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Browse Inventions by decade patented: 1940 - 1949

Radio Distance and Direction Indicator
Luis Walter Alvarez

Catalytic Cracking
Donald L. Campbell

Magnetic Recording
Marvin Camras

Electrophotography (Xerox) / Instant Copying
Chester F. Carlson

Multiplane Camera
Walt Disney

Photography
Harold E. Edgerton

Solid Fuel Rockets
Robert Hutchings Goddard

Aircraft Stall Warning Device
Leonard Michael Greene

Polyurethane
William Edward Hanford

Audio Signals
William R. Hewlett

Electron Microscope
James Hillier

Polyurethane
Donald Fletcher Holmes

Transparent Silica
J. Franklin Hyde

Titanium
William Kroll

Catalytic Cracking
Homer Z. Martin

Penicillin
Andrew J. Moyer

Catalytic Cracking
Eger V. Murphree

Television
Louis W. Parker

Teflon
Roy J. Plunkett

Cortisone
Lewis Hastings Sarett

Helicopter
Igor I. Sikorsky

Magnetron
Percy Lebaron Spencer

Vitamins
Max Tishler

Catalytic Cracking
Charles W. Tyson

Flying Wing Plane; All-Metal High-Wing Monocoque Airplane (Vega)
John Northrop

Jet Engine
Frank Whittle

Streptomycin
Selman Waksman

Ballpoint Pen
Laszlo Josef Biro

Langmuir-Blodgett films
Katharine Burr Blodgett

Air Conditioner for Vehicles
Frederick McKinley Jones

Styrofoam Brand Foam
Otis Ray McIntire

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