Editing List of inventors (section)

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* [[Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi]] (Abulcasis) (936–1013), [[Al-Andalus|Islamic Spain]] – [[catgut]] [[surgical suture]], various surgical instruments and dental devices
* [[Frank Zamboni]] (1901–1988), U.S. – [[Ice resurfacer]]
* [[Giuseppe Zamboni]] (1776–1846), Italy – [[Zamboni pile]] (early battery)
* [[L. L. Zamenhof|Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof]] (1859–1917), Russia/Poland – [[Esperanto]]
* [[Walter Zapp]] (1905–2003), Latvia/Estonia/Germany – [[Minox]] (subminiature camera)
* [[Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī]] (Arzachel) (1028–1087), [[Al-Andalus|Islamic Spain]] – [[almanac]], [[equatorium]], universal [[astrolabe]]
* [[Yevgeny Zavoisky]] (1907–1976), Russia – [[EPR spectroscopy]], co-developer of [[NMR spectroscopy]]
* [[Nikolay Zelinsky]] (1861–1953), Russia – first effective filtering coal [[gas mask]] in the world
* [[Ferdinand von Zeppelin]] (1838–1917), Germany – [[Zeppelin]]
* [[Frits Zernike]] (1888–1966), The Netherlands – [[Phase contrast microscopy|Phase contrast microscope]]
* [[Tang Zhongming]] (1897–1980), China – [[internal combustion engine]] powered by [[charcoal]]
* [[Jian Zhou]] (1957–1999), together with [[Ian Frazer|Ian Hector Frazer]] (born 1953), China/U.S. – [[HPV vaccine]] against [[cervical cancer]]
* [[Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky|Nikolai Zhukovsky]] (1847–1921), Russia – early [[wind tunnel]], co-developer of the [[Tsar Tank]]
* [[Karl Ziegler]] (1898–1973), together with [[Giulio Natta]] (1903–1979), Germany/Italy – [[Ziegler–Natta catalyst]]
* [[Franz Ziehl]] (1857–1926), together with [[Friedrich Neelsen]] (1854–1898), Germany – [[Ziehl–Neelsen stain]] (histology)
* [[Konrad Zuse]] (1910–1995), Germany – invented the first programmable general-purpose computer ([[Z1 (computer)|Z1]], [[Z2 (computer)|Z2]], [[Z3 (computer)|Z3]], [[Z4 (computer)|Z4]])
* [[Vasily Zvyozdochkin]] (1876–1956), Russia – [[matryoshka doll]] (together with [[Sergey Malyutin]])
* [[Vladimir Zworykin]] (1889–1982), Russia/U.S. – [[Iconoscope]], [[kinescope]]