| Browse Inventions: Acetabular Sockets Acetabular Sockets Acetabular Sockets Adhesive Tape Air Conditioner Apparatus for Treating Air American engineer and inventor Willis Haviland Carrier developed the formulae and equipment that made air conditioning possible. The world's first spray type air conditioning equipment was Carrier's 'Apparatus for Treating Air,' which he correctly predicted would be used to enhance comfort as well as improve industrial processes and products. In 1911 Carrier disclosed his basic 'Rational Psychrometric Formulae' to the . . . . Air Conditioner for Vehicles Aircraft Aircraft Afterburning Means for Turbo-Jet Engines Aircraft Stall Warning Device Stall Warning Device for Airplanes Leonard Michael Greene has patented dozens of inventions in aviation t . . . . Airplane Flying-Machine Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, a . . . . Airplane Flying-Machine Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, a . . . . Alternating Current Induction Coil / Transformer In the 1880s every system for distributing electricity used direct cur . . . . Alternating Current System of Distribution by Alternating Currents In 1893, Steinmetz joined the newly organized . . . . Alternating Current Electro-Magnetic Motor Nikola Tesla invented the induction motor with rotating magnetic field that made unit drives for machines feasible and made AC power transmission an economic necessity. In 1887 and 1888 Tesla had an experimental shop at 89 Liberty Street, New York, and there he invented the induction motor. He sold the invention to . . . . Alternating Current Improvement in Steam-Power Brake Devices George Westinghouse invented a system of air brakes that made travel by train safe and built one of the greatest electric manufacturing organizations in the United States. After briefly attending . . . . Altimeter Level Flight Indicator Kollsman's altimeter gives the pilot the ability to set the existing a . . . . Aluminum Manufacture of Aluminum Charles Martin Hall discovered the electrolytic method of producing al . . . . Angiogenesis Inhibition Angiogenesis Inhibition Physician and researcher Judah Folkman introduced the idea that tumors . . . . Anti-Leukemia drugs 2-Amino-6-Mercaptopurine Gertrude Belle Elion invented the leukemia-fighting drug 6-mercaptopurine and drugs that facilitated kidney transplants. Hired by Burroughs-Wellcome (now . . . . Apparatus for Reducing Attenuation of Electrical Waves Loading Coil for Long Distance Telephony Michael Pupin, born Mihailo Pupin, was a Serbian physicist and physica . . . . Apparatus for Use in Inserting Spinal Implants Spinal Surgical Devices Orthopedic spinal surgeon Gary Michelson has a portfolio of over 250 U . . . . Arc lamp for street lighting Artificial Heart Soft Shell Mushroom Shaped Heart Medical researcher Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dial . . . . Aspirin Acetyl Salicylic Acid Audio Signals Variable Frequency Oscillation Generator Cofounder of the electronics giant . . . . Automated Sugar Refining Evaporating Pan Norbert Rillieux revolutionized the sugar industry by inventing a refi . . . . Automatic Engine Lubricator Improvement in Lubricators for Steam-Engines Elijah McCoy received his first patent for an automatic lubricating de . . . . Automatic telephone dialing system Automobile Transmission Mechanism Pioneering automotive engineer Henry Ford held many patents on automot . . . . Automobile Engine Starting Device; Engine Starting, Lighting and Ignition System Charles Franklin Kettering invented the first electrical ignition syst . . . . Automobile, bicycle, and diesel applications Automobiles ![]() |
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