National Inventors Hall of Fame
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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 2006 there were 313 inductees.
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.
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 Invenors Competition.
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[edit] Inductees
[edit] A
- Edward Goodrich Acheson, carborundum
- Herman Affel, coaxial cable
- Ernst Alexanderson, radio
- Andrew Alford, VHF omnidirectional range
- Luis Walter Alvarez, hydrogen bubble chamber, used to detect subatomic particles
- Edwin Armstrong, FM radio
[edit] B
- George Herman Babcock, steam generator
- Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Bakelite
- Rodney Bagley, substrate for catalytic converters
- Matthias William Baldwin, steam locomotive
- Robert Banks, polypropylene plastics
- Frederick Banting, isolated and purified insulin
- John Bardeen, transistor
- C. Donald Bateman, ground proximity warning system
- Andrew Jackson Beard (1849-1921), improved Janney coupler for railroad cars
- Arnold Orville Beckman, pH meter
- Semi Joseph Begun, magnetic recording
- Alexander Graham Bell, telephone
- Willard Harrison Bennett, mass spectrometry
- Emile Berliner, gramophone and microphone
- Henry Bessemer, steel production process
- Charles Best, isolation of insulin
- Erastus Brigham Bigelow (1814-1879), powered loom
- Gerd Karl Binnig, scanning tunneling microscope
- Forrest M. Bird, respirator
- Clarence Birdseye, frozen food
- Harold Stephen Black, negative feedback amplifier
- Helen Blanchard (1840-1922), innovations to sewing machine
- Thomas Blanchard (1788-1864), pattern lathe
- Samuel Blum, LASIK eye surgery
- Baruch Blumberg, vaccine for hepatitis B
- Nils Bohlin, safety belt
- Gail Borden, Jr. (1801-1874), process for condensed milk
- Karl Bosch, ammonia production process
- Robert W. Bower, MOSFET
- Seth Boyden (1788-1870), process for making malleable iron
- Herbert W. Boyer, genetic engineering
- Willard Boyle, charge coupled device
- Milton Bradley (1836-1911), game board
- Jacques Brandenberger (1872-1954), Cellophane
- Walter Brattain, transistor
- Rachel Brown, Nystatin antifungal
- Charles F. Brush (1849-1929), arc light for street lighting
- Luther Burbank, plant breeding
- Joseph H. Burckhalter, isothiocyanates
- William Seward Burroughs, adding machine
- William Merriam Burton, catalytic cracking
- Vannevar Bush, differential analyzer
[edit] C
- Edward Calahan (1838-1912), stock ticker
- Donald L. Campbell, catalytic cracking
- Marvin Camras, magnetic recording
- Chester F. Carlson, Xerox photocopying process
- Wallace Hume Carothers, synthetic rubber
- Willis Haviland Carrier, air conditioner
- George Carruthers Far Electrograph Ultraviolet Camera
- George Washington Carver, peanut products
- Frank Cepollina, satellite servicing techniques
- Vinton G. Cerf, Internet protocol
- Josephine Cochrane (1839-1913), dishwasher
- Stanley N. Cohen, genetic engineering
- James Collip isolated and purified insulin
- Samuel Colt (1814-1862), Colt revolver with interchangeable parts
- Frank B. Colton, oral contraceptives
- Lloyd H. Conover, tetracycline
- William D. Coolidge x-Ray tube
- Peter Cooper (1791-1883), American steam locomotive
- Harry Coover, Superglue
- George Corliss (1817-1888), steam engine improvements
- Martha Coston (1826-1904), signal flare used for ships
- Frederick G. Cottrell, electrostatic precipitator
- Wallace H. Coulter, Coulter principle
- Eckley Coxe (1839-1895), travelling grate furnace
- Seymour Cray, supercomputer
- Glenn Curtiss, hydroaeroplane
[edit] D
- Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900), design of automobile and motorcycle engines
- Raymond V. Damadian, MRI
- George de Mestral, Velcro
- Mark Dean, computer peripherals
- John Deere, farm plow
- Robert Dennard, DRAM
- Rudolf Diesel, internal combustion engine
- Walt Disney, multiplane camera
- Carl Djerassi, oral contraceptives
- Ray Dolby, Dolby noise reduction
- Herbert Henry Dow, bromine extraction
- Charles Stark Draper, stabilizing gyroscopic
- John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921), pneumatic tire
- Graham J. Durant, cimetidine
[edit] E
- George Eastman, photography
- John Presper Eckert, ENIAC
- Harold E. Edgerton, stroboscope photography
- Thomas Alva Edison, practical electric light
- Gertrude Belle Elion, leukemia drug
- John Colin Emmett, cimetidine
- Douglas Engelbart, computer mouse
- John Ericsson, screw propeller
- Lloyd Espenschied, coaxial cable
- Oliver Evans, high pressure steam engine
[edit] F
- Maxime Faget, space capsule
- Federico Faggin, CPU
- Moses Farmer (1820-1893), electric fire alarm system
- Philo Taylor Farnsworth, television
- James Fergason, liquid crystal display
- Enrico Fermi, nuclear fission
- Reginald A. Fessenden, AM radio
- Harvey Firestone (1868-1938), pneumatic tire
- John Fitch (inventor) (1743-1798), steamboat
- Edith Flanigen, molecular sieves
- Thomas J. Fogarty, embolectomy catheter
- Henry Ford, automobile
- Lee de Forest, vacuum tube
- Jay W. Forrester, Random Access Memory
- Alfred Free, glucose detection for diabetes
- Helen Murray Free, glucose detection for diabetes
- Robert Fulton (1765-1815), steamboat
[edit] G
- Robert Gallo, HIV isolation
- C. Robin Ganellin, cimetidine
- Edmund Germer, fluorescent lighting
- Ivan Getting, GPS
- John Gibbon, heart-lung machine
- Charles P. Ginsburg, video tape recording
- Joseph Glidden (1813-1906), barbed wire
- Robert Hutchings Goddard, rockets
- Leopold Godowsky, Jr., Kodachrome
- Charles Goodyear, vulcanization
- Robert L. Gore, Goretex
- Gordon Gould, laser
- Zénobe Gramme (1826-1901), direct-current dynamo
- Wilson Greatbatch, heart pacemaker
- Leonard Michael Greene, aircraft stall warning
- Leroy Grumman, retractable landing gear
- Robert Gundlach, photocopier
[edit] H
- Fritz Haber, ammonia production process
- Charles Martin Hall, aluminum production process
- Lloyd Hall, magnetron
- Robert N. Hall, sterile packing food
- Andrew Hallidie (1836-1900), cable car
- William Edward Hanford, polyurethane
- Elizabeth Lee Hazen, Nystatin
- M. Stephen Heilman, defibrillator
- Beulah Louise Henry (1887-1973)
- William R. Hewlett, audio signals
- Rene Alphonse Higonnet, phototypesetting machine
- James Hillier, electron microscope
- Richard M. Hoe, rotary printing press
- Marcian Hoff, CPU
- Felix Hoffmann, aspirin
- John Paul Hogan, polypropylene
- Herman Hollerith, punch card tabulator
- Alexander Lyman Holley (1832-1882), steelmaking
- Birdsill Holly (1820-1894), fire hydrant
- Donald Fletcher Holmes, polyurethane
- Benjamin Holt, tractor
- Eugene Houdry, catalytic cracking
- Elias Howe, sewing machine
- George Hulett (1846-1923), loading and unloading machine
- Walter Hunt (1796-1859), safety pin
- John Hyatt (1837-1920), celluloid
- Franklin Hyde, transparent silica
[edit] I
- Simon Ingersoll (1818-1894), rock drill
[edit] J
- Ali Javan, helium-neon laser
- Alec Jeffreys, genetic fingerprinting
- Percy Lavon Julian, cortisone synthesis
[edit] K
- Robert E. Kahn, Internet Protocol
- Charles Kaman, innovations to helicopter
- Dean Kamen, ambulatory infusion pump
- Donald Keck, optical fiber
- John Kellogg (1852-1943), breakfast cereal
- Charles Kelman, cataract surgery
- Charles Franklin Kettering, automobile
- Mary Dixon Kies (1752-1837), process for weaving straw
- Jack S. Kilby, integrated circuit
- Dale Kleist, fiberglass
- Margaret Knight, paper bag
- Willem Johan Kolff, artificial heart
- Paul Kollsman, altimeter
- William J. Kroll, titanium
- Raymond Kurzweil, optical character recognition
- Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar
[edit] L
- Irwin Lachman, catalytic converter
- Edwin Land, Polaroid
- Alois Langer, defibrillator
- Robert Langer, drug delivery
- Irving Langmuir, electric lighting
- Lewis Latimer (1848-1928), filament for electric light bulb
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence, cyclotron
- William Lear, 8-track system
- Robert Ledley, whole-body CAT scan
- Ronald Lewis, catalytic converter
- Edwin A. Link, Link trainer
[edit] M
- Theodore Harold Maiman, laser
- Leopold Mannes, Kodachrome
- Guglielmo Marconi, radio
- John L. Mason (1832-1916), mason jar
- Jan Matzeliger (1852-1889), shoe lasting
- Homer Martin, catalytic cracking
- John Mauchly, ENIAC
- Robert Maurer, optical fiber
- Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), machine gun
- Stanley Mazor, CPU
- Cyrus McCormick, mechanical reaper
- Elijah J. McCoy engine lubricator
- Ottmar Mergenthaler, Linotype
- Thomas Midgley, ethyl gasoline
- Lewis Miller (1829-1899), combine harvester
- Irving Millman, vaccine for hepatitis B
- Michel Mirowski, heart defibrillator
- Dennis Moeller, computer peripherals
- Bryan Molloy, Prozac
- Luc Montagnier, HIV isolation and antibody test
- Garrett Morgan, gas mask
- Samuel F.B. Morse, telegraph
- Morton Mower, implantable heart defibrillator
- Andrew J. Moyer, penicillin
- Louis Marius Moyroud, photo composition
- Kary Banks Mullis, polymerase chain reacton
- Eger Murphee, catalytic cracking
[edit] N
- Julius Arthur Nieuwland, synthetic rubber
- Alfred Nobel, dynamite
- John Northrop, flying wing plane
- Robert N. Noyce, integrated circuit
[edit] O
- Bernard Oliver, pulse code modulation
- Kenneth H. Olsen, magnetic core memory
- Elisha Graves Otis, elevator brake
- Nicolaus August Otto, Otto cycle for internal combustion engine
[edit] P
- Charles Grafton Page (1812-1868), high-voltage induction coil
- William Painter (1838-1906), bottle cap
- Julio Palmaz, intravascular stent
- Louis W. Parker, television
- Bradford Parkinson, global positioning system
- John T. Parsons Numerical Control
- Louis Pasteur, pasteurization
- Les Paul, solid-body electric guitar
- Lester Pelton (1829-1908), waterwheel
- John Pierce, communications satellite
- Gregory Pincus, oral contraceptives
- Charles J. Plank, catalytic cracking
- Roy J. Plunkett, Teflon
- George Pullman (1831-1897), Pullman car
[edit] R
- Jacob Rabinow, optical character recognition
- Norbert Rillieux, refined sugar
- Robert H. Rines, high resolution radar and sonar
- John Roebling, suspension bridge
- Heinrich Rohrer, scanning tunneling microscope
- Harold Rosen, spin stabilized synchronous communications satellite
- Edward J. Rosinski, catalytic cracking
- Benjamin A. Rubin, vaccinating needle
[edit] S
- Lewis Hastings Sarett, cortisone
- Joseph Saxton (1799-1873), measuring instruments
- Arthur L. Schawlow, laser
- Klaus Schmiegel, Prozac
- Peter Schultz, optical fiber
- Glenn T. Seaborg, plutonium isolation
- Robert J. Seiwald, isothiocyanates
- Waldo L. Semon, polyvinyl chloride
- Gerhard Sessler, microphone
- Claude Shannon, pulse code modulation
- John C. Sheehan structure and synthesis of penicillin
- Patsy Sherman, Scotchgard
- William Bradford Shockley, transistor
- Christopher L. Sholes, typewriter
- Igor I. Sikorsky, helicopter
- Russell Games Slayter, Fiberglass
- George E. Smith, charge-coupled device
- Samuel Smith (chemist), Scotchgard
- James Spangler (1848-1915), portable electric vacuum cleaner
- Percy Spencer, magnetron
- Elmer Ambrose Sperry, gyroscopic compass
- Frank Sprague (1857-1934), electric street car
- Rangaswamy Srinivasan, LASIK eye surgery
- William Stanley, Jr., alternating current
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, alternating current
- Leo Sternbach, benzodiazepines
- John Stevens (1749-1838), steam-powered transportation
- George R. Stibitz, digital computer
- Almon Strowger (1839-1902), telephone dialing
- Gideon Sundback (1880-1954), zipper
- Ambrose Swasey (1846-1937), improvements to telescope
- Leo Szilard, neutronic reactor
[edit] T
- Donalee L. Tabern, pentothal
- Charles Tainter (1854-1940), innovations in sound recording
- Nikola Tesla, alternating current
- John T. Thomas , fiberglass
- Elihu Thomson, arc lamp
- Henry Timken , tapered roller bearings
- Max Tishler, synthetic vitamins
- Charles Hard Townes, laser
- Charles Tyson, catalytic cracking
[edit] U
- William E. Upjohn, tablet for delivering medicine
[edit] V
[edit] W
- Selman Waksman, streptomycin
- An Wang, magnetic core memory
- Lewis Waterman (1837-1901), fountain pen
- James West, microphone
- George Westinghouse, alternating current
- Edward Weston (chemist) (1850-1936), portable voltmeter
- Richard Whitcomb, supercritical wing
- Eli Whitney, cotton gin
- Frank Whittle, jet engine
- Stephen Wilcox, steam generator
- Robert R. Williams, Jr., vitamin synthesis
- Sam Williams (inventor), contributions to jet engine
- Alexander Winton (1860-1932), contributions to automobile, bicycle, and diesel
- Granville Woods, railroad telegraph
- Steve Wozniak, personal computer
- Orville Wright, airplane
- Wilbur Wright, airplane
- James Wynne (inventor), LASIK eye surgery
[edit] Y
- Linus Yale, Jr. (1821-1868), cylinder lock
