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Eadweard Muybridge
Stop-Action Photography
Eadweard Muybridge made three major achievements in photography: first, the development of a photographic process fast enough to capture bodies in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Valdemar Poulsen
Magnetic Wire Recorder
Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen demonstrated magnetic recording in 1898. While working at the Copenhagen Telephone Company, Poulsen began…
Leo Hendrik Baekeland
Bakelite
Leo Hendrik Baekeland is cited for his research in electric insulation, synthetic resins, and plastics. Using money from his first invention, Velox…
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 (…
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…
Stephen Wilcox, Jr.
Improvement in Steam Generators
Stephen Wilcox worked with George Babcock to invent the water tube steam boiler. This boiler allowed safer and more efficient production of steam.…
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…
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…
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…
Jacob Rabinow
Optical Character Reading
Jacob Rabinow invented machines that could recognize text, making it possible to automate vast amounts of routine work formerly done by hand.
A…
John Bardeen
Transistor
The only person to win two Nobel Prizes in physics was John Bardeen, first in 1956 for the transistor, and then in 1972 for his theory of…
Richard Gurley Drew
Adhesive Tape
Richard Drew invented masking tape and transparent cellophane tape, the first modern pressure sensitive tapes.Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Drew…