Science Experiments for Kids

 Almon Strowger, (1839–1902) U.S. – automatic telephone exchange

 Su Song, (1020–1101) China – first chain drive

 Pavel Sukhoi, (1895–1975) Russia – Su-series fighter aircraft

 Simon Sunatori, (1959–) Canada – inventor of MagneScribe and Magic Spicer

 Sushruta, (600 BC) Vedic India – inventor of Platic Surgery, Cataract Surgery, Rhinoplasty

 Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi), (903–986) Persia/Iran – timekeeping astrolabe,

navigational astrolabe, surveying astrolabe

 Joseph Swan, (1828–1914) England – Incandescent light bulb

 Robert Swanson, (1905– 1994 ) Canada – Invented and developed the first multi-chime air

horn for use with diesel locomotives

 Andrei Sychra, (1773- 76 – 1850) Lithuania/Russia, Czech descent – Russian seven-string

guitar

 Vladimir Syromyatnikov, (1933–2006) Russia – Androgynous Peripheral Attach System

and other spacecraft docking mechanisms

 Leó Szilárd, (1898–1964) Hungary/U.S. – Co-developed the atomic bomb, patented the

nuclear reactor, catalyst of the Manhattan Project

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 Salih Tahtawi, (fl.1659–1660) Mughal India – seamless globe and celestial globe

 Igor Tamm, (1895–1971) Russia – co-developer of tokamak

 Taqi al-Din, (1526–1585) Syria/Egypt/Turkey – steam turbine, six-cylinder 'Monobloc'

suction pump, framed sextant

 Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi, (c. 1187) Middle East – counterweight trebuchet, mangonel

 Bernard Tellegen, (1900–1990) Netherlands – pentode

 Edward Teller, (1908–2003) Hungary – hydrogen bomb

 Nikola Tesla, (1856–1943) Croatian Serb, citizenship:Austrian Empire (pre-1891),

American (post-1891) – Tesla Coil, induction motor, wireless communication

 Léon Theremin, (1896–1993) Russia – theremin, interlace, burglar alarm, terpsitone,

Rhythmicon (first drum machine), The Thing (listening device)

 Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar, (1785–1870) France – Arithmometer

 Elihu Thomson, (1853–1937) England, USA – Prolific inventor, Arc lamp and many others

 Eric Tigerstedt, (1887–1925) Finland – triode vacuum tube

 Kalman Tihanyi, (1897–1947) Hungary – co-inventor of cathode ray tube and iconoscope

 Mikhail Tikhonravov, (1900–1974) Russia – co-developer of Sputnik 1 (the first artificial

satellite) together with Korolyov and Keldysh, designer of further Sputniks

 Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov, (1875–1960) Russia – feathering spectrograph

 Benjamin Chew Tilghman, (1821–1897) U.S. – sandblasting

 Tipu Sultan, (1750–1799) India – iron-cased rocket

 Fedor Tokarev, (1871–1968) Russia – TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and SVT-40 self-

loading rifle

 Evangelista Torricelli, (1608–1647) Italy – barometer

 Alfred Traeger, (1895–1980) Australia – the pedal radio