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Each American inventor listed below in red is listed under the state that they were born in. Yes, not all states have an American inventor listed. Let me know if your favorite American inventor is missing.

American Inventors by State

Alabama 
Percy Lavon Julian - enter
Waldo L. Semon - enter
Montana
Alaska  Nebraska
Harold Edgerton - enter
Jay W. Forrester - enter
Arizona Nevada
Arkansas New Hampshire
California 
Luis Walter Alvarez - enter
Robert Bower - enter
Frederick G. Cottrell - enter
Charles P. Ginsburg - enter
Theodore Harold Maiman - enter
New Jersey
Lloyd H. Conover - enter
Donald Fletcher Holmes - enter
Eger V. Murphree - enter
Edward J. Rosinski - enter
Colorado 
Robert J. Seiwald - enter
New Mexico
Connecticut 
Samuel Colt - enter
Charles Goodyear - enter
Robert N. Hall - enter
Edwin H. Land - enter
Kenneth H. Olsen - enter
New York
George Babcock - enter
Willis Haviland Carrier - enter
Clarence Crane - enter
Thomas Elkins - enter
George Eastman - enter
Gertrude Belle Elion - enter
George Lerner - enter
Pierre Lorillard - enter
George Pullman - enter
Charles Roser - enter
Jonas Salk - enter
Elmer Sperry - enter
John Stevens - enter
George Westinghouse Jr. - enter
Delaware 
Oliver Evans - enter
Henry Heimlich - enter
North Carolina
Caleb Bradham - enter
Richard Gatling - enter
Chester Greenwood - enter
Florida North Dakota
Georgia Ohio
Willard H. Bennett - enter
William Meriam Burton - enter
Thomas Alva Edison - enter
Charles Martin Hall - enter
Charles F. Kettering - enter
Lester Pelton - enter

Ernest H. Volwiler - enter
Orville Wright - enter
Hawaii Oklahoma 
Idaho Oregon
Douglas Engelbart - enter
llinois Inventors
Arnold O. Beckman - enter
Stanley Mazor - enter
George Pullman - enter

Lewis Hastings Sarett - enter
Pennsylvania
Edward Goodrich Acheson - enter
Walter E. Diemer - enter
Oliver Evans - enter
Robert Fulton - enter
William Edward Hanford - enter
Stephanie Louise Kwolek - enter
Indiana Inventors
Andrew J. Moyer - enter
Wilbur Wright - enter
Rhode Island 
Stephen Wilcox - enter
Iowa Inventors
Donald L. Campbell - enter
Wallace Hume Carothers - enter
Lee DeForest - enter
South Carolina
Joseph H. Burckhalter -enter
Kansas South Dakota
Ernest Orlando Lawrence - enter
Kentucky Tennessee 
David Crosthwait - enter
Mark Dean - enter
Louisiana  Texas 
Robert Dennard - enter
Maine 
Hiram Stevens Maxim - enter
Percy Lebaron Spencer - enter
Francis & Freelan Stanley - enter
Utah 
John M. Browning - enter
Philo Farnsworth - enter
Maryland Vermont 
Thomas Davenport - enter
John Deere - enter
Elisha Graves Otis - enter
Massachusetts
Alfred Ely Beach - enter
Forrest M. Bird - enter
Harold Stephen Black - enter
Rachel Fuller Brown - enter
William D. Coolidge - enter
Elias Howe - enter
Samuel F. B. Morse - enter
Jacob Perkins - enter

Robert H. Rines - enter
Max Tishler - enter
Eli Whitney - enter
Virginia 
Cyrus Hall McCormick - enter
Michigan 
Henry Ford - enter
William R. Hewlett - enter
Donald B. Keck - enter
John T. Parsons - enter
John C. Sheehan - enter
Washington
Chester F. Carlson - enter
Minnesota 
Edward Lowe - enter
Alexander Miles - enter
Ralph Samuelson - enter
Patsy Sherman - enter
West Virginia
Mississippi
Elizabeth Lee Hazen - enter
Wisconsin 
John Bardeen - enter
Les Paul - enter
Missouri 
George Washington Carver - enter
Charles Stark Draper - enter
James Fergason - enter
Jack S. Kilby - enter
William Lear - enter
Robert D. Maurer - enter
Wyoming

The American inventors listed on this page were born in the state they are placed under.

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