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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…
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Solid Fuel Rockets
Robert Hutchings Goddard pioneered modern rocketry and space flight and founded a whole field of science and engineering. Born in Worcester,…
Francois Hennebique
Reinforced-Concrete Construction
Francois Hennebique devised the pioneering technique of construction with reinforced concrete. Hennebique worked first as a stonemason, with a…
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…
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…
Charles H. Kaman
Rotor Control Mechanism for Helicopter
Aviation pioneer, entrepreneur, visionary, and humanitarian are all words that have been used to describe Charles H. Kaman.
Born in Washington, D.C…
Ross Freeman
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Ross Freeman invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA), a computer chip full of "open gates" that engineers can reprogram as much as needed…
George Westinghouse, Jr.
Air Brake System
George Westinghouse, Jr. invented a system of air brakes that made travel by train safe and built one of the greatest electric manufacturing…
Thomas E. Murray
Electric Fuse Box
Thomas E. Murray was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and influential figure in electric utilities at the beginning of the 20th century. He left…
Paul B. MacCready
Gossamer Condor
Paul MacCready was an aeronautical engineer known as the "Father of Human Powered Flight" and is often seen as an "inventor's inventor" because of…
John Ericsson
Screw Propeller
John Ericsson invented the ship propeller and incorporated the landmark device into his design for the Civil War ironclad the Monitor. Born in the…
Otis Ray McIntire
STYROFOAM™ Brand Foam
Ray McIntire invented polystyrene foam, more commonly known by its brand name, STYROFOAM™. Patented in 1944, today STYROFOAM™ is a leading brand of…
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…
Nick Holonyak, Jr.
LED
Nick Holonyak invented the first visible light-emitting diodes (LEDs), today commonly found in applications ranging from traffic lights to consumer…
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…
Steven Sasson
Digital Camera
Steve Sasson invented the digital camera, changing the future of photography and transforming an industry.Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Sasson…
Benjamin Durfee
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I)
IBM engineer Benjamin Durfee, along with Clair Lake and Frank Hamilton, translated Harvard physicist Howard Aiken's concept for a large scale…
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…
Elihu Thomson
Electric Arc Lamp
Possessing the ability to translate theory into practice, Elihu Thomson was an integral contributor to the development of electricity as a power and…
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…
John Joseph Lynott
Magnetic Disk Drive
John Lynott and William Goddard, together with Louis Stevens and a team of engineers, invented a unique magnetic disk storage device at the IBM Lab…
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…
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…
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…
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…