Wilson Greatbatch invented the pacemaker in 1960. Greatbatch was working for a medical research company when he accidentally created the pacemaker. Greatbatch was building an oscillator to record heart sounds when he accidentally used the wrong transistor. The transistor Greatbatch had used was 100 times more powerful than the one he intended to use. This transistor emitted an electrical pulse the mimicked the human heart beat. Greatbatch immediately recognized his new invention as a new kind of pacemaker. It took 2 years of creating prototypes before presenting the pacemaker to a surgeon. William Chardack, a surgeon, partnered with Greatbatch. The two of them wired the pacemaker to the heart of a dog where it flawlessly controlled…
Furthermore, Garrett Morgan was an African-American inventor and businessman of saving lives by creating the early version of the gas mask and a new form of traffic signal (Famous African American Inventors, 2017). In 1914, the gas mask was invented and made the polluted air more breathable. In 1923, Morgan created a new form of a traffic signal by having the red, yellow and green lights that helped controlled traffic more effectively (Famous African American Inventors, 2017). Also, Otis Boykin enhanced the pacemaker and made electronic devices proficient and inexpensive such as television and computer. In 1959, Boykin created a new controller that could withstand shifts in temperature and air pressure which led electric currents to flow from…
John Deere perfected the plow. Cyrus McCormick, in 1834, received a patent for a reaping machine, a horse-drawn device that allowed one man to cut and stack ten to twelve acres of grain in a single day. Samuel Colt made his mark on the firearms industry. He patented and manufactured a “six-shooter,” a pistol with a revolving cylinder which allowed a user to fire six times before reloading.…
Thomas Alva Edison was a hardworking and determined inventor in the industrial revolution period. He lived the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s. His phonograph, motion picture, and lightbulb have impacted economically and culturally people around the world. His legacy blazed a path of technological advance through the path of the unknown. Indeed, Thomas Edison was an amazing leader in U.S. history, left a lasting legacy because of his intriguing and innovative inventions that impacted the whole world to this day. He is considered the greatest inventor of all time because of his inventions making America have great wealth.…
Spencer also came up with the idea of shrinking the radio. This helped American household’s share communication. Spencer worked for a company by the name of Raytheon which invented magnetic devices which are used on motor vehicles and rockets outer…
Thomas Edison is one of Americas most famous people inventors. He is responsible for the invention of tons of devices known around the world.…
Willem Einthoven was the most honorable man and thanks to his invention on the galvanometric sequence of electrocardiograph in which helps to detect the weak electrical beat of the heart. This help people around the world are able to be treated with heart diseases. This invention gives other researcher to advance the studies on the function disease of the heart. In 1924 he was honored by a Nobel Prize in medicine.…
Aside from Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Evans could perhaps be considered as one of the most prolific inventors in American history. Throughout his life, Evans would go on to invent vapor compression refrigeration, various textile machinery, and perhaps his longest lasting invention, the high-pressure steam engine. His design would be used in locomotives that would become crucial to both the American and global Industrial Revolutions.…
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What 's a sundial in the shade?” 1 Throughout history there have been many amazing inventors who used their talents to innovate beyond their time period. People like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Alexander Graham Bell were examples of such talented innovators with inventions that are in one way or another still used in today’s day to day life. To beat them all, Benjamin Franklin is famous not for one but multiple inventions that are still in use today. Franklin reinvented the postal service, optometry, invented the Franklin Stove, and made important discoveries with electricity, all of which proves why Benjamin Franklin is one of the world’s greatest and most influential inventors.…
Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most prominent American inventors of the 20th century. He was born in 1847 in Ohio and worked several different jobs during his early life. In 1968, while working at Western Union Company, Thomas Edison designed an electronic vote recorder for recording vote faster in legislature, which went unsuccessful with the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1869, he invented the Universal Stock Printer, which synchronized several stock tickers' transactions, and sold the rights to Gold and Stock Telegraph Company for 40,000 dollars. After establishing his company, he went on to further improve the telegraph industry; one of the invention was a quadruplex telegraph that can send two signals in two directions on the same wire. In 1876 the now successful businessman and inventor expanded his operation to Menlo Park, and by the end of 1877, he created a sound recording device called phonograph.…
Have you ever wonder who made the lock-it move in hip hop? That would be Don Campbell, because of his successful creation of the move his name was referred as Don Campbelock. He was creative from his early years as a kid until college was when he discovered hip hop. Then he gets recognition. And how time went by.…
"While Robert Noyce, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and then Intel Corp. is credited with co-founding the microchip, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments demonstrated the first working integrated circuit that…
His invention was called the Oruktor Amphibilos, and he, luckily, was able to get the invention commissioned by Philadelphia’s Board of Health. This was just one of Evans’s great inventions. It is rumored that Evans himself was the inventor of at least 80 more inventions throughout his life, however, nothing as influential as the steam…
Lee De Forest was born Aug. 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. De Forest was the son of a Congregational minister. His father moved the family to Alabama and there assumed the presidency of the nearly bankrupt Talladega College for Negroes. Excluded by citizens of the white community who resented his father 's efforts to educate blacks, Lee and his brother and sister made friends from among the black children of the town and spent a happy although sternly disciplined childhood in this rural community. (Kraeuter, 74). As a child he was fascinated with machinery and was often excited when hearing of the many technological advances during the late 19th century. He began tinkering and inventing things even in high school, often trying to build things that he could sell for money. By the age of 13 he was an enthusiastic inventor of mechanical gadgets such as a miniature blast furnace and locomotive, and a working silverplating apparatus. (A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries).…
Perhaps the most famous scientist is Dr. Robert Jarvik, who invented in 1982 an artificial heart called the Jarvik-7. This device, made from aluminum and plastic, replaced the two lower chambers of the natural heart and used two rubber diaphragms for the pumping action. An external compressor the size of a refrigerator kept the artificial heart beating. Barney Clark was the first patient to receive this heart. He survived 112 days before physical complications caused by the implant took his life. In 1986, William Schroeder became the second Jarvik-7 recipient, surviving for about 20 months.…