Meet the 2004 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees

The most fascinating inventions of our time.

Full Release | National Inventors Hall of Fame Fact Sheet

Frederick Banting
Charles Best
Vannevar Bush
James Collip
Harry Wesley Coover
Wallace Coulter
Ray Dolby
Edith Flanigen
Robert Gallo
Ivan Getting
John Gibbon
Lloyd Augustus Hall
Elias Howe
Charles D. Kelman
Luc Montagnier
Bernard Oliver
Bradford Parkinson
Norbert Rillieux
John Roebling
Claude Shannon

A synopsis of every new invention and inventor will be presented here on February 11.