Inventions

The invention:  An electrically powered and hermetically sealed food-storage appliance that replaced iceboxes, improved production, and...

The invention: Electrically powered time-keeping device with a quartz resonator that has led to the development of extremely accurate, re...

The invention: Electronic device that reduces the signal-to-noise ratio of sound recordings and greatly improves the sound quality of rec...

The invention: An inexpensive shaving blade that replaced the traditional straight-edged razor and transformed shaving razors into a freq...

The invention: Arigid lighter-than-air aircraft that played a major role in World War I and in international air traffic until a disastro...

The invention: An electromechanical device capable of solving differential equations. The people behind the invention: Vannevar Bush (18...

The invention: An internal combustion engine in which ignition is achieved by the use of high-temperature compressed air, rather than a s...

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...