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Harold McMaster
Tempered Glass
Harold McMaster achieved the centuries-old goal of producing high-quality strengthened, or tempered, glass. His invention is indispensable in modern…
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…
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…
Lubomyr Romankiw
Magnetic Thin-Film Storage Head
IBM researchers Lubomyr Romankiw and David Thompson invented magnetic thin film storage heads in the late 1970s, creating new designs for both read…
Gerd Karl Binnig
Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer based their scanning tunneling microscope (STM) on a principle of quantum mechanics which allows the surface of…
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…
Alexander Graham Bell
Improvement in Telegraphy
Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone grew out of his research on improving the telegraph. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he spent one…
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…
Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
CT Scan
In the late 1960s, Godfrey Hounsfield began developing computer-assisted tomography, or CAT scanning, an improved form of diagnostic imaging. At…
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…
Eric R. Fossum
CMOS Active Pixel Image Sensor Camera-on-a-Chip
Eric Fossum invented the CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) active pixel sensor camera-on-a-chip, the miniaturized camera technology that…
Philip Drinker
Respiration Apparatus
Philip Drinker invented the first iron lung, a respirator that has helped save lives, especially those afflicted with polio and other cases 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…
Charles Jenkins
Motion Picture Projector
Charles Jenkins was an innovator of early cinema and one of the first inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic…
Edmund Germer
Fluorescent Lamp
Edmund Germer's development of the fluorescent lamp and the high-pressure mercury-vapor lamp increased the efficiency of lighting devices, allowing…
Robert S. Langer, Jr.
Controlled Drug Delivery
Robert Langer revolutionized biomedical technology through the development of a controlled drug delivery system.
Langer was born in Albany, New York…
Jack S. Kilby
Integrated Circuit
In 1959 electrical engineer Jack S. Kilby invented the monolithic integrated circuit, which is still widely used in electronic systems. Born in…
Dennis L. Moeller
Peripherals
Dennis Moeller and Mark Dean together created a microcomputer system with bus control means for peripheral processing devices. The bus serves as the…
Eadweard Muybridge
Stop-Action Photography
Eadweard Muybridge made three major achievements in photography: first, the development of a photographic process fast enough to capture bodies in…
Ivan E. Sutherland
Display Windowing by Clipping
In 1963, Ivan Sutherland engineered a revolution in computer graphics with his highly interactive program Sketchpad. It enabled users to design and…
Margaret Wu
Synthetic Lubricants
Industrial chemist Margaret Wu revolutionized the field of synthetic lubricants. Her work has changed how automobile and industrial lubricants are…
J. Franklin Hyde
Transparent Silica
J. Franklin Hyde was with Corning Glass when he discovered a way to create a pure glass called fused silica. He was also a forerunner in developing…
Howard Aiken
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I)
With the Mark I calculator, Howard Aiken showed that a computer could provide high-powered, speedy mathematical solutions to many problems. Aiken…
Dawon Kahng
MOSFET
Dawon Kahng was an inventor of the first practical field-effect transistor, a device that controls electronic signals by switching them on or off or…