National_Inventors_Hall_of_Fame

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia National Inventors Hall of Fame National Inventors Hall of Fame arts. A National Selection Committee and Blue Ribbon Panel select inductees. The Hall takes part in activities that embody the inventive spirit. The Hall promotes future generations of inventors through major initiatives such as the Camp Invention® and Club Invention® programs and the Collegiate Inventors Competition®. In addition, the Hall is involved with ventures such as developing and designing exhibits for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Museum, as well as special projects with national partners. Exterior of the National Inventors Hall of Fame museum, 2005 The National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recognizing, honoring and encouraging invention and creativity through the administration of its programs. The Hall of Fame honors the men and women responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible. As of 2008 there were 390 inductees. New inductee announcements are made in mid February. Founded in 1973 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations, the Hall is headquartered in Akron, Ohio with satellite offices in the Washington, D.C. area and in Los Angeles. Originally housed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Hall outgrew its location and moved to Akron. The Hall of Fame building, which also housed hands-on interactive exhibits, opened to the public in 1995. The Hall is currently closed for construction of the National Inventors Hall of Fame School…Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Learning. During the annual induction ceremony, a new class of inventors is recognized. The current number of inventors honored is 390. Inventors must hold a U.S. patent to be considered, and the invention must have contributed to the welfare of mankind and have promoted the progress of science and the useful Location The National Inventors Hall of Fame was initially located in Washington D.C. near the Ronald Regan Airport. In 1986, a committee was formed to find a more prominent location. In 1987, Akron, Ohio patent attorney, Edwin (Ned) Oldham, a newly appointed representative to the National Council of Patent Law Associations, while at a site-selection meeting, learned that the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia was the frontrunner for the new location of the NIHF, prompting Oldham to wonder if Akron might have a chance. Through Oldham’s efforts, the NIHF new location came to be Akron, construction on the facility was completed in 1995.[1] Inductees National Inventors Hall of Fame as viewed from across the street. 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia National Inventors Hall of Fame • Katharine B. Blodgett, Langmuir-Blodgett film • Samuel Blum, LASIK eye surgery • Baruch Blumberg, vaccine for hepatitis B • James Bogardus, iron frame building • Nils Bohlin, safety belt • Gail Borden, Jr. (1801-1874), process for condensed milk • Karl Bosch, Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production • Amar Bose, Audio feedback control • 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 • Charles F. Brannock, Brannock device for foot measuring • Walter Brattain, transistor • Rachel Fuller Brown, Nystatin antifungal • John Moses Browning, Breech-loading rifle • 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 A Edward Goodrich Acheson, carborundum Robert Adler, Television remote control Herman Affel, coaxial cable Ernst Alexanderson, radio Andrew Alford, VHF omnidirectional range • Samuel Leeds Allen, Flexible flyer sled • Luis Walter Alvarez, radio distance and direction indicator; hydrogen bubble chamber • Edwin Howard Armstrong, FM radio • • • • • B • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Alpheus Babcock, cast iron piano frame 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 Paul Baran, digital packet switching 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 Ruth Benerito, wrinkle-free cotton Willard Harrison Bennett, mass spectrometry Emile Berliner, gramophone and microphone Henry Bessemer, Bessemer process for steel production 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 László Bíró, ballpoint pen Harold Stephen Black, feedback amplifier Eli Whitney Blake, machine for crushing stone Helen Blanchard (1840-1922), innovations to sewing machine Thomas Blanchard (1788-1864), pattern lathe 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, ultraviolet camera George Washington Carver, peanut products Frank Cepollina, satellite servicing techniques Vinton G. Cerf, Internet protocol Daryl Chapin, Solar Cell Emmett Chappelle, bioluminescence John Charnley, Hip replacement surgery Georges Claude, Neon light Josephine Cochrane (1839-1913), dishwasher Stanley N. Cohen, genetic engineering 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • 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 Henry Corliss (1817-1888), improvements to steam engine • Martha Coston (1826-1904), signal flare used for ships • Frederick G. Cottrell, electrostatic precipitator • Wallace H. Coulter, Coulter principle • Joshua Lionel Cowen, model train • Eckley Coxe (1839-1895), traveling grate furnace • Seymour Cray, supercomputer • George Crompton, loom • Glenn Curtiss, hydroplane • David Cushman, captopril • • • • • • • • • National Inventors Hall of Fame Alfred Einhorn, Novocain Willem Einthoven, Electrocardiograph 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 Ole Evinrude, Outboard motor 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 (1743-1798), steamboat • Edith M. Flanigen, molecular sieves • Thomas J. Fogarty, embolectomy catheter • Henry Ford, automobile • Jay W. Forrester, random access memory • John E. Franz, roundup • Alfred Free, glucose detection for diabetes • Helen Murray Free, glucose detection for diabetes • Calvin Fuller, Solar Cell • Robert Fulton (1765-1815), steamboat D • Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900), design of automobile and motorcycle engines • Raymond V. Damadian, MRI • Donald Davies, digital packet switching • Lee De Forest, Audion tube for radio detection • 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 • Richard Drew, Adhesive tape • Philip Drinker, Iron lung • John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921), pneumatic tire • Graham J. Durant, cimetidine G • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Robert Gallo, HIV isolation C. Robin Ganellin, cimetidine Edmund Germer, fluorescent lighting Ivan Getting, GPS John Heysham Gibbon, heart-lung machine King Camp Gillette, safety razor Charles P. Ginsburg, video tape recording Joseph Glidden (1813-1906), barbed wire Robert Hutchings Goddard, rockets William Goddard, hard drive and floppy disk Leopold Godowsky, Jr., Kodachrome Peter Carl Goldmark, long playing record Charles Goodyear, vulcanization Robert W. Gore, Goretex Gordon Gould, laser Zénobe Gramme (1826-1901), directcurrent dynamo Elisha Gray, telephone and telegraph improvements E • George Eastman, photography • John Presper Eckert, ENIAC • Harold E. Edgerton, stroboscope photography • Thomas Alva Edison, practical electric light 3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Wilson Greatbatch, heart pacemaker • Leonard Michael Greene, aircraft stall warning • Leroy Grumman, retractable landing gear • Robert Gundlach, photocopier National Inventors Hall of Fame • Alec Jeffreys, genetic fingerprinting • Amos Joel, Switching concept for cellular phones • Clarence Johnson, Aircraft • Frederick McKinley Jones, refrigeration • Percy Lavon Julian, cortisone synthesis H • Fritz Haber, ammonia production process • Charles Martin Hall, aluminum production process • Lloyd Hall, magnetron • Robert N. Hall, sterile packing food • Thomas Seavey Hall, Railroad signal • Andrew Smith 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 • Maurice Hilleman, vaccines • James Hillier, electron microscope • Richard M. Hoe, rotary printing press • Marcian Hoff, CPU • Felix Hoffmann, aspirin • Paul Hogan, polypropylene and HDPE • John Phillip Holland, Submarine • Herman Hollerith, recording data on a machine readable medium, punch card, tabulator • Alexander Lyman Holley (1832-1882), steelmaking • Birdsill Holly (1820-1894), fire hydrant • Donald Fletcher Holmes, polyurethane • Nick Holonyak, Light emitting diode • Benjamin Holt, tractor • Leroy Hood, DNA sequencer • Erna Hoover, Computerized telephone switching • Eugene Houdry, catalytic cracking • Godfrey Hounsfield, CAT scanner • Elias Howe, sewing machine • George Hulett (1846-1923), loading and unloading machine • Walter Hunt (1796-1859), safety pin • John Hyatt (1837-1920), celluloid • James Franklin Hyde, transparent silica 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 Albert Kingsbury, Thrust bearing Dale Kleist, fiberglass Margaret Knight, paper bag machine Willem Johan Kolff, artificial heart Paul Kollsman, altimeter William J. Kroll, titanium Raymond Kurzweil, optical character recognition Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar L • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Irwin Lachman, catalytic converter Edwin Land, Polaroid Alois Langer, defibrillator Robert Langer, drug delivery Irving Langmuir, electric lighting Lorenzo Langstroth, bee hive Lewis Latimer (1848-1928), filament for electric light bulb Paul Lauterbur, magnetic resonance imaging Ernest Orlando Lawrence, cyclotron William Lear, 8-track system Robert Ledley, whole-body CAT scan Ronald M. Lewis, catalytic converter Edwin A. Link, Link trainer Oliver Joseph Lodge, wireless telegraphy Auguste Lumière, cinématographe Louis Lumière, cinématographe John Lynott, hard drive I • Simon Ingersoll (1818-1894), rock drill M • Theodore Harold Maiman, laser • Leopold Mannes, Kodachrome • Peter Mansfield, magnetic resonance imaging J • Ali Javan, helium-neon laser 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Guglielmo Marconi, radio Homer Martin, catalytic cracking John L. Mason (1832-1916), mason jar Jan Matzeliger (1852-1889), shoe lasting John Mauchly, ENIAC Robert Maurer, optical fiber Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), machine gun Wilhelm Maybach, Carburetor, radiator Stanley Mazor, CPU Cyrus McCormick, mechanical reaper Elijah J. McCoy engine lubricator Ray McIntire, Styrofoam Malcom McLean, Shipping containers Harold McMaster, Tempered glass Ottmar Mergenthaler, Linotype Robert Metcalfe, ethernet Thomas Midgley, ethyl gasoline Alexander Miles, elevator doors 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, photograph composition Kary Banks Mullis, polymerase chain reaction Eger Murphree, catalytic cracking William Murphy, blood bag, disposable medical trays National Inventors Hall of Fame P • Charles Grafton Page (1812-1868), highvoltage induction coil • William Painter (1838-1906), bottle cap • David Pall, Filtration technology • 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 • Gerald Pearson, Solar Cell • Lester Pelton (1829-1908), waterwheel • Thomas R. Pickering, velocipede • John Pierce, communications satellite • Gregory Pincus, oral contraceptives • Charles J. Plank, catalytic cracking • Roy J. Plunkett, Teflon • George Pullman (1831-1897), Pullman car R • Jacob Rabinow, optical character recognition • Louis Renault, drum brake • Jesse W. Reno, Escalator • Kenneth Richardson, Fluconazole • Norbert Rillieux, refined sugar • Robert H. Rines, high resolution radar and sonar • John Roebling, suspension bridge • John Raphael Rogers, automated typesetting • Heinrich Rohrer, scanning tunneling microscope • Harold Rosen, spin stabilized synchronous communications satellite • Edward J. Rosinski, catalytic cracking • Benjamin A. Rubin, vaccine needle N • • • • • Julius Arthur Nieuwland, synthetic rubber Alfred Nobel, dynamite Arthur Nobile, prednisone John Northrop, flying wing plane Robert N. Noyce, integrated circuit S • Lewis Hastings Sarett, cortisone • Joseph Saxton (1799-1873), measuring instruments • Arthur L. Schawlow, laser • Klaus Schmiegel, Prozac • Peter C. Schultz, optical fiber • Glenn T. Seaborg, plutonium isolation • Charles Seeberger, escalator • Robert J. Seiwald, isothiocyanates • William Sellers, improvement in machine tools • Waldo L. Semon, polyvinyl chloride • Gerhard Sessler, microphone • Claude Shannon, pulse code modulation O • • • • • Bernard Oliver, pulse code modulation Kenneth H. Olsen, magnetic core memory Miguel Ondetti, captopril Elisha Graves Otis, elevator brake Nicolaus August Otto, Otto cycle for internal combustion engine • Michael Joseph Owens, bottle making machine 5 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • John C. Sheehan structure and synthesis of penicillin • Patsy Sherman, Scotchgard • William Bradford Shockley, transistor • Christopher L. Sholes, typewriter • Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, valve for steam engine • Igor I. Sikorsky, helicopter • Samuel Slater, cotton mills • Russell Games Slayter, fiberglass • George E. Smith, charge-coupled device • Samuel Smith, 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 dial • Gideon Sundback (1880-1954), zipper • Ambrose Swasey (1846-1937), improvements to telescope • Leo Szilard, neutronic atomic reactor National Inventors Hall of Fame V • • • • Theophilus Van Kannel, Revolving door Ernest H. Volwiler , pentothal Theodore von Kármán, turbojet Hans von Ohain, jet engine W • Selman Waksman, streptomycin • An Wang, magnetic core memory • Lewis Waterman (1837-1901), fountain pen • James West, microphone • George Westinghouse, alternating current • Edward Weston (1850-1936), portable voltmeter • Squire Whipple, iron truss bridge • Richard Whitcomb, supercritical wing • Eli Whitney, cotton gin • Frank Whittle, jet engine • Otto Wichterle, soft contact lens • Stephen Wilcox, steam generator • Robert R. Williams, Jr., vitamin synthesis • Sam B. Williams, contributions to jet engine • Alexander Winton (1860-1932), contributions to automobile, bicycle, and diesel engine • Granville Woods, railroad telegraph • Steve Wozniak, personal computer • Orville Wright, airplane • Wilbur Wright, airplane • James Wynne (inventor), LASIK eye surgery T • Donalee L. Tabern, pentothal • Charles Tainter (1854-1940), innovations in sound recording • Eli Terry, innovations in clockmaking • Nikola Tesla, alternating current • John H. Thomas, fiberglass • Elihu Thomson, arc lamp • Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stained glass • Henry Timken, tapered roller ball bearings • Max Tishler, synthetic vitamins • Charles Hard Townes, laser • Charles Tyson, catalytic cracking Y • Linus Yale, Jr. (1821-1868), cylinder lock Z • Frank J. Zamboni, ice resurfacer • Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), rigid airship • Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, cathode-ray tube See also • List of African-American inventors and scientists • NASA spinoff • Science and technology in the United States • Technological and industrial history of the United States • Timeline of United States inventions U • William E. Upjohn, tablet for delivering medicine 6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Timeline of United States discoveries • United States Patent and Trademark Office • Yankee ingenuity National Inventors Hall of Fame • Akron Life and Leisure magazine, Baker Publishing, J. McGarrity, June 2003 External links • National Inventors Coordinates: 41°04′43.23″N 81°31′01.10″W / 41.078675°N 81.516972°W / 41.078675; -81.516972 References [1] http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ entry.php?rec=1727 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Inventors_Hall_of_Fame" Categories: Museums in Ohio, Inventors, National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees, Buildings and structures in Akron, Ohio This page was last modified on 10 May 2009, at 11:15 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) taxdeductible nonprofit charity. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers 7