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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…
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…
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…
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…
Ernst F. W. Alexanderson
High-Frequency Alternator
Ernst Alexanderson was the General Electric Company engineer whose high-frequency alternator gave America its start in the field of radio…
Andrew Alford
Localizer Antenna System
Andrew Alford invented and developed antennas for radio navigation systems, including VOR and instrument landing systems featuring the "Alford Loop…
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…
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…
Rodolphe Barrangou
CRISPR-Enhanced Food Products
Molecular biologists Rodolphe Barrangou and Philippe Horvath discovered that CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)…
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…
Donald L. Bitzer
Plasma Display
In the mid-1960s, Don Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and graduate student Robert Willson worked together to create the first plasma display.Bitzer was a…
James Bogardus
Iron Buildings
James Bogardus significantly advanced American architecture by designing and constructing buildings that combined structural strength and aesthetic…
Carl Bosch
Process of Producing Ammonia
Carl Bosch transformed global agriculture by advancing the Haber process for producing ammonia, making it commercially practical to produce large…
Robert W. Bower
Self-Aligned Gate MOSFET
Robert Bower invented the Field-Effect Device with Insulated Gate known as the Self-Aligned Gate MOSFET, which has created the fast, design-stable…
Otis Boykin
Electronic Resistors
Otis Boykin's innovations in electronic resistors enabled the more precise regulation of electrical current within a circuit. Variations of his…
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…
John Francis Burke
Regenerated Skin
Surgeon John Burke and chemistry and engineering professor Ioannis Yannas together developed the first commercially successful artificial skin.As the…
Harry Cameron
Blowout Preventer (BOP)
Until Harry Cameron, a machinist, and James Abercrombie, a Texas oil driller, designed the world’s first reliable blowout preventer (BOP), oil wells…
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…
Josephine Garis Cochran
Dishwasher
Josephine Garis Cochran invented the first practical dishwasher and formed the Garis-Cochran Dish-Washing Co. to successfully manufacture and market…
Stanley N. Cohen
Genetic Engineering
In 1973, Stan Cohen and Herb Boyer worked together to understand how genes work and ended up proving that DNA cloning was feasible. Their experiments…
William D. Coolidge
X-Ray
William D. Coolidge's name is inseparably linked with the X-ray tube -- popularly called the "Coolidge tube." This invention completely…
Gottlieb Daimler
Design of Automobile and Motorcycle Engines
In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler, with the help of Wilhelm Maybach, developed the forerunner of the modern gas engine by advancing Nicolaus Otto's oil-…
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…
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…