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Eugene Houdry
Catalytic Cracking
Eugene Houdry discovered a method for cracking low-grade crude oil into high-test gasoline, developed a process for producing synthetic rubber in…
Paul Baran
Digital Packet Switching
Paul Baran developed a fundamental concept behind today's advanced communications networking systems: digital packet switching.
Baran was born in…
Gottlieb Daimler
Design of Automobile and Motorcycle Engines
In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler, with the help of Wilhelm Maybach, developed the forerunner of the modern gas engine by advancing Nicolaus Otto's oil-…
James Hillier
Electron Microscope Lens Correction Device
Physicist James Hillier was recognized for his contributions to the development of the electron microscope. Born in Brantford in Ontario, Canada, he…
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…
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…
Gideon Sundback
Modern Zipper
Swedish-born engineer Gideon Sundback improved on Whitcomb Judson's work, making the zipper practical and commercially successful. Today, thousands…
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Solid Fuel Rockets
Robert Hutchings Goddard pioneered modern rocketry and space flight and founded a whole field of science and engineering. Born in Worcester,…
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…
Xiaowei Zhuang
Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM)
Xiaowei Zhuang introduced one of the most widely used methods of super-resolution imaging: stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy, or STORM.…
Andrew Alford
Localizer Antenna System
Andrew Alford invented and developed antennas for radio navigation systems, including VOR and instrument landing systems featuring the "Alford Loop…
Louis Stevens
Data Storage Machine
Louis Stevens, working with William Goddard and John Lynott and a team of engineers, invented a unique magnetic disk storage device. Their disk drive…
Charles H. Kaman
Rotor Control Mechanism for Helicopter
Aviation pioneer, entrepreneur, visionary, and humanitarian are all words that have been used to describe Charles H. Kaman.
Born in Washington, D.C…
Harry Cameron
Blowout Preventer (BOP)
Until Harry Cameron, a machinist, and James Abercrombie, a Texas oil driller, designed the world’s first reliable blowout preventer (BOP), oil wells…
Jokichi Takamine
Adrenaline (Adrenalin®)
Chemist and entrepreneur Jokichi Takamine was a biotechnology pioneer whose research led to the use of adrenaline in medicine. Also known as…
Ross Freeman
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Ross Freeman invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA), a computer chip full of "open gates" that engineers can reprogram as much as needed…
Paul B. MacCready
Gossamer Condor
Paul MacCready was an aeronautical engineer known as the "Father of Human Powered Flight" and is often seen as an "inventor's inventor" because of…
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…
John Raphael Rogers
Matrix for Linotype Machine
John Rogers invented an improved version of automatic typesetting, significantly advancing typography.
His work began by focusing on the problem of…
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…
Eugene Sullivan
PYREX® Brand Cookware
Eugene C. Sullivan left the U.S. Geological Survey and came to Corning where he founded the Corning Glass Works' research lab in 1908. With degrees…
John Mauchly
ENIAC
John Mauchly co-invented the first practical electronic digital computer. ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was initially…
Roger Bacon
High-Performance Carbon Fibers
In 1958, Roger Bacon's chance discovery revolutionized industries and became a multibillion-dollar a year business. While measuring the triple point…
Lloyd Espenschied
Coaxial Cable
In 1929, Lloyd Espenschied and Herman Affel invented coaxial cable at the AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories. This technological breakthrough…
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…