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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…
Eli Harari
Floating Gate EEPROM
Eli Harari invented the Floating Gate EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory). After earning his Ph.D. from Princeton University…
James A. Parsons Jr.
Durimet 20 (Alloy 20) Stainless Steel Alloy
Metallurgist James A. Parsons Jr. invented Durimet 20, also known as Alloy 20, stainless steel alloy. Developed in the 1930s, this corrosion-…
Tom Leighton
Content Delivery Network
In the late 1990s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mathematics Professor Tom Leighton and his graduate student Danny Lewin recognized…
Ken Thompson
UNIX Operating System
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bell Labs colleagues Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating…
Chieko Asakawa
Home Page Reader
Chieko Asakawa invented the Home Page Reader (HPR), the first practical voice browser to provide effective Internet access for blind and visually…
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…
Mary-Dell Chilton
Transgenic Plant
Mary-Dell Chilton is one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology. She led the research team that produced the first transgenic, or genetically…
Radia Perlman
Robust Network Routing and Bridging
Radia Perlman has played a major role in driving the growth and development of the internet. Her best-known contribution is the Spanning Tree…
Richard Schatz
Palmaz-Schatz Coronary Stent
Cardiologist Richard Schatz collaborated with fellow National Inventors Hall of Fame® Inductee Julio Palmaz to invent a vascular stent suitable for…
William J. Warner
Digital Nonlinear Editing System
Television and film both must be edited to create a final program. Film editing always involved manually cutting and pasting strips of film, a simple…
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…
Mick Mountz
Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
Mick Mountz, Peter Wurman and Raffaello D’Andrea invented the Kiva system, a mobile robotic material handling system that has revolutionized order…
Frances Ligler
Portable Optical Biosensors
Frances Ligler invented portable optical biosensors, benefiting fields from health care to food production to military operations.
Ligler’s lifelong…
Virginia Norwood
Multispectral Scanner
Virginia Norwood invented the Multispectral Scanner (MSS), the first in a series of satellite-based instruments that have been continuously imaging…
Virginia Holsinger
Dairy Product Innovations
Virginia Holsinger made healthier dairy products accessible worldwide. Her research on enzymes and digestion not only advanced the dairy industry but…
Arthur L. Fry
Post-it® Notes
Art Fry and Spencer Silver co-invented Post-it® Notes, which are among the bestselling office products in the U.S.Fry was born in Owatonna, Minnesota…
Mary Engle Pennington
Food Preservation and Storage
Mary Engle Pennington was a pioneer in the safe preservation, handling, storage and transportation of perishable foods. A bacteriological chemist,…
Ralph H. Baer
Video Games
Engineer Ralph Baer, a pioneer in the field of interactive video games, invented what became known as the Magnavox Odyssey Home Video Game System. In…
Donald L. Campbell
Fluid Catalytic Cracking
Donald Campbell was one of four Exxon Research & Engineering Co. (ER&E) inventors who revolutionized the petroleum industry through fluid…
Ioannis V. Yannas
Regenerated Skin
Ioannis Yannas and John Burke developed the first commercially reproducible artificial skin that encouraged and facilitated new growth. Their…
Paul Baran
Digital Packet Switching
Paul Baran developed a fundamental concept behind today's advanced communications networking systems: digital packet switching.
Baran was born in…
Rudolf Diesel
Internal-Combustion Engine
Best known for his pressure-ignited heat engine, French-born Rudolf Diesel was also a thermal engineer, a connoisseur of the arts, a linguist, and a…
Ivan Getting
Global Positioning System
The technological triumph known as GPS the Global Positioning System of satellite-based navigation was incubated in the mind of Ivan Getting. While…
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…