|
|
National Inventors Hall of FameThe National Inventors Hall of Fame is an organization that honors important inventors from the whole world. The only prerequisite of induction is being named an inventor on a US patent. Posthumous induction is allowed. As of 2006 there were 313 inductees.
The organization has a museum in Akron, Ohio, and an annual induction ceremony. Inductees are chosen by a national panel of inventors and scientists. There are satellite offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.
It is a non-profit organization founded in 1973 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations.
Discussions
|
Discussion
Features
|
|
 |
Ask a
question about 'National Inventors Hall of Fame' |
|
|
 |
|
 |
Start a new
discussion about 'National Inventors Hall of Fame' |
|
|
|
|
 |
Answer
questions about 'National Inventors Hall of Fame' |
|
|
|
|
 |
'National Inventors Hall of Fame' discussion
forum |
|
|
Encyclopedia
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an organization that honors important inventors from the whole world. The only prerequisite of induction is being named an inventor on a US patent. Posthumous induction is allowed. As of 2006 there were 313 inductees. The organization has a museum in Akron, Ohio, and an annual induction ceremony. Inductees are chosen by a national panel of inventors and scientists. There are satellite offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. It is a non-profit organization founded in 1973 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations. The organization also hosts Invent Now America, a bi-annual contest for inventors nationwide, in collaboration with the USPTO, Time magazine and The History Channel. Inductees- Edward Goodrich Acheson Carborundum
- Herman Affel Coaxial cable
- Ernst Alexanderson Radio
- Andrew Alford Localizer Antenna System
- Luis Walter Alvarez Hydrogen bubble chamber, used to detect subatomic particles
- Edwin Armstrong Radio
- George Herman Babcock Steam Generator
- Leo Hendrik Baekeland Bakelite
- Robert Banks HDPE and Polypropylene Plastics
- Rodney Bagley Ceramic Substrate For Catalytic Converters
- Matthias W. Baldwin Steam Locomotive
- Frederick Banting Isolated, Purified Insulin
- John Bardeen Transistor
- C. Donald Bateman Ground Proximity Warning System
- Andrew Beard , Jenny coupler for railroad cars
- Arnold O. Beckman pH Meter
- S. Joseph Begun Magnetic Recording
- Alexander Graham Bell Telephone / Telegraphy
- Willard Harrison Bennett Radio Frequency Mass Spectrometer
- Emile Berliner Gramophone / Microphone
- Henry Bessemer Bessemer Process
- Charles Best
... Isolated, Purified Insulin - Erastus Brigham Bigelow , Power loom
- Gerd Karl Binnig Scanning Tunneling Microscope
- Forrest M. Bird Respirator / Ventilator
- Clarence Birdseye Frozen Foods
- Harold Stephen Black Negative Feedback Amplifier
- Thomas Blanchard , Pattern lathe
- Helen Blanchard , Zig Zag Sewing Machine
- Samuel Blum LASIK Eye Surgery
- Baruch Blumberg Vaccine for Hepatitis B
- Nils Bohlin Safety Belt
- Gail Borden, Jr. , Process for condensing milk
- Karl Bosch Ammonia production process
- Robert W. Bower Field-Effect Device with Insulated Gate; Self Aligned Gate MOSFET
- Seth Boyden
... , Process for Making Malleable Iron - Herbert W. Boyer Genetic Engineering
- Willard Boyle Charge-coupled device
- Walter Brattain Transistor
- Milton Bradley , Game board
- Jacques Brandenberger , Cellophane
- Charles F. Brush , Arc lamp for street lighting
- Rachel Brown Nystatin
- Luther Burbank Peach and Fruit breeding
- Joseph H. Burckhalter Isothiocyanate Compounds
- William Seward Burroughs I Calculator
- William Meriam Burton Catalytic Cracking
- Vannevar Bush Differential Analyzer
- Edward Calahan , Stock Ticker
- Donald Campbell Catalytic Cracking
- Marvin Camras Magnetic Recording
- Chester F. Carlson Electrophotography / Instant Copying
- Wallace Hume Carothers Synthetic Rubber
- Willis Haviland Carrier Air Conditioner
- George Carruthers Far Electrograph Ultraviolet Camera
- George Washington Carver
... Peanut Products - Frank Cepollina Satellite Servicing Techniques
- Vinton G. Cerf Internet Protocol
- Josephine Cochrane , Dishwasher
- Stanley N. Cohen Genetic Engineering
- James Collip Isolated, Purified Insulin
- Samuel Colt
... , Revolver with interchangeable parts - Frank B. Colton Oral Contraceptives
- Lloyd H. Conover Tetracycline
- William D. Coolidge Vacuum Tube
- Peter Cooper First Steam Locomotive Built in America
- Harry Coover Superglue
- George Corliss , Improvements in the Steam Engine
- Martha Coston , Signal Flares Used by Ships
- Frederick G. Cottrell Electrostatic Precipitator
- Wallace H. Coulter Coulter Principle
- Eckley Coxe , Travelling grate furnace
- Seymour Cray Supercomputer
- Glenn Curtiss Hydroaeroplane
- Gottlieb Daimler , Design of Automobile and Motorcycle Engines
- Raymond V. Damadian MRI
- George de Mestral Velcro
- Mark Dean Peripherals
- John Deere Plows
- Robert Dennard DRAM
- Rudolf Diesel Internal-Combustion Engine
- Walt Disney Multiplane Camera
- Carl Djerassi Oral Contraceptives
- Ray Dolby
... Dolby Noise Reduction - Herbert Henry Dow Bromine Extraction
- Charles Stark Draper Stabilizing Gyroscopic
- John Dunlop , Pneumatic Tire for Cycles
- Graham J. Durant Tagamet - Cimetidine
- George Eastman Photography
- John Presper Eckert ENIAC
- Harold E. Edgerton Stroboscopic photography
- Thomas Alva Edison Electric lamp
- Gertrude Belle Elion Anti-Leukemia drugs
- John Colin Emmett Tagamet - Cimetidine
- Douglas Engelbart Computer Mouse
- John Ericsson Screw Propeller
- Lloyd Espenschied Coaxial cable
- Oliver Evans
... Steam Engine ... , Direct-Current Dynamo - Wilson Greatbatch Implantable Pacemaker
- Leonard Michael Greene Aircraft Stall Warning Device
- Leroy Grumman Retractable Landing Gear; Folding Wing
- Robert Gundlach Modern Photocopier
- Fritz Haber Ammonia production process
- Charles Martin Hall Aluminum
- Lloyd Hall Magnetron
- Robert N. Hall Sterilizing Foodstuffs Food Preservatives
- Andrew Hallidie , Cable Car
- William Edward Hanford Polyurethane
- Elizabeth Lee Hazen Nystatin
- M. Stephen Heilman Implantable Heart Defibrillator
- Beulah Louise Henry Various Inventions
- William R. Hewlett Audio Signals
- Rene Alphonse Higonnet Phototypesetting machine
- James Hillier Electron Microscope
- Richard M. Hoe Rotary printing press
- Marcian Hoff CPU
- Felix Hoffmann Aspirin
- John Paul Hogan HDPE and Polypropylene Plastics
- Herman Hollerith Punch Card Tabulator
- Alexander Holley , Steelmaking process in America
- Birdsill Holly , Modern day fire hydrant
- Donald Homlmes Polyurethane
- Benjamin Holt Caterpillar track-type tractor
- Eugene Houdry Catalytic Cracking
- Elias Howe Sewing Machine
- George Hulett , Loading & Unloading Machine
- Walter Hunt , Safety pin
- John Hyatt , Celluloid
- Franklin Hyde Transparent Silica
- Simon Ingersoll , Steam powered rock drill
- Ali Javan Helium-neon laser
- Alec Jeffreys Genetic Fingerprinting
- Percy Lavon Julian Cortsione
- Robert E. Kahn Internet Protocol
- Margaret Kaking Flat Bottom Paper Bags
- Charles Kaman Rotor Control Mechanism for Helicopter
- Dean Kamen Ambulatory Infusion Pump
- Donald Keck Optical Fibers
- John Kellogg , Breakfast cereal
- Charles Kelman Cataract Surgery
- Charles Franklin Kettering Automobile
- Mary Dixon Kies , Process for Weaving Straw with Silk or Thread
- Jack S. Kilby Integrated Circuit
- Dale Kleist Fiberglass
- Willem Johan Kolff Artificial Heart
- Paul Kollsman Altimeter
- William J. Kroll Titanium
- Raymond Kurzweil Optical Character Recognition
- Stephanie Kwolek Kevlar
- Irwin Lachman Ceramic Substrate For Catalytic Converters
- Edwin Land Polaroid Photography
- Alois Langer Implantable Heart Defibrillator
- Robert Langer Controlled drug delivery
- Irving Langmuir Electric Lamp
- Lewis Latimer , Filament for electric light bulb
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Cyclotron
- William Lear Car radio
- Robert S. Ledley CAT scan
- Ronald Lewis Ceramic Substrate For Catalytic Converters
- Edwin A. Link Link Trainer / Simulator
- Theodore Harold Maiman Laser
- Leopold Mannes Kodachrome Film, Color Photography
- Guglielmo Marconi Radio
- John Mason , Mason jar
- Jan Matzeliger , Shoe-Lasting Machine
- Homer Martin Catalytic Cracking
- John Mauchly ENIAC
- Robert Maurer Optical Fiber
- Hiram Maxim , Maxim gun; smokeless gunpowder
- Stanley Mazor CPU
- Cyrus McCormick Mechanical Reaper
- Elijah J. McCoy Automatic Engine Lubricator
- Ottmar Mergenthaler Linotype
- Thomas Midgley Ethyl Gasoline
- Lewis Miller , Combine harvester
- Irving Millman Vaccine for Hepatitis B
- Michel Mirowski Implantable Heart Defibrillator
- Dennis Moeller Peripherals
- Bryan Molloy Prozac
- Luc Montagnier HIV Virus Isolation and Diagnosis
- Garrett Morgan The Gas Mask and the Three-way Traffic Sgnal
- Samuel F.B. Morse Telegraph
- Morton Mower Implantable Heart Defibrillator
- Andrew J. Moyer Penicillin
- Louis Marius Moyroud Photo Composing Machine
- Kary Banks Mullis Polymerase Chain Reacton
- Eger Murphee Catalytic Cracking
- Julius Arthur Nieuwland Synthetic Rubber
- Alfred Nobel Dynamite
- John Northrup Flying Wing Plane; All-Metal High-Wing Monocoque Airplane
- Robert N. Noyce Integrated Circuit
- Bernard Oliver Pulse Code Modulation
- Kenneth H. Olsen Magnetic Core Memory
- Elisha Graves Otis
... Elevator Brake - Nicolaus August Otto Gas-Motor Engine
- Charles Page , High-voltage induction coil
- William Painter , Bottle Cap
- Julio Palmaz Intravascular stent
- Louis W. Parker Television
- Bradford Parkinson Global Positioning System
- John T. Parsons Numerical Control
- Louis Pasteur
... Pasteurization - Les Paul Solid-Body Electric Guitar
- Lester Pelton , Waterwheel
- John Pierce Communications Satellite
- Gregory Pincus Oral contraceptive pill
- Charles J. Plank Catalytic Cracking
- Roy J. Plunkett Teflon
- George Pullman
... , Pullman car - Jacob Rabinow Optical Character Reading
- Norbert Rillieux Automated Sugar Refining
- Robert H. Rines High Resolution Radar and Sonar
- John Roebling Suspension Bridge
- Heinrich Rohrer Scanning Tunneling Microscope
- Harold Rosen Spin Stabilized Synchronous Communications Satellite
- Edward J. Rosinski Catalytic Cracking
- Benjamin A. Rubin Pronged Vaccinating Needle
- Lewis Hastings Sarett Cortisone
- Joseph Saxton , Measuring instruments
- Arthur L. Schawlow Laser
- Klaus Schmiegel Prozac
- Peter Schultz Optical Fiber
- Glenn T. Seaborg Plutonium Isolation
- Robert J. Seiwald Isothiocyanate Compounds
- Waldo L. Semon Polyvinyl Chloride
- Gerhard Sessler Electret Microphone
- Claude Shannon Pulse Code Modulation
- John C. Sheehan Structure of Penicillin
- Patsy Sherman Scotchgard Textile Proctector
- William Bradford Shockley Transistor
- Christopher L. Sholes Typewriter
- Igor I. Sikorsky
... Helicopter - Russell Games Slayter Fiberglass
- George E. Smith Charge-coupled device
- Samuel Smith Scotchgard Textile Proctector
- James Spangler , Portable Electric Vacuum Cleaner
- Percy Spencer Magnetron
- Elmer Ambrose Sperry Gyroscopic Compass
- Frank Sprague , Electric street car
- Rangaswamy Srinivasan LASIK Eye Surgery
- William Stanley, Jr. Alternating Current
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz Alternating Current
- Leo Sternbach Benzodiazepines, Valium
- John Stevens , Steam-Powered Transportation
- George R. Stibitz Digital Computer
- Almon Strowger , Automatic Telephone Dialing System
- Gideon Sundback , Modern Zipper
- Ambrose Swasey , Telescope
- Leo Szilard Neutronic Reactor / Nuclear Fission
- Donalee L. Tabern Pentothal / Anesthesia
- Charles Tainter , Sound-Recording Instruments
- John Thomas Fiberglass
- Elihu Thomson Arc lighting
- Henry Timken Tapered Roller Bearings
- Max Tishler Vitamins
- Charles Hard Townes Laser
- Charles Tyson Catalytic Cracking
- William E. Upjohn Dissolvable pill
- Ernest H. Volwiler Pentothal / Anesthesia
- Theodore von Kármán Turbojet
- Hans von Ohain Jet Engine
- Selman Waksman Streptomycin
- An Wang Magnetic Core Memory
- Lewis Waterman , Fountain Pen
- James West Electret Microphone
- George Westinghouse Alternating Current
- Edward Weston , Portable Voltmeter
- Richard Whitcomb Supercritical Wing
- Eli Whitney Cotton Gin
- Frank Whittle Jet Engine
- Stephen Wilcox Steam Generator
- Robert R. Williams, Jr. Vitamin synthesis
- Sam Williams Small Fan-Jet Engine
- Alexander Winton , Automobile, bicycle, and diesel applications
- Granville Woods Railroad telegraph
- Steve Wozniak Personal Computer
- Orville Wright Airplane
- Wilbur Wright Airplane
- James Wynne LASIK eye surgery
- Linus Yale, Jr. , Door lock
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin , Rigid airship
- Vladimir Kosma Zworykin Cathode-Ray Tube
External links
|
