NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME

Exterior of the National Inventors Hall of Fame museum, 2005

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 2007 there were 371 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 Inventors Competition.

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Inductees

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★ Simon Ingersoll (1818-1894), rock drill

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★ Ali Javan, helium-neon laser

★ Alec Jeffreys, genetic fingerprinting

★ Frederick McKinley Jones, refrigeration

★ Percy Lavon Julian, cortisone synthesis

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★ 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

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★ 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

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★ Theodore Harold Maiman, laser

★ Leopold Mannes, Kodachrome

★ Peter Mansfield, magnetic resonance imaging

★ 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

★ 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 Murphee, catalytic cracking

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★ Julius Arthur Nieuwland, synthetic rubber

★ Alfred Nobel, dynamite

★ Arthur Nobile, prednisone

★ John Northrop, flying wing plane

★ Robert N. Noyce, integrated circuit

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★ 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

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★ 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

★ 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

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★ Jacob Rabinow, optical character recognition

★ Louis Renault, drum brake

★ Jesse W. Reno, Escalator

★ 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

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★ 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

★ 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

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★ Donalee L. Tabern, pentothal

★ Charles Tainter (1854-1940), innovations in sound recording

★ Eli Terry, innovations in clockmaking

★ Nikola Tesla, alternating current

★ John T. 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

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★ William E. Upjohn, tablet for delivering medicine

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★ Theophilus Van Kannel, Revolving door

★ Ernest H. Volwiler , pentothal

★ Theodore von Kármán, turbojet

★ Hans von Ohain, jet engine

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★ 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 Williams (inventor), 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

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★ Linus Yale, Jr. (1821-1868), cylinder lock

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★ Frank J. Zamboni, ice resurfacer

★ Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), rigid airship

★ Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, cathode-ray tube

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★ Invent Now

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