Science Experiments for Kids

 Abi Bakr of Isfahan, (c. 1235)

calendar analog computer

 Donat Banki, (1859–1922) Hungary – inventor of the carburetor

 Vladimir Baranov-Rossine, (1888–1944)

pointillist or dynamic military camouflage

 John Barber, (1734–1801)

 John Bardeen, (1908–1991) U.S. – co-inventor of the transistor

 Vladimir Barmin, (1 909 – 1993) Russia – first rocket launch complex (spaceport)

 Anthony R. Barringer Canada/U.S. – INPUT (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne

electromagnetic system

 Earl W. Bascom, (1906–1995) Canada/U.S. – side-delivery rodeo chute, hornless rodeo

saddle, rodeo bareback rigging, rodeo chaps

 Nikolay Basov, (1922–2001) Russia – co-inventor of laser and maser

 Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (Albatenius), (853- 929 ) Syria/Turkey –

observation tube

 Eugen Baumann, (1846–1896) Germany – PVC

 Trevor Baylis, (1937–) UK – a wind-up radio

 Francis Beaufort, (1774– 1857 ) France – Beaufort scale

 Ernest Beaux, (1881–1961) Russia/France – Chanel No. 5

 Arnold O. Beckman, (1900–2004) U.S. – pH meter

 Ulugh Beg, ( 1394 – 1449 ) Persia/Iran – Fakhri sextant, mural sextant

 Vladimir Bekhterev, (1857–1927) Russia – Bekhterev's Mixture

 Alexander Graham Bell, (1847–1922) Canada, Scotland, and U.S. – telephone

 Karl Benz, (1844–1929) Germany – the petrol-powered automobile

 Alexander Bereznyak, (1912–1974) Russia – first rocket-powered fighter aircraft, BI- 1

(together with Isaev)

 Georgy Beriev, (1903–1979) Georgia/Russia – Be-series amphibious aircraft

 Emile Berliner, (1851–1929) Germany and U.S. – the disc record gramophone

 Nikolay Benardos, (1842–1905) Russia – arc welding (specifically carbon arc welding, the

first arc welding method)

 Tim Berners-Lee, (1955–) UK – with Robert Cailliau, the World Wide Web

 Bi Sheng, (ca. 990–1051) China – clay movable type printing

 Gerd Binnig, (1947–) Germany – with Heinrich Rohrer, scanning tunneling microscope

 Laszlo Biro, (1899–1985) Hungary – modern ballpoint pen

 Clarence Birdseye, (1886–1956) U.S. – frozen food process

 Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, (973–1048) Persia/Iran – mechanical geared lunisolar calendar,

laboratory and surveying equiptment.

 J. Stuart Blackton, (1875–1941) U.S. – stop-motion film

 Otto Blathy (1860–1939) Hungary – co-inventor of the transformer, wattmeter,

alternating current (AC) and turbogenerator

 Fyodor Blinov, (1827–1902) Russia – first tracked vehicle, steam-powered continuous

track tractor