A Google query for the subject ‘American inventors’ provides for the first 10 places only two American inventors of European lineage. They are Thomas Edison (6th place), and Alexander Graham Bell (10th place).
Here are the first 35 names that appear when a person performs a Google search for ‘American inventors’:
1. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), African American
2. Lewis Howard Latimer (1848-1928), African American
3. Garrett Morgan (1877-1963), African American
4. Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919), African American
5. Elijah McCoy (1844-1929), African American
6. Thomas Edison (1847-1931), European American
7. Lonnie Johnson (1949-), African American
8. Patricia Bath (1942-), African American
9. Granville Woods (1856-1910), African American
10. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), European American
11. Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852-1889), African American
12. James Edward Maceo West (1931-), African American
13. Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961), African American
14. Thomas L. Jennings (1791-1856), African American
15. Otis Boykin (1920-1982), African American
16. Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), African American
17. Norbert Rillieux (1806-1894), African American
18. Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922-1999), African American
19. Sarah E. Goode (1855-1905), African American
20. Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975), African American
21. Henry Blair (1807-1860), African American
22. George Robert Carruthers (1939-), African American
23. Henry Ford (1863-1947), European American
24. Eli Whitney (1765-1825), European American
25. Sarah Boone (1832-1904), African American
26. Janet Emerson Bashen (1957-), African American
27. Samuel Morse (1791-1872), European American
28. Ben Montgomery (1819-1877), African American
29. Valerie Thomas (1943-), African American
30. Andrew Jackson Beard (1849-1921), African American
31. David Crosthwait (1898-1976), African American
32. Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), European American
33. Albert Einstein (1879-1955), European American
34. Marjorie Joyner (1896-1994), African American
35. Alfred L. Cralle (1866-1920), African American
