Inventions

The invention: The first successful magnetic resonance accelerator for protons, the cyclotron gave rise to the modern era of particle acc...

The invention: An artificial sweetener introduced to the American market in 1950 under the tradename Sucaryl. The person behind the inven...

The invention: Aircraft weapons system that makes it possible to attack both land and sea targets with extreme accuracy without endangeri...

The invention: The most widely used procedure of its type, coronary bypass surgery uses veins from legs to improve circulation to the hea...

The invention: Small plastic devices that fit under the eyelids, contact lenses, or “contacts,” frequently replace the more familiar ey...

The invention: Also known as a microprocessor, a computer chip combines the basic logic circuits of a computer on a single silicon chip...

The invention: Plants that can be used to store energy in the form of compressed air when electric power demand is low and use it to p...

Compact disc The invention: A plastic disk on which digitized music or computer data is stored. The people behind the invention: Akio M...

The invention:  Asystem for connecting households in isolated areas to common antennas to improve television reception, community an...

The invention: Telstar I, the world’s first commercial communications satellite, opened the age of live, worldwide television by conne...

The invention: The first all-electronic calculating device, the Colossus computer was built to decipher German military codes during Worl...

The invention:  System for broadcasting full-color images over the airwaves. The people behind the invention: Peter Carl Goldmark (1...

The invention:Aphotographic medium used to take full-color pictures. The people behind the invention: Rudolf Fischer (1881-1957), a Germa...

The invention: The first user-friendly computer programming language, COBOL was originally designed to solve ballistics problems. The peo...

The invention: Technique for inducing rainfall by distributing dry ice or silver nitrate into reluctant rainclouds. The people behind the...

The invention: Experimental technique for creating exact duplicates of living organisms by recreating their DNA. The people behind the in...