the escalator.
Johannes S. Speedo - swimming trunks (ca 1805)
(not sure about that one)
danon5 wrote:Enro Rubik
((Argggg - sorry, sombody do Q
Enro Rubik invented the most popular puzzle in history, Rubik's Cube.
No problem Danon5...after some search I located a particular
Henry M. Quackenbush credited for inventing the nutcracker.
Oh and the next one would be a 'T' since I took the Q per danon5's request and danon took 'R' and Imur took the 'S'
Tarzan-he invented swing bridges.
Good one, Spendi-.
Welcome to a2k, and especially the trivia forum,
lmur
Andrew Ure - thermostat
Alessandro Volta
Invented the voltaic pile, a forerunner to the electric battery.
Ernest H Volwiler
Ernest Volwiler co-invented the general anesthetic, Pentothal.
Pearle B. Wait - JELL-O (gelatin dessert)
Oy! I did, didn't I?! Mea culpa! Mea culpa! Does this go on my permanent record?! NOoooooooooooooooooooooo! 
