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The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...
Kay LeRoy Ruggles (1932–2012), U.S. – inventor and designer known for UMBO shelving and furniture Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), Germany – electron microscope William Chester Ruth (1882–1971), U.S. – combination baler feeder, self-lifting farm elevator
Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1957) [1] is an American inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one- gigahertz computer processor chip. [ 2 ] He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981. [ 3 ]
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...
Frank Whittle (1907–1996), co-inventor of the jet engine William Winlaw (d.1796), patented agricultural machinery Arthur Wynne (1862–1945), inventor of crossword puzzle
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Inventor of the Forth programming language. 2008 Nakamoto, Satoshi: The anonymous creator or creators of Bitcoin, the first peer-to-peer digital currency. Nakamoto's 2008 white-paper introduced the concept of the blockchain, a database structure that allows full trust in the decentralized and distributed public transaction ledger of the ...
John Wesley Hyatt (November 28, 1837 – May 10, 1920) was an American inventor. He is mainly known for simplifying the production of celluloid. Hyatt, a Perkin Medal recipient, is included in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He had nearly 238 patents to his credit, including improvements to sugar cane mills and water filtration devices.