Meet the 2007 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees

The most fascinating inventions of our time.

National Inventors Hall of Fame Fact Sheet

Press Release: National Inventors Hall of Fame 2007 Inductees

Press Release: National Inventors Hall of Fame 2007 Historical Group


 

Paul Baran
Digital packet switching
Emmett W. Chappelle
Bioluminescence techniques
John E. Franz
Roundup® herbicide
Leroy E. Hood
DNA sequencer
 


Samuel Leeds Allen
Flexible flyer sled
Alpheus Babcock
Cast-iron piano frame
Laszlo Josef Biro
Ball Point Pen
Eli Whitney Blake
Machine for crushing stone
Katharine Burr Blodgett
Langmuir-Blodgett Films
James Bogardus
Iron frame building
Charles F. Brannock
Foot measuring device
John Moses Browning
Breech-loading rifle
Georges Claude
Neon tubing
Joshua Lionel Cowen
Toy train system
George Crompton
Looms
Wayne Cushman
Captopril
Donald Watts Davies
Digital packet switching
Richard Gurley Drew
Adhesive tape
Philip Drinker
Iron lung
Alfred Einhorn
Novocain
Ole Evinrude
Outboard motor
King Camp Gillette
Safety razor
William A. Goddard
Magnetic disk storage
Peter Carl Goldmark
Long playing record
Elisha Gray
Telephone and telegraph improvements
Thomas Seavey Hall
Railroad signal
Maurice Ralph Hilleman
Vaccines
John Phillip Holland
Submarine
Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
CAT scanner
Frederick McKinley Jones
Refrigeration unit

Paul Christian Lauterbur
Magnetic resonance imaging—MRI
Peter Mansfield
Magnetic resonance imaging—MRI
Robert M. Metcalfe
Ethernet






Albert Kingsbury
Thrust bearing
Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth
Bee hive
Oliver Joseph Lodge
Wireless telegraphy
Auguste-Marie Lumière
Cinématographe
Louis Lumière
Cinématographe
John Joseph Lynott
Magnetic disk storage
Wilhelm Maybach
Carburetor, radiator
Alexander Miles
Elevator doors
Arthur Nobile
Prednisone
Miguel Angel Ondetti
Captopril
Michael Joseph Owens
Automatic bottle-making machine
Thomas R. Pickering
Velocipede
Louis Renault
Drum brake
Jesse Wilford Reno
Escalator
John Raphael Rogers
Automatic typesetting
Charles D. Seeberger
Escalator
William Sellers
Improvement in machine tools
Frederick Ellsworth Sickels
Valve for steam engine
Samuel Slater
Cotton mills
Eli Terry
Automated clockmaking
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Stained glass
Theophilus Van Kannel
Revolving door
Squire Whipple
Iron truss bridge
Otto Wichterle
Soft contact lens
Frank J. Zamboni
Ice resurfacing machine


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