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Lloyd Espenschied
Coaxial Cable
In 1929, Lloyd Espenschied and Herman Affel invented coaxial cable at the AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories. This technological breakthrough…
Kristina M. Johnson
Polarization-Control Technology
Kristina Johnson is widely recognized as a pioneer in optoelectronic processing systems, 3D imaging, and color management systems. At the University…
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…
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…
Pushkar Tandon
Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Pushkar Tandon, Dana Bookbinder and Ming-Jun Li invented ClearCurve® optical fiber, a bend-insensitive optical fiber capable of bending without…
William B. Shockley
Transistor
William Shockley headed the team at Bell Telephone Laboratories that studied semiconductors and invented the transistor. The work that he and fellow…
Paul Christian Lauterbur
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
By developing the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to create images of organs, joints and other tissues in the human body, Paul Lauterbur…
Charles Hull
Stereolithography (3D Printing)
Charles Hull is the inventor of stereolithography, the first commercial rapid prototyping technology commonly known as 3D printing. The earliest…
Jacob Rabinow
Optical Character Reading
Jacob Rabinow invented machines that could recognize text, making it possible to automate vast amounts of routine work formerly done by hand.
A…
Alexander L. Holley
Steelmaking Process in America
Alexander Holley was responsible for important technological developments in the American steel industry during the nineteenth century.
Born in…
Arthur Ashkin
Optical Trapping
Arthur Ashkin invented optical trapping, a process that traps small particles, such as atoms and molecules, and macroscopic particles by using laser…
Peter Cooper
Steam Boiler Fire-Box
Peter Cooper designed and built the engine for one of America's earliest steam locomotives. A prolific inventor, successful businessman, and…
Sheldon Kaplan
EpiPen® Auto-Injector
Since its introduction in 1980, the EpiPen® Auto-Injector has saved countless lives from anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction during which airways…
Robert Banks
High-Density Polyethylene and Polypropylene Plastics
Robert Banks and fellow research chemist Paul Hogan were working for Phillips Petroleum in 1951 when they invented crystalline polypropylene and high…
William J. Sparks
Butyl Rubber
William Sparks and Robert Thomas co-invented poly-isobutylene-coisoprene, commonly known as butyl rubber, while conducting research at Standard Oil…
Garrett W. Brown
Steadicam® Camera Stabilizer
Garrett Brown invented the Oscar-winning Steadicam® camera stabilizer, ushering in new technology that allowed movie and television directors and…
Bernard Silver
First Optically Scanned Bar Code
Bob Silver and Joe Woodland invented the first optically scanned barcode. They were prompted in their work in 1948 after Silver overheard a food…
Iver Anderson
Lead-Free Solder
Iver Anderson invented lead-free solder, a revolutionary tin, silver and copper alternative to traditional tin and lead solder. Anderson's solder has…
Jennifer Doudna
CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier co-invented the gene-editing system CRISPR-Cas9, a technology for editing DNA…
Edith Flanigen
Molecular Sieves
Edith Flanigen invented molecular sieves, or zeolites, manufacturing compounds that have made a critical impact in the petroleum and petrochemical…
Warren S. Johnson
Temperature Control
Warren Johnson was born in 1847 in Leicester, Vermont, to homesteading farmers. Two years later, the family moved to Wisconsin, where the largely…
Emmanuelle Charpentier
CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
Microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier and biochemist Jennifer Doudna co-invented the gene-editing system CRISPR-Cas9, a versatile technology for…
Frank Zybach
Center-Pivot Irrigation
In the mid-20th century, Nebraska farmer Frank Zybach invented center-pivot irrigation and transformed agricultural production worldwide. Using…
James Buchanan Eads
American Infrastructure and Defense
James Buchanan Eads created a series of inventions during the 1800s that improved transportation, commerce and the military defense of the…
Daniel Lewin
Content Delivery Network
In the late 1990s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate student Danny Lewin and MIT mathematics professor Tom Leighton recognized…