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Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Cyclotron
Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron, a particle accelerator that uses a strong magnetic field to bend the path of charged particles, or…
Cyril Keller
Bobcat® Skid-Steer Loader
Brothers Cyril and Louis Keller played a key role in launching the compact equipment industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s with their invention…
Katharine Burr Blodgett
Langmuir-Blodgett Films
Physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett experimented with monolayers, or organic films only a single molecule thick, initiating a new scientific discipline…
Philippe Horvath
CRISPR-Enhanced Food Products
Molecular biologists Philippe Horvath and Rodolphe Barrangou discovered that CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) and…
Howard S. Jones Jr.
Conformal Antennas
Howard Jones invented conformal antennas – lightweight antennas found in rockets, missiles and spacecraft. His innovations in antenna technology…
Bantval Jayant Baliga
Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor
B. Jayant Baliga invented the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), a semiconductor power switch that has reduced gasoline consumption by 10% and…
Andrew J. Beard
Jenny Coupler for Railroad Cars
Andrew Jackson Beard invented improvements to the automatic railroad car coupler, a device that dramatically reduced serious injuries to railroad…
Helen M. Free
Glucose Detection for Diabetes
Helen Murray Free was a pioneer in diagnostic chemistry. Her lifesaving research in medical and clinical urinary testing led to convenient dip-and-…
George R. Carruthers
Far Ultraviolet Electrographic Camera
George Carruthers invented the far ultraviolet electrographic camera, or spectrograph, using ultraviolet light to make significant advances in…
Ed Morgan
Tubular Steel Track Roller Coaster
Ed Morgan and Karl Bacon set the standard for roller coaster design technology when they engineered the world’s first tubular steel track roller…
Steven Sasson
Digital Camera
Steve Sasson invented the digital camera, changing the future of photography and transforming an industry.Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Sasson…
Ching Wan Tang
Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED)
Chemists Ching Wan Tang and Steven Van Slyke pioneered the organic light emitting diode, or OLED. An advance in flat panel displays found in…
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
Nystatin (Antifungal/Antibiotic)
Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown created the first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin, through a long-distance scientific…
Garrett W. Brown
Steadicam® Camera Stabilizer
Garrett Brown invented the Oscar-winning Steadicam® camera stabilizer, ushering in new technology that allowed movie and television directors and…
Harald Hess
Photoactivated Localization Microscopy (PALM)
Harald Hess and Eric Betzig co-invented photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM), a super-resolution imaging technology that enables imaging at…
Thomas Alva Edison
Electric Lamp
One of the outstanding geniuses in the history of technology, Thomas Edison earned patents for over a thousand inventions, including the incandescent…
Teresa Meng
CMOS Wi-Fi
Teresa Meng’s groundbreaking research, engineering expertise and entrepreneurial leadership revolutionized Wi-Fi, making it faster, more energy-…
Edward W. Bullard
Hard Hat
Edward W. Bullard invented the hard hat, the first commercially available industrial head protection device. Bullard’s lightweight, non-conducting…
James McEwen
Automatic Surgical Tourniquet
Biomedical engineer James McEwen invented the first microprocessor-controlled automatic surgical tourniquet system. Devices based on his innovations…
Emil J Freireich
Continuous-Flow Blood Cell Separator
Oncologist Emil J Freireich and engineer George Judson developed the first continuous-flow blood cell separator. Machines based on their invention…
Louis Argenta
Vacuum Assisted Closure® (V.A.C.®)
Louis Argenta and Michael Morykwas co-invented the medical device known as Vacuum Assisted Closure (V.A.C.). Using controlled suction to draw excess…
Sumita Mitra
Nanocomposite Dental Materials
Sumita Mitra invented the first dental filling material to include nanoparticles – Filtek™ Supreme Universal Restorative. This strong, versatile…
Olive Dennis
Railroad Passenger Car Improvements
Olive Dennis, a civil engineer for the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad Co., made travel vastly more comfortable for rail passengers. Traveling…
Charles Richard (C.R.) Patterson
Carriages
Charles Richard (C.R.) Patterson was an inventor and entrepreneur whose successful carriage company, C.R. Patterson & Sons Co., evolved to become…
Garrett Morgan
The Gas Mask; Three-Way Traffic Signal
Inventor and entrepreneur Garrett Augustus Morgan pioneered important inventions including the “safety hood” — the forerunner of the gas mask — and…