The following list contains notable inventions and discoveries made by ethnic Armenians, including those not born or living in modern-day Armenia and those of partial Armenian ancestry.
^ abJ. R. Russell. "Alphabets". In Bowersock, G. W.; Brown, Peter; Grabar, Oleg (eds.). Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. p. 289. Maštocʿ also created the Georgian and Caucasian-Albanian alphabets, based on the Armenian model.
^ abClackson, James (2015). "The languages of Christianity". Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Cambridge University Press. p. 144. ISBN9780521192354. Having discovered his talent for script creation, Mesrop also invented distinctive new alphabets for the Georgians, and for the Caucasian Albanians, acts of generosity still frequently unacknowledged.
^Jost, Gippert (2011). "The script of the Caucasian Albanians in the light of the Sinai palimpsests". Die Entstehung der kaukasischen Alphabete als kulturhistorisches Phänomen : Referate des internationalen Symposions (Wien, 1.-4. Dezember 2005) = The creation of the Caucasian alphabets as phenomenon of cultural history. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. pp. 39–50. ISBN9783700170884. Nevertheless, the"Armenian" basis of the alphabet seems clear enough, thus confirming the historical tradition which attributes the invention of the Albanian script to Mesrop Maštoc.
^Spence, Keith; Swayne, Giles, eds. (1981). "Accordion". How Music Works. New York: Macmillan Publishers. pp. 158–159. ISBN0-02-612870-5. The first mention of the name was in a patent application of an Armenian living in Vienna, Cyrill Demian, in 1829.
^Gammond, Peter (1991). The Oxford companion to popular music. Oxford University Press. p. 3. ISBN0-19-3 1 1323-6. Accordion. Piano Accordion. Portable instrument supported in front of the body by a shoulder strap, sounded by free reeds blown by bellows, which has a treble keyboard for the right hand and on the left a series of buttons which operate chords (hence the name of the instrument). One of the earliest forms was the Handdoline which was made in Berlin in 1822 by Friedrich Buschmann. The actual name Akkordion or Accordion was first given to an improved version of this instrument introduced in Vienna by an Armenian, Cyrill Demian, in 1829.
^Ziółkowska-Boehm, Aleksandra (2013). The Polish Experience Through World War II. Lexington Books. p. 22. ISBN978-0-7391-7819-5. The Polish Armenians have become an integral part of our Polish culture. Armenians ancestors ... brought us many famous people, such as: Ignacy Łukasiewicz...
^Puda-Blokesz, Magdalena (20 July 2011). "Ignacy Łukasiewicz"(PDF). chemia.zamkor.pl (in Polish). ZamKor. p. 1. Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 October 2014. Ten ormiański szlachcic herbu Łada walczył w szeregach Tadeusza Kościuszki.
^Wilson, J. C. (1934). "Trichromatic Reproduction in Television". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 82 (4258): 841–863. ISSN0035-9114. JSTOR41360161. The problem of transmitting television images in colours is not a new one. Amongst the early investigators in this field the names of von Bronk1[(1) German Patent No. 155,528 of 1902; (von Bronk).] and Adamian2[(2) British Patent No. 7219/08 ; (Adamian).] may be mentioned. But it is not until comparatively recently that results have been achieved.
^Ayres, Robert (2021). The History and Future of Technology. Springer International Publishing. p. 379-380. ISBN9783030713935. An Armenian inventor, Hovannes Adamian (1879-1932), claimed priority. He experimented with color television as early as 1907 and obtained patents in Germany in 1908 (patent number 197183) and then in Britain, France, and Russia.
^Murray, Susan (2018). Bright Signals: A History of Color Television. Duke University Press. p. 12. ISBN9780822371700. Six years later [1908], Armenian engineer Hovannes Adamian patented his own mechanical system in Germany, Britain, and France, and then in Russia in 1910. In 1925, Vladimir Zworykin filed a patent for a television system that included a color screen; Adamian demonstrated a three-color system (an advancement on his earlier two-color model) in the United States...
^Abramson, Albert (1987). The History of Television, 1880 to 1941. London: McFarland. p. 27. ISBN0-89950-284-9. On April 1, 1908, Johannes Adamian applied for a British patent for color television.
^"A Lot of Hot Air". The New York Times. 28 April 2016. In 1911, the Armenian-American inventor Gabriel Kazanjian received the first patent for a hand-held hair dryer....
^"Stephen Stepanian portrait". Columbus Metropolitan Library. 25 November 2020. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Stepanian was the inventor of the motor-truck concrete mixer and is the "father" of the ready-mixed concrete industry. Stepanian designed a self-discharging motorized concrete transit mixer in 1916.
^"Ready Mixed Concrete". cement.org. Portland Cement Association. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021. In 1916, Stephen Stepanian of Columbus, Ohio, developed a self-discharging motorized transit mixer that was the predecessor of the modern ready-mixed concrete truck.
^Yandell, Benjamin (2001). The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers. CRC Press. p. 230. ISBN9781439864227. Emil Artin was born on March 3, 1898, in Vienna, the son of an art dealer and grandson of an Armenian merchant of handmade rugs.
^Faith, Carl (2004). Rings And Things And A Fine Array Of Twentieth Century Associative Algebra (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs Volume 65). American Mathematical Society. p. 353. Mike [Artin] explained to me the Armenian origin of the family name, Artinian, which had been shortened in Germany and the United States.
^Schuster, Carl O. (2015) [1999]. "Mikoyan, Artem Ivanovich". In Zabecki, David T. (ed.). World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 415. The result was the MiG-9, the first Soviet jet fighter.
^Hicks, James L. (January 17, 1948). "Veteran's Whirl". The Ohio State News. Columbus, Ohio. p. 14. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Take the case of Lloyd Rudd and Cyrus Melikian. They were shivering in a railroad station one day when they walked up to a vending machine which was dishing out cold drinks for a nickel. "This damn thing should be giving out hot coffee instead of cold drinks," Rudd said. "That's an idea," said Melikian, and the two men invented "Kwik Kafe" hot coffee vending machine.
^"Sarkis Acopian". muhlenberg.edu. Muhlenberg College. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. In 1957, he took out a loan from a local bank and began his journey. That same year he designed and manufactured the first ever solar radio.
^Karapetian, Alex (June 2017). "Acopian: Powering the World Behind the Scenes for 60 Years". IEEE Power Electronics Magazine. 4 (2). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: 103–104. doi:10.1109/MPEL.2017.2692478. ... Sarkis Acopian ... developed something that is in wide use today—the solar radio. It was the first recorded solar-powered radio ever manufactured for commercial use.
^Bandon, Alexandra (January 4, 1998). "The Lives They Lived; Make It New". The New York Times. p. 40. ...his most famous invention was a 1960 bank-deposit machine that was the basis for the now-ubiquitous A.T.M., from which he never made a penny.
^Konheim, Alan G.[in German] (2016). "Automated teller machines: their history and authentication protocols". Journal of Cryptographic Engineering. 6: In 1962, Luther Simjian was issued a patent for an early and not-very-successful prototype of an ATM. doi:10.1007/s13389-015-0104-3. S2CID1706990.
^Markarian, B.E. (1961). "Physical chain of galaxies in the Virgo cluster and its dynamic instability". Astronomical Journal. 66: 555–557. Bibcode:1961AJ.....66..555M.
^Robertson, Edmund; O'Connor, John. "Michael Artin". MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. University of St Andrews. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Emil Artin, born in Vienna, was descended from an Armenian carpet merchant.
^Benson, Alvin K. (2010). Inventors & Inventions. Salem Press. p. 1285. ISBN9781587655265. Kemurdzhian, Alexander (October 4, 1921 -February 25, 2003): Russian. Kemurdzhian designed Lunokhod 1, the first space-exploration rover, which roamed on the Moon in 1970.
^ ab"Аракелов Сурен Юрьевич". tsput.ru (in Russian). Tula State Pedagogical University named after L. N. Tolstoy. Archived from the original on 24 November 2022. армянин по происхождению ... Основной результат учёного — создание в 1974 году теории, названной его именем — геометрии Аракелова
^Edson, Lee (February 6, 1986). "Books: Beyond X-rays". The New York Times. He is Dr. Raymond Damadian, the son of an Armenian-born father and a French-Armenian mother, and the inventor of the nuclear magnetic resonance scanner...
^Macchia, Richard J.; Termine, Jack E.; Buchen, Charles D. (2007). "Raymond V. Damadian, M.D.: magnetic resonance imaging and the controversy of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine". The Journal of Urology. 178 (1). American Urological Association: 783–5. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2007.05.019. PMID17631325. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine can be awarded to a maximum of 3 scientists for any single discovery but in this instance was only given to 2. Excluding Doctor Damadian seems to be a serious and purposeful omission.
^"Raymond Vahan Damadian". nationalmedals.org. National Medal of Technology. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. For their independent contributions in conceiving and developing the application of magnetic resonance technology to medical uses including whole body scanning and diagnostic imaging.
^Todd, Michael (October 2005). "Leonid Khachiyan, 1952–2005: An Appreciation". SIAG/OPT Views-and-News. 16 (1–2). SIAM Activity Group on Optimization: 4–6. CiteSeerX10.1.1.131.3938.
^Ivanitsky, G.R.; Kulikov, A.V. (2010). "He Was Like No Other (In Memoriam Levon Mikhailovich Chailakhyan)". Biophysics. 55 (3): 505. doi:10.1134/S0006350910030267. ISSN0006-3509. Chailakhyan together with B.N. Veprintsev, T.A. Sviridova, and V.A. Nikitin were the first to have cloned a mammal, Masha the Mouse. The report of this feat was published in 1987, ten years before the famous Dolly the Sheep.
^Chaĭlakhian LM, Veprintsev BN, Sviridova TA (1987). "Electrostimulated cell fusion in cell engineering". Biofizika. 32 (5): viii–xi. PMID3318941.
^"MAILBAG". Los Angeles Times. 2007-01-04. Archived from the original on 2023-12-04. Retrieved 2023-12-04. Ardashes Aykanian invented the flexible straw, the spoon straw and holds many more patents involving plastics
^Oganessian, Yu. Ts.; Abdullin, F. Sh.; Bailey, P. D.; Benker, D. E.; Bennett, M. E.; Dmitriev, S. N.; Ezold, J. G.; Hamilton, J. H.; Henderson, R. A.; Itkis, M. G.; Lobanov, Yu. V.; Mezentsev, A. N.; Moody, K. J.; Nelson, S. L.; Polyakov, A. N.; Porter, C. E.; Ramayya, A. V.; Riley, F. D.; Roberto, J. B.; Ryabinin, M. A.; Rykaczewski, K. P.; Sagaidak, R. N.; Shaughnessy, D. A.; Shirokovsky, I. V.; Stoyer, M. A.; Subbotin, V. G.; Sudowe, R.; Sukhov, A. M.; Tsyganov, Yu. S.; et al. (April 2010). "Synthesis of a New Element with Atomic Number Z=117". Physical Review Letters. 104 (14): 142502. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.104n2502O. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.142502. PMID20481935.