Editing List of inventors (section)

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* [[Charles Fabry]] (1867–1945), together with [[Alfred Perot]] (1863–1925), France – [[Fabry–Pérot interferometer]] (physics)
* [[Samuel Face]] (1923–2001), U.S. – concrete flatness/levelness technology; [[Lightning Switch]]
* [[Federico Faggin]] (born 1941), Italy – [[microprocessor]]
* [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] (1686–1736), The Netherlands – [[Fahrenheit]] temperature scale, [[Mercury-in-glass thermometer]]
* [[Michael Faraday]] (1791–1867), UK – electric [[transformer]], [[electric motor]]
* [[Johann Maria Farina]] (1685–1766), Germany – [[Eau de Cologne]]
* [[Myra Juliet Farrell]] (1878–1957), Australia – stitchless button, [[Snap fastener|Press stud]]
* [[Philo Farnsworth]] (1906–1971), U.S. – [[electronics|electronic]] television
* [[Marga Faulstich]] (1915–1998), Germany – optical glass, lightweight lens SF 64<ref>{{Cite web |last=Office |first=European Patent |title=Women inventors |url=https://www.epo.org/news-events/in-focus/women-inventors.html |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=www.epo.org |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Muhammad al-Fazari]] (died 796/806), [[History of Iran|Persia]] – [[astrolabe]]
* [[John Fenn (chemist)|John Bennett Fenn]] (1917–2010), U.S. – [[Electrospray ionization]]
* [[Henry John Horstman Fenton]] (1854–1929), UK – [[Fenton's reagent]] (chemistry)
* [[James Fergason]] (1934–2008), U.S. – improved [[liquid crystal display]]
* [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954), Italy – [[nuclear reactor]]
* [[Humberto Fernández-Morán]] (1924–1999), Venezuela – [[Scalpel|Diamond scalpel]], [[Microtome|Ultra microtome]]
* [[Michele Ferrero]] (1925–2015), Italy – [[Kinder Surprise]] = [[Kinder Eggs]], [[Nutella]]
* [[Bran Ferren]] (born 1953), U.S. – [[Pinch to zoom|Pinch-to-zoom]] (multi-touch), together with [[Danny Hillis|Daniel Hillis]]
* [[Reginald Fessenden]] (1866–1932), Canada – two-way radio
* [[Robert Feulgen]] (1884–1955), Germany – [[Feulgen stain]] (histology)
* [[Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick]] (1829–1901), Germany – [[contact lens]]
* [[Ethel Finck]] (1932–2003), U.S. – cardiac catheter
* [[Abbas Ibn Firnas]] (810–887), [[Al-Andalus]] – [[fused quartz]] and [[silica glass]], [[metronome]]
* [[Artur Fischer (inventor)|Artur Fischer]] (1919–2016) Germany – fasteners including [[fischertechnik]].
* [[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]] (1877–1947), together with [[Fischer assay|Hans Schrader]] (1921–2012), Germany – [[Fischer assay]] (oil yield test)
* [[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]] (1877–1947), together with [[Hans Tropsch]] (1889–1935), Germany – [[Fischer–Tropsch process]] (refinery process)
* [[Gerhard Fischer (inventor)|Gerhard Fischer]] (1899–1988), Germany/U.S. – [[metal detector|hand-held metal detector]]
* [[Paul C. Fisher]] (1913–2006), U.S. – [[Space Pen]]
* [[Edith M. Flanigen]] (born 1929), U.S. – [[zeolite Y]], molecular sieve
* [[Alexander Fleming]] (1881–1955), Scotland – [[Penicillin]]
* [[John Ambrose Fleming]] (1848–1945), UK – [[Vacuum tube|Vacuum diode]]
* [[Sandford Fleming]] (1827–1915), Canada – [[Universal Standard Time]]
* [[Nicolas Florine]] (1891–1972), [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]/Russia/Belgium – first [[tandem rotor]] [[helicopter]] to fly freely
* [[Tommy Flowers]] (1905–1998), UK – [[Colossus computer|Colossus]] an early electronic computer.
* [[Irmgard Flügge-Lotz]] (1903–1974), U.S. – aircraft guidance systems
* [[Thomas J. Fogarty]] (born 1934), U.S. – [[Thomas J. Fogarty|Embolectomy catheter]] (medicine)
* [[Larry Fondren]], U.S. – entrepreneur, inventor and credit markets expert
* [[Eunice Newton Foote]] (1819–1888), U.S. – greenhouse effect, boot soles
* [[Enrico Forlanini]] (1848–1930), Italy – [[Enrico Forlanini|Steam helicopter]], [[hydrofoil]], [[List of Forlanini airships|Forlanini airships]]
* [[Eric Fossum]] (born 1957), U.S. – intra-pixel charge transfer in [[CMOS image sensor]]s
* [[Josephine G. Fountain]] (fl 1960), U.S.  – direct suction tracheotomy tube
* [[Jean Bernard Léon Foucault]] (1819–1868), France – [[Foucault pendulum]], [[gyroscope]], [[eddy current]]
* [[Benoît Fourneyron]] (1802–1867), France – [[water turbine]]
* [[John Fowler (agricultural engineer)|John Fowler]] (1826–1864), UK – steam-driven ploughing engine
* [[Benjamin Franklin]] (1706–1790), U.S. – the [[lightning rod|pointed lightning rod conductor]], [[bifocals|bifocal glasses]], the [[Franklin stove]], the [[glass harmonica]]
* [[Herman Frasch]] (1851–1914), Germany / U.S. – [[Frasch process]] (petrochemistry), [[Paraffin wax]] purification
* [[Ian Frazer|Ian Hector Frazer]] (born 1953), together with [[Jian Zhou]] (1957–1999), U.S./China – [[HPV vaccine]] against [[cervical cancer]]
* [[Helen Murray Free]] (1923–2021), U.S. – diabetes tests
* [[Augustin-Jean Fresnel]] (1788–1827), France – [[Fresnel lens]]
* [[Amelia Freund]] (1824–1887), Germany – cooking stove contained a "frizzler" which fried without hardening.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stanley |first=Autumn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uRJt7QqA7GEC&pg=PA59 |title=Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology |date=1995 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-2197-8 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Ida Freund]] (1863–1914), UK – gas measuring tube, periodic table cupcakes
* [[William Friese-Greene]] (1855–1921), UK – [[cinematography]]
* [[Julius Fromm]] (1883–1945), Germany – first seamless [[Condom]]
* [[Arthur Fry]] (born 1931), U.S. – [[Post-it note]]
* [[Buckminster Fuller]] (1895–1983), U.S. – [[geodesic dome]]
* [[Gilhoolie|C. W. Fuller]] (inv. 1953), U.S. – [[Gilhoolie]]
* [[Robert Fulton]] (1765–1815), United States – first commercially successful [[steamboat]], first practical [[submarine]]
* [[Ivan Fyodorov (printer)|Ivan Fyodorov]] (c. 1510–1583), Russia/[[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Poland–Lithuania]] – invented [[Barrel (firearms)|multibarreled]] [[Mortar (weapon)|mortar]], introduced [[printing]] in Russia
* [[Svyatoslav Fyodorov]] (1927–2000), Russia – [[radial keratotomy]]
* [[Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov|Vladimir Fyodorov]] (1874–1966), Russia – [[Fedorov Avtomat]] (first self-loading [[battle rifle]], arguably the first [[assault rifle]])