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Albert B. Dick
Duplicating Machine
Albert Dick, who founded the A.B. Dick Company in 1883, invented the mimeograph stencil in 1884 based on an early design by Thomas Edison. Dick…
Ray Dolby
Dolby Noise Reduction
Ray Dolby revolutionized the audio industry in the 1960s by inventing the Dolby System, which electronically reduced the pervasive "hiss" from analog…
Philip Drinker
Respiration Apparatus
Philip Drinker invented the first iron lung, a respirator that has helped save lives, especially those afflicted with polio and other cases of…
Philo Taylor Farnsworth
Television System
Philo Taylor Farnsworth's electronic inventions made possible today's TV industry, the TV shots from the moon, and satellite pictures. Born in Beaver…
Jay W. Forrester
Random Access Memory
Jay W. Forrester was a pioneer in early digital computer development and invented random-access, coincident-current magnetic storage, which became…
Eric R. Fossum
CMOS Active Pixel Image Sensor Camera-on-a-Chip
Eric Fossum invented the CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) active pixel sensor camera-on-a-chip, the miniaturized camera technology that…
Edmund Germer
Fluorescent Lamp
Edmund Germer's development of the fluorescent lamp and the high-pressure mercury-vapor lamp increased the efficiency of lighting devices, allowing…
Robert W. Gore
ePTFE, Known by the GORE-TEX® Brand Name
Robert W. Gore invented a new form of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) widely known by the GORE-TEX® brand name. This highly porous yet very strong…
Wilson Greatbatch
Implantable Pacemaker
Wilson Greatbatch invented the cardiac pacemaker, an innovation selected in 1983 by the National Society of Professional Engineers as one of the two…
Jaap C. Haartsen
Bluetooth® Wireless Technology
Jaap Haartsen led the invention of Bluetooth® wireless technology. Used worldwide, Bluetooth allows a seemingly endless array of devices to…
William R. Hewlett
Audio Oscillator
Cofounder of the electronics giant Hewlett-Packard, William R. Hewlett invented the audio oscillator, the first practical method of generating audio…
Rene Alphonse Higonnet
Photo Composing Machine
Rene Alphonse Higonnet and Louis Moyroud introduced the first phototypesetting machine that used photocomposition. Photocomposition greatly reduced…
Herman Hollerith
Punch Card Tabulator
Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation. Born in Buffalo, New York…
Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
CT Scan
In the late 1960s, Godfrey Hounsfield began developing computer-assisted tomography, or CAT scanning, an improved form of diagnostic imaging. At…
J. Franklin Hyde
Transparent Silica
J. Franklin Hyde was with Corning Glass when he discovered a way to create a pure glass called fused silica. He was also a forerunner in developing…
Charles Jenkins
Motion Picture Projector
Charles Jenkins was an innovator of early cinema and one of the first inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic…
Marshall Jones
Industrial Lasers
Marshall Jones, a mechanical engineer at General Electric (GE), pioneered the use of lasers for industrial materials processing. He invented novel…
Robert E. Kahn
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf created the architecture for the Internet and collaborated on the design of software known as the Transmission Control…
Dawon Kahng
MOSFET
Dawon Kahng was an inventor of the first practical field-effect transistor, a device that controls electronic signals by switching them on or off or…
Jack S. Kilby
Integrated Circuit
In 1959 electrical engineer Jack S. Kilby invented the monolithic integrated circuit, which is still widely used in electronic systems. Born in…
Robert S. Langer, Jr.
Controlled Drug Delivery
Robert Langer revolutionized biomedical technology through the development of a controlled drug delivery system.
Langer was born in Albany, New York…
Guglielmo Marconi
Radio
In 1895 Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi built the equipment and transmitted electrical signals through the air from one end of his house to the…
Harold McMaster
Tempered Glass
Harold McMaster achieved the centuries-old goal of producing high-quality strengthened, or tempered, glass. His invention is indispensable in modern…
Robert M. Metcalfe
Ethernet
Robert Metcalfe invented, standardized, and commercialized Ethernet. Developed as a way to link the computers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (…
Dennis L. Moeller
Peripherals
Dennis Moeller and Mark Dean together created a microcomputer system with bus control means for peripheral processing devices. The bus serves as the…