Posts Tagged: hall of fame
Mary Engle Pennington: The Mother of Modern Food Preservation
The preservation of food and beverage products for safe consumption despite extended shelf lives at grocery stores is a major global industry. Both consumers and companies have …
Howard S. Jones, Jr., Revolutionizes Long-Range Air Communications with Conformal Antennas
Thanks to the work of Howard S. Jones, Jr., one of the 2018 inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the United States was able to advance …
Spandex Patent Lands Inventor Joseph Shivers in the HOF
The synthetic elastic fiber known as spandex, a name which comes from an anagram of 'expands,' is used in a wide range of clothing and apparel …
Earle Dickson Invents Band-Aid® Bandages to Promote Healing
December 28 marks the anniversary of the issuance of a patent covering a bandage technology commonly known as the Band-Aid®, invented at Johnson & Johnson... In order to speed …
Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi pioneers bioorthogonal chemistry to study molecules within living systems
Most fields of chemical science designed to look at biological process involving living molecules suffer from a rather serious drawback— studying those molecules within a living body …
Don Arney’s Bambi Bucket, a major contribution to aerial firefighting tech from the 1980s
Helicopters and other aircraft are often used to combat fires which cannot be controlled by personnel on the ground and the practice is a fairly expensive one. …
Content Delivery Networks: Dan Lewin and Tom Leighton solve the “World Wide Wait”
Content delivery networks (CDNs), distributed networks involving proxy servers and data centers to provide high availability of content, are becoming increasingly valuable as Internet users continue to …
Evolution of Gas Sensors: Beatrice Hicks creates device to measure gas in critical industrial applications
Inventor, Beatrice Hicks, is both a 2017 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame as well as one of America’s truly trailblazing women engineers, one of …
Evolution of Industrial Lasers: Persistence of Marshall Jones leads to revolutionary changes in additive manufacturing
The innovative work of Jones that led to his induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame is on display in U.S. Patent No. 4676586, titled Apparatus …
Evolution of Tech: Iver Anderson gets the lead out of electronics solder
Soldering, the process by which two items are joined together by melting a filler metal with a low melting point and pouring liquid metal onto the joint, …
Evolution of Drywall: Augustine Sackett’s gypsum board now used in 97% of new home construction
May 22nd, marked the 123rd anniversary of the issue of an early and important patent covering a drywall product for building construction. Its inventor, American-born Augustine Sackett, …
Evolution of the Transistor: Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain discover foundation of modern electronics in 1947
One of the foundational elements of all electronic devices today is the transistor, a semiconductor device including three terminals which is capable of amplifying an electric current …
Evolution of Non-Volatile Memory: Eli Harari’s system level floating EEPROM revolutionized solid-state memory
A recent market research report from consulting firm MarketsandMarkets predicts that the global market for all forms of non-volatile memory, including flash, embedded and many other forms …
Allene Jeanes, HOF class of 2017, discovered life-saving dextran and food-thickening xanthan gum
65 years ago today, American chemical researcher Allene Jeanes was issued a patent for a polysaccharide innovation which had major implications for the U.S. military, helping to …
Thomas E. Murray: The Inventor who powered New York City
American inventor and businessman Thomas E. Murray is the pioneer behind many of the foundational elements of the modern day electrical grid, from the design of power …
