Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985), Austro-Hungary/Australia – Blissymbols Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979), U.S. – nonreflective glass Alan Blumlein (1903–1942), UK – stereo David Boggs (1950–2022), U.S. – Ethernet Nils Bohlin (1920–2002), Sweden – the three-point seat belt Sarah Boone (1832–1908), U.S. – improved ironing board design Charlie Booth (1903–2008), Australia – Starting blocks Sam Born (1891–1959), Russia/U.S. – lollipop-making machine Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858–1937), India – Crescograph Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (1820–1894), UK – aileron Seth Boyden (1788–1870), U.S. – nail-making machine Herbert Boyer (born 1936), together with Paul Berg (1926–2023), and Stanley Norman Cohen (1935–), U.S. – created first Genetically modified organism Willard Boyle (1924–2011) together with George E. Smith (born 1930), U.S. – Charge-coupled device (CCD) Hugh Bradner (1915–2008), U.S. – Wetsuit Louis Braille (1809–1852), France – Braille writing system, Braille musical notation Archie Brain (born 1942), UK - Laryngeal mask Jacques E. Brandenberger (1872–1954), Switzerland – Cellophane Édouard Branly (1844–1940), France – Coherer Charles F. Brannock (1903–1992), U.S. – Brannock Device (shoe size) Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987), U.S.– co-inventor of the transistor Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), Germany – cathode-ray tube oscilloscope Stanislav Brebera (1925–2012), Czech Republic – Semtex explosive David Brewster (1781–1868), UK – Kaleidoscope Charles B. Brooks (1865–?), U.S. - first self-propelled street sweeping truck Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980), U.S. – Nystatin, the world's first antifungal antibiotic William C. Brown (1916–1999), U.S. – Crossed-field amplifier Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922–1999), U.S. – home security system Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn (1853–1927), Germany – Taximeter Nikolay Brusentsov (1925–2014), USSR, Russia – ternary computer (Setun) Dudley Allen Buck (1927–1959), U.S. – Cryotron, content-addressable memory Edwin Beard Budding (1795–1846), UK – lawnmower Gersh Budker (1918–1977), Russia – electron cooling, co-inventor of collider Edward Bull (1759–1798), England – Bull engine (a modified steam engine) Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), Germany – Bunsen burner Henry Burden (1791–1871), Scotland and U.S. – Horseshoe machine, first usable iron railroad spike C Robert Cailliau (born 1947), Belgium – with Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web Edward A. Calahan (1838–1912), U.S. – Stock ticker tape Nicholas Callan (1799–1864), Ireland – Induction coil Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton (1863–1930), Scotland – Television Tullio Campagnolo (1901–1983), Italy – Quick release skewer Charles Cantor (born 1942), U.S. – Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (molecular biology) Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 1937), together with Sir Martin John Evans (born 1941), and Oliver Smithies (1925–2017), U.S. – Gene targeting Arturo Caprotti (1881–1938), Italy – Caprotti valve gear Gerolamo Cardano