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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…
Stan Honey
Sports Broadcast Graphic Enhancements
A pioneer in the field of sports television graphics, Stan Honey has impacted the viewing experience of millions of sports fans. Innovations…
Henry M. Leland
Interchangeable Parts for Automobiles
Henry M. Leland was an inventor, machinist, engineer, and automotive entrepreneur who not only founded two leading American automobile luxury brands…
George Heilmeier
Electro-Optic Liquid Crystal Device
George Heilmeier discovered four new electro-optic effects in liquid crystals in the 1960s and pioneered the first liquid crystal displays (LCDs)…
Rudolf Diesel
Internal-Combustion Engine
Best known for his pressure-ignited heat engine, French-born Rudolf Diesel was also a thermal engineer, a connoisseur of the arts, a linguist, and a…
Kristina M. Johnson
Polarization-Control Technology
Kristina Johnson is widely recognized as a pioneer in optoelectronic processing systems, 3D imaging, and color management systems. At the University…
Bernard Silver
First Optically Scanned Bar Code
Bob Silver and Joe Woodland invented the first optically scanned barcode. They were prompted in their work in 1948 after Silver overheard a food…
Steve Wozniak
Personal Computer
Steve Wozniak invented the personal computer (PC) and founded Apple Computer Inc. with Steve Jobs. With the introduction of the Apple I and Apple II…
Ken Thompson
UNIX Operating System
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bell Labs colleagues Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating…
Dana Bookbinder
Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Dana Bookbinder, Ming-Jun Li and Pushkar Tandon invented bend-insensitive ClearCurve® optical fiber. Because this breakthrough technology can bend…
Andrew J. Beard
Jenny Coupler for Railroad Cars
Andrew Jackson Beard invented improvements to the automatic railroad car coupler, a device that dramatically reduced serious injuries to railroad…
Pushkar Tandon
Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Pushkar Tandon, Dana Bookbinder and Ming-Jun Li invented ClearCurve® optical fiber, a bend-insensitive optical fiber capable of bending without…
Ming-Jun Li
Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Ming-Jun Li, Dana Bookbinder and Pushkar Tandon invented bend-insensitive optical fiber. This technology can bend without causing significant signal…
William J. Warner
Digital Nonlinear Editing System
Television and film both must be edited to create a final program. Film editing always involved manually cutting and pasting strips of film, a simple…
Mary Florence Potts
Cold-Handle Sad Iron
Mary Florence Potts invented an improved sad iron, which was lighter and offered a cooler, more ergonomic handle. Beginning in the 1870s, it was…