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Vannevar Bush
Differential Analyzer
In 1931, Vannevar Bush completed work on his most significant invention, the differential analyzer, a precursor to the modern computer. It used…
Martin (John) M. Atalla
MOSFET
John Atalla is one of the inventors of the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), the most widely employed type of integrated…
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…
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…
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 A. Moog
Moog Synthesizer
In 1964, inventor Bob Moog introduced the first complete voltage controlled modular synthesizer, an instrument capable of producing a wide variety of…
Carl Benz
Modern Automobile
German engineer Carl Benz was the first to design a car around the internal combustion engine rather than adding an engine to an existing wagon or…
John Mauchly
ENIAC
John Mauchly co-invented the first practical electronic digital computer. ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was initially…
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…
Don Arney
Bambi Bucket® for Aerial Firefighting
For over a half century, helicopters and water buckets have been essential forest firefighting tools. The first aerial firefighting water bucket was…
Raffaello D’Andrea
Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
Raffaello D’Andrea, Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman dramatically advanced warehouse order fulfillment for e-commerce by creating the Kiva system, which…
Irwin Mark Jacobs
CDMA Technology
Qualcomm's co-founders Irwin Jacobs, Klein Gilhousen, and Andrew Viterbi made major contributions to code division multiple access (CDMA), the…
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…
Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C
Synthetic Rubber
The inventor of the first synthetic rubber, neoprene, was Julius Arthur Nieuwland. Nieuwland was a professor at the University of Notre Dame and a…
Amos Joel, Jr.
Mobile Communication System
Amos Joel pioneered the system for cell phones of switching communication links from one cell region to another in response to movement, while…
Jesse Wilford Reno
Escalator
Jesse Reno is one of several individuals credited with the beginnings of the modern escalator.
Born in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, Reno obtained…