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Bernard Oliver
Pulse Code Modulation
Bernard Oliver, one of the most prolific and influential inventors of his generation, helped give birth to the era of digital information with his…
Robert W. Bower
Self-Aligned Gate MOSFET
Robert Bower invented the Field-Effect Device with Insulated Gate known as the Self-Aligned Gate MOSFET, which has created the fast, design-stable…
Katharine Burr Blodgett
Langmuir-Blodgett Films
Working as a research assistant to Irving Langmuir, Katharine Blodgett experimented with monolayers, organic films only a single molecule thick,…
Donald L. Bitzer
Plasma Display
In the mid-1960s, Don Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and graduate student Robert Willson worked together to create the first plasma display.Bitzer was a…
Margaret Wu
Synthetic Lubricants
Industrial chemist Margaret Wu revolutionized the field of synthetic lubricants. Her work has changed how automobile and industrial lubricants are…
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…
Frederick G. Cottrell
Electrostatic Precipitator
As industrial smokestacks became common at the turn of the century, Frederick Cottrell realized that pollution might be controlled and that valuable…
Alexander Winton
Automobile, Bicycle, and Diesel Applications
One of the most skillful and insightful automobile pioneers of his time, Alexander Winton was one of the first Americans to build automobiles for…
Martin (John) M. Atalla
MOSFET
John Atalla is one of the inventors of the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), the most widely employed type of integrated…
Vladimir Zworykin
Cathode-Ray Tube
Most people think of television as a development of the mid-20th century. But as early as 1929 Russian inventor Vladimir Zworykin was demonstrating a…
Valdemar Poulsen
Magnetic Wire Recorder
Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen demonstrated magnetic recording in 1898. While working at the Copenhagen Telephone Company, Poulsen began…
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 (…
Herman A. Affel
Coaxial Cable
Herman Affel and Lloyd Espenschied invented coaxial cable at AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1929. The coaxial cable opened a wide spectrum…
Robert A. Moog
Moog Synthesizer
In 1964, inventor Bob Moog introduced the first complete voltage controlled modular synthesizer, an instrument capable of producing a wide variety of…
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…
John Mauchly
ENIAC
John Mauchly co-invented the first practical electronic digital computer. ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was initially…
C. Donald Bateman
Ground Proximity Warning System
C. Donald Bateman invented the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS), one of a series of innovations he developed to dramatically improve aircraft…
Don Arney
Bambi Bucket® for Aerial Firefighting
For over a half century, helicopters and water buckets have been essential forest firefighting tools. The first aerial firefighting water bucket was…
Raffaello D’Andrea
Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
Raffaello D’Andrea, Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman dramatically advanced warehouse order fulfillment for e-commerce by creating the Kiva system, which…
Irwin Mark Jacobs
CDMA Technology
Qualcomm's co-founders Irwin Jacobs, Klein Gilhousen, and Andrew Viterbi made major contributions to code division multiple access (CDMA), the…
Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C
Synthetic Rubber
The inventor of the first synthetic rubber, neoprene, was Julius Arthur Nieuwland. Nieuwland was a professor at the University of Notre Dame and a…
Amos Joel, Jr.
Mobile Communication System
Amos Joel pioneered the system for cell phones of switching communication links from one cell region to another in response to movement, while…
Jesse Wilford Reno
Escalator
Jesse Reno is one of several individuals credited with the beginnings of the modern escalator.
Born in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, Reno obtained…
Victor B. Lawrence
Signal Processing in Telecommunications
Victor Lawrence has improved transmission for the modern Internet, made high-speed connections more available, and stimulated the growth of the…