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Jay W. Forrester
Jay W. Forrester Born: 1918Birthplace: Climax, Nebraska Multicoordinated digital information storage device—While working on the Whirlwind, the largest computer project in the late 1940s and early…Frederick G. Cottrell
Frederick G. CottrellBorn: 1877Birthplace: Oakland, Calif. Electrostatic precipitator—Cottrell's invention used high voltage electricity to remove from 90 to 98% of the ash, dust, and acid…Raymond V. Damadian
Raymond V. Damadian Born: 1936Birthplace: Forest Hills, N.Y. Apparatus and method for detecting cancer in tissue—Damadian invented the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner that has…Lee de Forest
Lee de Forest Born: 1873Birthplace: Council Bluffs, Iowa Audion amplifier—De Forest inserted a third electrode between the cathode and anode to make his audion tube. Radio signals are picked…Edmund Germer
Edmund GermerBorn: 1901Birthplace: Berlin, Germany High-pressure mercury vapor lamp; fluorescent light—The incandescent lamp is rather inefficient, converting only about 6% of its energy…Charles P. Ginsburg
Charles P. GinsburgBorn: 1920 Videotape recorder—After World War II audio tape recorders were run at very high speeds to record the very high frequency television signals. Ginsburg developed…Gordon Gould
Gordon Gould Born: 1920 Birthplace: New York City Optically-pumped laser amplifiers, gas-discharge-excited light…Wilson Greatbatch
Wilson Greatbatch Born: 1919Birthplace: Buffalo, N.Y. Medical cardiac pacemaker—Greatbatch's was trained as an electrical engineer but his research combined engineering with medical…Leonard Michael Greene
Leonard Michael GreeneBorn: 1918Birthplace: New York City Airplane stall warning device—Greene developed his airplane stall warning device at a time when more than half of all aviation deaths…Charles Martin Hall
Charles Martin Hall Born: 1863 Birthplace: Thompson, Ohio Manufacture of aluminum—Hall discovered the modern…Trending
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