Name

birth / death

Invention, Innovation

Augustin Hirschvogel

1503 - 1553

triangulation

Divi š Procopius

1696 - 1757

lightning conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756 - 1791

musician, componist

Josef Madersperger

1768 - 1850

sewing machine

Josef Ressel

1793 - 1857

ship's propeller

Christian Doppler

1803 - 1853

Doppler effect

Siegfried Marcus

1831 - 1891

car

Matthias Zdarsky

1856 - 1940

Alpin skiing

Carl Freiherr von Auer-Welsbach

1858 - 1929

gas mantle, flint for lighters

August Musger

1868 - 1929

slow motion

Viktor Kaplan

1876 - 1934

Kaplan turbine

Lise Meitner

1878 - 1968

nuclear fission

Erwin Schrödinger

1887 - 1961

quantum mechanics

Ferdinand Porsche

1875 - 1951

Volkswagen Beetle

Victor Weisskopf

1908 - 2002

director of CERN, Manhattan project

Heinz Zemanek

1920 -

in the 1950's the the transistor computer Mailüfterl

Walther Simmer

1888-1986

He developed 1929 a radial shaft seal. His name is used as synonyme for this seals - Simmering

Hedy Lamarr

1913 - 2000

frequency hopping as base for cell phone