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Frederick McKinley Jones
Mobile Refrigeration
Frederick McKinley Jones invented the first successful system for mobile refrigeration. His invention eliminated the far less effective use of ice…
Elisha Gray
Telegraphic Instruments
Elisha Gray made many contributions to the telegraph and telephone industries, including his invention of the telautograph, a forerunner of the…
Margaret E. Knight
Machine for Making Flat-Bottom Paper Bags
Margaret Knight invented a machine that could automatically cut, fold and glue flat-bottomed paper bags. Her revolutionary invention enabled the mass…
John Raphael Rogers
Matrix for Linotype Machine
John Rogers invented an improved version of automatic typesetting, significantly advancing typography.
His work began by focusing on the problem of…
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
Gyroscopic Compass
Elmer Ambrose Sperry invented gyroscopic-guided automatic pilots for ships and airplanes that have also been applied to spacecraft. Born in Cortland…
John Hays Hammond, Jr.
Radio Control
John Hays Hammond, Jr. became interested in the new study of radio waves while studying at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. After…
Leroy Edward Hood
DNA Sequencer
By developing several automated biotechnical instruments, Leroy Hood played a crucial role in the biotech industry. His DNA gene sequencer greatly…
Elijah McCoy
Automatic Engine Lubricator
Elijah McCoy received his first patent for an automatic lubricating device in 1872. Previously, engines had to be stopped before necessary…
Hiram S. Maxim
Maxim Gun; Smokeless Gunpowder
Hiram Maxim produced an array of inventions, but is most known for the Maxim gun, a weapon that completely changed the technique of modern warfare.…
George Hulett
Loading and Unloading Machine
George Hulett invented the automatic unloading machine that revolutionized ore shipping and advanced the economies and industries of Great Lakes port…
Benjamin Durfee
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I)
IBM engineer Benjamin Durfee, along with Clair Lake and Frank Hamilton, translated Harvard physicist Howard Aiken's concept for a large scale…
Samuel Alderson
Crash Test Dummy
Physicist, inventor, and engineer Samuel W. Alderson was a pioneer in developing the automotive crash-test dummy. Formally known as an ATD for…
Gottlieb Daimler
Design of Automobile and Motorcycle Engines
In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler, with the help of Wilhelm Maybach, developed the forerunner of the modern gas engine by advancing Nicolaus Otto's oil-…
Sheldon Kaplan
EpiPen® Auto-Injector
Since its introduction in 1980, the EpiPen® Auto-Injector has saved countless lives from anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction during which airways…
Alonzo G. Decker
Portable Hand-Held Electric Drill
Virtually all of today’s electric drills descend from the original portable hand-held drill patented in 1917 by S. Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker,…
Eugene Houdry
Catalytic Cracking
Eugene Houdry discovered a method for cracking low-grade crude oil into high-test gasoline, developed a process for producing synthetic rubber in…
Harvey Firestone
Pneumatic Rubber Tires
Harvey Firestone's extensive contributions to the tire industry allowed him to create a company that served as the vanguard of innovation in the…
Jeff Kodosky
Virtual Instrumentation - LabVIEW™
In the 1970s, Jeff Kodosky and James Truchard were researchers at the Applied Research Laboratories at the University of Texas, responsible for…
Henry Phillips
Phillips Screw
The significance of the crosshead or Phillips screw lies in its self-centering property. In 1933, Henry Phillips purchased the rights to a socket…
Ross Freeman
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Ross Freeman invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA), a computer chip full of "open gates" that engineers can reprogram as much as needed…
Luis von Ahn
reCAPTCHA
Computer scientist Luis von Ahn co-invented the website security program CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing test for telling Computers…
Warren S. Johnson
Temperature Control
Warren Johnson was born in 1847 in Leicester, Vermont, to homesteading farmers. Two years later, the family moved to Wisconsin, where the largely…
Amar Bose
Feedback Control
Amar Bose was a pioneer in modern acoustics. Both an electrical engineer and a sound engineer, he advanced the electronics industry with…
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Snowmobile
Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the Ski-Doo® snowmobile in 1959. It was the first mass-produced snow machine, and it launched snowmobiling as a…
Asad Madni
MEMS Gyroscope for Aerospace and Automotive Safety
Asad Madni led the development and commercialization of the MEMS gyroscope for aerospace and automotive safety. Commercialized as the GyroChip and…