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HISTORY OF INVENTIONS
A List
of The Worlds Greatest Inventors Still Alive
George Edward Alcorn
Alcorn
invented a new type of x-ray spectrometer.
Andrew Alford
Invented the
localizer antenna system for radio navigation systems.
Randi Altschul
Randice-Lisa
Altschul invented the world's first disposable cell phone. The
history of cell phones.
Virgie Ammons
Invented a
firepace dampening device.
Dr. Betsy Ancker-Johnson
The third
women elected to the National Academy of engineering. Ancker-Johnson
holds US patent #3287659.
Barbara Askins
Developed a
totally new way of processing film.
John Backus
The first
high level computer programming language, Fortran was written by
John Backus and IBM.
Robert Banks
Robert Banks and fellow research chemist Paul Hogan invented a
durable plastic called Marlex®.
John Bardeen
Received a
patent for the transistor invented in 1947
Patricia Bath
The first
African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical
invention.
George Bednorz
In 1986, K.
Alex Müller and Johannes Georg Bednorz invented the first
high-temperature superconductor.
Willard H. Bennett
Invented the
radio frequency mass spectrometer.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim
Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, defining HTML
(hypertext markup language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
and URLs (Universal Resource Locators). He is currently the
Director of the
World Wide Web Consortium, the group that sets technical
standards for the Web. Biographies on Berners-Lee and
articles/books written by Berners-Lee.
Vinton G. Cerf
Within ten
years of graduating from high school, Vinton Cerf had begun
co-designing and -developing the protocols and structure of what
became the Internet.
Patricia Billings
Invented a
indestructible and fireproof building material--Geobond®.
Gerd Karl Binnig
Co-invented
the scanning tunneling microscope.
Forrest M. Bird
Invented the
fluid control device; respirator and the pediatric ventilator.
Harold Stephen Black
Invented the
wave translation system that eliminates feedback distortion in
telephone calls.
Bessie Blount
Invented a
device to help a disabled person eat.
Baruch S. Blumberg
Co-invented a
vaccine against viral hepatitis and developed a test that
identified hepatitis B in blood sample.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Bombardier
developed in 1958 the type of sport machine that we know today
as a "snowmobile".
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Robert Bower
Invented a
device that provided semiconductors with more speed.
Bill Bowerman - Sneakers
Co-invented
the modern athletic shoe.
Herbert Boyer
Considered
the founding father of genetic engineering.
Walter H. Brattain
Co-invented
the transistor - invented in 1947.
Allen Breed
Patented the
first successful car air bag.
Phil Brooks
Patented the
a "Disposable Syringe".
Rachel Fuller Brown
Invented the
world's first useful antifungal antibiotic, Nystatin.
Joseph H. Burckhalter
Co-patented
first antibody labeling agent.
Nolan Bushnell
Invented the
video game Pong and is perhaps the father of computer
entertainment.
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Marvin Camras
His famous
inventions are used in modern recording heads, magnetic sound
for motion pictures, tape machines and video tape recording
decks.
Chester F Carlson
Received a
patent for electrophotography, the history of the Xerox or
photocopy machine.
George Carruthers
Behind the
invention of the far-ultraviolet camera and spectrograph.
Benjamin Carson
A pioneer in
surgery technology.
Vinton Cerf
Invented
Internet protocols.
Emmett W Chappelle
A noted
biochemist, photobiologist, and astrochemist.
John B Christian
Invented and
patented new lubricants, used in high flying aircraft and NASA
space missions.
Adam Cohen
Invented the
"electrochemical paintbrush", nanotechnology used in etching
microchips.
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Stanley Cohen
The founding
father of genetic engineering.
Frank B Colton
Invented
Enovid - the history of the first oral contraceptive.
Lloyd H Conover
Invented the
antibiotic tetracycline, the most prescribed broad-spectrum
antibiotic in the history of the United States.
Martin Cooper
Inventor of the modern cell phone.
Donald Cotton
Invented
propellants for nuclear reactors.
Seymour Cray
Invented the
Cray Supercomputer - the history of supercomputers.
Dianne Croteau
Invented Actar 911, the CPR mannequin.
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