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Louis W. Parker
Louis W. Parker Born: 1906 Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary Television receiver—Parker is best known for the “…Nicolaus August Otto
Nicolaus August Otto Born: 1832 Birthplace: Holzhausen, Germany Gas motor engine—Otto introduced the four-stroke piston cycle on which most…Roy J. Plunkett
Roy J. Plunkett Born: 1910Birthplace: New Carlisle, Ohio Tetrafluoroethylene polymers—Plunkett discovered “Teflon” and also worked on the development of many other fluorochemical products and…Benjamin A. Rubin
Benjamin A. Rubin Born: 1917Birthplace: New York City Bifurcated vaccination needle—Until 1967 smallpox killed at least 2 million people annually. In 1980 the World Health Organization…Lewis Hastings Sarett
Lewis Hastings SarettBorn: 1917Birthplace: Champaign, Ill. The process of treating pregnene compounds—Sarett prepared the first synthetic cortisone. He and several collaborators developed…Arthur L. Schawlow
Arthur L. SchawlowBorn: 1921Birthplace: Mount Vernon, N.Y Laser—Co-inventor of the laser. Schawlow worked with Charles H. Townes who was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 1976.…Waldo L. Semon
Waldo L. SemonBorn: 1898Birthplace: Demopolis, Ala. PVC plastisols—Semon's work turned polyvinyl chloride (PVC), first considered worthless, into the world's second-best selling plastic. He…John C. Sheehan
John C. SheehanBorn: 1915Birthplace: Battle Creek, Mich. Semi-synthetic penicillin—For almost 30 years after Sir Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, the process for harvesting the…Elmer Ambrose Sperry
Elmer Ambrose Sperry Born: 1860Birthplace: Cortland, N.Y. Gyroscopic compass—The gyroscope was the basis of Sperry's inventions of an autopilot and an airplane turn indicator that allowed…William Jr. Stanley
William Jr. StanleyBorn: 1858Birthplace: Brooklyn, N.Y. Induction coil—Stanley designed a practical induction coil system that varied alternating current (AC) voltage. His coil became the prototype…Trending
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