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Rory Cooper
Wheelchair Technology
Biomedical engineer Rory Cooper developed innovations in wheelchair technology that have improved manual and electric wheelchairs, and advanced the…
Mildred Dresselhaus
Superlattice Structures for Thermoelectric Devices
Renowned physicist Mildred Dresselhaus led pioneering work on carbon and its thermal and electrical properties. Known as the "Queen of Carbon Science…
Beatrice Hicks
Device for Sensing Gas Density
Beatrice Hicks invented a gas density sensor that enabled the development of many advanced technologies and played a key role in making space travel…
Mark Dean
Peripherals
Mark Dean and his co-inventor Dennis Moeller created a microcomputer system with bus control means for peripheral processing devices. Their invention…
Charles Franklin Kettering
Electrical Ignition System
Charles Franklin Kettering invented the first electrical ignition system and the self-starter for automobile engines and the first practical engine-…
James Murray Spangler
Portable Electric Vacuum Cleaner
James Spangler invented the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum cleaner, an invention that revolutionized household carpet…
Oliver Joseph Lodge
Electric Telegraphy
Physicist Oliver Lodge made several important technological contributions, most notably his advancement of wireless telegraphy.
Lodge's invention of…
Walther H. Nernst
Metallic Filament Incandescent Lamp
Walther Nernst developed a new form of electric lighting, the Nernst lamp, that was a significant improvement over the carbon-filament lamp. In…
Les Paul
Solid-Body Electric Guitar
Les Paul introduced the world to the solid-body electric guitar, a pioneering instrument that transformed popular music.Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin,…
Peter Cooper Hewitt
Mercury-Vapor Lamp
Peter Cooper Hewitt patented the mercury vapor lamp which was widely used for street and outdoor lighting. A graduate of Columbia University, he was…
Joshua Lionel Cowen
Toy Train
Joshua Lionel Cowen invented model railroads in the early 20th century.
Born in New York City, Cowen attended the Cooper Union and Columbia College…
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…
William D. Coolidge
X-Ray
William D. Coolidge's name is inseparably linked with the X-ray tube -- popularly called the "Coolidge tube." This invention completely…
Calvin Fuller
Silicon Solar Cell
Chemist Calvin Fuller co-invented the silicon solar cell with physicists Daryl Chapin and Gerald Pearson. Building on Albert Einstein's theories…
Georges Claude
Neon Tubing
French industrial chemist Georges Claude invented neon tubing.
Born in Paris, France, he studied at Ecole de Physique et Chinie before graduating in…
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…
Daryl Chapin
Silicon Solar Cell
Daryl Chapin, with Bell Labs colleagues Calvin Fuller and Gerald Pearson, invented the first practical device for converting sunlight into useful…
Amar Bose
Feedback Control
Amar Bose was a pioneer in modern acoustics. Both an electrical engineer and a sound engineer, he advanced the electronics industry with…
Steven Sasson
Digital Camera
Steve Sasson invented the digital camera, changing the future of photography and transforming an industry.Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Sasson…
Esther Sans Takeuchi
Lithium/Silver Vanadium Oxide (Li/SVO) Battery Technology in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs)
Energy storage expert Esther Sans Takeuchi led efforts to invent and refine the lithium/silver vanadium oxide (Li/SVO) battery technology used to…
Howard S. Jones Jr.
Conformal Antennas
Howard Jones invented conformal antennas – lightweight antennas found in rockets, missiles and spacecraft. His innovations in antenna technology…
Eli Harari
Floating Gate EEPROM
Eli Harari invented the Floating Gate EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory). After earning his Ph.D. from Princeton University…
Thomas A. Watson
Improvements to the Telephone
Thomas Watson is best known for working as Alexander Graham Bell's assistant during the development of the telephone. It was Watson who heard the…
Edwin Howard Armstrong
FM Radio
The inventions of engineer Edwin Howard Armstrong were so important that to this day every radio or television set makes use of one or more of his…
Charles Sumner Tainter
Sound-Recording Instruments
Charles Tainter invented various sound-recording instruments, including an improved version of Thomas Edison's phonograph known as the graphophone,…