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Inductee Birth year Notable for NIHF [3] 1973 Thomas Edison: 1847 Electric lighting, motion pictures, phonograph [4] 1974 Alexander Graham Bell: 1847 Telephone [5] 1974 Eli Whitney: 1765 Cotton gin [6] 1974 Walter Brattain : 1902 Transistor [7] 1974 William Shockley: 1910 Transistor [8] 1974 John Bardeen * 1908 Transistor [9] 1975 Nikola Tesla ...
The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) 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. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also operates a museum in Alexandria, Virginia, sponsors educational programs, and a collegiate competition. [1]
Joseph Lee (July 4, 1848 – June 11, 1908) was an American baker and inventor. He successfully managed a hotel in Needham, Massachusetts for about a decade and later managed restaurants near Boston, ran a resort in Squantum, and ran a successful catering company.
Croak was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF), the National Academy of Engineers, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. Because of this, she became one of the first two black women to be inducted to the NIHF, joining the ranks of 48 other female inductees and 30 other Black inductees. [16]
George Edward Alcorn Jr. (born March 22, 1940) was an American physicist, engineer, inventor, and professor.He taught at Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia, and worked primarily for IBM and NASA.
Joseph H. Burckhalter was a chemist who worked in the field of isothiocyanate compounds. In 1995 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame alongside Robert Seiwald. [1]
Marshall G. Jones was born on August 1, 1941, in the town of Southampton on New York's Long Island, US. [1] [2] [3] Jones and his brother lived with his aunt and uncle on their duck farm.
Thomas E. Murray (October 21, 1860 – July 21, 1929) was an American inventor and businessman who developed electric power plants for New York City as well as many electrical devices which influenced life around the world, including the dimmer switch and screw-in fuse.