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Augustus Jackson
Invented ice cream recipes around 1832.

Mary Phelps Jacob
Invented a bra.

Clayton Jacobsen II
Invented the Jet Ski.

Joseph Marie Jacquard
Invented the Jacquard Loom that weaved complex designs.

Eli Janney
Invented the Janney coupler, an improvement in railroad car couplers.

Robert Jarvik
Invented the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.

Thomas Jefferson
The third President of the United States and the inventor of a swivel chair, a spherical sundial, a moldboard plow and a cipher wheel.

Charles Francis Jenkins
Invented a mechanical television system called radiovision and claimed to have transmitted the earliest moving silhouette images on June 14, 1923.

Thomas L Jennings
First African American to receive a patent on March 3, 1821 (US patent 3306x).

Steve Jobs
One of the forces behind the Apple computer.

Amanda Theodosia Jones
Re-invented American food production by inventing vacuum packed canning.

Frederick Jones
Invented a automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks.

Jack Johnson
The world's first African American heavyweight champion patented a wrench (U.S.patent#1,413,121) on April the 18th, 1922.

Lonnie Johnson
Invented the Super Soaker, a squirt gun.

Willis Johnson
Patented an improved mechanical egg beater on February 5, 1884.

Marjorie Stewart Joyner
Invented a permanent wave machine that would allow a hairdo to stay set for days.

Whitcomb Judson
Invented the "Clasp Locker", an early version of the zipper.

Percy Lavon Julian
Aynthesized the medicines physostigmine for glaucoma and cortisone for rheumatoid arthritis.

Ernest Everett Just
Eminent marine biologist, considered a leader and authority for his work with cell development.