Inventions

The invention: The first portable domestic vacuum cleaner successfully adapted to electricity, the original machine helped begin the...

The invention:  The first commercially successful computer system. The people behind the invention: John Presper Eckert (1919-1995...

The invention:  A medically safe alternative to X-ray examination, ultrasound uses sound waves to detect fetal problems in pregnant w...

The invention:  A microscope characterized by high-intensity illumination for the study of exceptionally small objects, such as coll...

The invention:  Asuper-high-velocity centrifuge designed to separate colloidal or submicroscopic substances, the ultracentrifuge w...

The invention:  The first effective vaccine against the virulent typhus disease. The person behind the invention: Hans Zinsser (1...

The invention:  A jet engine with a turbine-driven compressor that uses its hot-gas exhaust to develop thrust.  The people behind t...

The invention: Trademarked food-storage products that changed the way Americans viewed plastic products and created a model for sell...

The invention:  Metal filament used in the incandescent light bulbs that have long provided most of the world’s electrical lighting. ...

The invention:  Vaccine that uses an avirulent (nondisease) strain of bovine tuberculosis bacilli that is safer than earlier vaccines...

The invention:  Miniature portable radio that used transistors and created a new mass market for electronic products.

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...