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Lonnie Johnson
Super Soaker®
Engineer and entrepreneur Lonnie Johnson is the inventor of the Super Soaker®, a bestselling toy generating well over $1 billion in sales over its…
Robert Bryant
LaRC-SI (Langley Research Center-Soluble Imide)
NASA chemist Robert Bryant developed a polymer called LaRC-SI (Langley Research Center-Soluble Imide), taking it from laboratory discovery to…
Eric Swanson
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Eric Swanson, James Fujimoto and David Huang invented optical coherence tomography (OCT), a groundbreaking method for imaging the internal structures…
James McEwen
Automatic Surgical Tourniquet
Biomedical engineer James McEwen invented the first microprocessor-controlled automatic surgical tourniquet system. Devices based on his innovations…
Andrea Goldsmith
Adaptive Beamforming for Multi-Antenna Wi-Fi
Andrea Goldsmith created technical innovations including adaptive beamforming for multi-antenna Wi-Fi. Her work has shaped the performance of…
Lynn Conway
Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
Lynn Conway and NIHF Inductee Carver Mead invented VLSI, or Very Large-Scale Integration, which transformed the global microelectronics industry.…
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…
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…
James E. West
Electret Microphone
James West and Gerhard Sessler invented the electret microphone, which has advanced the sound industry and become the standard microphone used in…
Jay W. Forrester
Random Access Memory
Jay W. Forrester was a pioneer in early digital computer development and invented random-access, coincident-current magnetic storage, which became…
Ray Dolby
Dolby Noise Reduction
Ray Dolby revolutionized the audio industry in the 1960s by inventing the Dolby System, which electronically reduced the pervasive "hiss" from analog…
Leo Hendrik Baekeland
Bakelite
Leo Hendrik Baekeland is cited for his research in electric insulation, synthetic resins, and plastics. Using money from his first invention, Velox…
Stephen Wilcox, Jr.
Improvement in Steam Generators
Stephen Wilcox worked with George Babcock to invent the water tube steam boiler. This boiler allowed safer and more efficient production of steam.…
Valdemar Poulsen
Magnetic Wire Recorder
Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen demonstrated magnetic recording in 1898. While working at the Copenhagen Telephone Company, Poulsen began…
Robert E. Kahn
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf created the architecture for the Internet and collaborated on the design of software known as the Transmission Control…
Marshall Jones
Industrial Lasers
Marshall Jones, a mechanical engineer at General Electric (GE), pioneered the use of lasers for industrial materials processing. He invented novel…
S. Donald Stookey
Glass Ceramics
Donald Stookey invented glass ceramics, materials that embodied important advances in glass technology and led to the popular CorningWare line of…
Herman A. Affel
Coaxial Cable
Herman Affel and Lloyd Espenschied invented coaxial cable at AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1929. The coaxial cable opened a wide spectrum…
Herman Hollerith
Punch Card Tabulator
Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation. Born in Buffalo, New York…
Jaap C. Haartsen
Bluetooth® Wireless Technology
Jaap Haartsen led the invention of Bluetooth® wireless technology. Used worldwide, Bluetooth allows a seemingly endless array of devices to…
William R. Hewlett
Audio Oscillator
Cofounder of the electronics giant Hewlett-Packard, William R. Hewlett invented the audio oscillator, the first practical method of generating audio…
Guglielmo Marconi
Radio
In 1895 Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi built the equipment and transmitted electrical signals through the air from one end of his house to the…
Dennis Ritchie
UNIX Operating System
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson’s creation of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language were pivotal developments in the progress of…
Robert W. Gore
ePTFE, Known by the GORE-TEX® Brand Name
Robert W. Gore invented a new form of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) widely known by the GORE-TEX® brand name. This highly porous yet very strong…
Thomas J. Armat
Vitascope
Thomas J. Armat was a pioneer of early cinema best known for the co-invention of the Edison Vitascope. His accomplishments include the development of…