New inventions are appearing every day to make our lives easier, longer, warmer, speedier and so on. But only a few inventors design a new machine or product that becomes so well- known that the invention, named after its creator, becomes a household word. Here are famous inventors and their inventions that are named after them: Alexander Graham Bell John Logie Baird Nicephore Niepce Bill Gate Telephone Television Photography Microsoft DOC In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell, an American engineer, invented telephone John Logie Baird from Scotland invented television in 1926 Nicephore Niepce from France pioneered photography in 1829 In 1981 Bill Gates (USA) created Microsoft-DOC (Disk Operating System)