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James Abercrombie
Blowout Preventer (BOP)
James Abercrombie, a Texas oil driller, and Harry Cameron, a machinist, designed the world’s first reliable blowout preventer (BOP) to successfully…
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…
Stewart Adams
Ibuprofen
In the early 1950s, Stewart Adams, a pharmacologist at Boots Pure Drug Co. in England, was tasked with finding new treatments for rheumatoid…
John Nicholson
Ibuprofen
Chemist John Nicholson and pharmacologist Stewart Adams developed ibuprofen during the 1950s and 1960s at Boots Pure Drug Co. in England. Today,…
Evelyn Berezin
Computer Systems for Business Use
Evelyn Berezin was an expert in logic design and data transmission. She designed one of the earliest computer reservations systems for airlines and…
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…
Floyd Smith
Modern Parachute
The first working modern parachute was developed by trapeze artist turned aviator Floyd Smith. He became interested in parachutes after having…
Frank Zybach
Center-Pivot Irrigation
In the mid-20th century, Nebraska farmer Frank Zybach invented center-pivot irrigation and transformed agricultural production worldwide. Using…
Sylvia Blankenship
1-MCP for Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Freshness
Horticulturalist Sylvia Blankenship and biochemist Edward Sisler identified 1-methylcyclopropene (1- MCP), a novel compound that significantly…
Edward Sisler
1-MCP for Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Freshness
Edward Sisler, a biochemist at North Carolina State University (NCSU), had been studying the various aspects of ethylene physiology and biochemistry…
Dana Bookbinder
Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Corning Incorporated researchers Dana Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li and Pushkar Tandon invented and developed the bend-insensitive ClearCurve® optical…
Ming-Jun Li
Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
In 2004, experiments with new types of optical fiber led Corning Incorporated researchers Ming-Jun Li, Dana Bookbinder and Pushkar Tandon to develop…
Pushkar Tandon
Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Chemical engineer Pushkar Tandon is one-third of the Corning Incorporated research team that developed ClearCurve® optical fiber, a bend-insensitive…
Raffaello D’Andrea
Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
Raffaello D’Andrea, Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman created the Kiva system, which has dramatically advanced warehouse order fulfillment for e-commerce…
Mick Mountz
Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
While e-commerce grew rapidly at the beginning of the 21st century, material handling within distribution centers still relied on decades-old…
Peter Wurman
Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
In the early 2000s, Peter Wurman, Mick Mountz and Raffaello D’Andrea created the Kiva system, an entirely new approach for material handling in…
Lisa Lindahl
Sports Bra
Lisa Lindahl, Hinda Miller and Polly Smith created the Jogbra®, the first sports bra. Their groundbreaking invention removed a barrier to women’s…
Hinda Miller
Sports Bra
Hinda Miller, Lisa Lindahl and Polly Smith developed the first sports bra. Patented in 1979, the undergarment enabled women to comfortably…
Polly Smith
Sports Bra
Polly Smith, Lisa Lindahl and Hinda Miller created the Jogbra® — the first sports bra. With its compressing front panel, smooth exterior seams,…
James McEwen
Automatic Surgical Tourniquet
Canadian biomedical engineer James McEwen invented the first microprocessor-controlled automatic surgical tourniquet system. Devices based on his…
Margaret Wu
Synthetic Lubricants
Industrial chemist Margaret Wu revolutionized the field of synthetic lubricants. Her work has changed how automobile and industrial lubricants are…
R. Rox Anderson
Laser Dermatology
Physician Rox Anderson, currently the Lancer Endowed Chair in Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital, developed laser-based treatments and…
Marian Croak
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Technology
Engineer Marian Croak has worked on advancing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies, converting voice data into digital signals that can…
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…
Carl Benz
Modern Automobile
German engineer Carl Benz was the first to design a car around the internal combustion engine rather than adding an engine to an existing wagon or…