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Acetabular Sockets
Acetabular Sockets
Acetabular Sockets
Adhesive Tape

Air Conditioner
Apparatus for Treating Air
American engineer and inventor Willis Haviland Carrier developed the formulae and equipment that made air conditioning possible. The world's first spray type air conditioning equipment was Carrier's 'Apparatus for Treating Air,' which he correctly predicted would be used to enhance comfort as well as improve industrial processes and products. In 1911 Carrier disclosed his basic 'Rational Psychrometric Formulae' to the . . . .

Air Conditioner for Vehicles

Aircraft
Aircraft
Afterburning Means for Turbo-Jet Engines
Aircraft Stall Warning Device
Stall Warning Device for Airplanes
Leonard Michael Greene has patented dozens of inventions in aviation t . . . .

Airplane
Flying-Machine
Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, a . . . .

Airplane
Flying-Machine
Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, a . . . .

Alternating Current
Induction Coil / Transformer
In the 1880s every system for distributing electricity used direct cur . . . .

Alternating Current
System of Distribution by Alternating Currents
In 1893, Steinmetz joined the newly organized . . . .

Alternating Current
Electro-Magnetic Motor
Nikola Tesla invented the induction motor with rotating magnetic field that made unit drives for machines feasible and made AC power transmission an economic necessity.

In 1887 and 1888 Tesla had an experimental shop at 89 Liberty Street, New York, and there he invented the induction motor. He sold the invention to . . . .

Alternating Current
Improvement in Steam-Power Brake Devices
George Westinghouse invented a system of air brakes that made travel by train safe and built one of the greatest electric manufacturing organizations in the United States.

After briefly attending . . . .

Altimeter
Level Flight Indicator
Kollsman's altimeter gives the pilot the ability to set the existing a . . . .

Aluminum
Manufacture of Aluminum
Charles Martin Hall discovered the electrolytic method of producing al . . . .

Angiogenesis Inhibition
Angiogenesis Inhibition
Physician and researcher Judah Folkman introduced the idea that tumors . . . .

Anti-Leukemia drugs
2-Amino-6-Mercaptopurine
Gertrude Belle Elion invented the leukemia-fighting drug 6-mercaptopurine and drugs that facilitated kidney transplants. Hired by Burroughs-Wellcome (now . . . .

Apparatus for Reducing Attenuation of Electrical Waves
Loading Coil for Long Distance Telephony
Michael Pupin, born Mihailo Pupin, was a Serbian physicist and physica . . . .

Apparatus for Use in Inserting Spinal Implants
Spinal Surgical Devices
Orthopedic spinal surgeon Gary Michelson has a portfolio of over 250 U . . . .

Arc lamp for street lighting

Artificial Heart
Soft Shell Mushroom Shaped Heart
Medical researcher Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dial . . . .

Aspirin
Acetyl Salicylic Acid

Audio Signals
Variable Frequency Oscillation Generator
Cofounder of the electronics giant . . . .

Automated Sugar Refining
Evaporating Pan
Norbert Rillieux revolutionized the sugar industry by inventing a refi . . . .

Automatic Engine Lubricator
Improvement in Lubricators for Steam-Engines
Elijah McCoy received his first patent for an automatic lubricating de . . . .

Automatic telephone dialing system

Automobile
Transmission Mechanism
Pioneering automotive engineer Henry Ford held many patents on automot . . . .

Automobile
Engine Starting Device; Engine Starting, Lighting and Ignition System
Charles Franklin Kettering invented the first electrical ignition syst . . . .

Automobile, bicycle, and diesel applications

Automobiles

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