Meet the 2011 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees

NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME HONORS 2011 INDUCTEES

Announcement of 2011 Inductees

National Inventors Hall of Fame Fact Sheet

Invent Now Fact Sheet


 


George Devol
Whitfield Diffie
Eric Fossum
Martin Hellman

Ralph Merkle
Gary Michelson
Steven Sasson
Bernard Silver
Esther Sans Takeuchi
N. Joseph Woodland


Historical Inductees

Historical Inductees Overview


Mary Anderson (1866-1953)
Windshield Wiper

 

Stanley Macomber (1887-1967)
Open Web Joist


Thomas Armat (1866-1948)
Motion Picture Projector

 

Warren Marrison (1896-1980)
Quartz Clock


Edwin Binney (1866-1934)
Carbon Black Manufacturing

 

Thomas Murray (1860-1929)
Early Power Generation


George A. Campbell (1870-1954)
Loading Coil

 

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
Stop Action Photography


Albert B. Dick (1870-1954)
Duplicating Equipment

 

Walther H. Nernst (1864-1941)
Metallic Filament Incandescent Lamp


Carleton Ellis (1876-1941)
Margarine

 

Henry Phillips (1890-1958)
Phillips Screw


Hannibal Goodwin (1822-1900)
Transparent Flexible Nitrocellulose Film

 

Valdemar Poulsen (1869-1942)
Magnetic Wire Recorder


John Hays Hammond, Jr. (1888-1965)
Radio Control

 

Michael Pupin (1858-1935)
Loading Coil


François Hennebique (1842-1921)
Reinforced Concrete Construction

 

James Ritty (1836-1918) & John Ritty (ca. 1834-1913)
Cash Register


Peter Cooper Hewitt (1861-1921)
Mercury-vapor Lamp

 

Wallace C. Sabine (1868-1919)
Architectural Acoustics


Frederick Ives (1856-1937)
Color Photography

 

Eugene Sullivan (1872-1962)
Borosilicate Glass


Charles F. Jenkins (1867-1934)
Motion Picture Projector

 

Carl A. von Welsbach (1858-1929)
Improvements to Gas Lighting


Clarence Kemp (unknown-1911)
Solar Water Heater

 

Thomas A. Watson (1854-1934)
Improvements to Telephone


Henry M. Leland (1843-1932)
Interchangeable Parts for Automobiles

 

Rollin Henry White (1872-1962)
Flash Boiler for Generating Steam

Controlled Differential Steering



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