The organization has a Museum in Akron, Ohio , and an annual induction ceremony. Inductees are chosen by a national panel of inventors and Scientist s. There are satellite offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles .
It is a non-profit organization founded in 1973 by the United States Patent And Trademark Office and the National Council Of Intellectual Property Law Associations . The organization hosts the Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge , an annual contest for inventors nationwide, in collaboration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Time Magazine and The History Channel . It also operates Camp Invention, a summer camp program for elementary school age children and the Collegiate Inventors Competition.
- Alpheus Babcock , Cast Iron Piano frame
- George Herman Babcock , Steam Generator
- Leo Hendrik Baekeland , Bakelite
- Rodney Bagley , substrate for Catalytic Converters
- Matthias William Baldwin , Steam Locomotive
- Robert Banks , Polypropylene plastics
- Frederick Banting , isolated and purified Insulin
- Paul Baran , Digital Packet Switching
- John Bardeen , Transistor
- C. Donald Bateman , Ground Proximity Warning System
- Andrew Jackson Beard (1849-1921), improved Janney Coupler for Railroad Cars
- Arnold Orville Beckman , PH Meter
- Semi Joseph Begun , Magnetic Recording
- Alexander Graham Bell , Telephone
- Willard Harrison Bennett , Mass Spectrometry
- Emile Berliner , Gramophone and Microphone
- Henry Bessemer , Bessemer Process for steel production
- Charles Best , isolation of Insulin
- Erastus Brigham Bigelow (1814-1879), powered Loom
- Gerd Karl Binnig , Scanning Tunneling Microscope
- Forrest M. Bird , Respirator
- Clarence Birdseye , Frozen Food
- László Bíró , Ballpoint Pen
- Harold Stephen Black , Feedback Amplifier
- Eli Whitney Blake , machine for crushing Stone
- Helen Blanchard (1840-1922), innovations to Sewing Machine
- Thomas Blanchard (1788-1864), pattern Lathe
- Katharine B. Blodgett , Langmuir-Blodgett Film
- Samuel Blum , LASIK eye surgery
- Baruch Blumberg , vaccine for Hepatitis B
- James Bogardus , Iron frame building
- Nils Bohlin , Safety Belt
- Gail Borden, Jr. (1801-1874), process for Condensed Milk
- Karl Bosch , Haber-Bosch Process for ammonia production
- Robert W. Bower , MOSFET
- Seth Boyden (1788-1870), process for making Malleable Iron
- Herbert W. Boyer , Genetic Engineering
- Willard Boyle , Charge Coupled Device
- Milton Bradley (1836-1911), Game Board
- Jacques Brandenberger (1872-1954), Cellophane
- Charles F. Brannock , Brannock Device for foot measuring
- Walter Brattain , Transistor
- Rachel Brown , Nystatin antifungal
- John Moses Browning , Breech-loading Rifle
- Charles F. Brush (1849-1929), Arc Light for street lighting
- Luther Burbank , Plant Breeding
- Joseph H. Burckhalter , Isothiocyanates
- William Seward Burroughs , Adding Machine
- William Merriam Burton , Catalytic Cracking
- Vannevar Bush , Differential Analyzer
- Edward Calahan (1838-1912), Stock Ticker
- Donald L. Campbell , Catalytic Cracking
- Marvin Camras , Magnetic Recording
- Chester F. Carlson , Xerox Photocopying process
- Wallace Hume Carothers , Synthetic Rubber
- Willis Haviland Carrier , Air Conditioner
- George Carruthers , Ultraviolet camera
- George Washington Carver , Peanut products
- Frank Cepollina , Satellite servicing techniques
- Vinton G. Cerf , Internet Protocol
- Emmett Chappelle , Bioluminescence
- Georges Claude , Neon Light
- Josephine Cochrane (1839-1913), Dishwasher
- Stanley N. Cohen , Genetic Engineering
- James Collip isolated and purified Insulin
- Samuel Colt (1814-1862), Colt Revolver with interchangeable parts
- Frank B. Colton , Oral Contraceptives
- Lloyd H. Conover , Tetracycline
- William D. Coolidge X-ray Tube
- Peter Cooper (1791-1883), American Steam Locomotive
- Harry Coover , Superglue
- George Henry Corliss (1817-1888), improvements to Steam Engine
- Martha Coston (1826-1904), Signal Flare used for ships
- Frederick G. Cottrell , Electrostatic Precipitator
- Wallace H. Coulter , Coulter Principle
- Joshua Lionel Cowen , Model Train
- Eckley Coxe (1839-1895), traveling grate Furnace
- Seymour Cray , Supercomputer
- George Crompton , Loom
- Glenn Curtiss , Hydroplane
- David Cushman , Captopril
- Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900), design of automobile and Motorcycle Engine s
- Raymond V. Damadian , MRI
- Donald Davies , digital Packet Switching
- Lee De Forest , Audion Tube for radio detection
- George De Mestral , Velcro
- Mark Dean , Computer Peripheral s
- John Deere , farm Plow
- Robert Dennard , DRAM
- Rudolf Diesel , Internal Combustion Engine
- Walt Disney , multiplane camera
- Carl Djerassi , Oral Contraceptives
- Ray Dolby , Dolby Noise Reduction
- Herbert Henry Dow , Bromine extraction
- Charles Stark Draper , stabilizing gyroscopic
- Richard Drew , Adhesive Tape
- Philip Drinker , Iron Lung
- John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921), Pneumatic Tire
- Graham J. Durant , Cimetidine
- George Eastman , Photography
- John Presper Eckert , ENIAC
- Harold E. Edgerton , Stroboscope photography
- Thomas Alva Edison , practical Electric Light
- Alfred Einhorn , Novocain
- Gertrude Belle Elion , Leukemia drug
- John Colin Emmett , Cimetidine
- Douglas Engelbart , Computer Mouse
- John Ericsson , Screw Propeller
- Lloyd Espenschied , Coaxial Cable
- Oliver Evans , high pressure Steam Engine
- Ole Evinrude , Outboard Motor
- Maxime Faget , Space Capsule
- Federico Faggin , CPU
- Moses Farmer (1820-1893), electric Fire Alarm system
- Philo Taylor Farnsworth , Television
- James Fergason , Liquid Crystal Display
- Enrico Fermi , Nuclear Fission
- Reginald A. Fessenden , AM Radio
- Harvey Firestone (1868-1938), Pneumatic Tire
- John Fitch (1743-1798), Steamboat
- Edith Flanigen , Molecular Sieves
- Thomas J. Fogarty , embolectomy Catheter
- Henry Ford , Automobile
- Jay W. Forrester , Random Access Memory
- John Franz , Roundup
- Alfred Free , Glucose detection for Diabetes
- Helen Murray Free , Glucose detection for Diabetes
- Robert Fulton (1765-1815), Steamboat
- Robert Gallo , HIV isolation
- C. Robin Ganellin , Cimetidine
- Edmund Germer , Fluorescent Lighting
- Ivan Getting , GPS
- John Heysham Gibbon , Heart-lung Machine
- King Camp Gillette , Safety Razor
- Charles P. Ginsburg , Video Tape Recording
- Joseph Glidden (1813-1906), Barbed Wire
- Robert Hutchings Goddard , Rockets
- William Goddard , Hard Drive and Floppy Disk
- Leopold Godowsky, Jr. , Kodachrome
- Peter Carl Goldmark , Long Playing Record
- Charles Goodyear , Vulcanization
- Robert L. Gore , Goretex
- Gordon Gould , Laser
- Zénobe Gramme (1826-1901), direct-current Dynamo
- Elisha Gray , Telephone and Telegraph improvements
- Wilson Greatbatch , Heart Pacemaker
- Leonard Michael Greene , aircraft Stall warning
- Leroy Grumman , retractable Landing Gear
- Robert Gundlach , Photocopier
- Fritz Haber , Ammonia Production Process
- Charles Martin Hall , Aluminum Production Process
- Lloyd Hall , Magnetron
- Robert N. Hall , Sterile Packing food
- Thomas Seavey Hall , Railroad Signal
- Andrew Smith Hallidie (1836-1900), Cable Car
- William Edward Hanford , Polyurethane
- Elizabeth Lee Hazen , Nystatin
- M. Stephen Heilman , Defibrillator
- Beulah Louise Henry (1887-1973)
- William R. Hewlett , audio signals
- Rene Alphonse Higonnet , Phototypesetting machine
- Maurice Hilleman , Vaccines
- James Hillier , Electron Microscope
- Richard M. Hoe , Rotary Printing Press
- Marcian Hoff , CPU
- Felix Hoffmann , Aspirin
- Paul Hogan , Polypropylene and HDPE
- John Phillip Holland , Submarine
- Herman Hollerith , Punch Card tabulator
- Alexander Lyman Holley (1832-1882), Steelmaking
- Birdsill Holly (1820-1894), Fire Hydrant
- Donald Fletcher Holmes , Polyurethane
- Benjamin Holt , Tractor
- Leroy Hood , DNA Sequencer
- Eugene Houdry , Catalytic Cracking
- Godfrey Hounsfield , CAT Scanner
- Elias Howe , Sewing Machine
- George Hulett (1846-1923), loading and unloading machine
- Walter Hunt (1796-1859), Safety Pin
- John Hyatt (1837-1920), Celluloid
- Franklin Hyde , transparent Silica
- Robert E. Kahn , Internet Protocol
- Charles Kaman , innovations to Helicopter
- Dean Kamen , ambulatory Infusion Pump
- Donald Keck , Optical Fiber
- John Kellogg (1852-1943), Breakfast Cereal
- Charles Kelman , Cataract Surgery
- Charles Franklin Kettering , Automobile
- Mary Dixon Kies (1752-1837), process for Weaving straw
- Jack S. Kilby , Integrated Circuit
- Albert Kingsbury , Thrust Bearing
- Dale Kleist , Fiberglass
- Margaret Knight , Paper Bag machine
- Willem Johan Kolff , Artificial Heart
- Paul Kollsman , Altimeter
- William J. Kroll , Titanium
- Raymond Kurzweil , Optical Character Recognition
- Stephanie Kwolek , Kevlar
- Irwin Lachman , Catalytic Converter
- Edwin Land , Polaroid
- Alois Langer , Defibrillator
- Robert Langer , Drug Delivery
- Irving Langmuir , Electric Lighting
- Lorenzo Langstroth , Bee Hive
- Lewis Latimer (1848-1928), filament for Electric Light bulb
- Paul Lauterbur , Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence , Cyclotron
- William Lear , 8-track system
- Robert Ledley , whole-body CAT Scan
- Ronald M. Lewis , Catalytic Converter
- Edwin A. Link , Link trainer
- Oliver Joseph Lodge , Wireless Telegraphy
- Auguste Lumière , Cinématographe
- Louis Lumière , Cinématographe
- John Lynott , Hard Drive
- Theodore Harold Maiman , Laser
- Leopold Mannes , Kodachrome
- Peter Mansfield , Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Guglielmo Marconi , Radio
- Homer Martin , Catalytic Cracking
- John L. Mason (1832-1916), Mason Jar
- Jan Matzeliger (1852-1889), Shoe lasting
- John Mauchly , ENIAC
- Robert Maurer , Optical Fiber
- Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), Machine Gun
- Wilhelm Maybach , Carburetor , Radiator
- Stanley Mazor , CPU
- Cyrus McCormick , mechanical Reaper
- Elijah J. McCoy Engine lubricator
- Ottmar Mergenthaler , Linotype
- Robert Metcalfe , Ethernet
- Thomas Midgley , ethyl Gasoline
- Alexander Miles , Elevator doors
- Lewis Miller (1829-1899), Combine Harvester
- Irving Millman , vaccine for Hepatitis B
- Michel Mirowski , heart Defibrillator
- Dennis Moeller , Computer Peripheral s
- Bryan Molloy , Prozac
- Luc Montagnier , HIV isolation and antibody test
- Garrett Morgan , Gas Mask
- Samuel F.B. Morse , Telegraph
- Morton Mower , implantable heart Defibrillator
- Andrew J. Moyer , Penicillin
- Louis Marius Moyroud , Photograph composition
- Kary Banks Mullis , Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Eger Murphee , Catalytic Cracking
- Charles Grafton Page (1812-1868), high-voltage Induction Coil
- William Painter (1838-1906), Bottle Cap
- Julio Palmaz , intravascular Stent
- Louis W. Parker , Television
- Bradford Parkinson , Global Positioning System
- John T. Parsons Numerical Control
- Louis Pasteur , Pasteurization
- Les Paul , solid-body Electric Guitar
- Lester Pelton (1829-1908), Waterwheel
- Thomas R. Pickering , Velocipede
- John Pierce , Communications Satellite
- Gregory Pincus , Oral Contraceptives
- Charles J. Plank , Catalytic Cracking
- Roy J. Plunkett , Teflon
- George Pullman (1831-1897), Pullman Car
- Jacob Rabinow , Optical Character Recognition
- Louis Renault , Drum Brake
- Jesse W. Reno , Escalator
- Norbert Rillieux , Refined Sugar
- Robert H. Rines , high resolution Radar and Sonar
- John Roebling , Suspension Bridge
- John Raphael Rogers , automated Typesetting
- Heinrich Rohrer , Scanning Tunneling Microscope
- Harold Rosen , spin stabilized synchronous Communications Satellite
- Edward J. Rosinski , Catalytic Cracking
- Benjamin A. Rubin , Vaccine needle
- Lewis Hastings Sarett , Cortisone
- Joseph Saxton (1799-1873), measuring instruments
- Arthur L. Schawlow , Laser
- Klaus Schmiegel , Prozac
- Peter C. Schultz , Optical Fiber
- Glenn T. Seaborg , Plutonium isolation
- Charles Seeberger , Escalator
- Robert J. Seiwald , Isothiocyanates
- William Sellers , improvement in Machine Tools
- Waldo L. Semon , Polyvinyl Chloride
- Gerhard Sessler , Microphone
- Claude Shannon , Pulse Code Modulation
- John C. Sheehan structure and synthesis of Penicillin
- Patsy Sherman , Scotchgard
- William Bradford Shockley , Transistor
- Christopher L. Sholes , Typewriter
- Frederick Ellsworth Sickels , valve for Steam Engine
- Igor I. Sikorsky , Helicopter
- Samuel Slater , Cotton Mills
- Russell Games Slayter , Fiberglass
- George E. Smith , Charge-coupled Device
- Samuel Smith , Scotchgard
- James Spangler (1848-1915), portable electric Vacuum Cleaner
- Percy Spencer , Magnetron
- Elmer Ambrose Sperry , Gyroscopic Compass
- Frank Sprague (1857-1934), electric Street Car
- Rangaswamy Srinivasan , LASIK eye surgery
- William Stanley, Jr. , Alternating Current
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz , Alternating Current
- Leo Sternbach , Benzodiazepines
- John Stevens (1749-1838), Steam-powered Transportation
- George R. Stibitz , Digital Computer
- Almon Strowger (1839-1902), Telephone Dial
- Gideon Sundback (1880-1954), Zipper
- Ambrose Swasey (1846-1937), improvements to Telescope
- Leo Szilard , neutronic Atomic Reactor
- Donalee L. Tabern , Pentothal
- Charles Tainter (1854-1940), innovations in Sound Recording
- Eli Terry , innovations in Clockmaking
- Nikola Tesla , Alternating Current
- John T. Thomas , Fiberglass
- Elihu Thomson , Arc Lamp
- Louis Comfort Tiffany , Stained Glass
- Henry Timken , tapered roller Ball Bearings
- Max Tishler , synthetic Vitamins
- Charles Hard Townes , Laser
- Charles Tyson , Catalytic Cracking
- Selman Waksman , Streptomycin
- An Wang , Magnetic Core Memory
- Lewis Waterman (1837-1901), Fountain Pen
- James West , Microphone
- George Westinghouse , Alternating Current
- Edward Weston (1850-1936), portable Voltmeter
- Squire Whipple , Iron Truss Bridge
- Richard Whitcomb , Supercritical Wing
- Eli Whitney , Cotton Gin
- Frank Whittle , Jet Engine
- Otto Wichterle , soft Contact Lens
- Stephen Wilcox , Steam Generator
- Robert R. Williams, Jr. , Vitamin synthesis
- Sam Williams (inventor) , contributions to Jet Engine
- Alexander Winton (1860-1932), contributions to Automobile , Bicycle , and Diesel Engine
- Granville Woods , Railroad Telegraph
- Steve Wozniak , Personal Computer
- Orville Wright , Airplane
- Wilbur Wright , Airplane
- James Wynne (inventor) , LASIK eye surgery
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