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Invented the localizer antenna system, for radio navigation systems.

Beach was an inventor and editor/co-owner of Scientific American.
Beach was awarded patents himself for an improvement he made to the typewriter (1857), for a cable traction railway system (1864) and a 1865 patent for a pneumatic transit system for mail and passengers.

November 27, 1897 Beard received a patent for a device he called the Jenny Coupler.

Invented an apparatus for testing acidity.

Invented the telephone, plus more telephone and cellular phone history.

The game of baseball was invented by Alexander J. Cartwright, history of baseball bats.

Invented the "electrochemical paintbrush", part of nanotechnology used in etching microchips.

The history of the drug, how it works - invented by Alexander Fleming.

Arthur Fry a 3M chemist invented Post-Its as a temporary permanent bookmarker.

Invented the Erector Set, a child's building toy.

Invented "The Etch-A-Sketch" a child's reusable drawing tool.

Re-invented american food production by inventing vacuum packed

Inventions for the home.

His patents were for the industrial production of penicillin.

Inventor of the maser laser.

By1800 he had developed the so-called voltaic pile, a forerunner of the electric battery, which produced a steady stream of electricity.

Patented principles of magnetic core memory.

Invented the crossword puzzle.

Count Rumford (aka Benjamin Thompson) invented the Rumford fireplace in 1796.

Benjamin Tilghman took out the first British patent for sand blasting equipment in 1870 and then formed his first company in 1872

His inventive spirit would lead him to be called the "first African American inventor". Banneker invented the first Farmers' Almanac.

Invented a device to help the disabled person eat.

Co-invented a vaccine against viral hepatitis and developed a test that identified hepatitis B in blood sample.

Co-invented the modern athletic shoe.

Invented the lightening rod, iron furnace stove or 'Franklin Stove', bifocal glasses and odometer. Also his autobiography, considered to be the greatest produced in Colonial America.

Geodesic Domes were invented in 1954 by Richard Buckminster Fuller, along with many other amazing innovations.

Invented "Liquid Paper".

All told, she had about 110 inventions and 49 patents.

A mother-daughter inventor team, invented the intravenous catheter shield.

Invented a vaccination needle.

Count Rumford (aka Benjamin Thompson) invented the Rumford fireplace in 1796.

Co-invented the first zeolite catalyst, which made it possible to make gasoline.

The escalator as we know it was re-designed by Charles Seeberger in 1900.

Inventor of Cuisinart®. .

Developed theories on alternating current, that allowed for the rapid expansion of the electric power industry.

Invented the Maser (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission).

Invented the swinging 60's icon the Lava Lite® lamp.

Co-discovered the general anesthetic Pentothal.

Crosthwait holds 39 patents for heating systems and temperature regulating devices. He is most well known for creating the heating system for New York's famous Radio City Music Hall.

DiLorenzo has designed, built and microsurgically implanted neuroelectric interfaces that provide a patient with the sensory feedback otherwise lacking in paralyzed or even prosthetic limbs - interview with the inventor.

D.F. Duncan Sr., inventor of the Eskimo Pie, created the first U.S yo-yo fad.

Invented the computer mouse and the first "windows".

The German physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer in 1709 and the mercury thermometer in 1714. In 1724 he introduced the temperature scale that bears his name.

Holography is a photographic process, best known for the 3-dimensional images. Holography dates from 1947, when British/Hungarian scientist Dennis Gabor developed the theory of holography while working to improve the resolution of an electron microscope.

Co-invented polyurethane in 1942.

Invented a portable medication technology.

Fiberoptic communications inventions, co-invented fiber

Co-invented improvements in computer architecture that allow IBM compatible PCs to use the same peripheral devices.

Invented carborundum, the hardest man-made surface needed to bring about the industrial age.

Dr. Ernest Alexanderson, the engineer whose high-frequency alternator gave America its start in the field of radio communication.

Invented a method of receiving high-frequency oscillations, part of every radio and tv today.

Invented the disk gramophone.

Co-invented Crayola crayons.

Biochemist, photobiologist, astrochemist and inventor.

Invented the computerized telephone switching system.

Invented by polaroid photography, also camera and photography history.

Invented the cyclotron, a device that greatly increased the speed with which projectiles could be hurled at atomic nuclei.

He made the trademark "Kitty Litter®" a part of the American vocabulary.

Best known for having invented the automatic oil cup, during his life, he invented and sold 57 different kinds of devices and machine parts including an ironing board and a lawn sprinkler. His first invention was a lubricator for steam engines, U.S. 129,843, which issued on July 12, 1872.

Co-Invented the first zeolite catalyst, which made it possible to make gasoline

Edwin Ruud was the inventor of the automatic storage water heater in 1889.

Invented optical analysis systems, also the world's first Hispanic female astronaut.

Invented the elevator brake making safe elevators possible.

Edwin Perkins, invented Kool-Aid® in his home state of Nebraska, in 1927.

Ca. 1914-1982, documenting the inventor Tupper and his invention Tupperware.

The barometer was invented by Evangelista Torricelli in 1643. The history of the barometer.

Co-discovered the general anesthetic Pentothal.

(1765-1825) Inventor of the cotton gin, patented in 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked.

Frank Zamboni

Invented the ice resurfacing machine.

Ferdinand Zeppelin(1838-1917), German military officer, who developed the rigid dirigible, a lighter-than-air vehicle that became known as the zeppelin.

Invented the fluid control device; respirator and the pediatric ventilator.

Inventor of an electrostatic precipitator called the 'Cottrell' which removed particles/pollution smoke or gases (in smokestacks).

Co-inventor of the computer microprocessor.

Invented the "Self-Cleaning House".

Iinvented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks.

Co-invented the scanning tunneling microscope.

Inventor of the far-ultraviolet camera and spectrograph

Invented peanut butter, adhesives, bleach, chili sauce, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving.

Invented the leukemia fighting drug 6-mercaptopurine and drugs that facilitated kidney transplants - drugs for the treatment of Cancer and Leukemia.

Inventor of the laser.

In 1895, Marconi built the equipment that transmitted electrical signals through the air, the beginning of telegraphy or radio.

Invented VELCRO® and mother nature could not have made it better herself.

Invented the gas mask.

The National Aviation Hall of Fame biography on the aviation inventor, Neuman made innovations in jet aircraft engines.