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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Donald Alstadt
Chemlok® Rubber-to-Metal Adhesive System
Chemist Donald Alstadt invented Chemlok, a revolutionary rubber-to-metal adhesive system. Chemlok technology is widely used today in the automotive,…
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…
Michael Morykwas
Vacuum Assisted Closure® (V.A.C.®)
Michael Morykwas and Louis Argenta developed Vacuum Assisted Closure (V.A.C.). This revolutionary medical device uses controlled suction to draw…
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…
Edward W. Bullard
Hard Hat
Edward W. Bullard invented the hard hat, the first commercially available industrial head protection device. Bullard’s lightweight, non-conducting…
Louis Keller
Bobcat® Skid-Steer Loader
Louis Keller and his brother Cyril Keller invented the world’s first compact loader and helped launch the compact equipment industry in the late…
Cyril Keller
Bobcat® Skid-Steer Loader
Brothers Cyril and Louis Keller played a key role in launching the compact equipment industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s with their invention…
Alice Stoll
Fire-Resistant Fibers and Fabrics
Alice Stoll, a research physiologist and pioneer in aerospace medicine, led the development of fire-resistant fabrics in the 1960s. Her work made it…
Dana Bookbinder
Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Dana Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li and Pushkar Tandon invented bend-insensitive ClearCurve® optical fiber. Because this breakthrough technology can bend…
Ching Wan Tang
Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED)
Chemists Ching Wan Tang and Steven Van Slyke pioneered the organic light emitting diode, or OLED. An advance in flat panel displays found in…
Sumita Mitra
Nanocomposite Dental Materials
Sumita Mitra invented the first dental filling material to include nanoparticles – Filtek™ Supreme Universal Restorative. This strong, versatile…
Pamela Marrone
Biological Pest Control
Entrepreneur and entomologist Pamela Marrone has developed and brought to market effective, environmentally responsible, nature-based products for…