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The is the premier not-for-profit organization in America dedicated to recognizing, honoring and encouraging invention and creativity through the administration of its programs. The Hall of Fame honors the men and women responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible.






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The is the premier not-for-profit organization in America dedicated to recognizing, honoring and encouraging invention and creativity through the administration of its programs. The Hall of Fame honors the men and women responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible. there were 390 inductees. New inductee announcements are made in mid February.

Founded in 1973 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations, the Hall is headquartered in Akron, Ohio with satellite offices in the Washington, D.C. area and Los Angeles. Originally housed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Hall outgrew its location and moved to Akron. The Hall of Fame building, which also housed hands-on interactive exhibits, opened to the public in 1995. The Hall is currently closed for construction of the National Inventors Hall of Fame School…Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Learning.

During the annual Induction ceremony, a new class of inventors is recognized. The current number of inventors honored is 390. Inventors must hold a U.S. patent to be considered, and the invention must have contributed to the welfare of mankind and have promoted the progress of science and the useful arts. A National Selection Committee and Blue Ribbon Panel select inductees.

The Hall takes part in activities that embody the inventive spirit. The Hall promotes future generations of inventors through major initiatives such as the Camp Invention® and Club Invention® programs and the Collegiate Inventors Competition
Collegiate Inventors Competition

The Collegiate Inventors Competition encourages college students to be active in science, engineering, mathematics, technology, and creative invention....
®. In addition, the Hall is involved with ventures such as developing and designing exhibits for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Museum, as well as special projects with national partners.

Location

Housed in a rented facility near Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Patent Office's venture to recognize: "...the inventions that transformed American life," was falling short of its goal. The center's first induction in 1975 of Thomas Edison had been the catalyst for rapid growth and in 1986 a committee was formed to find a permanent home that the committee felt it deserved.

In 1987, Akron, Ohio patent attorney, Edwin (Ned) Oldham, a newly appointed representative to the National Council of Patent Law Associations, was dismayed by the center's presence on a one-time landfill next to an airport and commented that it was: "...a waste of a great opportunity."

Coincidentally sitting-in on a site-selection meeting, Oldham learned that the Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute

Founded in honor of Benjamin Franklin, The Franklin Institute is a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the oldest and premier centers of science education and development in the United States....
 in Philadelphia was the frontrunner for the new home of the NIHF, prompting Oldham to wonder if Akron might have a chance. Oldham spoke with the committee chairman, Howard I. Forman, and after expounding on Akron's remarkable inventive heritage, Forman; Oldham said: "...said something like:"'If you'll lay three and one half million dollars on the table, we'll consider it.'"

The following Monday, back in Akron, as Oldham made his way through downtown Akron traffic, he noticed an empty spot in front of city hall and he said: That's when a stroke of genius hit him. If he could see Mayor Don Plusquellic for just a few moments, maybe he could win him over to the idea.

The once prosperous city, hit hard by layoffs in the tire industry and the takeover attempts of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. Today it is the third largest tire company in the world after Bridgestone and Michelin....
 by Sir James Goldsmith, was desperate for a shot of hometown pride. In a few minutes time, Oldham had sold Plusquellic on the idea and Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, Jim Phelps, began putting a funding committee together, and soon, the initial money was put in place.

During a horrible snowstorm on March 31, 1987, the site-selection committee visited Akron and in September, 1987, as the city held its breath, the announcement was made that the new home of the National Inventors Hall of Fame would be: Akron, Ohio. Construction on the facility was completed in 1995.

Inductees


A

  • Edward Goodrich Acheson
    Edward Goodrich Acheson

    Edward Goodrich Acheson was an United States of America chemist. Born in Washington, Pennsylvania, he was the inventor of carborundum, and later a manufacturer of carborundum and graphite....
    , carborundum
  • Robert Adler
    Robert Adler

    Robert Adler was an Austrian-born United States inventor who held numerous patents....
    , Television remote control
  • Herman Affel
    Herman Affel

    Herman A. Affel was an United States electrical engineer and inventor, noted for coinventing the coaxial cable carrier system for multiple high speed long distance data transmissions....
    , coaxial cable
    Coaxial cable

    Coaxial cable is a cable consisting of an inner conductor, surrounded by a tubular insulating layer typically made from a flexible material with a high dielectric constant, all of which is then surrounded by another conductive layer , and then finally covered again with a thin insulating layer on the outside....
  • Ernst Alexanderson
    Ernst Alexanderson

    Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer, who was a pioneer in radio and television development....
    , radio
    Radio

    Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
  • Andrew Alford
    Andrew Alford

    Andrew Alford was an United States electrical engineer and inventor.Born in Samara, Russia Alford invented and developed antennas for radio navigation systems, now used for VHF omnidirectional range and instrument landing systems....
    , VHF omnidirectional range
    VHF omnidirectional range

    VOR, short for VHF Omni-directional Radio Range, is a type of radio navigation system for aircraft. A VOR ground station broadcasts a VHF radio composite signal including the station's identifier in morse code , and data that allows the airborne receiving equipment to derive a Bearing #Types of bearings from the station to the aircraft...
  • Samuel Leeds Allen
    Samuel Leeds Allen

    Samuel Leeds Allen was an United States inventor and industrialist, whose most famous invention was the Flexible Flyer, the world's first steerable runner sled....
    , Flexible flyer sled
    Sled

    A sled, sledge or sleigh is a vehicle with runners for sliding instead of wheels for rolling. It is used for transport on surfaces with low friction, usually snow or ice but any grassy surface is good when it is not too dry....
  • Luis Walter Alvarez, radio distance and direction indicator
    Radar

    Radar is a system that uses electromagnetic radiation waves to identify the range, altitude, direction, or speed of both moving and fixed objects such as aircraft, ships, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain....
    ; hydrogen bubble chamber
    Bubble chamber

    A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheating transparency liquid used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it....
  • Edwin Howard Armstrong, FM radio


B

  • Alpheus Babcock
    Alpheus Babcock

    Alpheus Babcock was a piano and music instrument maker in Boston, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the early 1800s. Babcock is best known for patenting a complete iron frame in a single casting used to resist the strain of the strings in square pianos, he also patented a system of stringing in squares, and improvements in...
    , cast iron
    Cast iron

    Cast iron usually refers to Gray iron, but also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys, which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy....
     piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
     frame
  • George Herman Babcock
    George Herman Babcock

    George Herman Babcock was an United States inventor. He co-invented an improved safety water tube steam boiler. Together with Stephen Wilcox he founded the Babcock & Wilcox boiler company....
    , steam generator
    Steam generator

    A steam generator is a device used to boil water to create steam. It may refer to:*Boiler , a closed vessel in which water is heated under pressure...
  • Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Bakelite
    Bakelite

    Bakelite is a material based on the thermosetting plastic phenol formaldehyde resin polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, developed in 1907?1909 by Demographics of Belgium Dr....
  • Rodney Bagley
    Rodney Bagley

    Rodney D. Bagley, PhD, is a co-inventor of the catalytic converter.Rodney Bagley was born in Ogden, Utah, on 2 October 1934. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Geological and geophysical engineering in 1960, and a Doctor of Philosophy in ceramic engineering in 1964, both from the University of Utah....
    , substrate for catalytic converters
  • Matthias William Baldwin, steam locomotive
    Steam locomotive

    A steam locomotive is a locomotive powered by steam. The term usually refers to its use on railways, but can also refer to a "road locomotive" such as a traction engine or steamroller....
  • Robert Banks
    Robert Banks (chemist)

    Robert L. Banks was an United States chemist. He was born and grew up in Piedmont, Missouri. He attended Southeast Missouri State University, and initiated into Alpha Phi Omega in 1940....
    , polypropylene
    Polypropylene

    Polypropylene or polypropene is a thermoplastic polymer, made by the chemical industry and used in a wide variety of applications, including packaging, textiles , stationery, plastic parts and reusable containers of various types, laboratory equipment, loudspeakers, automotive components, and polymer banknotes....
     plastics
  • Frederick Banting
    Frederick Banting

    Sir Frederick Banting, Order of the British Empire, Military Cross, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, was a Canada medical scientist, doctor and Nobel Prize noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin....
    , isolated and purified insulin
    Insulin

    Insulin is a hormone with extensive effects on both metabolism and several other body systems . Insulin causes most of the body's cells to take up glucose from the blood , storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle, and stops use of fat as an energy source....
  • Paul Baran
    Paul Baran

    Paul Baran was one of the three inventors of packet-switched networks, along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock. He was born in Grodno , but his family moved to Philadelphia in 1928....
    , digital packet switching
    Packet switching

    Packet switching is a network communications method that groups all transmitted data, irrespective of content, type, or structure into suitably-sized blocks, called packets....
  • John Bardeen
    John Bardeen

    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS t...
    , transistor
    Transistor

    In electronics, a transistor is a semiconductor device commonly used to Electronic amplifier or switch Electronics signals. A transistor is made of a solid piece of a semiconductor material, with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit....
  • C. Donald Bateman, ground proximity warning system
    Ground Proximity Warning System

    A ground proximity warning system is a system designed to alert aircraft pilot if their aircraft is in immediate danger of CFIT or an obstacle....
  • Andrew Jackson Beard
    Andrew Jackson Beard

    Andrew Jackson Beard was an African-American inventor. He was a man of many talents. In his 72 years of life, he was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, real estate capitalist, railroad worker, and inventor....
     (1849-1921), improved Janney coupler for railroad cars
  • Arnold Orville Beckman
    Arnold Orville Beckman

    Arnold Orville Beckman was an United States chemist who founded Beckman Instruments based on his invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, in 1934....
    , pH meter
    PH meter

    A pH meter is an electronic instrument used to measure the pH of a liquid . A typical pH meter consists of a special measuring probe connected to an electronic meter that measures and displays the pH reading....
  • Semi Joseph Begun, magnetic recording
  • Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, Innovation and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work....
    , telephone
    Telephone

    The telephone is a telecommunications device that is used to transmitter and receive electronically or digitally encoded sound between two or more people conversing....
  • Ruth Benerito
    Ruth R. Benerito

    Ruth Rogan Benerito is an American scientist and inventor known for her work related to the textile industry, including the development of wash-and-wear cotton....
    , wrinkle-free cotton
    Permanent press

    A permanent press is a textile that has been chemically processed to resist wrinkles and hold its shape. This treatment has a lasting effect on the fabric....
  • Willard Harrison Bennett
    Willard Harrison Bennett

    Willard Harrison Bennett was a scientist and inventor, born in Findlay, Ohio, Ohio. Bennett conducted research into plasma physics, astrophysics, geophysics, surface physics, and physical chemistry....
    , mass spectrometry
    Mass spectrometry

    Mass spectrometry is an analytical technique for the determination of the elemental composition of a sample or molecule. It is also used for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules, such as peptides and other chemical compounds....
  • Emile Berliner
    Emile Berliner

    Emile Berliner was a Germany-born United States inventor, best known for developing the gramophone record gramophone . He founded The Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gramophone#Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Mon...
    , gramophone
    Gramophone

    Gramophone might refer to:* The British English term for U.S. English "phonograph", the first device for recording and replaying sound. The two names were originally those used by rival manufacturers...
     and microphone
    Microphone

    A microphone, sometimes referred to as a mike or?more recently?mic, is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal....
  • Henry Bessemer
    Henry Bessemer

    Sir Henry Bessemer , was an England engineer and inventor. Bessemer's name is chiefly known in connection with the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel....
    , Bessemer process
    Bessemer process

    The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron. The process is named after its inventor, Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1855....
     for steel production
  • Charles Best
    Charles Best

    Charles Herbert Best, Order of Canada was a medical scientist. He was one of the co-discoverer of insulin.Born in West Pembroke, Washington County, Maine, Maine, the son of Luella Fisher Best and Herbert Huestis Best, his parents were Canadians from Nova Scotia....
    , isolation of insulin
    Insulin

    Insulin is a hormone with extensive effects on both metabolism and several other body systems . Insulin causes most of the body's cells to take up glucose from the blood , storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle, and stops use of fat as an energy source....
  • Erastus Brigham Bigelow
    Erastus Brigham Bigelow

    Erastus Brigham Bigelow was an United States inventor of weaving machines. Bigelow was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts....
     (1814-1879), powered loom
    Loom

    A loom is a machine or device for weaving thread or yarn into textiles. Looms can range from very small hand-held frames, to large free-standing hand looms, to huge automatic mechanical devices....
  • Gerd Karl Binnig
    Gerd Binnig

    Gerd Binnig is a German physicist, and a Nobel laureate.He was born in Frankfurt am Main and played in the ruins of the city during his childhood....
    , scanning tunneling microscope
    Scanning tunneling microscope

    Scanning tunneling microscope is a powerful technique for viewing surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer , the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986....
  • Forrest M. Bird, respirator
    Respirator

    A respirator is a device designed to protect the wearer from inhaling harmful dusts, fumes, vapors, and/or gases. Respirators come in a wide range of types and sizes used by the military, private industry, and the public....
  • Clarence Birdseye
    Clarence Birdseye

    Clarence Frank Birdseye II was an U.S.A. inventor who is considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry....
    , frozen food
    Frozen food

    Frozen food is food preserved by the process of freezing. Freezing food is a common method of food preservation which slows both food Decomposition and, by turning water to ice, makes it unavailable for most bacteriuml growth and slows down most chemical reactions....
  • László Bíró
    László Bíró

    L?szl? J?zsef B?r? was the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen.B?r? , , was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1899. He presented the first production of the ball pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931....
    , ballpoint pen
    Ballpoint pen

    A ballpoint pen , is a modern writing instrument. A ballpoint pen has an internal chamber filled with a viscosity ink that is dispensed at the tip during use by the rolling action of a small metal sphere of brass, steel or tungsten carbide....
  • Harold Stephen Black
    Harold Stephen Black

    Harold Stephen Black was an American electrical engineer, who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier in 1927....
    , feedback amplifier
    Feedback amplifier

    When a fraction of the output of an amplifier is combined with the input, feedback exists; if the feedback opposes the original signal, it is negative feedback and if it increases the signal it is positive feedback....
  • Eli Whitney Blake
    Eli Whitney Blake

    Eli Whitney Blake, Sr. was an United States inventor, best known for his mortise lock and stone-crushing machine, the latter of which earned him a place into the National Inventors Hall of Fame....
    , machine for crushing stone
    Rock (geology)

    In geology, rock is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock....
  • Helen Blanchard
    Helen Blanchard

    Helen Augusta Blanchard was known for her numerous inventions dealing with sewing machines. Blanchard was born into a wealthy Maine ship owner's family....
     (1840-1922), innovations to sewing machine
    Sewing machine

    A sewing machine is a textile machine used to stitch fabric or other material together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies....
  • Thomas Blanchard
    Thomas Blanchard

    Thomas Blanchard was a prolific United States inventor, awarded over twenty-five patents for his creations.Born in Sutton, Massachusetts, his first machine, made and patented in 1806, was a mechanical tack-maker, which could fabricate five hundred tacks per minute, each much better than tacks made by hand....
     (1788-1864), pattern lathe
    Lathe

    A lathe is a machine tool which spins a block of material to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or Deformation_ with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object which has rotational symmetry about an axis of rotation....
  • Katharine B. Blodgett, Langmuir-Blodgett film
    Langmuir-Blodgett film

    Introduction A Langmuir?Blodgett film contains one or more monolayers of an organic material, deposited from the surface of a liquid onto a solid by immersing the solid substrate into the liquid....
  • Samuel Blum, LASIK
    LASIK

    LASIK or Lasik is a type of refractive surgery laser eye surgery performed by ophthalmologists for correcting myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism ....
     eye surgery
  • Baruch Blumberg, vaccine for hepatitis B
  • James Bogardus
    James Bogardus

    James Bogardus was an American inventor and architect, the pioneer of American cast-iron architecture, for which he took out a patent in 1850. In the next two decades he demonstrated the use of cast-iron in the construction of building facades, especially in New York City, where he was based, but also in Washington, DC, where three cast-iron...
    , iron
    Iron

    Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
     frame building
  • Nils Bohlin
    Nils Bohlin

    Nils Ivar Bohlin was a Sweden inventor who invented the three-point Seat belt while working at Volvo.Born in H?rn?sand, Sweden, he received a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from H?rn?sand L?roverk in 1939....
    , safety belt
  • Gail Borden, Jr. (1801-1874), process for condensed milk
    Condensed milk

    Condensed milk, also known as sweetened condensed milk, is Milk#Cow's milk from which water has been removed and to which sugar has been added, yielding a very thick, sweet product that can last for years without refrigeration if unopened....
  • Karl Bosch, Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production
  • Amar Bose
    Amar Bose

    Amar Gopal Bose is the chairman and founder of Bose Corporation. An American Electrical engineering of Bengali people descent, he was listed on the 2007 Forbes 400 with a net worth of $1.8 billion....
    , Audio feedback control
  • Robert W. Bower
    Robert W. Bower

    Dr. Robert W. Bower was born in Santa Monica, CA and is an applied physicist. Immediately after receiving his Ph.D. from The California Institute of Technology in 1973, he worked for over 25 years in many different professions: Engineer, Scientist, Department Head at University of California, Davis, and as president and CEO of Device Concept...
    , MOSFET
    MOSFET

    The metal?oxide?semiconductor field-effect transistor is a device used to amplify or switch electronic signals. The basic principle of the device was first proposed by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1925....
  • Seth Boyden
    Seth Boyden

    Seth Boyden was an United States inventor. He was the brother of Uriah A. Boyden.A New England native who moved to Newark, New Jersey, Boyden perfected the process for making patent leather, created malleable iron, invented a Nail -making machine, and built his own steamboat....
     (1788-1870), process for making malleable iron
    Malleable iron

    Malleable iron is the oldest member of the family of nodular irons. Like all nodular irons, malleable iron exhibits good ductility. Incorrectly considered by some to be an "old" or "dead" material, malleable iron still has a legitimate place in the design engineer's toolbox....
  • Herbert W. Boyer, genetic engineering
    Genetic engineering

    Engineering There are a number of ways through which genetic engineering is accomplished. Essentially, the process has five main steps# Isolation of the genes of interest...
  • Willard Boyle
    Willard Boyle

    Willard S Boyle is a Canada physicist and co-inventor of the Charge-coupled device.Born in my ass Amherst, Nova Scotia, Boyle served in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II but did not see active service....
    , charge coupled device
  • Milton Bradley
    Milton Bradley

    Milton Bradley an United States board game pioneer, was credited by many with launching the board game industry in North America with Milton Bradley Company....
     (1836-1911), game board
  • Jacques Brandenberger (1872-1954), Cellophane
    Cellophane

    Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose. Its low permeability to air, oils and Fats, and bacterium makes it useful for food packaging....
  • Charles F. Brannock
    Charles F. Brannock

    Charles F. Brannock was the inventor and manufacturer of the familiar Brannock Device for measuring overall length, width, and heel-to-ball length of the foot....
    , Brannock device
    Brannock Device

    File:Brannock_uspat1725334-fig1.pngThe Brannock Device is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for computing a person's shoe size....
     for foot measuring
  • Walter Brattain, transistor
    Transistor

    In electronics, a transistor is a semiconductor device commonly used to Electronic amplifier or switch Electronics signals. A transistor is made of a solid piece of a semiconductor material, with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit....
  • Rachel Fuller Brown
    Rachel Fuller Brown

    Rachel Fuller Brown was an American scientist.She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor of Arts in history and chemistry from Mount Holyoke College in 1920....
    , Nystatin
    Nystatin

    Nystatin is a Polyene antimycotic antifungal medication to which many molds and yeast infections are sensitive, including Candida . Nystatin has some toxicity associated with it when given intravenously, but it is not absorbed across intact skin or mucous membranes....
     antifungal
  • John Moses Browning, Breech-loading rifle
  • Charles F. Brush
    Charles F. Brush

    Charles Francis Brush was a U.S. inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
     (1849-1929), arc light
    Arc Light

    Arc Light is the debut novel by Eric L. Harry, a techno-thriller about limited Nuclear warfare published in 1994 and written in 1991-2.As China and Russia clash in Siberia in June 1999, nuclear missiles strike the United States....
     for street lighting
  • Luther Burbank
    Luther Burbank

    Luther Burbank was an American botany, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science.He developed more than 800 Strain and Variety of plants over his 55-year career....
    , plant breeding
    Plant breeding

    Plant breeding is the art and science of changing the genetics of plants for the benefit of humankind. Plant breeding can be accomplished through many different techniques ranging from simply selecting plants with desirable characteristics for propagation, to more complex molecular techniques ....
  • Joseph H. Burckhalter
    Joseph H. Burckhalter

    Joseph H. Burckhalter was a chemist who worked in the field of isothiocyanate compounds....
    , isothiocyanates
  • William Seward Burroughs
    William Seward Burroughs I

    William Seward Burroughs I was an United States inventor, born in Rochester, New York.Initially a bank clerk, he invented a "adding machine" designed to ease the monotony of clerical work....
    , adding machine
    Adding machine

    An adding machine is a type of calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping calculations.In the United States, the earliest adding machines were usually built to read in dollars and cents....
  • William Merriam Burton
    William Merriam Burton

    William Merriam Burton was a United States chemist who developed the first thermal cracking process for crude oil.Burton was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio....
    , catalytic cracking
  • Vannevar Bush
    Vannevar Bush

    Vannevar Bush was an United States engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computer, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex, which was seen decades later as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web....
    , differential analyzer


C

  • Edward Calahan (1838-1912), stock ticker
    Ticker tape

    Ticker tape was used by ticker tape machines, the Ticker tape timer, stock ticker machines, or just stock tickers....
  • Donald L. Campbell
    Donald L. Campbell

    Donald L. Campbell was an American chemical engineer. He and his team of three other scientists in the same field are most known for having developed the fluid catalytic cracking process in 1942....
    , catalytic cracking
  • Marvin Camras
    Marvin Camras

    Marvin Camras was an electrical engineer and inventor who was widely influential in the field of magnetic recording.Camras built his first recording device, a wire recorder, in the 1930s for a cousin who was an aspiring singer....
    , magnetic recording
  • Chester F. Carlson, Xerox
    Xerox

    Xerox Corporation is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white Computer printer, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies....
     photocopying process
  • Wallace Hume Carothers, synthetic rubber
    Synthetic rubber

    Synthetic rubber is any type of artificially made polymer material, which acts as an elastomer. An elastomer is a material with the mechanical property that it can undergo much more Elasticity deformation under stress, than most materials and still return to its previous size without permanent deformation....
  • Willis Haviland Carrier, air conditioner
  • George Carruthers
    George Carruthers

    George Robert Carruthers is an African American inventor, physicist, and space scientist. He has lived most of his life on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois....
    , ultraviolet
    Ultraviolet

    Ultraviolet light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than x-rays, in the range 400 nanometer to 10 nm, and energies from 3 Electron volt to 124 eV....
     camera
  • George Washington Carver
    George Washington Carver

    George Washington Carver , was an United States scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor whose studies and teaching revolutionized agriculture in the Southern United States....
    , peanut
    Peanut

    The peanut, or groundnut , is a species in the legume Fabaceae native to South America, Mexico and Central America. It is an annual plant herbaceous plant growing to 30 to 50 cm tall....
     products
  • Frank Cepollina
    Frank Cepollina

    Frank J. Cepollina was born in 1936 in Castro Valley, California is an United States engineer and inventor. He was officially inducted to the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his pioneering concept of in-orbit satellite servicing in May 2003....
    , satellite
    Satellite

    In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
     servicing techniques
  • Vinton G. Cerf, Internet protocol
    Internet protocol

    Internet protocol may refer to:*The Internet Protocol, a specific protocol implementation in the Internet protocol suite*The Internet protocol suite, a set of communications protocols that are used for the Internet...
  • Daryl Chapin, Solar Cell
    Solar cell

    A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts sunlight directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes the term solar cell is reserved for devices intended specifically to capture energy from sunlight, while the term photovoltaic cell is used when the source is unspecified....
  • Emmett Chappelle
    Emmett Chappelle

    Emmett W. Chappelle is a scientist and researcher who made valuable contributions in several fields: medicine, philanthropy, food science, and astrochemistry....
    , bioluminescence
    Bioluminescence

    Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism as the result of a chemical reaction during which chemical energy is converted to light energy....
  • John Charnley
    John Charnley

    Sir John Charnley was a British Orthopedic surgery. He pioneered the hip replacement operation, which is now one of the most common operations both in the UK and elsewhere in the world....
    , Hip replacement surgery
  • Georges Claude
    Georges Claude

    The France engineer, chemist, and inventor Georges Claude , was the first to apply an electrical discharge to a sealed tube of neon gas to create a lamp....
    , Neon light
  • Josephine Cochrane
    Josephine Cochrane

    Josephine Garis Cochran made the first practical mechanical dishwasher in 1886, in Shelbyville, Illinois. Mrs. Cochrane was a rich woman who held many fancy dinner parties....
     (1839-1913), dishwasher
    Dishwasher

    A dishwasher is a mechanical device for cleaning dishware and cutlerys. Dishwashers can be found in restaurants and private homes....
  • Stanley N. Cohen, genetic engineering
    Genetic engineering

    Engineering There are a number of ways through which genetic engineering is accomplished. Essentially, the process has five main steps# Isolation of the genes of interest...
  • James Collip
    James Collip

    James Bertram Collip was part of the Toronto group which isolated insulin. He served as the Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University from 1928-1941 and Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario from 1947-1961, where he was also a member of the Kappa Alpha Society....
     isolated and purified insulin
    Insulin

    Insulin is a hormone with extensive effects on both metabolism and several other body systems . Insulin causes most of the body's cells to take up glucose from the blood , storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle, and stops use of fat as an energy source....
  • Samuel Colt
    Samuel Colt

    Samuel Colt was an United States inventor and industrialist. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company , and is widely credited with popularizing the revolver....
     (1814-1862), Colt revolver with interchangeable parts
  • Frank B. Colton
    Frank B. Colton

    Frank Benjamin Colton , United States chemist who first synthesized norethynodrel, the progestin used in Enovid, the combined oral contraceptive pill, at G....
    , oral contraceptives
  • Lloyd H. Conover, tetracycline
    Tetracycline

    Tetracycline is a broad-spectrum polyketide antibiotic produced by the Streptomyces genus of Actinobacteria, indicated for use against many bacterial infections....
  • William D. Coolidge x-ray tube
    X-ray tube

    An X-ray tube is a vacuum tube that produces X-rays. They are part of X-ray machines. X-rays are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, an ionizing radiation with wavelength just shorter than ultraviolet light....
  • Peter Cooper
    Peter Cooper

    Peter Cooper was an United States industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United States....
     (1791-1883), American steam locomotive
    Steam locomotive

    A steam locomotive is a locomotive powered by steam. The term usually refers to its use on railways, but can also refer to a "road locomotive" such as a traction engine or steamroller....
  • Harry Coover
    Harry Coover

    Harry Coover invented cyanoacrylate glue, commonly known as Super Glue or Eastman 910....
    , superglue
  • George Henry Corliss
    George Henry Corliss

    George Henry Corliss was an United States inventor, mechanics engineer, and the inventor of the Corliss steam engine. The Corliss engine is considered to have been the innovation that made steam power more economically efficient, than water power....
     (1817-1888), improvements to steam engine
    Steam engine

    File:Steam-powered fire engine.jpgA steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Steam engines have a long history, going back at least 2000 years....
  • Martha Coston
    Martha Coston

    Martha J. Coston was the inventor of the Coston flare, a device for signaling at sea....
     (1826-1904), signal flare
    Signal Flare

    For the band see of this name see Signal Flare .Signal Flare is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes....
     used for ships
  • Frederick G. Cottrell, electrostatic precipitator
    Electrostatic precipitator

    An electrostatic precipitator , or electrostatic air cleaner is a particulate collection device that removes particles from a flowing gas using the force of an induced electrostatic charge....
  • Wallace H. Coulter
    Wallace H. Coulter

    Wallace H. Coulter was an United States electrical engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is best known for his discovery of the Coulter principle, which provided a methodology for counting, measuring and evaluating microscopic particles suspended in fluid....
    , Coulter principle
    Coulter principle

    The Coulter principle states that particles pulled through an orifice, concurrent with an electric current, produce a change in Electrical impedance that is proportional to the size of the particle traversing the orifice....
  • Joshua Lionel Cowen
    Joshua Lionel Cowen

    Joshua Lionel Cowen , born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and the cofounder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railway and toy trains....
    , model train
  • Eckley Coxe (1839-1895), traveling grate furnace
    Furnace

    File:Piec krepa.JPGA furnace is a device used for heating. The name derives from Latin fornax, oven. The earliest furnace was excavated at Balakot, a site of the Indus Valley Civilization, dating back to its mature phase ....
  • Seymour Cray
    Seymour Cray

    Seymour Roger Cray was a United States electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded the company Cray Research which would build many of these machines....
    , supercomputer
    Supercomputer

    A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers introduced in the 1960s were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation , and led the market into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own company, Cray Research....
  • George Crompton
    George Crompton

    George Crompton was an American inventor, manufacturer, and businessman and the son of William Crompton, an inventor. He is most well known for his invention, perfection, and popularization of the Crompton Loom, a fancy loom that could reach maximum speeds of eighty-five picks per second, nearly twice the speed of its most efficient predeces...
    , loom
    Loom

    A loom is a machine or device for weaving thread or yarn into textiles. Looms can range from very small hand-held frames, to large free-standing hand looms, to huge automatic mechanical devices....
  • Glenn Curtiss
    Glenn Curtiss

    Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation....
    , hydroplane
    Hydroplane

    A hydroplane is a type of motorboat used exclusively for racing.One of the unique things about these boats is that they only use the water they're on for Propeller#Ship/Submarine propellers and steering ?when going at full speed they are primarily held aloft by a principle of fluid dynamics known as "Planing ", with only a tiny fraction o...
  • David Cushman
    David Cushman

    David Cushman was an American chemist famous for his role in the invention of captopril, the first of the ACE inhibitors used in the treatment of cardiovascular disease....
    , captopril
    Captopril

    Captopril is an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor used for the treatment of hypertension and some types of congestive heart failure. Captopril was the first ACE inhibitor developed and was considered a breakthrough both because of its novel mechanism of action and also because of the revolutionary development process....


D

  • Gottlieb Daimler
    Gottlieb Daimler

    Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf , in what is now the Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development....
     (1834-1900), design of automobile and motorcycle engine
    Motorcycle engine

    A motorcycle engine propels a motorcycle. The engine typically sits immediately under the fuel tank, in between and just forward of the rider's legs....
    s
  • Raymond V. Damadian
    Raymond V. Damadian

    Raymond Vahan Damadian is an Armenian United States practitioner of magnetic resonance imaging....
    , MRI
  • Donald Davies
    Donald Davies

    Donald Watts Davies, Order of the British Empire Royal Society was a Wales computer scientist who was a co-inventor of packet switching , along with Paul Baran in the United States....
    , digital packet switching
    Packet switching

    Packet switching is a network communications method that groups all transmitted data, irrespective of content, type, or structure into suitably-sized blocks, called packets....
  • Lee De Forest
    Lee De Forest

    Lee De Forest was an United States inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion tube, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them....
    , Audion tube
    Audion tube

    The Audion is an electronic amplifier device invented by Lee De Forest in 1906. It was the forerunner of the triode, in which the current from the Electrical filament to the Plate electrode was controlled by a third element, the grid....
     for radio detection
  • George de Mestral, Velcro
    Velcro

    Velcro is a brand name of fabric hook-and-loop fasteners. It consists of two layers: a "hook" side, which is a piece of fabric covered with tiny hooks, and a "loop" side, which is covered with even smaller and "hairier" loops....
  • Mark Dean
    Mark Dean

    Mark Dean is an inventor and a computer scientist. He holds three of the nine original IBM patents upon which the IBM PC personal computers were based....
    , computer peripherals
  • John Deere
    John Deere

    John Deere was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company— the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world....
    , farm plow
  • Robert Dennard
    Robert Dennard

    Robert Dennard is an United States electrical engineer and inventor.Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas, United States. He received his B.S. and M.S....
    , DRAM
    Dram

    Dram or DRAM may refer to:* Dram , an imperial unit of mass and volume* Armenian dram, a monetary unit* Dynamic random access memory* Database of Recorded American Music...
  • Rudolf Diesel
    Rudolf Diesel

    Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a French_People/German_people inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine....
    , internal combustion engine
    Internal combustion engine

    The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs in a combustion chamber inside and integral to the engine. In an internal combustion engine it is always the expansion of the high temperature and pressure gases that are produced by the combustion which apply force to the movable component of the engine, such as...
  • Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    , multiplane camera
  • Carl Djerassi
    Carl Djerassi

    Carl Djerassi , is a chemistry, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the combined oral contraceptive pill ....
    , oral contraceptives
  • Ray Dolby
    Ray Dolby

    Ray Dolby is the United States inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby noise reduction system. He was also a co-inventor of video tape recording while at Ampex....
    , Dolby noise reduction
  • Herbert Henry Dow
    Herbert Henry Dow

    Herbert Henry Dow was a Canada born, United States of America chemical industrialist. He attended the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio, where he became a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity....
    , bromine
    Bromine

    Bromine , , meaning "stench " ), is a chemical element with the symbol Br and atomic number 35. A halogen element, bromine is a reddish-brown Volatility liquid at Standard conditions for temperature and pressure that is intermediate in reactivity between chlorine and iodine....
     extraction
  • Charles Stark Draper
    Charles Stark Draper

    Charles Stark Draper was an American scientist and engineer, often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation system."...
    , stabilizing gyroscopic
  • Richard Drew
    Richard Drew (inventor)

    Richard Gurley Drew was an United States inventor who worked for 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape, cellophane tape, and Duct tape....
    , Adhesive tape
    Adhesive tape

    Adhesive tape can be one of many varieties of backing materials coated with an adhesive.Several types of adhesives can be used:...
  • Philip Drinker
    Philip Drinker

    Philip Drinker was an industrial hygiene who invented the first widely used iron lung in 1928 with Louis Agassiz Shaw.Drinker's father was railroad-man and Lehigh University president Henry Sturgis Drinker; his siblings included lawyer and musicologist Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr., pathologist Cecil K....
    , Iron lung
    Iron lung

    An iron lung is a medium size machine that enables a person to respiration when normal muscle control has been lost or the work of breathing exceeds the person's ability....
  • John Boyd Dunlop
    John Boyd Dunlop

    John Boyd Dunlop , born in Scotland, was the inventor who was one of the founders of the rubber company that bore his name, Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company....
     (1840-1921), pneumatic tire
  • Graham J. Durant, cimetidine
    Cimetidine

    Cimetidine is a histamine H2-receptor antagonist that inhibits the production of acid in the stomach. It is largely used in the treatment of heartburn and peptic ulcers....


E

  • George Eastman
    George Eastman

    George Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of the film stock in 1888 by world's first filmmaker, Louis Le Prince, and a decade later by his followers L?on Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumi?re Brothers and Georges M?li?s....
    , photography
    Photography

    Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
  • John Presper Eckert, ENIAC
    ENIAC

    ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was a general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing complete, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems....
  • Harold E. Edgerton, stroboscope
    Stroboscope

    A stroboscope, also known as a strobe, is an instrument used to make a cyclically moving object appear to be slow-moving, or stationary. The principle is used for the study of Rotation, Reciprocation, oscillation or vibration objects....
     photography
  • Thomas Alva Edison, practical electric light
    Electric light

    Most of the industrialized world is lit by electric lights, which are used both at night and to provide additional light during the daytime. These lights are normally powered by the electric grid, but some run on local electrical generators, and emergency generators serve as backups in hospitals and other locations where a loss of power could...
  • Alfred Einhorn, Novocain
  • Willem Einthoven
    Willem Einthoven

    Willem Einthoven was a Dutch Physician and physiology. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it....
    , Electrocardiograph
  • Gertrude Belle Elion, leukemia
    Leukemia

    Leukemia is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation of blood Cell , usually white blood cells ....
     drug
  • John Colin Emmett, cimetidine
    Cimetidine

    Cimetidine is a histamine H2-receptor antagonist that inhibits the production of acid in the stomach. It is largely used in the treatment of heartburn and peptic ulcers....
  • Douglas Engelbart
    Douglas Engelbart

    Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart is an United States inventor and early computer pioneer of German, Swedish ethnic group and Norwegian people descent....
    , computer mouse
  • John Ericsson
    John Ericsson

    John Ericsson was a Sweden inventor and mechanics engineer, as was his brother, Nils Ericson. He was born at L?ngbanshyttan in V?rmland, Sweden, but primarily came to be active in the United States....
    , screw propeller
  • Lloyd Espenschied
    Lloyd Espenschied

    Lloyd Espenschied was an United States electrical engineer....
    , coaxial cable
    Coaxial cable

    Coaxial cable is a cable consisting of an inner conductor, surrounded by a tubular insulating layer typically made from a flexible material with a high dielectric constant, all of which is then surrounded by another conductive layer , and then finally covered again with a thin insulating layer on the outside....
  • Oliver Evans
    Oliver Evans

    Oliver Evans was a United States inventor.Evans was born in Newport, Delaware to a family of Welsh people settlers. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a wheelwright....
    , high pressure steam engine
    Steam engine

    File:Steam-powered fire engine.jpgA steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Steam engines have a long history, going back at least 2000 years....
  • Ole Evinrude
    Ole Evinrude

    Ole Evinrude, born Ole Evenrudstuen was a Norwegian-American inventor, known for the invention of the first outboard motor with practical commercial application....
    , Outboard motor
    Outboard motor

    An outboard motor is a marine propulsion system for boats, consisting of a self-contained unit that includes engine, gearbox and propeller or Jetboat, designed to be affixed to the outside of the Transom ....


F

  • Maxime Faget
    Maxime Faget

    Maxime "Max" A. Faget was an USA engineer. He was the designer of the Project Mercury space capsule, as well as contributing to the later NASA Gemini program and Project Apollo spacecraft and also the Space Shuttle....
    , space capsule
    Space capsule

    A space capsule is an often manned spacecraft which has a simple shape for the main section, without any wings or other features to create lift during atmospheric reentry....
  • Federico Faggin
    Federico Faggin

    Federico Faggin is an Italy-born physicist/electrical engineer, principally responsible for the design of the first microprocessor and responsible for leading the Intel 4004 to its successful outcome and for promoting its marketing....
    , CPU
  • Moses Farmer (1820-1893), electric fire alarm system
  • Philo Taylor Farnsworth, television
    Television

    Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
  • James Fergason
    James Fergason

    James Fergason was an inventor of an improved Liquid Crystal Display, or LCD, it has been alleged that his design was stolen from a patent submitted around the same time, however a court case has proved otherwise....
    , liquid crystal display
    Liquid crystal display

    A liquid crystal display is an Electro-optic modulator shaped into a thin, flat panel made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels filled with liquid crystals and arrayed in front of a Light#Light sources or reflector....
  • Enrico Fermi
    Enrico Fermi

    Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of Quantum mechanics, nuclear physics and particle physics, and statistical mechanics....
    , nuclear fission
    Nuclear fission

    In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction in which the atomic nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts, often producing free neutrons and lighter atomic nucleus, which may eventually produce photons ....
  • Reginald A. Fessenden, AM radio
  • Harvey Firestone
    Harvey Firestone

    Harvey Samuel Firestone was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires and an important contributor to North American economic growth during the 20th century....
     (1868-1938), pneumatic tire
  • John Fitch
    John Fitch (inventor)

    John Fitch was an American inventor, clockmaker, and bronzesmith who built the first recorded steam powered ship in the United States. He also invented the first working model of a steam locomotive....
     (1743-1798), steamboat
    Steamboat

    A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam engine, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels....
  • Edith M. Flanigen
    Edith M. Flanigen

    Edith Marie Flanigen is an American chemist, known for her work on synthesis of emeralds, and later zeolites for molecular sieves at Union Carbide....
    , molecular sieves
  • Thomas J. Fogarty
    Thomas J. Fogarty

    Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty is an United States of America surgeon and inventor of the embolectomy catheter. Before his invention the success rate for removing an embolus, or blood clot, was forty to fifty percent....
    , embolectomy catheter
    Catheter

    In medicine a catheter is a tubing that can be inserted into a body cavity, duct or vessel. Catheters thereby allow drainage or injection of fluids or access by surgical instruments....
  • Henry Ford
    Henry Ford

    Henry Ford was the United States founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T History of the automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry....
    , automobile
    Automobile

    An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
  • Jay W. Forrester, random access memory
  • John E. Franz
    John E. Franz

    John E. Franz is an organic chemist who discovered the herbicide glyphosate while working at Monsanto Company in 1970. The chemical became the active ingredient in Roundup, a broad-spectrum, post-emergence herbicide....
    , roundup
    Roundup

    Roundup is the brand name of a systemic, broad-spectrum herbicide produced by the United States company Monsanto and contains the active ingredient glyphosate....
  • Alfred Free, glucose
    Glucose

    Glucose , a monosaccharide also known as grape sugar, blood sugar, or corn sugar, is a very important carbohydrate in biology....
     detection for diabetes
  • Helen Murray Free, glucose
    Glucose

    Glucose , a monosaccharide also known as grape sugar, blood sugar, or corn sugar, is a very important carbohydrate in biology....
     detection for diabetes
  • Calvin Fuller, Solar Cell
    Solar cell

    A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts sunlight directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes the term solar cell is reserved for devices intended specifically to capture energy from sunlight, while the term photovoltaic cell is used when the source is unspecified....
  • Robert Fulton
    Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton was an United States engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He also designed a new type of steam warship....
     (1765-1815), steamboat
    Steamboat

    A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam engine, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels....


G

  • Robert Gallo
    Robert Gallo

    Robert Charles Gallo is a U.S. biomedical researcher. He is best known for his co-discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus , the pathogen responsible for the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research....
    , HIV
    HIV

    Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that can lead to AIDS , a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections....
     isolation
  • C. Robin Ganellin
    C. Robin Ganellin

    Charon Robin Ganellin is a British born medicinal chemist. He has contributed much to the field of drug discovery and development. His most outstanding achievement was the discovery of cimetidine, a drug used to combat stomach ulcers, when he was working at Smith Kline and French....
    , cimetidine
    Cimetidine

    Cimetidine is a histamine H2-receptor antagonist that inhibits the production of acid in the stomach. It is largely used in the treatment of heartburn and peptic ulcers....
  • Edmund Germer
    Edmund Germer

    Edmund Germer was a Germany inventor granted as the father of the fluorescent lamp. He patent application with Friedrich Meyer and Hans J. Spanner on December 10 1926, which led to ....
    , fluorescent lighting
  • Ivan Getting, GPS
  • John Heysham Gibbon
    John Heysham Gibbon

    John Heysham Gibbon Jr., Bachelor of Arts, Medical doctor, a surgeon who is famous for inventing the heart-lung machine and performing the first open heart surgery ....
    , heart-lung machine
    Heart-lung machine

    Cardiopulmonary bypass is a technique that temporarily takes over the function of the heart and lungs during surgery, maintaining the circulation of blood and the oxygen content of the body....
  • King Camp Gillette, safety razor
    Safety razor

    A safety razor is a razor where the skin is protected from all but the very edge of the blade.These razors are referred to as "safety" razors as opposed to the straight razor which is sometimes referred to as a "cut-throat razor." It is often thought that the safety razor was designed to eliminate the possibility of a user seriously inju...
  • Charles P. Ginsburg, video tape recording
  • Joseph Glidden
    Joseph Glidden

    Joseph Farwell Glidden was an United States farmer who patented barbed wire, a product that forever altered the development of the American West....
     (1813-1906), barbed wire
    Barbed wire

    Barbed wire, also known as barb wire , is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand....
  • Robert Hutchings Goddard, rockets
  • William Goddard
    William Goddard

    William A. Goddard was an engineer for IBM and an American inventor. He earned a degree in physics from Occidental College. Before working in industry, Goddard was a high school science teacher in Los Angeles....
    , hard drive and floppy disk
    Floppy disk

    A floppy disk is a data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangle plastic shell....
  • Leopold Godowsky, Jr.
    Leopold Godowsky, Jr.

    Leopold Godowsky, Jr. was an United States violinist and chemist, who together with Leopold Mannes created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome....
    , Kodachrome
    Kodachrome

    Kodachrome is the trademarked name of a brand of reversal film manufactured by Eastman Kodak. Since its introduction in 1935 it has been produced in various photography and movie formats, 8 mm film, 16mm film and 35mm film, and was for many years used for professional color photography, especially for images intended for publication in pri...
  • Peter Carl Goldmark
    Peter Carl Goldmark

    Peter Carl Goldmark was a Hungary, United States engineer who, during his time with Columbia Records, was instrumental in developing the LP album microgroove 33-1/3 rpm vinyl Gramophone record, the standard for incorporating multiple or lengthy recorded works on a single disc for two generations....
    , long playing record
  • Charles Goodyear
    Charles Goodyear

    Charles Goodyear was the first American to vulcanized rubber, a process which he discovered in 1839 and patented on June 15, 1844. Although Goodyear is often credited with its invention, modern evidence has proven that the Mesoamericans used stabilized rubber for balls and other objects as early as 1600 BC....
    , vulcanization
    Vulcanization

    Vulcanization refers to a specific curing process of rubber involving high heat and the addition of sulfur or other equivalent curatives. It is a chemical process in which polymer molecules are linked to other polymer molecules by atomic bridges composed of sulfur atoms or carbon to carbon bonds....
  • Robert W. Gore
    Robert W. Gore

    Robert W. Gore is the inventor of Gore-Tex, a waterproof/breathable fabric made from polytetrafluoroethylene .He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and attended the University of Delaware....
    , Goretex
  • Gordon Gould
    Gordon Gould

    Gordon Gould was an United States physicist who is widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser. Gould is best known for his thirty-year fight with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to obtain patents for the laser and related technologies....
    , laser
    Laser

    A laser is a device that emits light through a process called stimulated emission. The term laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation....
  • Zénobe Gramme
    Zénobe Gramme

    Z?nobe Th?ophile Gramme was a Belgium electrical engineer.In spite of the fact that he was semi-literate and had no advanced knowledge of mathematics, in 1869, he invented the Gramme machine, a type of direct current dynamo capable of generating smoother and much higher voltages than the dynamos known to that point....
     (1826-1901), direct-current dynamo
    Dynamo

    Dynamo or Dinamo may refer to:...
  • Elisha Gray
    Elisha Gray

    Elisha Gray was an United States electrical engineer and is best known for his Invention of the telephone in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.A....
    , telephone
    Telephone

    The telephone is a telecommunications device that is used to transmitter and receive electronically or digitally encoded sound between two or more people conversing....
     and telegraph improvements
  • Wilson Greatbatch
    Wilson Greatbatch

    Wilson Greatbatch is an inventor who advanced the development of early implantable cardiac artificial pacemaker. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York....
    , heart pacemaker
  • Leonard Michael Greene, aircraft stall warning
  • Leroy Grumman
    Leroy Grumman

    Leroy Randle Grumman was an United States industrialist and aeronautical engineering.Born in Huntington, New York he demonstrated an early interest in aviation....
    , retractable landing gear
    Landing Gear

    Landing Gear is Devin the Dude's fifth studio album. It was released on October 7 2008. It will be his first studio album since signing with the music label Razor & Tie....
  • Robert Gundlach
    Robert Gundlach

    Robert Gundlach was an United States physics. He is most noted for his prolific contributions to the field of xerography, specifically the development of the modern photocopier....
    , photocopier
    Photocopier

    A photocopier is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply. Most current photocopiers use a technology called xerography, a dry process using heat....


H

  • Fritz Haber
    Fritz Haber

    Fritz Haber was a German chemistry, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his development for Haber process, important for fertilizers and explosives....
    , ammonia production process
  • Charles Martin Hall
    Charles Martin Hall

    Charles Martin Hall was an American inventor and engineer. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminium, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron....
    , aluminum production process
    Hall-Héroult process

    The Hall-H?roult process is the major industrial process for the production of aluminium. It involves dissolving alumina in molten cryolite, and electrolysing the solution to obtain pure aluminium metal....
  • Lloyd Hall
    Lloyd Hall

    Lloyd Augustus Hall was an African American chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation. By the end of his career, Hall had amassed 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in foreign countries....
    , magnetron
  • Robert N. Hall
    Robert N. Hall

    Robert N. Hall is an American engineer. He demonstrated the first laser diode, and invented a type of magnetron commonly used in microwave ovens....
    , sterile packing food
  • Thomas Seavey Hall, Railroad signal
  • Andrew Smith Hallidie
    Andrew Smith Hallidie

    Andrew Smith Hallidie was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco, California, USA. This was the world's first practical cable car system, and Hallidie is often therefore regarded as the inventor of the cable car and father of the present day San Francisco cable car system, although both claims are open to dispute....
     (1836-1900), cable car
    Cable car (railway)

    A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are propelled by a continuously moving Wire rope running at a constant speed....
  • William Edward Hanford, polyurethane
    Polyurethane

    A polyurethane, commonly abbreviated PU, is any polymer consisting of a chain of organic chemistry units joined by carbamate links. Polyurethane polymers are formed by reacting a monomer containing at least two isocyanate functional groups with another monomer containing at least two alcohol groups in the presence of a catalyst....
  • Elizabeth Lee Hazen, Nystatin
    Nystatin

    Nystatin is a Polyene antimycotic antifungal medication to which many molds and yeast infections are sensitive, including Candida . Nystatin has some toxicity associated with it when given intravenously, but it is not absorbed across intact skin or mucous membranes....
  • M. Stephen Heilman, defibrillator
  • Beulah Louise Henry
    Beulah Louise Henry

    Beulah Louise Henry was an American inventor from Memphis,Tennessee. She has the nickname Lady Edison. She was awarded many patents including a bobbin-free sewing machine and a vacuum ice cream freezer....
     (1887-1973)
  • William R. Hewlett, audio signals
  • Rene Alphonse Higonnet, phototypesetting
    Phototypesetting

    Phototypesetting is a method of Typesetting, rendered obsolete with the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing software, that uses a photographic process to generate columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper....
     machine
  • Maurice Hilleman
    Maurice Hilleman

    Maurice Ralph Hilleman was an United States microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed over three dozen vaccines, more than any other scientist....
    , vaccines
  • James Hillier
    James Hillier

    James Hillier Order of Canada was a Canada-born scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938....
    , electron microscope
    Electron microscope

    An electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses a particle beam of electrons to illuminate a specimen and create a highly-magnified image....
  • Richard M. Hoe, rotary printing press
    Rotary printing press

    A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the images to be printed are curved around a cylinder. Printing can be done on large number of substrates paper, cardboard, plastic....
  • Marcian Hoff
    Marcian Hoff

    Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, Jr. , is one of the inventors of the microprocessor. Hoff, an engineer, joined Intel in 1967 as employee number 12, and is credited with coming up with the idea of a universal processor instead of custom-designed circuits....
    , CPU
  • Felix Hoffmann
    Felix Hoffmann

    Felix Hoffmann was a Germany chemist, who first synthesized medically useful forms of heroin and aspirin. He was born in Ludwigsburg and studied Chemistry in Munich....
    , aspirin
    Aspirin

    Aspirin , also known as acetylsalicylic acid , is a salicylate medication, often used as an analgesic to relieve minor aches and pains, as an antipyretic to reduce fever, and as an anti-inflammatory medication....
  • Paul Hogan, polypropylene
    Polypropylene

    Polypropylene or polypropene is a thermoplastic polymer, made by the chemical industry and used in a wide variety of applications, including packaging, textiles , stationery, plastic parts and reusable containers of various types, laboratory equipment, loudspeakers, automotive components, and polymer banknotes....
     and HDPE
  • John Phillip Holland, Submarine
    Submarine

    A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below water. It differs from a submersible, which has only limited underwater capability....
  • Herman Hollerith
    Herman Hollerith

    Herman Hollerith was a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical Tabulating machine based on punched cards in order to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data....
    , punch card
    Punch card

    A punch card or punched card , is a piece of paperboard that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions....
     tabulator
  • Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley

    Alexander Lyman Holley was a mechanical engineer and was considered the foremost steel and plant engineer and designer of his time, especially in regard to applying research to modern steel manufacturing processes....
     (1832-1882), steelmaking
    Steelmaking

    Steelmaking is the second step in producing steel from iron ore. In this stage, impurities such as sulfur, phosphorus, and excess carbon are removed from the Pig iron, and alloying elements such as manganese, nickel, chromium and vanadium are added to produce the exact steel required....
  • Birdsill Holly
    Birdsill Holly

    Birdsill Holly was an inventor. Holly was born in Auburn, New York. He spent his early years in Seneca Falls , New York, a major center of water powered industries....
     (1820-1894), fire hydrant
    Fire hydrant

    A fire hydrant , is an active fire protection measure, and a source of water provided in most urban, suburban and rural areas with municipal water service to enable firefighters to tap into the municipal water supply to assist in extinguishing a fire....
  • Donald Fletcher Holmes, polyurethane
    Polyurethane

    A polyurethane, commonly abbreviated PU, is any polymer consisting of a chain of organic chemistry units joined by carbamate links. Polyurethane polymers are formed by reacting a monomer containing at least two isocyanate functional groups with another monomer containing at least two alcohol groups in the presence of a catalyst....
  • Nick Holonyak
    Nick Holonyak

    Nick Holonyak, Jr. invented the first visible light-emitting diode in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric Company laboratory in Syracuse, New York and has been called "the father of the light-emitting diode"....
    , Light emitting diode
  • Benjamin Holt
    Benjamin Holt

    Benjamin Holt was an American inventor who developed David Roberts ' design for one of the first practical caterpillar tracks for use in tractors....
    , tractor
    Tractor

    File:John Deere 3350 tractor cut.JPGA tractor is a vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction....
  • Leroy Hood
    Leroy Hood

    Leroy Hood is an United States biologist. He won the 2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize for inventing "four instruments that have unlocked much of the mystery of human biology" by helping decode the genome....
    , DNA sequencer
    DNA sequencer

    A DNA sequencer is a scientific instrument used to automate the DNA sequencing process. It can be also considered an optical instrument as it generally analyses light signals originating from fluorochromes attached to nucleotides....
  • Erna Hoover, Computerized telephone switching
  • Eugene Houdry
    Eugene Houdry

    Eugene Houdry was a French mechanical engineer who invented catalytic cracking of petroleum feed stocks. He originally focused on using lignite as a feedstock, but switched to using heavy liquid tars after moving to the United States in 1930....
    , catalytic cracking
  • Godfrey Hounsfield
    Godfrey Hounsfield

    Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, was an England electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography ....
    , CAT scanner
  • Elias Howe
    Elias Howe

    Elias Howe was an United States inventor and sewing machine pioneer. He was born in Spencer, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory and then for a master mechanic....
    , sewing machine
    Sewing machine

    A sewing machine is a textile machine used to stitch fabric or other material together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies....
  • George Hulett (1846-1923), loading and unloading machine
  • Walter Hunt
    Walter Hunt

    Walter Hunt was an United States of America mechanic. He lived and worked in New York. Through the course of his work he became renowned for being a prolific inventor, notably of the sewing machine , safety pin , a forerunner of the Winchester repeating rifle, a successful flax spinner, knife sharpener, streetcar bell , hard-coal-burning st...
     (1796-1859), safety pin
    Safety pin

    A safety pin is a simple fastening device, a variation of the regular Pin which includes a simple Spring mechanism and a clasp. The clasp serves two purposes: to form a closed loop thereby properly fastening the pin to whatever it is applied to, and to cover the end of the pin to protect the user from the sharp point....
  • John Hyatt (1837-1920), celluloid
    Celluloid

    Celluloid is the name of a class of Chemical compound created from nitrocellulose and camphor, plus dyes and other agents. Generally regarded to be the first thermoplastic, it was first created as Parkesine in 1856 and as Xylonite in 1869 before being registered as Celluloid in 1870....
  • James Franklin Hyde
    James Franklin Hyde

    James Franklin Hyde was an American chemist and inventor. He has been called the ?Father of Silicones? and is credited with the launch of the silicone industry in the 1930s....
    , transparent silica


I

  • Simon Ingersoll
    Simon Ingersoll

    Simon Ingersoll founded the Ingersoll Rock Drill Company in 1871.In 1905 Ingersoll-Sargeant Drill Company merged with the Rand Drill Company to form Ingersoll-Rand....
     (1818-1894), rock drill
    Drill

    A drill is a tool with a rotating drill bit used for drilling holes in various materials. Drills are commonly used in woodworking, metalworking, construction and most "Do it yourself" projects....


J

  • Ali Javan
    Ali Javan

    Ali Javan is an Iranian inventor and physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-invented the gas laser in 1960, with William R....
    , helium-neon laser
    Helium-neon laser

    A helium-neon laser, usually called a HeNe laser, is a type of small gas laser. HeNe lasers have many industrial and scientific uses, and are often used in laboratory demonstrations of optics....
  • Alec Jeffreys
    Alec Jeffreys

    Sir Alec John Jeffreys, Fellow of the Royal Society is a United Kingdom geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes....
    , genetic fingerprinting
    Genetic fingerprinting

    DNA profiling is a technique employed by forensic scientists to assist in the identification of individuals on the basis of their respective DNA profiles....
  • Amos Joel, Switching concept for cellular phones
  • Clarence Johnson
    Clarence Johnson

    Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson was an aircraft engineer and aeronautics innovator. As a member and first team leader of the Lockheed Corporation Skunk Works, Johnson worked for more than four decades and is said to have been an 'organizing genius.' He played a leading role in the design of over forty aircraft including several that were h...
    , Aircraft
    Aircraft

    An aircraft is a vehicle which is able to flight by being supported by the air, or in general, the atmosphere, of a planet. Examples include balloons, airplanes and helicopters....
  • Frederick McKinley Jones, refrigeration
    Refrigeration

    Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space, or from a substance, and moving it to a place where it is unobjectionable....
  • Percy Lavon Julian, cortisone
    Cortisone

    Cortisone is a steroid hormone. Chemically, it is a corticosteroid closely related to corticosterone....
     synthesis


K

  • Robert E. Kahn, Internet Protocol
    Internet protocol

    Internet protocol may refer to:*The Internet Protocol, a specific protocol implementation in the Internet protocol suite*The Internet protocol suite, a set of communications protocols that are used for the Internet...
  • Charles Kaman
    Charles Kaman

    Charles Huron Kaman is an American aeronautical engineer and philanthropist, known for his work in helicopter.Kaman was born in Washington, D.C., the son of a construction supervisor....
    , innovations to helicopter
    Helicopter

    A helicopter is an aircraft that is Lift and propelled by one or more horizontal plane Helicopter rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades....
  • Dean Kamen
    Dean Kamen

    Dean L. Kamen is an United States entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire. Born in Rockville Centre, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating....
    , ambulatory infusion pump
    Infusion pump

    An infusion pump infusion fluids, medication or nutrients into a patient circulatory system. It is generally used intravenously, although subcutaneous, artery and epidural infusions are occasionally used....
  • Donald Keck, optical fiber
    Optical fiber

    An optical fiber is a glass or plastic fiber that carries light along its length. Fiber optics is the overlap of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of optical fibers....
  • John Kellogg (1852-1943), breakfast cereal
    Breakfast cereal

    A breakfast cereal is a Fast moving consumer goods food product intended to be consumed as part of a breakfast. It is usually eaten cold as a ready-to-eat meal and mixed with a liquid, such as milk or water, though occasionally Nut and fruit are also added....
  • Charles Kelman
    Charles Kelman

    Charles D. Kelman was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer in cataract surgery.Kelman was born in Brooklyn, New York to David and Eva Kelman. He grew up in Queens where he attended Forest Hills High School....
    , cataract surgery
    Cataract surgery

    Cataract surgery is the removal of the lens of the eye that has developed an opacification, which is referred to as a cataract. Metabolic changes of the crystalline lens fibers over the time lead to the development of the cataract and loss of transparency, causing impairment or loss of vision....
  • Charles Franklin Kettering, automobile
    Automobile

    An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
  • Mary Dixon Kies
    Mary Dixon Kies

    Mary Dixon Kies was an early 19th-century United States who was the first recipient of a patent granted to a woman by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, on May 5 1809, which was for a technique of weaving straw with silk and yarn....
     (1752-1837), process for weaving
    Weaving

    Weaving is the textile arts in which two distinct sets of yarn, called the Warp and the filling or weft , are interlaced with each other to form a textile....
     straw
  • Jack S. Kilby, integrated circuit
    Integrated circuit

    In electronics, an integrated circuit is a miniaturized electronic circuit that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin Wafer of semiconductor material....
  • Albert Kingsbury
    Albert Kingsbury

    Albert Kingsbury [1] was an United States engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He was responsible for over fifty patents obtained between the years 1902 to 1930....
    , Thrust bearing
    Thrust bearing

    A thrust bearing is a particular type of rotary bearing . Like other rotary bearings they permit rotation between parts, but they are designed to support a high axial load while doing this....
  • Dale Kleist, fiberglass
    Fiberglass

    Fiberglass, , is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. It is used as a reinforcing agent for many polymer products; the resulting composite material, properly known as fiber-reinforced polymer or glass-reinforced plastic , is called "fiberglass" in popular usage....
  • Margaret Knight, paper bag machine
  • Willem Johan Kolff
    Willem Johan Kolff

    Willem Johan Kolff was a pioneer of hemodialysis as well as in the field of artificial organs....
    , artificial heart
    Artificial heart

    File:CardioWest? temporary Total Artificial Heart.jpgFile:Artificial-heart-london.JPGAn artificial heart is a mechanical device that is implanted into the body to replace the biological heart....
  • Paul Kollsman
    Paul Kollsman

    Paul Kollsman was an American inventor. He invented barometers and instruments for instrument flight in airplanes.Kollsman studied civil engineering in Stuttgart and Munich....
    , altimeter
    Altimeter

    An altimeter is an instrument used to measure the altitude of an object above a fixed level. The measurement of altitude is called altimetry, which is related to the term bathymetry, the measurement of depth underwater....
  • William J. Kroll
    William J. Kroll

    William Justin Kroll was a metallurgist from Luxembourg. He is best known for inventing the Kroll process in 1940, which is used commercially to extract metallic titanium from ore....
    , titanium
    Titanium

    Titanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ti and atomic number 22. Sometimes called the ?space age metal?, it has a low density and is a strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant transition metal with a silver colour....
  • Raymond Kurzweil
    Raymond Kurzweil

    Raymond Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist. He has been a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition , speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments....
    , optical character recognition
    Optical character recognition

    Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or Electronics translation of s of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-editable text....
  • Stephanie Kwolek
    Stephanie Kwolek

    Stephanie Kwolek is an United States chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide—better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania...
    , Kevlar
    Kevlar

    Kevlar is the registered trademark for a light, strong aramid synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.Developed at DuPont in 1965 by Stephanie Kwolek it was first commercially used in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires....


L

  • Irwin Lachman
    Irwin Lachman

    Irwin Lachman is a co-inventor of the catalytic converter....
    , catalytic converter
    Catalytic converter

    A catalytic converter is a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions from an internal combustion engine. First widely introduced on Mass production automobiles in the United States market for the 1975 model year to comply with tightening United States Environmental Protection Agency regulations on auto exhaust, catalytic converters a...
  • Edwin Land, Polaroid
    Polaroid

    Polaroid is the name of a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used to polarization light....
  • Alois Langer, defibrillator
  • Robert Langer, drug delivery
    Drug delivery

    Drug delivery is the method or process of administering a pharmaceutical compound to achieve a therapeutic effect in humans or animals . Drug Delivery technologies are patent protected formulation technologies that modifies drug release profile, absorption, distribution and elimination for the benefit of improving product efficacy & safety a...
  • Irving Langmuir
    Irving Langmuir

    Irving Langmuir was an United States chemistry and physics. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N....
    , electric lighting
  • Lorenzo Langstroth, bee hive
    Bee Hive

    The term Bee Hive can refer to:*Bee hive, an alternate spelling of the word beehive*Bee Hive, Alabama, an unincorporated community*The Bee-Hive , a 19th century British newspaper...
  • Lewis Latimer
    Lewis Latimer

    Lewis Howard Latimer was an African American inventor and draftsman. Though Thomas Alva Edison is credited with the invention of the light bulb, Latimer made significant contributions to its further development....
     (1848-1928), filament for electric light
    Electric light

    Most of the industrialized world is lit by electric lights, which are used both at night and to provide additional light during the daytime. These lights are normally powered by the electric grid, but some run on local electrical generators, and emergency generators serve as backups in hospitals and other locations where a loss of power could...
     bulb
  • Paul Lauterbur
    Paul Lauterbur

    Paul Christian Lauterbur was an United States chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging possible....
    , magnetic resonance imaging
    Magnetic resonance imaging

    GaneshMagnetic resonance imaging , or nuclear magnetic resonance imaging , is primarily a medical imaging technique most commonly used in radiology to visualize the structure and function of the body....
  • Ernest Orlando Lawrence, cyclotron
    Cyclotron

    A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. Cyclotrons accelerate charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage . A perpendicular magnetic field causes the particles to spiral almost in a circle so that they re-encounter the accelerating voltage many times....
  • William Lear, 8-track system
  • Robert Ledley
    Robert Ledley

    Robert Steven Ledley pioneered the use of digital electronic computers in biology and medicine. In 1959 he wrote two influential articles in the journal Science: "Reasoning Foundations of Medical Diagnosis" and "Digital Electronic Computers in Biomedical Science"....
    , whole-body CAT scan
  • Ronald M. Lewis, catalytic converter
    Catalytic converter

    A catalytic converter is a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions from an internal combustion engine. First widely introduced on Mass production automobiles in the United States market for the 1975 model year to comply with tightening United States Environmental Protection Agency regulations on auto exhaust, catalytic converters a...
  • Edwin A. Link, Link trainer
  • Oliver Joseph Lodge
    Oliver Joseph Lodge

    Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society , born at Penkhull in Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Adams' Grammar School, was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph....
    , wireless telegraphy
    Wireless telegraphy

    The term wireless telegraphy is a historic term used today as applied to early radio telegraph communications techniques and practices. Wireless telegraphy originated as a term to describe electrical signaling without the electric wires to connect the end points....
  • Auguste Lumičre, cinématographe
    Cinematographe

    The cinematograph is a film camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer. It was invented in the 1890s.There is much dispute as to the identity of its inventor....
  • Louis Lumičre, cinématographe
    Cinematographe

    The cinematograph is a film camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer. It was invented in the 1890s.There is much dispute as to the identity of its inventor....
  • John Lynott, hard drive


M

  • Theodore Harold Maiman
    Theodore Harold Maiman

    'Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman' was an USA physicist who made the first working laser. Maiman received the Japan Prize in 1987. He was the author of a book titled www.laserinventor.com"...
    , laser
    Laser

    A laser is a device that emits light through a process called stimulated emission. The term laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation....
  • Leopold Mannes
    Leopold Mannes

    Leopold Damrosch Mannes was an United States musician, born in New York City, who, together with Leopold Godowsky, Jr., created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome....
    , Kodachrome
    Kodachrome

    Kodachrome is the trademarked name of a brand of reversal film manufactured by Eastman Kodak. Since its introduction in 1935 it has been produced in various photography and movie formats, 8 mm film, 16mm film and 35mm film, and was for many years used for professional color photography, especially for images intended for publication in pri...
  • Peter Mansfield
    Peter Mansfield

    Sir Peter Mansfield, Royal Society, , is a United Kingdom physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging ....
    , magnetic resonance imaging
    Magnetic resonance imaging

    GaneshMagnetic resonance imaging , or nuclear magnetic resonance imaging , is primarily a medical imaging technique most commonly used in radiology to visualize the structure and function of the body....
  • Guglielmo Marconi
    Guglielmo Marconi

    Marchese Guglielmo Marconi was an Italy inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide....
    , radio
    Radio

    Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
  • Homer Martin, catalytic cracking
  • John L. Mason
    John L. Mason

    John Landis Mason was a native of Philadelphia, a tinsmith and the patentee of the metal screw-on lid for Antique fruit jar that have come to be known as Antique fruit jar....
     (1832-1916), mason jar
    Mason jar

    Mass-produced glass canning jars, also known as Mason jars after their inventor John L. Mason, Ball Corp. jars after one of the earliest manufacturers of the jars, and fruit jars because they were used to store fruit, have been manufactured since the early 1850s....
  • Jan Matzeliger (1852-1889), shoe
    Shoe

    A shoe is an item of footwear evolved at first to protect the human foot and later, additionally, as an item of decoration in itself. The foot contains more bones than any other single part of the human body, and has human evolution over hundreds of thousands of years in relation to vastly varied terrain and climate....
     lasting
  • John Mauchly
    John Mauchly

    John William Mauchly was an United States physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States....
    , ENIAC
    ENIAC

    ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was a general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing complete, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems....
  • Robert Maurer, optical fiber
    Optical fiber

    An optical fiber is a glass or plastic fiber that carries light along its length. Fiber optics is the overlap of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of optical fibers....
  • Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), machine gun
    Machine gun

    A machine gun is a Automatic firearm mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire List of rifle cartridgess in quick succession from an Belt or large-capacity Magazine , typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute....
  • Wilhelm Maybach, Carburetor
    Carburetor

    A carburetor or carburettor , is a device that blends Earth's atmosphere and fuel for an internal combustion engine. It was invented by Karl Benz before 1885 and patented in 1886....
    , radiator
    Radiator

    Radiators are heat exchangers used to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling and heating. The majority of radiators are constructed to function in automobiles, buildings, and electronics....
  • Stanley Mazor
    Stanley Mazor

    Stanley Mazor is an American engineer who was born on 22 October 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of the designers of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, together with Ted Hoff, Masatoshi Shima, and Federico Faggin....
    , CPU
  • Cyrus McCormick
    Cyrus McCormick

    Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. of Rockbridge County, Virginia was an United States inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester in 1902....
    , mechanical reaper
    Reaper

    A reaper is a person or machine that reaps crop when they are ripe....
  • Elijah J. McCoy engine
    Engine

    An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input.An engine whose purpose is to produce kinetic energy output from a fuel is called a Wiktionary:prime mover; alternatively, a motor is a device which produces kinetic energy from a preprocessed "fuel" ....
     lubricator
  • Ray McIntire
    Ray McIntire

    Otis Ray McIntire was born in Gardner, Kansas on August 24, 1918. After graduating from the University of Kansas with a B.S. degree in engineering in 1940, he went to work as a research engineer for The Dow Chemical Company....
    , Styrofoam
    Styrofoam

    Styrofoam is a trademark of Dow Chemical Company for presently made for thermal insulation and craft applications .In 1940, researchers in Dow's Chemical Physics Lab found a way to make foamed polystyrene....
  • Malcom McLean
    Malcom McLean

    Malcom Purcell McLean , born in Maxton, North Carolina, was an American entrepreneur, often called "the father of containerization". In 1956, he developed the metal shipping container, which replaced the traditional break bulk cargo method of handling dry goods and revolutionized the transport of goods and cargo worldwide....
    , Shipping containers
  • Harold McMaster
    Harold McMaster

    Harold A. McMaster was an inventor with over 100 patents and entrepreneur who founded four companies. Fortune Magazine called him "The Glass Genius"....
    , Tempered glass
  • Ottmar Mergenthaler
    Ottmar Mergenthaler

    Ottmar Mergenthaler was a Germany inventor, who has been called a second Johannes Gutenberg because his invention of a machine that could easily and quickly set movable type....
    , Linotype
    Linotype

    The Mergenthaler Linotype Company was founded in the United States in 1886 to market the linecaster invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. With the company's primary product, the Linotype machine , it became the world's leading manufacturer of book and newspaper typesetting equipment; outside North America, its only serious challenger for book p...
  • Robert Metcalfe
    Robert Metcalfe

    Robert Melancton Metcalfe is an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's law....
    , ethernet
    Ethernet

    Ethernet is a family of Data frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks . The name comes from the physical concept of the Luminiferous aether....
  • Thomas Midgley, ethyl gasoline
    Gasoline

    File:GasCan.jpgGasoline or petrol is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture, primarily used as fuel in internal combustion engines.It consists mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced with iso-octane or the aromatic hydrocarbons toluene and benzene to increase its octane rating....
  • Alexander Miles
    Alexander Miles

    Alexander Miles was the inventor of elevator doors and has been inducted in to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was an African-American inventor born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1838 who transcended racial barriers to make a major contribution to the development of elevators, making possible their practical use in high-rise buildings an...
    , elevator
    Elevator

    An elevator or lift is a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building. They are generally powered by electric motors that either drive traction cables and counterweight systems, or pump hydraulic fluid to raise a cylindrical piston....
     doors
  • Lewis Miller (1829-1899), combine harvester
    Combine harvester

    The combine harvester, or simply combine, also known as a thresher is a machine that combines the tasks of harvesting, threshing, and cleaning cereal crops....
  • Irving Millman, vaccine for hepatitis B
  • Michel Mirowski
    Michel Mirowski

    Dr. Michel Mirowski was born in Warsaw, Poland. He practiced medicine in Israel before coming to Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. While there he collaborated with Dr....
    , heart defibrillator
  • Dennis Moeller
    Dennis Moeller

    Dennis Michael Moeller is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Kansas City Royals and Pittsburgh Pirates from 1992 to 1993....
    , computer peripherals
  • Bryan Molloy, Prozac
  • Luc Montagnier
    Luc Montagnier

    Luc Montagnier is a France virology and joint recipient with Fran?oise Barr?-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine....
    , HIV
    HIV

    Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that can lead to AIDS , a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections....
     isolation and antibody test
  • Garrett Morgan, gas mask
    Gas mask

    A gas mask is a mask worn over the face to protect the wearer from inhaling "airborne pollutants" and toxic gasses. The mask forms a sealed cover over the nose and mouth, but may also cover the eyes and other vulnerable soft tissues of the face....
  • Samuel F.B. Morse, telegraph
  • Morton Mower
    Morton mower

    Dr. Morton Mower is an American cardiologist and the co-inventor of the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator. He has served in several professional capacities at Sinai Hospital and Cardiac Pacemakers Inc....
    , implantable heart defibrillator
  • Andrew J. Moyer, penicillin
    Penicillin

    Penicillin is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. They are Beta-lactam antibiotics used in the treatment of bacterial infections caused by susceptible, usually Gram-positive, organisms....
  • Louis Marius Moyroud, photograph
    Photograph

    A photograph is an created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a Charge-coupled device or a Complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor chip....
     composition
  • Kary Banks Mullis, polymerase chain reaction
    Polymerase chain reaction

    The polymerase chain reaction is a technique widely used in molecular biology. It derives its name from one of its key components, a DNA polymerase used to amplify a piece of DNA by in vitro enzyme DNA replication....
  • Eger Murphree, catalytic cracking
  • William Murphy
    William P. Murphy Jr.

    William P. Murphy Jr. is the son of the American physician William Parry Murphy who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934....
    , blood bag, disposable medical trays


N

  • Julius Arthur Nieuwland, synthetic rubber
    Synthetic rubber

    Synthetic rubber is any type of artificially made polymer material, which acts as an elastomer. An elastomer is a material with the mechanical property that it can undergo much more Elasticity deformation under stress, than most materials and still return to its previous size without permanent deformation....
  • Alfred Nobel
    Alfred Nobel

    was a Sweden chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill....
    , dynamite
    Dynamite

    Dynamite is an Explosive material based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth or another absorbent substance such as sawdust as an adsorbent....
  • Arthur Nobile, prednisone
    Prednisone

    Prednisone is a synthetic corticosteroid drug that is usually taken orally but can be delivered by intramuscular injection and can be used for a number of different conditions....
  • John Northrop
    John Knudsen Northrop

    John Knudsen "Jack" Northrop was an United States of America aircraft industrialist. He co-founded the Lockheed Corporation in 1927. He was the founder and eponym of the Northrop Corporation in 1939....
    , flying wing plane
    Flying wing

    A flying wing is a fixed-wing aircraft which has no definite fuselage, with most of the crew, payload and equipment being housed inside the main wing structure....
  • Robert N. Noyce, integrated circuit
    Integrated circuit

    In electronics, an integrated circuit is a miniaturized electronic circuit that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin Wafer of semiconductor material....


O

  • Bernard Oliver, pulse code modulation
  • Kenneth H. Olsen, magnetic core memory
    Magnetic core memory

    Magnetic core memory, or ferrite-core memory, is an early form of random access computer memory. It uses small magnetic ceramic rings, the cores, through which wires are threaded to store information via the Polarity of the magnetic field they contain....
  • Miguel Ondetti
    Miguel Ondetti

    Miguel A. Ondetti was an American chemist famous for his role in the invention of captopril, the first of the ACE inhibitors used in the treatment of cardiovascular disease....
    , captopril
    Captopril

    Captopril is an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor used for the treatment of hypertension and some types of congestive heart failure. Captopril was the first ACE inhibitor developed and was considered a breakthrough both because of its novel mechanism of action and also because of the revolutionary development process....
  • Elisha Graves Otis, elevator
    Elevator

    An elevator or lift is a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building. They are generally powered by electric motors that either drive traction cables and counterweight systems, or pump hydraulic fluid to raise a cylindrical piston....
     brake
  • Nicolaus August Otto, Otto cycle for internal combustion engine
    Internal combustion engine

    The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs in a combustion chamber inside and integral to the engine. In an internal combustion engine it is always the expansion of the high temperature and pressure gases that are produced by the combustion which apply force to the movable component of the engine, such as...
  • Michael Joseph Owens
    Michael Joseph Owens

    Michael Joseph Owens was an inventor of machines that could automate the production of glass bottles.He was born in Mason County, West Virginia on January 1, 1859....
    , bottle
    Bottle

    A bottle is a container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a "mouth." Bottles are often made of glass, clay, plastic or other impervious materials, and typically used to store liquids such as water, milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, cooking oil, medicine, shampoo, ink and chemicals....
     making machine


P

  • Charles Grafton Page
    Charles Grafton Page

    Charles Grafton Page was an United States electrical physicist.Page published over 40 articles in the American Journal of Science, appeared 41 times in the Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers , and contributed to William Sturgeon?s Annals of Electricity, Magnetism, and Chemistry....
     (1812-1868), high-voltage induction coil
    Induction coil

    An induction coil or "spark coil" is a type of disruptive discharge coil. It is a type of electrical transformer used to produce high-voltage pulses from a low-voltage Direct current supply....
  • William Painter
    William Painter (inventor)

    William Painter was the inventor of the Crown cork and the founder of Crown Holdings, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. He was born in Ireland and moved to the United States at the age of 20....
     (1838-1906), bottle cap
    Bottle cap

    Bottle caps, or Closures, are used to seal the openings of bottles of many types. They can be small circular pieces of metal with plastic backings, and for plastic bottles a plastic cap is used instead....
  • David Pall
    David Pall

    David Boris Pall , founder of Pall Corporation, was the chemist who invented the Pall filter used in blood transfusions.Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario of Russian immigrant parents, he grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan, and attended McGill University, from which he was granted a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a Doctor of Philosophy in phys...
    , Filtration technology
  • Julio Palmaz, intravascular stent
    Stent

    In medicine, a stent is a man-made 'tube' inserted into a natural passage/conduit in the body to prevent, or counteract, a disease-induced, localized flow constriction....
  • Louis W. Parker, television
    Television

    Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
  • Bradford Parkinson
    Bradford Parkinson

    Dr. Bradford Wells Parkinson is an American systems engineer and Chairman of The Aerospace Corporation board of trustees.He was co-recipient of the Charles Stark Draper Prize in February 2003 because of his contribution to the development of the Global Positioning System ....
    , global positioning system
    Global Positioning System

    The Global Positioning System is a global navigation satellite system developed by the United States Department of Defense and managed by the United States Air Force 50th Space Wing....
  • John T. Parsons
    John T. Parsons

    John T. Parsons pioneered numerical control for machine tools in the 1940s.These developments were done in collaboration with his employee Frank L....
     Numerical Control
  • Louis Pasteur
    Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur was a France chemist and microbiologist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of disease. His experiments supported the germ theory of disease, also reducing mortality from puerperal fever , and he created the first vaccine for rabies....
    , pasteurization
    Pasteurization

    Pasteurization is a process which slows microbial growth in foods. The process was named after its creator, France chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur....
  • Les Paul
    Les Paul

    Les Paul is an American jazz guitarist and inventor. He is a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which "made the sound of rock and roll possible." His many recording innovations include overdubbing, Delay such as "sound on sound" and Delay , Phaser , and multitrack recording....
    , solid-body electric guitar
    Electric guitar

    An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
  • Gerald Pearson, Solar Cell
    Solar cell

    A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts sunlight directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes the term solar cell is reserved for devices intended specifically to capture energy from sunlight, while the term photovoltaic cell is used when the source is unspecified....
  • Lester Pelton (1829-1908), waterwheel
  • Thomas R. Pickering, velocipede
    Velocipede

    The velocipede was a series of human-powered vehicles created in the Victorian age. There were designs with two, three and four wheels. Some two-wheeled designs had pedals mounted on the front wheel, while three- and four-wheeled designs used treadles and levers to drive the rear wheels....
  • John Pierce
    John Robinson Pierce

    John Robinson Pierce , was an United States engineer and author. He worked extensively in the fields of radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction....
    , communications satellite
    Communications satellite

    A communications satellite is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purposes of telecommunications. Modern communications satellites use a variety of orbits including geostationary orbits, Molniya orbits, other elliptical orbits and low Earth orbits....
  • Gregory Pincus, oral contraceptives
  • Charles J. Plank, catalytic cracking
  • Roy J. Plunkett
    Roy J. Plunkett

    Roy J. Plunkett was the chemist who accidentally invented Polytetrafluoroethylene in 1938.Plunkett was born in New Carlisle, Ohio and attended Manchester College and Ohio State University ....
    , Teflon
  • George Pullman
    George Pullman

    George Mortimer Pullman was an United States inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman Company sleeping car, and for violently suppressing striking workers in the company town he created, Pullman, Chicago....
     (1831-1897), Pullman car


R

  • Jacob Rabinow
    Jacob Rabinow

    Jacob Rabinow was an engineer who led a truly prolific career as an inventor. He earned a total of 230 U.S. patents on a variety of mechanical, optical and electrical devices....
    , optical character recognition
    Optical character recognition

    Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or Electronics translation of s of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-editable text....
  • Louis Renault
    Louis Renault (industrialist)

    Louis Renault was a France industrialist, one of the founders of Renault and one of the foremost pioneers of the automobile industry.=Early life and career=...
    , drum brake
    Drum brake

    A drum brake is a brake in which the friction is caused by a set of Brake shoe or Brake pad that press against the Brake lining of a rotating drum....
  • Jesse W. Reno
    Jesse W. Reno

    Jesse W. Reno invented the first working escalator in 1891 used at the Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City. His invention was referred to as the "inclined elevator." An earlier escalator machine, termed "revolving stairs" by its inventor Nathan Ames, was patented March 9, 1859, but was never built....
    , Escalator
    Escalator

    An escalator is a conveyor transport device for transport people, consisting of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, which keep the treads horizontal....
  • Kenneth Richardson, Fluconazole
    Fluconazole

    Fluconazole is a triazole antifungal drug used in the treatment and prevention of superficial and systemic fungal infections. In a bulk powder form, it appears as a white crystalline powder, and it is very slightly soluble in water and soluble in alcohol....
  • Norbert Rillieux
    Norbert Rillieux

    Norbert Rillieux , an American inventor and engineer, is most noted for his invention of the multiple-effect evaporator, an energy-efficient means of evaporating water....
    , refined sugar
  • Robert H. Rines
    Robert H. Rines

    Robert H. Rines is a United States lawyer, inventor, researcher, and composer....
    , high resolution radar
    Radar

    Radar is a system that uses electromagnetic radiation waves to identify the range, altitude, direction, or speed of both moving and fixed objects such as aircraft, ships, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain....
     and sonar
    Sonar

    Sonar is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigation, communicate with or detect other vessels. There are two kinds of sonar: active and passive....
  • John Roebling, suspension bridge
    Suspension bridge

    A suspension bridge is a type of bridge where the main load-bearing elements are hung from suspension cables. While modern suspension bridges with level decks date from the early 19th century, earlier types are reported from the 3rd century BC....
  • John Raphael Rogers, automated typesetting
    Typesetting

    Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in graphic form on paper or some other Recording medium. Before the advent of desktop publishing, typesetting of printed material was produced in print shops by compositors or typesetters working by hand, and later with machines....
  • Heinrich Rohrer
    Heinrich Rohrer

    Heinrich Rohrer is a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate.He was born in St. Gallen half an hour after his twin sister. He enjoyed a carefree country childhood until the family moved to Z?rich in 1949....
    , scanning tunneling microscope
    Scanning tunneling microscope

    Scanning tunneling microscope is a powerful technique for viewing surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer , the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986....
  • Harold Rosen, spin stabilized synchronous communications satellite
    Communications satellite

    A communications satellite is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purposes of telecommunications. Modern communications satellites use a variety of orbits including geostationary orbits, Molniya orbits, other elliptical orbits and low Earth orbits....
  • Edward J. Rosinski, catalytic cracking
  • Benjamin A. Rubin, vaccine
    Vaccine

    A vaccine is a biological preparation that establishes or improves immunity to a particular disease.Vaccines can be prophylaxis , or Medication ....
     needle


S

  • Lewis Hastings Sarett
    Lewis Hastings Sarett

    Lewis Hastings Sarett was an American organic chemist. He was born in Champaign, Illinois. Live in Laona, Wisconsin for a time. Attended high school in Highland Park, Illinois ....
    , cortisone
    Cortisone

    Cortisone is a steroid hormone. Chemically, it is a corticosteroid closely related to corticosterone....
  • Joseph Saxton
    Joseph Saxton

    Joseph Saxton was an United States inventor, born at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania He went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1817 and while there invented a machine for cutting the teeth of marine chronometer wheels, and an escapement and compensating pendulum for clocks, and constructed a clock for the steeple of Independence Hall...
     (1799-1873), measuring instruments
  • Arthur L. Schawlow, laser
    Laser

    A laser is a device that emits light through a process called stimulated emission. The term laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation....
  • Klaus Schmiegel
    Klaus Schmiegel

    Klaus Schmiegel is most famous for his work in organic chemistry, which led to the invention of Prozac, a widely used antidepressant. Born in Chemitz, Germany, he moved to the U.S....
    , Prozac
  • Peter C. Schultz
    Peter C. Schultz

    Peter C. Schultz, Ph.D. is co-inventor of the fiber optics now used worldwide for telecommunications.He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1993, and in 2000 received the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton....
    , optical fiber
    Optical fiber

    An optical fiber is a glass or plastic fiber that carries light along its length. Fiber optics is the overlap of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of optical fibers....
  • Glenn T. Seaborg
    Glenn T. Seaborg

    Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranic element," contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed the actinide concept and was the first to propose the actinide series which led to the current arrangement of the Perio...
    , plutonium
    Plutonium

    Plutonium is a rare transuranic radioactive chemical element. It is an actinide metal of silvery-white appearance that tarnishes when exposed to air, forming a dull coating when plutonium oxide....
     isolation
  • Charles Seeberger
    Charles Seeberger

    Charles D. Seeberger was an American inventor.In 1899, he joined the Otis Elevator Company. The Seeberger-Otis partnership produced the first step-type escalator made for public use, and it was installed at the Exposition Universelle , where it won first prize....
    , escalator
    Escalator

    An escalator is a conveyor transport device for transport people, consisting of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, which keep the treads horizontal....
  • Robert J. Seiwald, isothiocyanates
  • William Sellers
    William Sellers

    William Sellers was a mechanical engineer, manufacturer, and inventor who filed more than 90 patents, most notably the design for the United_States_Standard_thread....
    , improvement in machine tools
  • Waldo L. Semon, polyvinyl chloride
    Polyvinyl chloride

    Polyvinyl chloride, commonly abbreviated PVC, is the third most widely used thermoplastic polymer after polyethylene and polypropylene....
  • Gerhard Sessler
    Gerhard Sessler

    Gerhard M. Sessler is a Germany inventor and scientist. Sessler invented together with James Edward Maceo West the Microphone at Bell Laboratories 1962 and the silicon microphone in 1983....
    , microphone
    Microphone

    A microphone, sometimes referred to as a mike or?more recently?mic, is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal....
  • Claude Shannon, pulse code modulation
  • John C. Sheehan structure and synthesis of penicillin
    Penicillin

    Penicillin is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. They are Beta-lactam antibiotics used in the treatment of bacterial infections caused by susceptible, usually Gram-positive, organisms....
  • Patsy Sherman
    Patsy Sherman

    Patsy O?Connell Sherman was an American chemist....
    , Scotchgard
    Scotchgard

    Scotchgard is a 3M brand of products used to protect textile, furniture, and carpets.The original formula for Scotchgard was discovered accidentally in 1952 by 3M chemists Patsy Sherman and Samuel Smith ....
  • William Bradford Shockley, transistor
    Transistor

    In electronics, a transistor is a semiconductor device commonly used to Electronic amplifier or switch Electronics signals. A transistor is made of a solid piece of a semiconductor material, with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit....
  • Christopher L. Sholes, typewriter
    Typewriter

    A typewriter is a Machine or electromechanical device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause Typeface to be printed on a medium, usually paper....
  • Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, valve for steam engine
    Steam engine

    File:Steam-powered fire engine.jpgA steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Steam engines have a long history, going back at least 2000 years....
  • Igor I. Sikorsky, helicopter
    Helicopter

    A helicopter is an aircraft that is Lift and propelled by one or more horizontal plane Helicopter rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades....
  • Samuel Slater
    Samuel Slater

    Samuel Slater was an early United States industrialist popularly known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" because he brought British textile technology to America....
    , cotton mills
  • Russell Games Slayter
    Russell Games Slayter

    Games Slayter was a prolific U.S. inventor best known for developing Fiberglass.Born Russell Games Slayter in Argos, Indiana , he married Maude Marie Foor in 1917....
    , fiberglass
    Fiberglass

    Fiberglass, , is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. It is used as a reinforcing agent for many polymer products; the resulting composite material, properly known as fiber-reinforced polymer or glass-reinforced plastic , is called "fiberglass" in popular usage....
  • George E. Smith
    George E. Smith

    George E. Smith is an United States scientist and co-inventor of the Charge-coupled device.Smith worked at Bell Labs from 1959 to 1986, where he led research into novel lasers and semiconductor devices....
    , charge-coupled device
    Charge-coupled device

    A charge-coupled device is an analog signal shift register that enables the transportation of analog signals through successive stages , controlled by a clock signal....
  • Samuel Smith
    Samuel Smith (chemist)

    Samuel Smith is an United States chemist who co-invented Scotchgard with Patsy Sherman while an employee at the 3M company in 1952. He was born in New York City and received his B.S....
    , Scotchgard
    Scotchgard

    Scotchgard is a 3M brand of products used to protect textile, furniture, and carpets.The original formula for Scotchgard was discovered accidentally in 1952 by 3M chemists Patsy Sherman and Samuel Smith ....
  • James Spangler (1848-1915), portable electric vacuum cleaner
    Vacuum cleaner

    A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors.Most homes with carpeted floors in developed countries possess a vacuum cleaner for cleaning....
  • Percy Spencer
    Percy Spencer

    Percy Lebaron Spencer was an United States engineering and inventor. He became known as the inventor of the microwave oven.Spencer was born in Howland, Maine, Maine....
    , magnetron
  • Elmer Ambrose Sperry
    Elmer Ambrose Sperry

    Elmer Ambrose Sperry was a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, most famous as co-inventor, with Herman Ansch?tz-Kaempfe of the gyrocompass.Sperry was born at Cortland, New York, U.S.A.....
    , gyroscopic compass
  • Frank Sprague (1857-1934), electric street car
  • Rangaswamy Srinivasan
    Rangaswamy Srinivasan

    Rangaswamy Srinivasan is inventor at IBM Research. One of the famous inventions he has contributed to is LASIK....
    , LASIK
    LASIK

    LASIK or Lasik is a type of refractive surgery laser eye surgery performed by ophthalmologists for correcting myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism ....
     eye surgery
  • William Stanley, Jr.
    William Stanley, Jr.

    William Stanley, Jr. was an United States physics born in Brooklyn, New York, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices....
    , alternating current
    Alternating current

    In alternating current the movement of electric charge periodically reverses direction. An electric charge would for instance move forward, then backward, then forward, then backward, over and over again....
  • Charles Proteus Steinmetz
    Charles Proteus Steinmetz

    Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a German-American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers....
    , alternating current
    Alternating current

    In alternating current the movement of electric charge periodically reverses direction. An electric charge would for instance move forward, then backward, then forward, then backward, over and over again....
  • Leo Sternbach
    Leo Sternbach

    Dr Leo Henryk Sternbach was a Poland-Jewish chemistry who is credited with discovering benzodiazepines, a class of tranquilizers....
    , benzodiazepines
  • John Stevens
    John Stevens (inventor)

    Col. John Stevens, III was an American lawyer, engineer, and an inventor....
     (1749-1838), steam-powered transportation
  • George R. Stibitz, digital computer
  • Almon Strowger
    Almon Strowger

    Almon Brown Strowger gave his name to the electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired....
     (1839-1902), telephone dial
  • Gideon Sundback
    Gideon Sundback

    Otto Frederick Gideon Sundb?ck was a Sweden-United States inventor. He made several advances in the development of the zipper between 1906 and 1914, while working for companies that later evolved into Talon Zipper He built upon the previous work of other engineers such as Elias Howe, Max Wolff, and Whitcomb Judson....
     (1880-1954), zipper
    Zipper

    A zipper is a popular device for temporarily joining two edges of textile. It is used in clothing , luggage and other bags, sporting goods, camping gear , and other daily use items....
  • Ambrose Swasey
    Ambrose Swasey

    Ambrose Swasey was an United States mechanical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Worcester Reed Warner he co-founded the Warner & Swasey Company....
     (1846-1937), improvements to telescope
    Telescope

    A telescope is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects by the collection of electromagnetic radiation. The first known practically functioning telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century....
  • Leo Szilard
    Leó Szilárd

    Le? Szil?rd was a Hungary-United States physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and worked on the Manhattan Project. He was born in Budapest under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died in La Jolla, California, California....
    , neutronic atomic reactor


T

  • Donalee L. Tabern, pentothal
  • Charles Tainter (1854-1940), innovations in sound recording
  • Eli Terry
    Eli Terry

    Eli Terry Sr. was an influential inventor and clockmaker in Connecticut. He received a United States patent for a shelf clock mechanism. He introduced mass production to the art of clockmaking, which made clocks affordable for the average American citizen....
    , innovations in clockmaking
  • Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospic, in Croatia ....
    , alternating current
    Alternating current

    In alternating current the movement of electric charge periodically reverses direction. An electric charge would for instance move forward, then backward, then forward, then backward, over and over again....
  • John H. Thomas, fiberglass
    Fiberglass

    Fiberglass, , is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. It is used as a reinforcing agent for many polymer products; the resulting composite material, properly known as fiber-reinforced polymer or glass-reinforced plastic , is called "fiberglass" in popular usage....
  • Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson

    Elihu Thomson was an electrical engineering and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electricity companies in the United States, United Kingdom and France....
    , arc lamp
    Arc lamp

    An arc lamp or arc light is the general term for a class of lamps that produce light by an electric arc . The lamp consists of two electrodes typically made of tungsten which are separated by a gas....
  • Louis Comfort Tiffany
    Louis Comfort Tiffany

    Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass and is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aestheticism movements....
    , Stained glass
    Stained glass

    For the Blackford Oakes novel, see Stained Glass The term stained glass can refer to the material of coloured glass or the craft of working with it....
  • Henry Timken
    Henry Timken

    Henry Timken was an inventor who was born in Bremen, Germany. He founded the Timken Company in 1899, which is located in Canton, Ohio. Timken was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame on September 19, 1998....
    , tapered roller ball bearings
  • Max Tishler
    Max Tishler

    Max Tishler was a scientist at Merck & Co. who led the research teams that synthesized ascorbic acid, riboflavin, cortisone, miamin, pyridoxin, pantothenic acid, nicotinamide, methionine, threonine, and tryptophan....
    , synthetic vitamins
  • Charles Hard Townes
    Charles Hard Townes

    Charles Hard Townes is an United States Nobel Prize physicist and educator. Townes is known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices....
    , laser
    Laser

    A laser is a device that emits light through a process called stimulated emission. The term laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation....
  • Charles Tyson, catalytic cracking


U

  • William E. Upjohn
    William E. Upjohn

    William Erastus Upjohn was a medical doctor, founder and president of The Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company. He was named Person of the Century by the Kalamazoo Michigan newspaper....
    , tablet
    Tablet

    A tablet is a mixture of active substances and excipients, usually in Powder form, pressed or compacted into a solid. The excipients include binders, glidants and lubricants to ensure efficient tabletting; disintegrants to ensure that the tablet breaks up in the digestive tract; sweeteners or flavours to mask the taste of bad-tasting activ...
     for delivering medicine


V

  • Theophilus Van Kannel
    Theophilus Van Kannel

    Theophilus Van Kannel was a Swiss-American inventor, famous for inventing the revolving door, patented on August 7, 1888. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
    , Revolving door
    Revolving door

    A revolving door typically consists of three or four doors that hang on a center shaft and rotate around a vertical axis within a round enclosure....
  • Ernest H. Volwiler
    Ernest H. Volwiler

    Ernest Henry Volwiler spent his entire career at Abbott Laboratories working his way from staff chemist to CEO.A Hamilton, Ohio native, Volwiler received a bachelor's degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a Masters degree and Ph....
     , pentothal
  • Theodore von Kármán
    Theodore von Karman

    Theodore von K?rm?n was a Hungarian people-United States engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics....
    , turbojet
    Turbojet

    Turbojets are the oldest kind of general purpose jet engines. Two engineers, Frank Whittle in the United Kingdom and Hans von Ohain in Germany, developed the concept independently into practical engines during the late 1930s, although credit for the first turbojet is given to Whittle who submitted the first proposal and held a UK patent that...
  • Hans von Ohain
    Hans von Ohain

    Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain was one of the inventors of jet engine.The engineers, Frank Whittle in the United Kingdom and Hans von Ohain in Germany, developed the concept independently during the late 1930s, although credit for the first turbojet is given to Whittle,...
    , jet engine
    Jet engine

    A jet engine is a reaction engine that discharges a fast moving jet of fluid to generate thrust in accordance with Isaac Newton Newton's laws of motion....


W

  • Selman Waksman
    Selman Waksman

    Selman Abraham Waksman was an United States of America Biochemistry and Microbiology whose research into organic substances—largely into organisms that live in soil—and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics....
    , streptomycin
    Streptomycin

    Streptomycin is an antibiotic drug, the first of a class of drugs called aminoglycosides to be discovered, and was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis....
  • An Wang
    An Wang

    Dr. An Wang was a Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories....
    , magnetic core memory
    Magnetic core memory

    Magnetic core memory, or ferrite-core memory, is an early form of random access computer memory. It uses small magnetic ceramic rings, the cores, through which wires are threaded to store information via the Polarity of the magnetic field they contain....
  • Lewis Waterman
    Lewis Waterman

    Lewis Edson Waterman , born in Decatur, New York, was the inventor of the capillary feed fountain pen and the founder of the Waterman pens.In 1883, Waterman was an insurance broker in New York City, getting ready to sign one of his hottest contracts....
     (1837-1901), fountain pen
    Fountain pen

    A fountain pen is a pen that contains a reservoir of water-based liquid Fountain pen inks. If it uses ink cartridges instead of having a built-in ink reservoir, it is often called cartridge pen....
  • James West
    James Edward Maceo West

    James Edward Maceo West is an United States inventor and acoustician. With Gerhard Sessler, West developed the Microphone in 1962. Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, he received his BS in Physics from Temple University in 1957....
    , microphone
    Microphone

    A microphone, sometimes referred to as a mike or?more recently?mic, is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal....
  • George Westinghouse
    George Westinghouse

    George Westinghouse, Jr was an United States of America entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railroad air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry....
    , alternating current
    Alternating current

    In alternating current the movement of electric charge periodically reverses direction. An electric charge would for instance move forward, then backward, then forward, then backward, over and over again....
  • Edward Weston
    Edward Weston (chemist)

    Edward Weston was an English chemist noted for his achievements in electroplating and his development of the electrochemical cell, named the Weston cell, for the voltage standard....
     (1850-1936), portable voltmeter
    Voltmeter

    A voltmeter is an instrument used for measuring the electrical potential difference between two points in an electric circuit. Analog voltmeters move a pointer across a scale in proportion to the voltage of the circuit; digital voltmeters give a numerical display of voltage by use of an analog to digital converter....
  • Squire Whipple
    Squire Whipple

    Squire Whipple Engineer's degree was a civil engineer born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA. His family moved to New York when he was thirteen. He studied at Fairfield Academy....
    , iron
    Iron

    Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
     truss bridge
    Truss bridge

    A truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected elements which may be stressed from tension , physical compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads....
  • Richard Whitcomb
    Richard Whitcomb

    Richard T. Whitcomb , Worcester Polytechnic Institute alum, is an aeronautical engineering who spent most of his career at the Langley Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and its successor organization, NASA....
    , supercritical wing
  • Eli Whitney
    Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known as the inventor of the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum South....
    , cotton gin
    Cotton gin

    A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates the cotton fibers from the seedpods and the sometimes sticky seeds, a job previously done by hand....
  • Frank Whittle
    Frank Whittle

    Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hon Royal Aeronautical Society was an England Royal Air Force officer ....
    , jet engine
    Jet engine

    A jet engine is a reaction engine that discharges a fast moving jet of fluid to generate thrust in accordance with Isaac Newton Newton's laws of motion....
  • Otto Wichterle
    Otto Wichterle

    Otto Wichterle was a Czechoslovakia chemistry and inventor, best known for his invention of modern contact lenses....
    , soft contact lens
    Contact lens

    A contact lens is a corrective lens, cosmetics, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the eye. Modern soft contact lenses were invented by the Czech Republic chemists Otto Wichterle and Drahoslav L?m, who also invented the first gel used for their production....
  • Stephen Wilcox
    Stephen Wilcox

    Stephen Wilcox, Jr. was an United States inventor, best known as the co-inventor of the water-tube boiler. They went on to found the Babcock and Wilcox. He was born in Westerly, Rhode Island....
    , steam generator
    Steam generator

    A steam generator is a device used to boil water to create steam. It may refer to:*Boiler , a closed vessel in which water is heated under pressure...
  • Robert R. Williams, Jr.
    Robert R. Williams

    Robert R. Williams was an United States telephone company researcher who carried out vitamin research in his spare time and established the structure of thiamine ....
    , vitamin
    Vitamin

    A vitamin is an organic compound required as a nutrient in tiny amounts by an organism. A compound is called a vitamin when it cannot be biosynthesis in sufficient quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet....
     synthesis
  • Sam B. Williams
    Sam B. Williams

    Sam Barlow Williams is an American inventor and founder of Williams International. He is particularly known for his development of the small turbofan engine....
    , contributions to jet engine
    Jet engine

    A jet engine is a reaction engine that discharges a fast moving jet of fluid to generate thrust in accordance with Isaac Newton Newton's laws of motion....
  • Alexander Winton (1860-1932), contributions to automobile
    Automobile

    An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
    , bicycle
    Bicycle

    The bicycle, bike, or cycle is a pedal-driven, human-powered transport with two bicycle wheel attached to a bicycle frame, one behind the other....
    , and diesel engine
    Diesel engine

    A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine which operates using the diesel cycle . Diesel engines have the highest thermal efficiency compared to any internal combustion or external combustion engine....
  • Granville Woods
    Granville Woods

    Granville T. Woods , was an African American inventor. He was born in Columbus, Ohio and died in New York.Granville T. Woods literally learned his skills on the job....
    , railroad telegraph
  • Steve Wozniak
    Steve Wozniak

    Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an United States computer engineer who founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing significantly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s....
    , personal computer
    Personal computer

    A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator....
  • Orville Wright, airplane
  • Wilbur Wright, airplane
  • James Wynne (inventor), LASIK
    LASIK

    LASIK or Lasik is a type of refractive surgery laser eye surgery performed by ophthalmologists for correcting myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism ....
     eye surgery


Y

  • Linus Yale, Jr.
    Linus Yale, Jr.

    Linus Yale, Jr. was an United States mechanical engineer and manufacturer, best known for his inventions of Locksmithing, especially the cylinder lock....
     (1821-1868), cylinder lock
    Cylinder lock

    A cylinder lock is a Lock in constructed with a cylinder that a locksmith can easily unscrew to facilitate rekeying. The cylinder may contain any of a variety of locking mechanisms, including the pin tumbler lock, the wafer tumbler lock and the disc tumbler lock....


Z

  • Frank J. Zamboni, ice resurfacer
    Ice resurfacer

    An ice resurfacer is a truck-like vehicle or smaller device used to clean and smooth the surface of an ice rink, originally developed by Frank J....
  • Ferdinand von Zeppelin
    Ferdinand von Zeppelin

    Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin also called Count Zeppelin) was a German aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company....
     (1838-1917), rigid airship
    Rigid airship

    A rigid airship was a type of airship in which the Envelope retained its shape by the use of an internal structural framework rather than by being forced into shape by the pressure of the lifting gas within the envelope as used in blimps and semi-rigid airships....
  • Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, cathode-ray tube


See also

  • Creativity techniques
    Creativity techniques

    Creativity techniques are methods that encourage original thoughts and divergent thinking. Some techniques require groups of two or more people while other techniques can be accomplished alone....

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