Jewish Inventors

There are too many to mention... Here are a few Jewish inventors:

Ricardo Wolf worked to develop a process for recovering iron from smelting process residue. Ultimately successful, his invention was utilized in steel factories all over the world.

William Salcer was a Holocaust survivor who designed tanks and armored cars and later designed jet engines for the Israeli Air Force. He also developed plastic tablecloths and a plastic display for earrings. Salcer designed a new type of hockey puck and hockey sticks after his son Ron Salcer became an agent for hockey players. He held 12 patents.

Franz Sacher was an Austrian-Jewish confectioner, best known as the inventor of the world-famous chocolate cake, the Sachertorte.

Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference, later known as the Lippmann plate.

Edwin Herbert Land was an American scientist and inventor. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and his retinex theory of color vision.

Hedy Lamarr, a stunnigly beautiful film actress of the '40s, co-invented an early form of spread spectrum communications technology, a key to modern wireless communication.

Lina Stern was a notable Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of lives at the fronts of World War II. She is best known for her pioneering work on blood-brain barrier, which she described as hemato-encephalic barrier in 1921.

There are about 300 more, but not enough room here... lol....