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Peter C. Goldmark
Long-Playing (LP) Record
Peter Goldmark invented the long-playing (LP) record that dominated the recorded music industry for forty years. As an engineer for CBS Laboratories…
Rodolphe Barrangou
CRISPR-Enhanced Food Products
Molecular biologists Rodolphe Barrangou and Philippe Horvath discovered that CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)…
Eugene Houdry
Catalytic Cracking
Eugene Houdry discovered a method for cracking low-grade crude oil into high-test gasoline, developed a process for producing synthetic rubber in…
Marion Donovan
Waterproof Diaper Cover
Marion Donovan invented an innovative waterproof diaper cover and earned several more patents for inventions designed to improve everyday life.Born…
William A. Goddard
Magnetic Disk Drive
William Goddard and John Lynott, together with Louis Stevens and a team of engineers, invented a unique magnetic disk storage device at the IBM Lab…
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…
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…
An Wang
Magnetic Core Memory
An Wang made many contributions to the advancement of computer technology, including the magnetic pulse controlling device, the principle upon which…
Dennis Gabor
Electron Holography
Dennis Gabor is known for his research in electron optics which led to the invention of holography in 1947.
Gabor believed that holograms needed to…
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…
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…
Gideon Sundback
Modern Zipper
Swedish-born engineer Gideon Sundback improved on Whitcomb Judson's work, making the zipper practical and commercially successful. Today, thousands…
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…
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…
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…