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Auguste-Marie Lumiere
Cinematographe
Auguste-Marie and Louis Lumiere, inventors and experts in the realm of photography, designed a camera and projector apparatus known as the…
William P. Lear
Car Radio
Though his name is most often associated with corporate jet airplanes, William Lear earlier made his mark in car radios and by inventing the eight-…
Irwin M. Lachman
Ceramic Substrate in Catalytic Converters
Working at Corning, Irwin Lachman co-invented the ceramic substrate found in virtually all catalytic converters. Catalytic converters provide cleaner…
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…
Charles G. Page
High-Voltage Induction Coil
Charles Grafton Page invented the first high-voltage induction coil in 1836. The high-voltage induction coil became an important tool of scientific…
Morton Mower
Implantable Heart Defibrillator
Morton Mower co-invented the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator, now implanted in well over 300,000 people. The ICD monitors and…
George Edward Alcorn
X-ray Spectrometer
George Alcorn was a pioneering physicist and engineer noted for his aerospace and semiconductor inventions. His X-ray imaging spectrometer, patented…
Eckley B. Coxe
Traveling-Grate Furnace
Eckley Coxe invented a mechanical stoker that allowed small pieces of coal, which had previously been discarded as waste, to be burned as fuel. His…
Charles Goodyear
Vulcanization of Rubber
Natural or India rubber, as it was once known, was of limited usefulness to industry. Rubber products melted in hot weather, froze and cracked in…
C. Donald Bateman
Ground Proximity Warning System
C. Donald Bateman invented the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS), one of a series of innovations he developed to dramatically improve aircraft…
Albert B. Dick
Duplicating Machine
Albert Dick, who founded the A.B. Dick Company in 1883, invented the mimeograph stencil in 1884 based on an early design by Thomas Edison. Dick…
Joseph C. Shivers Jr.
LYCRA® Fiber (Spandex)
One of the top clothing innovations of the 20th century was invented at DuPont during the 1950s by chemist Joseph Shivers. While working as a…
Mary Anderson
Windshield Wiper
While touring New York City in a trolley car on a snowy day in the early 1900s, Mary Anderson conceived her idea of a windshield wiper blade that…
George Devol
Industrial Robot
In the 1930s, George Devol began realizing the value of factory automation while working on magnetic recording technology. In 1954, he filed a patent…
Simon Ingersoll
Steam-Powered Rock Drill
Simon Ingersoll's practical powered drill played an important role in construction and excavation for more than a century. Percussion drills derived…
Michel Mirowski
Implantable Heart Defibrillator
Michel Mirowski conceived of the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in the 1960s after his mentor died of a heart arrhythmia.…
Margaret Wu
Synthetic Lubricants
Industrial chemist Margaret Wu revolutionized the field of synthetic lubricants. Her work has changed how automobile and industrial lubricants are…
Edwin Binney
Manufacturing Lamp Black
In 1885, Edwin Binney, with his cousin C. Harold Smith, took over his father's lamp black factory and established Binney & Smith. The company…
Charles Martin Hall
Manufacture of Aluminum
Charles Martin Hall discovered the electrolytic method of producing aluminum cheaply, bringing the metal into wide commercial use. As a young chemist…
Harold A. Rosen
Geosynchronous Communications Satellite
Harold Rosen created the geosynchronous communications satellite. With an orbital period of 24 hours, it remains stationary in the sky and provides…
Arnold O. Beckman
pH Meter
Arnold O. Beckman invented a pH meter and the quartz spectrophotometer, an instrument which pioneered automatic chemical analysis. Born in Cullom,…
Arthur Nobile
Prednisone
Arthur Nobile's patent for the invention, medical use, and production of the steroids prednisone and prednisolone was one of the most significant…
James Truchard
Virtual Instrumentation - LabVIEW™
In 1986, James Truchard and Jeff Kodosky introduced LabVIEW, a graphical programming language that enables user-defined testing, measurement and…
Chester F. Carlson
Xerographic Printing
Physicist Chester F. Carlson, the father of xerographic printing, was born in Seattle, Washington. As a high school student, Carlson published a…
David Wayne Cushman
Captopril
David Cushman and Miguel Ondetti synthesized captopril, an oral drug that significantly reduces hypertension in more than eighty percent of users and…