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Amos Edward Joel Jr. (1918–2008) U.S. – electrical engineer, known for several contributions and over seventy patents related to telecommunications switching systems Carl Edvard Johansson (1864–1943), Sweden – Gauge blocks
One of two independent inventors of the concept of digital packet switching used in modern computer networking including the Internet. [9] [10] Published a series of briefings and papers about dividing information into "message blocks" and sending them over distributed networks (1960–1964). [11] [12] 1874 Baudot, Émile
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 ...
Instead of having a single inventor, the Internet was developed by many people over many years. The following people are Internet pioneers who have been recognized for their contribution to its early and ongoing development. These contributions include theoretical foundations, building early networks, specifying protocols, and expansion beyond ...
Inventor of the world's first computed tomography (CT) scanner, shared 1979 Nobel Prize: Edwin J. Houston: Arc lighting, co-founder of what would become General Electric, president of AIEE: John Hopkinson: Inventor of three-phase electrical system Grace Hopper: Computer programmer (first compiler) Lawrence A. Hyland: Radar pioneer, leader of ...
You can thank risk-taking inventors for their numerous contributions to modern living. But behind many of these inventions were fantastic flops — things that either worked and didn't make ...
1933: FM radio is patented by inventor Edwin H. Armstrong. 1933: Harry C. Jennings Sr. and his disabled friend Herbert Everest, both mechanical engineers, invented the first lightweight, steel, folding, portable wheelchair with their "X-brace" design. [468] [469]
[nb 2] They also helped contribute to improve aerodynamics by designing a "thick wing" long before other inventors. [citation needed] Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari † unk c. 1005 Kazakhstan: Design Construction Aviator Pre-history Glider (†) attempted flight from the roof of the Nishapur Mosque in Khorosan (c. 1005). [10] Frederick W. "Casey ...