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Encyclopedia > National Inventors Hall of Fame
Exterior of the National Inventors Hall of Fame museum, 2005
Exterior of the National Inventors Hall of Fame museum, 2005

The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an organization that honors important inventors from the whole world. The only prerequisite of induction is being named an inventor on a US patent. Posthumous induction is allowed. As of 2007 there were 371 inductees. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Inventor (disambiguation). ... 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The organization has a museum in Akron, Ohio, and an annual induction ceremony. Inductees are chosen by a national panel of inventors and scientists. There are satellite offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. The Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. ... Nickname: The Rubber Capital of the World Location within the state of Ohio Country United States State Ohio County Summit Founded 1825 Incorporated 1835 (village) - 1865 (city) Government  - Mayor Don Plusquellic (D) Area  - City  62. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Nickname: Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2: Jack... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ...


It is a non-profit organization founded in 1973 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations. The organization hosts the Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge, an annual contest for inventors nationwide, in collaboration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Time magazine and The History Channel. It also operates Camp Invention, a summer camp program for elementary school age children and the Collegiate Inventors Competition. Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... PTO headquarters in Alexandria The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent and trademark protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions and corporate and product identification. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... For the Canadian equivalent of this channel, see History Television. ...

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—Edward Goodrich Acheson (March 9, 1856 - July 6, 1931) was a American chemist. ... Silicon carbide (SiC) or moissanite is a ceramic compound of silicon and carbon. ... Herman A. Affel (1893-1972) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, noted for coinventing the coaxial cable carrier system for multiple high speed long distance data transmissions. ... Coaxial Cable For the weapon, see coaxial weapon. ... Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson (January 25, 1878–May 14, 1975) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer. ... Andrew Alford (August 5 1904, Samara, Russia - January 25 1992) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. ... D-VOR (Doppler VOR) ground station, co-located with DME. VOR, short for VHF Omni-directional Radio Range, is a type of radio navigation system for aircraft. ... Samuel Leeds Allen (1841-1918) was an inventor and industrialist, whose most famous invention was the Flexible Flyer, the worlds first steerable runner sled. ... Scene from winter nearly anywhere snow may fall on a handy hill—Children at play sledding. ... Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) of San Francisco, California, USA, was a famed physicist who worked at the University of California, Berkeley. ... This long range radar antenna, known as ALTAIR, is used to detect and track space objects in conjunction with ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll. ... A bubble chamber A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. ... Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. ... FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. ...

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Alpheus Babcock (1785-1842) was a piano and music instrument maker in Boston, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the early 1800s. ... Cast iron usually refers to grey cast iron, but can mean any of a group of iron-based alloys containing more than 2% carbon (alloys with less carbon are carbon steel by definition). ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... George Herman Babcock (June 17, 1832 – December 16, 1893) was an American inventor. ... A steam generator is a device used to boil water to create steam. ... Leo Hendrik Baekeland (November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist. ... Bakelite is a material based on the thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride developed in 1907–1909 by Dr. Leo Baekeland. ... In an automobiles exhaust system, a catalytic converter provides an environment for a chemical reaction where unburned hydrocarbons completely combust. ... Matthias William Baldwin References Appletons Encyclopedia (2001), Matthias William Baldwin. ... Union Pacific Big Boy #4012 at work on a cold November 29, 1941 A steam locomotive is a locomotive powered by steam. ... Robert Banks was born on November 24, 1921 in Piedmont. ... Polypropylene lid of a Tic Tacs box, with a living hinge and the resin identification code under its flap Micrograph of polypropylene Polypropylene or polypropene (PP) is a thermoplastic polymer, made by the chemical industry and used in a wide variety of applications, including food packaging, ropes, textiles, plastic parts... Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, MD, FRSC (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discovers of insulin. ... Insulin (from Latin insula, island, as it is produced in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas) is a polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism. ... Paul Baran (born 1926) was one of the developers of packet-switched networks along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock. ... In computer networking and telecommunications, packet switching is a communications paradigm in which packets (messages or fragments of messages) are individually routed between nodes, with no previously established communication path. ... John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. ... Assorted discrete transistors A transistor is a semiconductor device, commonly used as an amplifier. ... Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) is a system designed to alert pilots if their aircraft is in immediate danger of flying into the ground. ... Andrew Jackson Beard (1849-1921) was an African-American inventor. ... Knuckle (AAR Type E) couplers in use AAR Type E railroad car coupling A coupling (or a coupler) is a mechanism for connecting railway cars in a train. ... A railroad car (or, more briefly, car), also known as an item of rolling stock in British parlance, is a vehicle on a railroad or railway that is not a locomotive - one that provides another purpose than purely haulage, although some types of car are powered. ... Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist who founded Beckman Instruments based on his invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, in 1934. ... A pH meter is an electronic instrument used to measure the pH (acidity or basicity) of a liquid (though special probes are sometimes used to measure the pH of semi-solid substances, such as cheese). ... Semi Joseph Begun, usually referred to as S. Joseph Begun, born in Germany, in 1943 was Vice President of Research for Brush Development Company, Cleveland, Ohio. ... Magnetic storage is a term from engineering referring to the storage of data on a magnetised medium. ... A portrait of Alexander Graham Bell in 1910s Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 – 2 August 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and innovator. ... This article or section includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Willard Harrison Bennett (1903 - 1987) was a scientist and inventor. ... Mass spectrometry (also known as mass spectroscopy (deprecated)[1] or informally, mass-spec and MS) is an analytical technique used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. ... Emile Berliner with disc record gramophone. ... Edison cylinder phonograph from about 1899 The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. ... A microphone, sometimes referred to as a mike or mic (both IPA pronunciation: ), is an acoustic to electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. ... Henry Bessemer (1813-1898) Sir Henry Bessemer (January 19, 1813 – March 15, 1898), English engineer and inventor, was born at Charlton near Hitchin in Hertfordshire. ... Bessemer converter, schematic diagram The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron. ... Charles Herbert Best, CC, (February 27, 1899 – March 31, 1978) was a medical scientist. ... Insulin (from Latin insula, island, as it is produced in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas) is a polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism. ... Erastus Brigham Bigelow (April 2, 1814 – December 6, 1879) was an American inventor of weaving machines. ... A Turkish woman in Konya works at a traditional loom. ... Gerd Binnig (born July 20, 1947) is a German-born physicist who shared with Heinrich Rohrer half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). ... Image of substitutional Cr impurities (small bumps) in the Fe(001) surface. ... Dr. Forrest M. Bird is an American inventor and aeromedical scientist, born in Stoughton, Massachusetts on June 9, 1921. ... It has been suggested that gas mask be merged into this article or section. ... Birdseyes double belt freezer (US Patent #1,773,079) oo[ lee is the king of the world Clarence Birdseye (December 9, 1886 - October 7, 1956), is considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry. ... Frozen food is food preserved by the process of freezing. ... Bírós invention Birome Ladislao José Biro[1] or Laszlo Josef Biro (Hungarian: Bíró László József) (September 29, 1899 — November 24, 1985) is the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen. ... Ballpoint pen, disassembled (top) and complete (bottom) A ballpoint pen (also eponymously known in British English as a biro and pronounced bye-row in Britain but sometimes bee-row elsewhere), is a modern writing instrument. ... Harold Stephen Black (1898-1983) was an cock who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by inventing the buttplug in 1927. ... A feedback amplifier, also known as negative feedback amplifier is an amplifier which uses a feedback network, generally for improving performance (gain stability, linearity, frequency response etc. ... Eli Whitney Blake, Sr. ... Look up stone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Helen Blanchard (1840-1922) was known for her numerous inventions dealing with sewing machines. ... A modern machine (Singer Symphonie 300) A sewing machine is a mechanical (or electromechanical) device that joins fabric using thread. ... Thomas Blanchard (1788–1864) was a prolific American inventor, awarded over twenty-five patents for his creations. ... Not to be confused with Lath, a thin piece of wood. ... // Katharine Blodgett was named the first woman to ever get her Ph. ... A Langmuir-Blodgett film contains of one or more monolayers of an organic material, deposited from the surface of a liquid onto a solid by immersing (or emersing) the solid substrate into (or from) the liquid. ... LASIK, an acronym for Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis, is a form of refractive laser eye surgery performed by ophthalmologists intended for correcting myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism. ... Baruch Samuel Blumberg (born 1925) is a American scientist and recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases. ... Hepatitis B is an inflammation of the liver and is caused by the Hepatitis B virus (HBV), a member of the Hepadnavirus family[1] and one of hundreds of unrelated viral species which cause viral hepatitis. ... James Bogardus (born March 14, 1800 in Catskill, New York; died April 13, 1874 in New York City) was an U.S. inventor and architect. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Standard atomic weight 55. ... Nils Ivar Bohlin (July 17, 1920 – September 26, 2002) was a Swedish inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo. ... A three-point seat belt. ... Gail Borden, Jr ( 9 November 1801 - 11 January 1874 ) was the U.S. inventor of condensed milk 1856. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Carl Bosch (August 27, 1874 – April 26, 1940) was a German chemist and engineer. ... The Haber Process (also Haber-Bosch process) is the reaction of nitrogen and hydrogen to produce ammonia. ... The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is by far the most common field-effect transistor in both digital and analog circuits. ... Seth Boyden Seth Boyden (November 17, 1788 – March 31, 1870) was an American inventor. ... Malleable Iron is the oldest member of the family of nodular irons. ... Herbert (Herb) Boyer (born 1936) is a Co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize and a co-founder of Genentech. ... An iconic image of genetic engineering; this autoluminograph from 1986 of a glowing transgenic tobacco plant bearing the luciferase gene, illustrating the possibilities of genetic engineering. ... Willard S Boyle (born August 19, 1924) is a Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the Charge-coupled device. ... A charge-coupled device (CCD), is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors. ... Milton Bradley (1836 - 1911) was a game pioneer, credited by many with launching the game industry in North America. ... A board game is any game played on a board (that is, a premarked surface) with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. ... Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of processed cellulose. ... A Brannock Device is a tool for measuring the human foot, generally as part of the process of fitting shoes. ... Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was a physicist who, along with John Bardeen, invented the transistor. ... Assorted discrete transistors A transistor is a semiconductor device, commonly used as an amplifier. ... Rachel Brown (born July 2, 1980) is an English footballer, currently playing for Everton Ladies and England Women. ... Nystatin (Nystan®, Infestat®, Nystamont®) is an polyene antimycotic drug Nystatin is considered one of the clean drugs as it has no proven side effects. ... John Moses Browning (January 21, 1855–November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of weapons which were used in the US Military for decades in the 20th century. ... A breech-loading weapon, usually a gun or cannon, is one where the bullet or shell is inserted, loaded, into the gun at the rear of the barrel, the breech; the opposite of muzzle-loading. ... Charles Francis Brush (March 17, 1849 - June 15, 1929); a U.S. inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. ... A Techno-Thriller, Arc Light is set towards the end of the 1990s and depicts a warp between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. ... Luther Burbank - c1902 Luther Burbank - The Wizard of Horticulture Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849–April 11, 1926)[1] was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer of agricultural science. ... Plant breeding is the purposeful manipulation of plant species in order to create desired genotypes and phenotypes for specific purposes. ... Joseph H. Burckhalter (October 9, 1912 – May 9, 2004) was a chemist who worked in the field of isothiocyanate compounds. ... General structure of an isothiocyanate Isothiocyanate is the chemical group -N=C=S, formed by substituting sulfur for oxygen in the isocyanate group. ... Patent no. ... adding machine Older adding machine. ... William Merriam Burton (November 17, 1865 - December 29, 1954) was an U.S. chemist who developed the first thermal cracking process for crude oil. ... In petroleum geology and chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules (e. ... Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex—seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. ... The differential analyser was a mechanical analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush in 1927. ...

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The board and equipment for Stock Ticker Stock Ticker is a now out of print board game that was popular upon its release and is still played today. ... In petroleum geology and chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules (e. ... Marvin Camras (January 1, 1916 - June 23, 1995) was an important pioneer in the field of magnetic recording. ... Magnetic storage is a term from engineering referring to the storage of data on a magnetised medium. ... Chester Carlson Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 - September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington. ... Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) is an American document management company, which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers (April 27, 1896 - April 29, 1937) was the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont. ... Synthetic rubber is any type of artificially made polymer material which acts as an elastomer. ... This article or section should be merged with Willis Carrier Willis Haviland Carrier (1876 - 1950). ... Note: in the broadest sense, air conditioning can refer to any form of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning. ... George Robert Carruthers ( born October 1, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an African-American inventor, physicist, and space scientist. ... “UV” redirects here. ... George Washington Carver, 1906 George Washington Carver (c. ... Binomial name L. This article is about the legume. ... An Earth observation satellite, ERS 2 For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). ... Vinton G. Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is commonly referred to as the father of the Internet. During his tenure from 1976 to 1982 with the United States Department of Defenses Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related... The Internet Protocol (IP) is a data-oriented protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork. ... Emmett W. Chappelle (1925-) is a scientist and researcher who made valuable contributions in several fields: medicine, biology, food science, and astrochemistry. ... Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism as the result of a chemical reaction during which chemical energy is converted to light energy. ... Inspired in part by Daniel McFarlan Moores invention, Moore’s Lamp, Paris born chemist and inventor, Georges Claude invented the neon light by passing an electric current through inert gases made them light very brightly. ... A neon lamp is a gas discharge lamp containing neon gas at low pressure. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A Dishwasher A two drawer DishDrawer dishwasher. ... Stanley N. Cohen is an American geneticist. ... An iconic image of genetic engineering; this autoluminograph from 1986 of a glowing transgenic tobacco plant bearing the luciferase gene, illustrating the possibilities of genetic engineering. ... James Collip was part of the Toronto group which helped create insulin. ... Insulin (from Latin insula, island, as it is produced in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas) is a polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism. ... Samuel Colt (19th century engraving) Samuel Colt (born Hartford, Connecticut July 19, 1814 - died Hartford, Connecticut January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist. ... Rampant Colt—The original logo of Colts Firearms Colts Manufacturing Company is a firearms manufacturer founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1847 by Samuel Colt in order to produce revolvers, which Colt held the patent on, during the Mexican-American War. ... Frank Benjamin Colton (March 3, 1923 - November 25, 2003), American chemist who first synthesized norethynodrel, the progestin used in Enovid, the first oral contraceptive, at G. D. Searle & Company in Skokie, Illinois in 1952. ... The combined oral contraceptive pill, often referred to as the Pill, is a combination of an estrogen (oestrogen) and a progestin (progestogen), taken by mouth to inhibit normal fertility. ... Lloyd Conover (born 1923 in Orange, New Jersey) is the inventor of Tetracycline. ... Tetracycline (INN) (IPA: ) is a broad-spectrum antibiotic produced by the streptomyces bacterium, indicated for use against many bacterial infections. ... William David Coolidge (October 23, 1873–February 3, 1975) was an American physicist. ... An X-Ray tube is a vacuum tube designed to produce man made X-Ray photons on demand. ... Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791 – April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United States. ... Union Pacific Big Boy #4012 at work on a cold November 29, 1941 A steam locomotive is a locomotive powered by steam. ... Harry Coover (b. ... Cyanoacrylate is the generic name for substances such as methyl-2-cyanoacrylate, which is usually sold under the trademarks Superglue and Krazy Glue, and 2-octyl cyanoacrylate, which is used in medical glues such as Dermabond and Traumaseal. ... George Henry Corliss George Henry Corliss (June 2, 1817 – February 21, 1888) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer, and the inventor of the Corliss Steam Engine. ... // The term steam engine may also refer to an entire railroad steam locomotive. ... A World War I-era parachute flare dropped from aircraft for illumination. ... Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877-1948) was an American physical chemist and inventor. ... An electrostatic precipitator (ESP), or electrostatic air cleaner is a particulate collection device that removes particles from a flowing gas (such as air) using the force of an induced electrostatic charge. ... Wallace Henry Coulter was an engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and visionary. ... The Coulter principle states that particles pulled through an orifice, concurrent with an electrical current, produce a change in impedance that is proportional to the size of the particle traversing the orifice. ... Joshua Lionel Cowen (August 25, 1877-1965), born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and the cofounder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains. ... This article needs cleanup. ... A furnace is a device for heating air or any other fluid. ... Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 â€“ October 5, 1996) was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who founded the company Cray Research. ... A supercomputer is a computer that led the world in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation, at the time of its introduction. ... A Turkish woman in Konya works at a traditional loom. ... Glenn H. Curtiss at the Grande Semaine dAviation in France in 1909 Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. ... Look up hydroplane in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... David Cushman (November 15, 1939 – August 14, 2000) was an American chemist famous for his role in the invention of captopril, the first of the ACE inhibitors used in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. ... Captopril is an Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme inhibitor (ACE inhibitor) used for the treatment of hypertension and some types of chronic heart failure. ...

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Gottlieb Daimler Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (March 17, 1834 - March 6, 1900) was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg) what is now Germany. ... A motorcycle engine is an engine found in a motorcycle, which serves to propel the motorcycle. ... Raymond V. Damadian. ... The mri are a fictional alien species in the Faded Sun Trilogy of C.J. Cherryh. ... Donald Davies Donald Watts Davies CBE FRS (June 7, 1924 – May 28, 2000) was a British computer scientist who was a co-inventor of packet switching (and originator of the term), along with Paul Baran and Leonard Kleinrock in the US. Just prior to Davies death, he contested Kleinrocks... In computer networking and telecommunications, packet switching is a communications paradigm in which packets (messages or fragments of messages) are individually routed between nodes, with no previously established communication path. ... Lee De Forest, (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. ... The Audion is an electronic amplifier device invented by Lee De Forest in 1906, the forerunner of what is generally known as a triode today, in which the flow of current from the filament to the plate was controlled by a third element, the grid. ... George de Mestral (June 19, 1907 - February 8, 1990) was an electrical engineer who invented Velcro. ... Velcro: hooks (left) and loops (right). ... Mark Dean Dr. Mark Dean is an inventor and a computer scientist. ... For an account of the words periphery and peripheral as they are used in biology, sociology, politics, computer hardware, and other fields, see the periphery disambiguation page. ... mike weaver is the coolest kid ever plus alek John Deere For information on the John Deere manufacturing company, please see the Deere & Company article. ... For the constellation known as The Plough see Ursa Major. ... Robert Dennard (Born Terrell, Texas, USA in 1932-) is an American electrical engineer and inventor. ... Dram can mean several things: For the imperial unit of volume see dram (unit), commonly used to describe a measure of Scotch whisky For the imperial unit of weight or mass see avoirdupois and apothecaries system (of mass) For the Armenian monetary unit see dram (currency) DRAM is a type... This article is about Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... The combined oral contraceptive pill, often referred to as the Pill, is a combination of an estrogen (oestrogen) and a progestin (progestogen), taken by mouth to inhibit normal fertility. ... Dolby (left) is inducted into the NIHF Ray Dolby (born January 18, 1933) is the American inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He is the founder and chairman of Dolby Laboratories. ... Dolby NR is a noise reduction system developed by Dolby Laboratories for use in analogue magnetic tape recording. ... Herbert Henry Dow (1866 — 1930) was a U.S. (Canadian-born) chemical industrialist. ... General Name, Symbol, Number bromine, Br, 35 Chemical series halogens Group, Period, Block 17, 4, p Appearance gas/liquid: red-brown solid: metallic luster Atomic mass 79. ... Charles Stark Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) is often referred to as the father of inertial navigation. ... Richard G. Drew (1899-1980) was an American inventor who worked for 3M in St. ... Two rolls of adhesive tape. ... ... An Emerson iron lung. ... John Boyd Dunlop (February 5, 1840 – October 23, 1921) was a Scottish inventor who founded the rubber company that bears his name, Dunlop Tyres. ... Firestone tire A tire (US spelling) or tyre (UK spelling) is a roughly toroidal piece of (usually) rubber placed on a wheel to cushion it. ... Cimetidine is a histamine H2-receptor antagonist that inhibits the production of acid in the stomach. ...

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A 1954 U.S. stamp featuring George Eastman. ... Photography [fәtɑgrәfi:],[foʊtɑgrәfi:] is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or sensor. ... John Presper Eckert, a computer pioneer, was born April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia and died June 3, 1995 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. ... ENIAC ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer,[1] was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems,[2] although earlier computers had been built with some of these properties. ... Shadowgraph of a . ... A stroboscope , also known as a strobe, is an instrument used to make a cyclically moving object appear to be slow-moving or stationary. ... Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) was an inventor and businessman who developed many important devices. ... Most of the industrialized world is lit by electric lights, which are used both at night and to provide additional light during the daytime. ... Alfred Einhorn (1856 – 1917) was a German chemist most notable for first synthesizing procaine in 1905 which he patented under the name Novocain. ... Procaine hydrochloride is a local anesthetic used primarily in dentistry. ... Gertrude B. Elion (January 23, 1918 - February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ... Leukemia or leukaemia (see spelling differences) is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation (production by multiplication) of blood cells, usually white blood cells (leukocytes). ... Cimetidine is a histamine H2-receptor antagonist that inhibits the production of acid in the stomach. ... Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of German descent. ... Operating a mechanical 1: Pulling the mouse turns the ball. ... John Ericsson (1803-1889) This article is about John Ericsson, the Swedish and American inventor. ... A propeller can be seen as a rotating fin in water or a wing in air. ... Lloyd Espenschied (27 April 1889 – June 1986) was an electrical engineer. ... Coaxial Cable For the weapon, see coaxial weapon. ... Oliver Evans Oliver Evans (13 September 1755 – 15 April 1819) was a United States inventor. ... // The term steam engine may also refer to an entire railroad steam locomotive. ... Ole Evinrude (1877 - 1934) was a U.S. inventor. ... Bolinders two cylinder Trim outboard engine. ...

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Max Faget Maxime Max A. Faget (August 26, 1921 – October 9, 2004) was an American engineer. ... Image:Vostok Raumkapsel in der Endmontage. ... Federico Faggin (born 1 December 1941) is a physicist and electrical engineer considered to be one of the inventors of the microprocessor. ... CPU can stand for: in computing: Central processing unit in journalism: Commonwealth Press Union in law enforcement: Crime prevention unit in software: Critical patch update, a type of software patch distributed by Oracle Corporation in Macleans College is often known as Ash Lim. ... Moses Gerrish Farmer (February 9, 1820 – May 25, 1893) was an electrical engineer and inventor. ... A Wheelock MT-24-LSM fire alarm horn and strobe. ... This article needs cleanup. ... James Fergason (born Wakenda, Missouri, January 12, 1934) is the inventor of an improved Liquid Crystal Display, or LCD. After obtaining a Bachelors Degree in physics from the University of Missouri in 1956, Fergason began his work on the practical uses of liquid crystals at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories... Reflective twisted nematic liquid crystal display. ... Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics and statistical mechanics. ... For the generation of electrical power by fission, see Nuclear power plant An induced nuclear fission event. ... Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian inventor, best known for his work in early radio. ... Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ... Harvey Samuel Firestone was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires and an important contributor to North American economic growth in the 20th century. ... Firestone tire A tire (US spelling) or tyre (UK spelling) is a roughly toroidal piece of (usually) rubber placed on a wheel to cushion it. ... John Fitch (born on January 21, 1743 in South Windsor, Connecticut, died by suicide July, 1798) was a clockmaker, brassworker, and silversmith who built the first recorded steam powered ship in the United States, in 1786. ... Paddle steamers — Lucerne, Switzerland. ... A molecular sieve is a material containing tiny pores of a precise and uniform size that is used as an adsorbent for gases and liquids. ... Catheter disassembled In medicine, a catheter is a tube that can be inserted into a body cavity, duct or vessel. ... Henry Ford (1919) Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. ... Karl Benzs Velo model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race Passenger cars in use in 2000 An automobile (or motorcar; often simply car; also auto, motor) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. ... Jay Wright Forrester (born 14 July 1918 Climax, Nebraska) is an American pioneer of computer engineering. ... Random access memory (usually known by its acronym, RAM) is a type of data storage used in computers. ... Roundup is the brand name of a systemic, broad-spectrum herbicide produced by the U.S. life sciences giant Monsanto. ... Glucose (Glc), a monosaccharide (or simple sugar), is the most important carbohydrate in biology. ... This article is about the disease that features high blood sugar. ... Glucose (Glc), a monosaccharide (or simple sugar), is the most important carbohydrate in biology. ... This article is about the disease that features high blood sugar. ... Robert Fulton Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was a U.S. engineer and inventor, who was widely credited with developing the first steam-powered ship marked as a commercial success. ... Paddle steamers — Lucerne, Switzerland. ...

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Dr. Robert C. Gallo Robert Charles Gallo (born March 23, 1937) is a U.S. biomedical researcher. ... Species Human immunodeficiency virus 1 Human immunodeficiency virus 2 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS, a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections). ... Cimetidine is a histamine H2-receptor antagonist that inhibits the production of acid in the stomach. ... Edmund Germer (August 24, 1901 - August 10, 1987) was a German inventor granted as the father of the fluorescent lamp for which he deposited U.S. Patent No 2,182,732 in 1926 with Friedrich Meyer and Hans J. Spanner. ... A compact fluorescent lamp with an integrated electronic ballast A fluorescent lamp is a type of lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor in argon or neon gas, producing short-wave ultraviolet light. ... An American Physicist and Electrical Engineer, credited (along with Bradford Parkinson) with the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS). ... Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ... John Heysham Gibbon Jr. ... A heart-lung machine (upper right) in a coronary artery bypass surgery. ... King Camp Gillette (January 5, 1855 - July 9, 1932) developed and patented the safety razor. ... A safety razor is a razor where the skin is protected from all but the very edge of the blade. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... A video tape recorder (VTR), is a tape recorder that can record video material. ... Joseph Glidden Joseph Farwell Glidden (January 18, 1813–1906) was an American farmer who patented barbed wire, a product that forever altered the development of the American West. ... A selection of forms of barbed wire. ... Robert Goddard Robert Hutchins Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was one of the pioneers of modern rocketry. ... US Smarties (by Ce De Candy) US Smarties (by Ce De Candy) In the United States, Smarties are a type of artificially fruit-flavored candy produced by Ce De Candy. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible (floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. ... Leopold Godowsky (Leopold Godowski) (February 13, 1870–November 21, 1938) was a Polish pianist, composer, and teacher. ... Kodachrome is the trademarked name of a brand of color reversal film sold by Eastman Kodak in various slide and movie formats since its introduction in 1935. ... Peter Carl Goldmark (December 2, 1906 – December 7, 1977) was a Hungarian-born, American engineer who, during his time with Columbia Records, was instrumental in developing the long-playing (LP) microgroove 33-1/3 rpm vinyl phonograph discs which defined home audio for two generations. ... The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967) as a 33 â…“ LP vinyl record A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc. ... Charles Goodyear, as illustrated in an 1891 Scientific American article Charles Spencer Goodyear (December 29, 1800 - July 1, 1860) was the first American to vulcanize rubber, a process which he discovered in 1839 and patented on June 15, 1844. ... Vulcanization refers to a specific curing process of rubber involving high heat and the addition of sulfur. ... Gore-tex is a proprietary teflonized textile material owned by W.L. Gore & Associates. ... Gordon Gould (July 17, 1920 — September 16, 2005) was an American physicist and the credited inventor of the laser. ... Experiment with a laser (US Military) In physics, a laser is a device that emits light through a specific mechanism for which the term laser is an acronym: light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. ... Zénobe Gramme, by Mathurin Moreau Zénobe Théophile Gramme (April 4, 1826 - January 20, 1901) was a Belgian electrical engineer. ... Dynamo, or Dinamo, may refer to: Dynamo, an electrical generator Dynamo (sports society) of the Soviet Union Operation Dynamo, the 1940 mass evacuation at Dunkirk Dynamo, the rock band based in Belfast Dynamo theory, a theory relating to magnetic fields of celestial bodies Dynamo Open Air, annual heavy metal music... Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an electrical engineer and is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois, independently of Alexander Graham Bell. ... This article or section includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ... Wilson Greatbatch is an inventor who advanced the development of early implantable cardiac pacemakers. ... A pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the hearts natural pacemaker) is a medical device designed by Nitish and Raheel to regulate the beating of the heart. ... In aerodynamics, a stall is a condition in which an excessive angle of attack causes loss of lift due to disruption of airflow. ... Leroy Randle Grumman (January 4, 1895 - October 4, 1982) was an American industrialist and aeronautical engineer. ... Main and nosewheel undercarriage of a Qatar Airways Airbus A330 The undercarriage or landing gear is equipment which supports an aircraft when it is not flying. ... A small, much-used Xerox copier in a high school library. ...

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Fritz Haber in 1918. ... The Haber Process (also Haber-Bosch process) is the reaction of nitrogen and hydrogen to produce ammonia. ... Charles M. Hall (1863-1914) Charles Martin Hall (1863-1914) was an American inventor and engineer. ... The Hall-Héroult process is the major industrial process for the production of aluminium. ... Lloyd Augustus Hall (June 20, 1894 - January 2, 1971) was an African American chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation. ... A cavity magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube that generates coherent microwaves. ... American inventor Robert N. Hall (December 25, 1919-) demonstrated the first semiconductor laser, and invented a type of magnetron commonly used in microwave ovens. ... A signal is a mechanical or electrical device that indicates to train drivers information about the state of the line ahead, and therefore whether he or she must stop or may start, or instructions on what speed the train may go. ... Andrew Smith Hallidie Andrew Smith Hallidie (16 March 1836 – 24 April 1900) was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco. ... Cable Car in San Francisco A San Francisco cable car Winding drums on the London and Blackwall cable-operated railway, 1840. ... A polyurethane is any polymer consisting of a chain of organic units joined by urethane links. ... Nystatin (Nystan®, Infestat®, Nystamont®) is an polyene antimycotic drug Nystatin is considered one of the clean drugs as it has no proven side effects. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... William R. Hewlett (May 20, 1913 - January 12, 2001) was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). ... Phototypesetting is a method of setting type with light (photo). ... Maurice Ralph Hilleman, (August 30, 1919 – April 11, 2005), was an American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed more than three dozen vaccines, more than any other scientist. ... A bottle and a syringe containing the influenza vaccine. ... James Hillier) James Hillier OC, Ph. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Richard March Hoe (September 12, 1812-June 7, 1886) was an American inventor who designed an improved printing press. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Dr. Marcian Edward Ted Hoff Jr. ... CPU can stand for: in computing: Central processing unit in journalism: Commonwealth Press Union in law enforcement: Crime prevention unit in software: Critical patch update, a type of software patch distributed by Oracle Corporation in Macleans College is often known as Ash Lim. ... Felix Hoffman (January 21, 1868 – February 8, 1946) was a German chemist. ... Aspirin, or acetylsalicylic acid (IPA: ), (acetosal) is a drug in the family of salicylates, often used as an analgesic (to relieve minor aches and pains), antipyretic (to reduce fever), and as an anti-inflammatory. ... J. Paul Hogan was born on August 7, 1919 in Lowes, Kentucky. ... Polypropylene lid of a Tic Tacs box, with a living hinge and the resin identification code under its flap Micrograph of polypropylene Polypropylene or polypropene (PP) is a thermoplastic polymer, made by the chemical industry and used in a wide variety of applications, including food packaging, ropes, textiles, plastic parts... Polyethylene or polyethene is one of the simplest and most inexpensive polymers. ... John Philip Holland (February 29, 1840 - August 12, 1914) was the engineer who developed the first true submarine accepted by the U.S. Navy He was born in Liscanor, County Clare, Ireland and his brother Michael was active in the Fenian Brotherhood and introduced the inventor to the revolutionary group. ... Alvin in 1978, a year after first exploring hydrothermal vents. ... Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. ... Punched cards (or Hollerith cards, or IBM cards), are pieces of stiff paper that contain digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. ... Alexander Lyman Holley (born 20 July 1832 - died 29 January 1882) was a mechanical engineer and was considered the foremost steel and plant engineer an