Inventions

The invention:  A miniature electronic device, comprising a tiny semiconductor and multiple electrical contacts, used in circuits as...

The invention:  A push-button dialing system for telephones that replaced the earlier rotary-dial phone. The person behind the inven...

The invention: Plant that converts the natural ocean tidal forces into electrical power. The people behind the invention: Mariano...

The invention:  Process that increased the yield of refined gasoline extracted from raw petroleum by using heat to convert complex h...

The invention:  A particle accelerator that generated collisions between beams of protons and antiprotons at the highest energies ev...

The invention: System that converts moving pictures and sounds into electronic signals that can be broadcast at great distances. Th...

The invention:  The first completely automatic electronic system for switching telephone calls. The people behind the invention: ...

The invention:  Afluorocarbon polymer whose chemical inertness and physical properties have made it useful for many applications...

The invention: The first practical system for linking sound with moving pictures. The people behind the invention: Harry Warner (1...

The invention:  The first simple test for detecting the presence of the venereal disease syphilis led to better syphilis control an...

  The invention:  A method for synthesizing the biological molecule RNA established that this process can occur outside the living ...

The invention:  A method for replicating viral deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in a test tube that paved the way for genetic engineering....

 The invention : Amethod for synthesizing amino acids by combining water, hydrogen, methane, and ammonia and exposing the mixture t...

The invention:  A powerful particle accelerator that performed better than its predecessor, the cyclotron. The people behind th...

The invention:  The first commercial airliner that flies passengers at speeds in excess of the speed of sound. The people behind ...

The invention:  A computer that had the greatest computational power that then existed. The person behind the invention:  Seymour ...

The invention:  Known as the basic oxygen, or L-D, process, a method for producing steel that worked about twelve times faster th...

The invention: The first generation of “radar-invisible” aircraft, stealth planes were designed to elude enemy radar systems. The ...

The invention: A device that detects soundwaves transmitted through water, sonar was originally developed to detect enemy submar...

The invention: The first commercially practical plant for generating electricity from solar energy. The people behind the invention: ...

The invention: Synthetic polymers characterized by lubricity, extreme water repellency, thermal stability, and inertness that are w...

The invention: A major advance on the field ion microscope, the scanning tunneling microscope has pointed toward new directions in t...

The invention: The first successful chemotherapeutic for the treatment of syphilis The people behind the invention: Paul Ehrlich ...

The invention: Taking its name from the acronym for symbolic automatic integrator, SAINT is recognized as the first “expert system”— ...

The invention: The first device allowing callers to connect their telephones to other parties without the aid of an operator, the rot...

The invention: Liquid-fueled rockets developed by Robert H. Goddard made possible all later developments in modern rocketry, which in t...

The people behind the invention: Karel Capek (1890-1938), a Czech playwright George C. Devol, Jr. (1912- ), an American inventor Jose...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and Virginia Tech have created an undersea vehicle inspired by the common jellyfis...

The invention: The first available personal robot, Hero 1 could speak; carry small objects in a gripping arm, and sense light, motion,...

The invention: A scale for measuring the strength of earthquakes based on their seismograph recordings. The people behind the invent...