# List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees

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 inductees. Nominees must hold a U.S. patent of significant contribution to the U.S. welfare, and which advances science and useful arts. The 2020 class included 22 inventors.John Fitch was the earliest born inventor inducted into the NIHF (1743), while Luis von Ahn is currently the most recently born (1978).

## Inductees

| Year | Inductee | Birth year | Notable for |
| 1973 | Thomas Edison | 1847 | Electric lighting, motion pictures, phonograph |
| 1974 | Alexander Graham Bell | 1847 | Telephone |
| 1974 | Eli Whitney | 1765 | Cotton gin |
| 1974 | Walter Brattain | 1902 | Transistor |
| 1974 | William Shockley | 1910 | Transistor |
| 1974 | John Bardeen* | 1908 | Transistor |
| 1975 | Nikola Tesla | 1856 | Induction motor |
| 1975 | Orville Wright | 1871 | Airplane |
| 1975 | Samuel Morse | 1791 | Telegraph |
| 1975 | Wilbur Wright | 1867 | Airplane |
| 1975 | William D. Coolidge | 1873 | X-ray tube |
| 1975 | Guglielmo Marconi* | 1874 | Radio |
| 1976 | Charles Martin Hall | 1863 | Aluminum production process |
| 1976 | Charles Goodyear | 1800 | Vulcanization of rubber |
| 1976 | Cyrus McCormick | 1809 | Mechanical reaper |
| 1976 | Enrico Fermi | 1901 | Nuclear fission |
| 1976 | Rudolf Diesel | 1858 | Internal-combustion engine |
| 1976 | Charles Hard Townes* | 1915 | Laser |
| 1977 | Charles Steinmetz | 1865 | Alternating current |
| 1977 | Edwin H. Land | 1909 | Polaroid |
| 1977 | George Eastman | 1854 | Photography |
| 1977 | Lee De Forest* | 1873 | Audion amplifier tube |
| 1977 | Vladimir K. Zworykin* | 1888 | Cathode-ray tube |
| 1978 | Carl Djerassi | 1923 | Oral contraceptives |
| 1978 | Leo Baekeland | 1863 | Bakelite |
| 1978 | Louis Pasteur | 1822 | Pasteurization |
| 1978 | Luis Walter Alvarez | 1911 | Radar, liquid hydrogen bubble chamber |
| 1979 | Charles J. Plank | 1915 | Catalytic cracking |
| 1979 | Edward J. Rosinski | 1921 | Catalytic cracking |
| 1979 | Robert H. Goddard | 1882 | Solid fuel rockets |
| 1979 | Jay Wright Forrester* | 1918 | Random access memory (RAM) |
| 1980 | Charles F. Kettering | 1876 | Electric ignition |
| 1980 | James Hillier | 1915 | Electron microscope |
| 1980 | Lewis Hastings Sarett | 1917 | Cortisone |
| 1980 | Edwin Howard Armstrong* | 1890 | FM radio |
| 1981 | Charles Stark Draper | 1901 | Stabilizing gyroscopic |
| 1981 | Chester Carlson | 1906 | Xerographic printing |
| 1981 | Harold Stephen Black | 1898 | Feedback amplifier |
| 1981 | Nicolaus Otto | 1832 | Otto cycle for internal combustion engine |
| 1982 | Ernest Lawrence | 1901 | Cyclotron |
| 1982 | Henry Ford | 1863 | Automobile |
| 1982 | Max Tishler | 1906 | Synthetic vitamins |
| 1982 | Ottmar Mergenthaler | 1854 | Linotype |
| 1982 | Jack Kilby* | 1923 | Integrated circuit |
| 1983 | Andrew Alford | 1904 | VHF omnidirectional range |
| 1983 | George Stibitz | 1904 | Digital computer |
| 1983 | Herbert Henry Dow | 1866 | Bromine extraction |
| 1983 | Ernst Alexanderson* | 1878 | High frequency alternator for radio |
| 1983 | Robert Noyce* | 1927 | Integrated circuit |
| 1984 | Philo Farnsworth | 1906 | Television |
| 1984 | Theodore Harold Maiman | 1927 | Laser |
| 1984 | Wallace Carothers | 1896 | Synthetic rubber, nylon |
| 1984 | William Merriam Burton | 1865 | Catalytic cracking |
| 1985 | Louis Marius Moyroud | 1914 | Photocomposing machine |
| 1985 | Marvin Camras | 1916 | Magnetic recording |
| 1985 | Rene Alphonse Higonnet | 1902 | Photocomposing machine |
| 1985 | Roy J. Plunkett | 1910 | Teflon |
| 1985 | Willem Johan Kolff | 1911 | Artificial heart |
| 1985 | Willis Carrier | 1876 | Air conditioner |
| 1986 | Donalee L. Tabern | 1900 | Pentothal |
| 1986 | Ernest H. Volwiler | 1893 | Pentothal |
| 1986 | Harold Eugene Edgerton | 1903 | Stroboscope photography |
| 1986 | Luther Burbank | 1849 | Plant breeding |
| 1986 | Wilson Greatbatch | 1919 | Heart pacemaker |
| 1987 | Andrew J. Moyer | 1899 | Penicillin |
| 1987 | Arnold Orville Beckman | 1900 | pH meter |
| 1987 | Igor Sikorsky | 1889 | Helicopter |
| 1987 | William Seward Burroughs I | 1857 | Adding machine |
| 1988 | An Wang | 1920 | Magnetic core memory |
| 1988 | Elisha Otis | 1811 | Elevator brake |
| 1988 | Frank B. Colton | 1923 | Oral contraceptives |
| 1988 | Louis W. Parker | 1906 | Television receiver |
| 1989 | George Westinghouse | 1846 | Air brake system |
| 1989 | Irving Langmuir | 1881 | Electric lighting |
| 1989 | John Deere | 1804 | Farm plow |
| 1989 | Raymond Vahan Damadian | 1936 | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) |
| 1990 | C. Robin Ganellin | 1934 | Cimetidine |
| 1990 | Charles Ginsburg | 1920 | Video tape recording |
| 1990 | Eugene Houdry | 1892 | Catalytic cracking |
| 1990 | George Washington Carver | 1864 | Peanut products |
| 1990 | Graham J. Durant | 1934 | Cimetidine |
| 1990 | Herman Hollerith | 1860 | Punch card tabulator |
| 1990 | John Colin Emmett | 1939 | Cimetidine |
| 1990 | Ken Olsen | 1926 | Magnetic core memory |
| 1990 | Percy Lavon Julian | 1899 | Cortisone synthesis |
| 1990 | Robert Ledley | 1926 | Whole-body CAT scan |
| 1991 | Donald F. Holmes | 1910 | Polyurethane |
| 1991 | Elmer Ambrose Sperry | 1860 | Gyroscopic compass |
| 1991 | Gertrude B. Elion | 1918 | Antileukemic drug |
| 1991 | Gordon Gould | 1920 | Optically pumped laser amplifier |
| 1991 | Leonard Greene | 1918 | Aircraft stall warning |
| 1991 | Robert R. Williams | 1886 | Vitamin synthesis |
| 1991 | Willard Harrison Bennett | 1903 | Mass spectrometry |
| 1991 | William Edward Hanford | 1908 | Polyurethane |
| 1992 | Benjamin Rubin | 1917 | Vaccine needle |
| 1992 | Charles F. Brannock | 1903 | Brannock device for foot measuring |
| 1992 | Frederick Gardner Cottrell | 1877 | Electrostatic precipitator |
| 1992 | Lloyd Conover | 1923 | Tetracycline |
| 1992 | William Redington Hewlett | 1913 | Audio oscillator |
| 1993 | Baruch Samuel Blumberg | 1925 | Vaccine for hepatitis B |
| 1993 | Bill Lear | 1902 | 8-track system, car radio |
| 1993 | Donald Keck | 1941 | Optical fiber |
| 1993 | Irving Millman | 1923 | Vaccine for hepatitis B |
| 1993 | John T. Parsons | 1913 | Numerical control |
| 1993 | John Ericsson | 1803 | Screw propeller |
| 1993 | Peter C. Schultz | 1942 | Optical fiber |
| 1993 | Robert D. Maurer | 1924 | Optical fiber |
| 1994 | Elizabeth Lee Hazen | 1885 | Nystatin (antifungal / antibiotic) |
| 1994 | Emile Berliner | 1851 | Gramophone and microphone |
| 1994 | Gerd Binnig | 1947 | Scanning tunneling microscope |
| 1994 | Heinrich Rohrer | 1933 | Scanning tunneling microscope |
| 1994 | Rachel Fuller Brown | 1898 | Nystatin (antifungal / antibiotic) |
| 1994 | Robert H. Rines | 1922 | High resolution radar and sonar |
| 1994 | Robert N. Hall | 1919 | Magnetron |
| 1995 | Forrest Bird | 1921 | Respirator / Ventilator |
| 1995 | John C. Sheehan | 1915 | Structure and synthesis of penicillin |
| 1995 | Joseph H. Burckhalter | 1912 | Isothiocyanates |
| 1995 | Robert J. Seiwald | 1925 | Isothiocyanates |
| 1995 | Stephanie Kwolek | 1923 | Kevlar |
| 1995 | Waldo Semon | 1898 | Polyvinyl chloride |
| 1995 | William Stanley Jr. | 1858 | Induction coil |
| 1996 | Leó Szilárd | 1898 | Neutronic atomic reactor |
| 1996 | Arthur Leonard Schawlow | 1921 | Laser |
| 1996 | Edmund Germer | 1901 | Fluorescent lighting |
| 1996 | Federico Faggin | 1941 | Microprocessor, silicon-gate MOSFET transistor |
| 1996 | Julius Nieuwland | 1878 | Synthetic rubber |
| 1996 | Marcian Hoff | 1937 | Microprocessor |
| 1996 | Stanley Mazor | 1941 | Central processing unit (CPU) |
| 1997 | Dennis L. Moeller | 1950 | Computer peripherals |
| 1997 | Edward Goodrich Acheson | 1856 | Carborundum |
| 1997 | George Herman Babcock | 1832 | Water-tube boiler |
| 1997 | Mark Dean | 1957 | Computer peripherals |
| 1997 | Robert W. Bower | 1936 | Self-aligned-gate MOSFET transistor |
| 1997 | Seymour Cray | 1925 | Supercomputer |
| 1997 | Stephen Wilcox | 1830 | Water-tube boiler |
| 1997 | Robert H. Dennard* | 1932 | Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) |
| 1998 | Alfred Nobel | 1833 | Dynamite |
| 1998 | Douglas Engelbart | 1925 | Computer mouse |
| 1998 | Henry Timken | 1831 | Tapered roller ball bearings |
| 1998 | James Fergason | 1934 | Liquid crystal display |
| 1998 | Kary Mullis | 1944 | Polymerase chain reaction |
| 1998 | Semi Joseph Begun | 1905 | Magnetic recording |
| 1999 | Bryan Molloy | 1939 | Prozac |
| 1999 | Charlie Tyson | 1905 | Catalytic cracking |
| 1999 | Donald L. Campbell | 1904 | Catalytic cracking |
| 1999 | Eger V. Murphree | 1898 | Catalytic cracking |
| 1999 | George de Mestral | 1907 | Velcro |
| 1999 | Gerhard M. Sessler | 1931 | Electret microphone |
| 1999 | Homer Martin | 1910 | Catalytic cracking |
| 1999 | James West | 1931 | Electret microphone |
| 1999 | Klaus Schmiegel | 1939 | Prozac |
| 1999 | Percy Spencer | 1894 | Magnetron |
| 2000 | Alfred Free | 1913 | Glucose detection for diabetes |
| 2000 | Helen Murray Free | 1923 | Glucose detection for diabetes |
| 2000 | James Franklin Hyde | 1903 | Transparent silica |
| 2000 | Steve Wozniak | 1950 | Personal computer |
| 2000 | Walt Disney | 1901 | Multiplane camera |
| 2000 | William Justin Kroll | 1889 | Titanium |
| 2000 | Reginald Fessenden* | 1866 | AM radio |
| 2001 | Christopher Latham Sholes | 1819 | Typewriter |
| 2001 | Elijah McCoy | 1844 | Engine lubricator |
| 2001 | Herbert Boyer | 1936 | Genetic engineering |
| 2001 | J. Paul Hogan | 1919 | Polypropylene and HDPE |
| 2001 | Oliver Evans | 1755 | High-pressure steam engine |
| 2001 | Patsy O'Connell Sherman | 1930 | Scotchgard |
| 2001 | Robert Banks | 1921 | Polyethylene and polypropylene plastics |
| 2001 | Samuel Smith | 1927 | Scotchgard |
| 2001 | Stanley Norman Cohen | 1935 | Genetic engineering |
| 2001 | Thomas J. Fogarty | 1934 | Fogarty embolectomy catheter |
| 2002 | Alois Langer | 1945 | Defibrillator |
| 2002 | Felix Hoffmann | 1868 | Aspirin |
| 2002 | Henry Bessemer | 1813 | Bessemer process for steel production |
| 2002 | Irwin Lachman | 1930 | Catalytic converter |
| 2002 | J. Presper Eckert | 1919 | ENIAC |
| 2002 | James J. Wynne | 1943 | LASIK eye surgery |
| 2002 | John Mauchly | 1907 | ENIAC |
| 2002 | M. Stephen Heilman | 1933 | Defibrillator |
| 2002 | Michel Mirowski | 1924 | Defibrillator |
| 2002 | Morton Mower | 1933 | Implantable heart defibrillator |
| 2002 | Nils Bohlin | 1920 | Safety belt |
| 2002 | Rangaswamy Srinivasan | 1929 | LASIK eye surgery |
| 2002 | Raymond Kurzweil | 1948 | Optical character recognition |
| 2002 | Rodney Bagley | 1934 | Substrate for catalytic converters |
| 2002 | Ronald M. Lewis | 1936 | Catalytic converter |
| 2002 | Samuel E. Blum | 1920 | LASIK eye surgery |
| 2003 | Charles Kaman | 1919 | Innovations to helicopter |
| 2003 | Edwin Albert Link | 1904 | Link Trainer |
| 2003 | Frank Cepollina | 1936 | Satellite servicing techniques |
| 2003 | Frank Whittle | 1907 | Jet engine |
| 2003 | George Robert Carruthers | 1939 | Ultraviolet camera |
| 2003 | Glenn Curtiss | 1878 | Hydroplane |
| 2003 | Hans von Ohain | 1911 | Turbojet |
| 2003 | Harold Rosen | 1926 | Geosynchronous communications satellite |
| 2003 | John Knudsen Northrop | 1895 | Flying wing plane |
| 2003 | Leroy Grumman | 1895 | Retractable landing gear, folding wing |
| 2003 | Maxime Faget | 1921 | Space capsule design |
| 2003 | Paul Kollsman | 1900 | Altimeter |
| 2003 | Richard T. Whitcomb | 1921 | Supercritical wing |
| 2003 | Sam B. Williams | 1921 | Contributions to jet engine |
| 2003 | Theodore von Kármán | 1881 | Turbojet |
| 2003 | Thomas Midgley Jr. | 1889 | Ethyl gasoline, fluorocarbon refrigerants |
| 2003 | John R. Pierce* | 1910 | Communications satellite |
| 2004 | Bernard M. Oliver | 1916 | Pulse-code modulation |
| 2004 | Bradford Parkinson | 1935 | Global positioning system (GPS) |
| 2004 | Charles Best | 1899 | Isolation of insulin |
| 2004 | Charles Kelman | 1930 | Cataract surgery |
| 2004 | Edith M. Flanigen | 1929 | Molecular sieves |
| 2004 | Elias Howe | 1819 | Sewing machine |
| 2004 | Frederick Banting | 1891 | Isolated and purified insulin |
| 2004 | Harry Coover | 1917 | Superglue |
| 2004 | Ivan A. Getting | 1912 | Global Positioning System (GPS) |
| 2004 | James Collip | 1892 | Isolated and purified insulin |
| 2004 | John A. Roebling | 1806 | Suspension bridge |
| 2004 | John Heysham Gibbon | 1903 | Heart-lung machine |
| 2004 | Lloyd Hall | 1894 | Food preservation |
| 2004 | Luc Montagnier | 1932 | HIV isolation and antibody test |
| 2004 | Norbert Rillieux | 1806 | Refined sugar |
| 2004 | Ray Dolby | 1933 | Dolby noise reduction |
| 2004 | Robert Gallo | 1937 | HIV isolation |
| 2004 | Vannevar Bush | 1890 | Differential analyzer |
| 2004 | Wallace H. Coulter | 1913 | Coulter principle |
| 2004 | Claude Shannon* | 1916 | Pulse-code modulation |
| 2005 | Alec Jeffreys | 1950 | Genetic fingerprinting |
| 2005 | C. Donald Bateman | 1932 | Ground proximity warning system |
| 2005 | Clarence Birdseye | 1886 | Frozen food |
| 2005 | Dean Kamen | 1951 | Ambulatory infusion pump |
| 2005 | Garrett A. Morgan | 1887 | Gas mask, three-way traffic signal |
| 2005 | Glenn T. Seaborg | 1912 | Plutonium isolation |
| 2005 | Jacob Rabinow | 1910 | Optical character recognition |
| 2005 | Leo Sternbach | 1908 | Benzodiazepines |
| 2005 | Leopold Godowsky Jr. | 1900 | Kodachrome |
| 2005 | Leopold Mannes | 1899 | Kodachrome |
| 2005 | Les Paul | 1915 | Solid-body electric guitar |
| 2005 | Matthias W. Baldwin | 1795 | Steam locomotive |
| 2005 | Robert Gundlach | 1926 | Photocopier |
| 2005 | Selman Waksman | 1888 | Streptomycin |
| 2006 | Alexander Lyman Holley | 1832 | Steelmaking |
| 2006 | Alexander Winton | 1860 | Contributions to automobile, bicycle, and diesel engine |
| 2006 | Ali Javan | 1926 | Helium-neon laser |
| 2006 | Almon Brown Strowger | 1839 | Telephone dial |
| 2006 | Ambrose Swasey | 1846 | Improvements to telescope |
| 2006 | Andrew Jackson Beard | 1849 | Janney coupler for railroad cars |
| 2006 | Andrew Smith Hallidie | 1836 | Cable car |
| 2006 | Benjamin Holt | 1849 | Track-type tractor |
| 2006 | Beulah Louise Henry | 1887 | Ice cream freezer |
| 2006 | Birdsill Holly | 1820 | Fire hydrant |
| 2006 | Bob Kahn | 1938 | Internet Protocol (IP) |
| 2006 | Carl Bosch | 1874 | Haber–Bosch process for ammonia production |
| 2006 | Charles F. Brush | 1849 | Arc light for street lighting |
| 2006 | Charles Grafton Page | 1812 | High-voltage induction coil |
| 2006 | Charles Sumner Tainter | 1854 | Innovations in sound recording |
| 2006 | Dale Kleist | 1909 | Fiberglass |
| 2006 | Eckley Coxe | 1839 | Traveling grate furnace |
| 2006 | Edward A. Calahan | 1838 | Stock ticker |
| 2006 | Edward Weston | 1850 | Portable voltmeter |
| 2006 | Elihu Thomson | 1853 | Arc lamp |
| 2006 | Erastus Brigham Bigelow | 1814 | Powered loom |
| 2006 | Ferdinand von Zeppelin | 1838 | Rigid airship |
| 2006 | Frank J. Sprague | 1857 | Electric street car |
| 2006 | Fritz Haber | 1868 | Ammonia production process |
| 2006 | Gail Borden | 1801 | Process for condensed milk |
| 2006 | Games Slayter | 1896 | Fiberglass |
| 2006 | George E. Smith | 1930 | Charge-coupled device |
| 2006 | George Henry Corliss | 1817 | Improvements to steam engine |
| 2006 | George Hulett | 1846 | Loading and unloading machine |
| 2006 | George Pullman | 1831 | Pullman car |
| 2006 | Gideon Sundback | 1880 | Zipper |
| 2006 | Gottlieb Daimler | 1834 | Design of automobile and motorcycle engines |
| 2006 | Granville Woods | 1856 | Railroad telegraph |
| 2006 | Gregory Goodwin Pincus | 1903 | Oral contraceptives |
| 2006 | Harvey Samuel Firestone | 1868 | Pneumatic tire |
| 2006 | Helen Blanchard | 1840 | Innovations to sewing machine |
| 2006 | Herman Affel | 1893 | Coaxial cable |
| 2006 | Hiram Stevens Maxim | 1840 | Maxim gun, smokeless gunpowder |
| 2006 | Jacques E. Brandenberger | 1872 | Cellophane |
| 2006 | James M. Spangler | 1848 | Portable electric vacuum cleaner |
| 2006 | Jan Ernst Matzeliger | 1852 | Shoe lasting |
| 2006 | John Boyd Dunlop | 1840 | Pneumatic tire |
| 2006 | John H. Thomas | 1907 | Fiberglass |
| 2006 | John Harvey Kellogg | 1852 | Breakfast cereal |
| 2006 | John Landis Mason | 1832 | Mason jar |
| 2006 | John Wesley Hyatt | 1837 | Celluloid |
| 2006 | John Fitch | 1743 | Steamboat |
| 2006 | John Stevens | 1749 | Steam-powered transportation |
| 2006 | Joseph Glidden | 1813 | Barbed wire |
| 2006 | Joseph Saxton | 1799 | Measuring instruments |
| 2006 | Josephine Cochrane | 1839 | Dishwasher |
| 2006 | Julio Palmaz | 1945 | Intravascular stent |
| 2006 | Lester Allan Pelton | 1829 | Water wheel |
| 2006 | Lewis Howard Latimer | 1848 | Filament for electric light bulb |
| 2006 | Lewis Miller | 1829 | Combine harvester |
| 2006 | Lewis Waterman | 1837 | Fountain pen |
| 2006 | Linus Yale Jr. | 1821 | Cylinder lock |
| 2006 | Louis Renault | 1877 | Drum brake |
| 2006 | Margaret E. Knight | 1838 | Paper bag machine |
| 2006 | Martha Coston | 1826 | Signal flare used for ships |
| 2006 | Mary Dixon Kies | 1752 | Process for weaving straw |
| 2006 | Milton Bradley | 1836 | Game board |
| 2006 | Moses G. Farmer | 1820 | Electric fire alarm system |
| 2006 | Peter Cooper | 1791 | Steam locomotive |
| 2006 | Richard March Hoe | 1812 | Rotary printing press |
| 2006 | Robert S. Langer | 1948 | Drug delivery |
| 2006 | Robert W. Gore | 1937 | Gore-Tex |
| 2006 | Robert Fulton | 1765 | Steamboat |
| 2006 | Samuel Colt | 1814 | Colt revolver with interchangeable parts |
| 2006 | Seth Boyden | 1788 | Process for making malleable iron |
| 2006 | Simon Ingersoll | 1818 | Steam powered rock drill |
| 2006 | Thomas Blanchard | 1788 | Pattern lathe |
| 2006 | Vint Cerf | 1943 | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) |
| 2006 | Walter Hunt | 1796 | Safety pin |
| 2006 | Willard Boyle | 1924 | Charge-coupled device |
| 2006 | William E. Upjohn | 1853 | Tablet for delivering medicine |
| 2006 | William Painter | 1838 | Bottle cap |
| 2006 | Zénobe Gramme | 1826 | Direct-current dynamo |
| 2006 | Lloyd Espenschied* | 1889 | Coaxial cable |
| 2007 | László Bíró | 1899 | Ballpoint pen |
| 2007 | Albert Kingsbury | 1863 | Thrust bearing |
| 2007 | Alexander Miles | 1838 | Improving method of opening and closing elevator doors |
| 2007 | Alfred Einhorn | 1856 | Novocain |
| 2007 | Alpheus Babcock | 1785 | Cast iron piano frame |
| 2007 | Arthur Nobile | 1920 | Prednisone |
| 2007 | Auguste Lumière | 1862 | Cinématographe |
| 2007 | Charles Seeberger | 1857 | Escalator |
| 2007 | David Cushman | 1939 | Captopril |
| 2007 | Donald Davies | 1924 | Digital packet switching |
| 2007 | Eli Whitney Blake | 1795 | Rock crusher |
| 2007 | Eli Terry | 1772 | Innovations in clockmaking |
| 2007 | Elisha Gray | 1835 | Telegraph and telephone improvements |
| 2007 | Emmett Chappelle | 1925 | Bioluminescence |
| 2007 | Frank Zamboni | 1901 | Ice resurfacer |
| 2007 | Frederick Ellsworth Sickels | 1819 | Valve for steam engine |
| 2007 | Frederick McKinley Jones | 1893 | Refrigeration |
| 2007 | George Crompton | 1829 | Loom |
| 2007 | Georges Claude | 1870 | Neon lighting |
| 2007 | Godfrey Hounsfield | 1919 | CT scan |
| 2007 | James Bogardus | 1800 | Iron frame building |
| 2007 | Jesse W. Reno | 1861 | Escalator |
| 2007 | John E. Franz | 1929 | Roundup glyphosate herbicide |
| 2007 | John Philip Holland | 1841 | Submarine |
| 2007 | John Raphael Rogers | 1856 | Automated typesetting |
| 2007 | John Browning | 1855 | Breech-loading rifle |
| 2007 | John Lynott | 1921 | Hard drive |
| 2007 | Joshua Lionel Cowen | 1877 | Toy train |
| 2007 | Katharine Burr Blodgett | 1898 | Langmuir-Blodgett film |
| 2007 | King C. Gillette | 1855 | Safety razor |
| 2007 | L. L. Langstroth | 1810 | Beehive |
| 2007 | Leroy Hood | 1938 | DNA sequencer |
| 2007 | Louis Comfort Tiffany | 1848 | Stained glass |
| 2007 | Louis Lumière | 1864 | Cinématographe |
| 2007 | Maurice Hilleman | 1919 | Vaccines |
| 2007 | Michael Joseph Owens | 1859 | Bottle making machine |
| 2007 | Miguel Ondetti | 1930 | Captopril |
| 2007 | Ole Evinrude | 1877 | Outboard motor |
| 2007 | Oliver Lodge | 1851 | Wireless telegraphy |
| 2007 | Otto Wichterle | 1913 | Soft contact lens |
| 2007 | Paul Baran | 1926 | Digital packet switching |
| 2007 | Peter Carl Goldmark | 1906 | Long playing record |
| 2007 | Peter Mansfield | 1933 | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) |
| 2007 | Philip Drinker | 1894 | Iron lung |
| 2007 | Richard Gurley Drew | 1899 | Adhesive tape |
| 2007 | Samuel Leeds Allen | 1841 | Flexible flyer sled |
| 2007 | Samuel Slater | 1768 | Cotton mill, spinning machine |
| 2007 | Squire Whipple | 1804 | Iron truss bridge |
| 2007 | Theophilus Van Kannel | 1841 | Revolving door |
| 2007 | Thomas R. Pickering | 1831 | Velocipede |
| 2007 | Thomas Seavey Hall | 1827 | Railroad signal |
| 2007 | Wilhelm Maybach | 1846 | Carburetor and radiator |
| 2007 | William Goddard | 1913 | Hard drive and floppy disk |
| 2007 | William Sellers | 1824 | Improvement in machine tools |
| 2007 | Paul Lauterbur* | 1929 | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) |
| 2007 | Robert Metcalfe* | 1946 | Ethernet |
| 2008 | Amar Bose | 1929 | Audio feedback control |
| 2008 | Calvin Souther Fuller | 1902 | Silicon solar cell |
| 2008 | Clarence Johnson | 1910 | Fighter jet, afterburning means for Turbojet |
| 2008 | Daryl Chapin | 1906 | Silicon solar cell |
| 2008 | David Pall | 1914 | Filtration technology |
| 2008 | Erna Schneider Hoover | 1926 | Computerized telephone switching |
| 2008 | Gerald Pearson | 1905 | Silicon solar cell |
| 2008 | Harold McMaster | 1916 | Tempered glass |
| 2008 | John Charnley | 1911 | Acetabular socket |
| 2008 | Kenneth Richardson | 1939 | Fluconazole |
| 2008 | Louis Stevens | 1925 | Magnetic disk storage |
| 2008 | Malcom McLean | 1913 | Shipping containers |
| 2008 | Ray McIntire | 1918 | Styrofoam |
| 2008 | Robert Adler | 1913 | Television remote control |
| 2008 | Ruth R. Benerito | 1916 | Wrinkle-free cotton |
| 2008 | Willem Einthoven | 1860 | Electrocardiograph |
| 2008 | William P. Murphy Jr. | 1923 | Blood bag and disposable medical trays |
| 2008 | Amos E. Joel Jr.* | 1918 | Mobile communication system |
| 2008 | Nick Holonyak* | 1928 | visible light emitting diode |
| 2009 | Bob Widlar | 1937 | Linear integrated circuit |
| 2009 | Carver Mead | 1934 | Very large scale integration (VLSI) |
| 2009 | Dawon Kahng | 1931 | Electric field controlled semiconductor device, MOSFET transistor |
| 2009 | Dov Frohman | 1939 | Erasable programmable read only memory array (EPROM) |
| 2009 | Frank Wanlass | 1933 | Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) |
| 2009 | Jean Hoerni | 1924 | Planar manufacturing process |
| 2009 | John MacDougall | 1940 | Ion implantation |
| 2009 | Ken Manchester | 1925 | Ion implantation |
| 2009 | Larry J. Hornbeck | 1943 | Spatial light modulator and method |
| 2009 | Mohamed M. Atalla | 1924 | MOSFET transistor, silicon semiconductor surface passivation, ATM PIN security system |
| 2009 | Ross Freeman | 1948 | Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) |
| 2009 | Alfred Y. Cho* | 1937 | Molecular beam epitaxy |
| 2009 | George H. Heilmeier* | 1936 | Electro-optic liquid crystal device |
| 2009 | Gordon Kidd Teal* | 1907 | Silicon transistor |
| 2009 | Gordon Moore* | 1929 | Semiconductor production |
| 2010 | Arthur Fry | 1931 | Post-it notes |
| 2010 | Émile Gagnan | 1900 | Aqua-lung diving equipment |
| 2010 | Field H. Winslow | 1916 | Polymer cable sheath |
| 2010 | Francis P. Bundy | 1910 | Diamond synthesis |
| 2010 | Herbert M. Strong | 1908 | Synthetic diamond |
| 2010 | Jacques Cousteau | 1910 | Diving unit |
| 2010 | Judah Folkman | 1933 | Angiogenesis inhibition |
| 2010 | Ralph Baer | 1922 | Video game console |
| 2010 | Robert H. Wentorf Jr. | 1926 | Synthetic diamond |
| 2010 | Roger L. Easton | 1921 | TIMATION satellite navigation system |
| 2010 | S. Donald Stookey | 1915 | Glass ceramics |
| 2010 | Spencer Silver | 1941 | Post-it notes |
| 2010 | Tracy Hall | 1919 | Synthetic diamond |
| 2010 | Vincent Lanza | 1922 | Polymer cable sheath |
| 2010 | Walter Lincoln Hawkins | 1911 | Polymer cable sheath |
| 2010 | Yvonne Brill | 1924 | Electrothermal hydrazine resistojet |
| 2011 | Albert Dick | 1856 | Duplicating machine |
| 2011 | Bernard Silver | 1924 | First optically scanned barcode |
| 2011 | Carl Auer von Welsbach | 1858 | Improvements to gas lighting |
| 2011 | Carleton Ellis | 1876 | Margarine |
| 2011 | Charles Francis Jenkins | 1867 | Movie projector |
| 2011 | Clarence Kemp | c. 1860 | Solar water heater |
| 2011 | Eadweard Muybridge | 1830 | Stop action photography |
| 2011 | Edwin Binney | 1866 | Carbon black manufacturing |
| 2011 | Eric Fossum | 1957 | CMOS active pixel image sensor camera-on-a-chip |
| 2011 | Esther Sans Takeuchi | 1953 | Lithium/silver-vanadium oxide battery |
| 2011 | Eugene Sullivan | 1872 | Borosilicate glass |
| 2011 | François Hennebique | 1842 | Reinforced concrete construction |
| 2011 | Frederic Eugene Ives | 1856 | Color photography |
| 2011 | Gary K. Michelson | 1949 | Spinal surgical devices |
| 2011 | George Ashley Campbell | 1870 | Loading coil |
| 2011 | George Devol | 1912 | Industrial robot |
| 2011 | Hannibal Goodwin | 1822 | Transparent flexible nitrocellulose |
| 2011 | Henry F. Phillips | 1890 | Phillips screw |
| 2011 | Henry M. Leland | 1843 | Interchangeable parts for automobiles |
| 2011 | James Ritty | 1836 | Cash register |
| 2011 | John Hays Hammond Jr. | 1888 | Radio control |
| 2011 | John Ritty | 1834 | Cash register |
| 2011 | Martin Hellman | 1945 | Public-key cryptography |
| 2011 | Mary Anderson | 1866 | Windshield wiper |
| 2011 | Mihajlo Pupin | 1858 | Loading coil |
| 2011 | Norman Joseph Woodland | 1921 | First optically scanned barcode |
| 2011 | Peter Cooper Hewitt | 1861 | Mercury-vapor lamp |
| 2011 | Ralph Merkle | 1952 | Public-key cryptography |
| 2011 | Rollin H. White | 1872 | Flash boiler for generating steam-controlled differential steering |
| 2011 | Stanley Macomber | 1887 | Open web steel joist |
| 2011 | Steven Sasson | 1950 | Digital camera |
| 2011 | Thomas A. Watson | 1854 | Improvements to telephone |
| 2011 | Thomas E. Murray | 1860 | Early power generation |
| 2011 | Thomas Armat | 1866 | Movie projector |
| 2011 | Valdemar Poulsen | 1869 | Magnetic wire recorder |
| 2011 | Wallace Clement Sabine | 1868 | Architectural acoustics |
| 2011 | Walther Nernst | 1864 | Metallic filament incandescent lamp |
| 2011 | Warren Marrison | 1896 | Quartz clock |
| 2011 | Whitfield Diffie | 1944 | Public-key cryptography |
| 2012 | Akira Endo | 1933 | Mevastatin |
| 2012 | Alejandro Zaffaroni | 1923 | Drug delivery systems |
| 2012 | Barbara Liskov | 1939 | Programming Languages and System Design |
| 2012 | David A. Thompson | 1940 | Thin film magnetic heads |
| 2012 | Gary Starkweather | 1938 | Laser printer |
| 2012 | Lubomyr Romankiw | 1931 | Thin film magnetic heads |
| 2012 | Steve Jobs | 1955 | Personal computer, mobile phone, animated movie, digital publishing |
| 2012 | C. Kumar N. Patel* | 1938 | Carbon dioxide laser |
| 2012 | Dennis Gabor* | 1900 | Electron holography |
| 2012 | Mária Telkes* | 1900 | Solar thermal storage system |
| 2013 | Alfred Loomis | 1887 | Long range navigation system (LORAN) |
| 2013 | Andrew Viterbi | 1935 | Code-division multiple access (CDMA) |
| 2013 | Aran Safir | 1926 | Iris recognition algorithm |
| 2013 | Arthur Ashkin | 1922 | Optical trapping |
| 2013 | Donald Bitzer | 1934 | Plasma display |
| 2013 | Garrett Brown | 1942 | Steadicam camera stabilizer |
| 2013 | Grote Reber | 1911 | Radio telescope |
| 2013 | H. Gene Slottow | 1921 | Plasma display |
| 2013 | Irwin M. Jacobs | 1933 | Code-division multiple access (CDMA) |
| 2013 | John Birden | 1918 | Radioisotope thermoelectric generator |
| 2013 | John Daugman | 1954 | Iris recognition algorithm |
| 2013 | Joseph Lechleider | 1933 | Digital subscriber line (DSL) |
| 2013 | Kenneth Jordan | 1921 | Radioisotope thermoelectric generator |
| 2013 | Leonard Flom | 1927 | Iris recognition algorithm |
| 2013 | Robert H. Willson | 1936 | Plasma display |
| 2013 | Robert Moog | 1934 | Moog synthesizer |
| 2013 | Samuel W. Alderson | 1914 | Crash test dummy |
| 2014 | Ashok Gadgil | 1950 | Water disinfection |
| 2014 | Benjamin Durfee | 1897 | Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I) |
| 2014 | Bill Bowerman | 1911 | Modern athletic shoe |
| 2014 | Chuck Hull | 1939 | Stereolithography |
| 2014 | Clair Lake | 1888 | Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I) |
| 2014 | David Crosthwait | 1898 | Heating and ventilation system |
| 2014 | Frances Arnold | 1956 | Evolution of enzymes |
| 2014 | Francis E. Hamilton | 1898 | Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I) |
| 2014 | George Antheil | 1900 | Frequency-hopping spread spectrum |
| 2014 | Hedy Lamarr | 1914 | Frequency-hopping spread spectrum |
| 2014 | Howard Aiken | 1900 | Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I) |
| 2014 | Mildred Dresselhaus | 1930 | Lattice structure |
| 2014 | Otis Boykin | 1920 | Electrical resistor |
| 2014 | Richard DiMarchi | 1952 | Insulin Lispro |
| 2014 | Willis Whitfield | 1919 | Clean room |
| 2015 | Charles R. Drew | 1904 | Surgical needle |
| 2015 | Edith Clarke | 1883 | Graphical calculator |
| 2015 | Gary D. Sharp | 1962 | Polarization-control technology |
| 2015 | George Edward Alcorn Jr. | 1940 | X-ray spectrometer |
| 2015 | Ioannis Yannas | 1935 | Artificial skin |
| 2015 | Jaap Haartsen | 1963 | Bluetooth wireless technology |
| 2015 | John F. Burke | 1922 | Artificial skin |
| 2015 | Kristina M. Johnson | 1957 | Polarization-control technology |
| 2015 | Marion Donovan | 1917 | Waterproof diaper cover |
| 2015 | Mary-Dell Chilton | 1939 | Transgenic plant |
| 2015 | Paul B. MacCready | 1925 | Gossamer Condor |
| 2015 | Shuji Nakamura | 1954 | Blue LED |
| 2015 | Stanford R. Ovshinsky | 1922 | Nickel-metal hydride battery |
| 2015 | Thomas Jennings | 1791 | Dry scouring |
| 2016 | Bantval Jayant Baliga | 1948 | Insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) |
| 2016 | Barrett Comiskey | 1975 | Electronic ink |
| 2016 | Harriet Strong | 1844 | Water storage and flood control |
| 2016 | Ivan Sutherland | 1938 | Display windowing by clipping |
| 2016 | JD Albert | 1975 | Electronic ink |
| 2016 | John Silliker | 1922 | Microbiological food safety and testing |
| 2016 | Joseph Jacobson | 1965 | Electronic ink |
| 2016 | Per-Ingvar Brånemark | 1929 | Dental implant |
| 2016 | Radia Perlman | 1951 | Network routing and bridging |
| 2016 | Robert M. Thomas | 1908 | Butyl rubber |
| 2016 | Roger Angel | 1941 | Telescope mirror cell |
| 2016 | Roger Bacon | 1926 | Carbon fibers |
| 2016 | Sheldon Kaplan | 1939 | Auto-injector |
| 2016 | Victor Lawrence | 1945 | Signal processing in telecommunications |
| 2016 | Welton Taylor | 1919 | Microbiological food safety and testing |
| 2016 | William Sparks | 1905 | Butyl rubber |
| 2017 | Allene Jeanes | 1906 | Dextran production; xanthan gum |
| 2017 | Augustine Sackett | 1841 | Drywall |
| 2017 | Beatrice Hicks | 1919 | Device for sensing gas density |
| 2017 | Carolyn Bertozzi | 1966 | Bioorthogonal Chemistry |
| 2017 | Daniel Lewin | 1970 | Content delivery network |
| 2017 | Don Arney | 1947 | Bambi Bucket for aerial firefighting |
| 2017 | Earle Dickson | 1892 | Band-Aid self-adhesive bandages |
| 2017 | Eli Harari | 1945 | Floating-gate EEPROM |
| 2017 | Frances Ligler | 1951 | Portable optical air sensor |
| 2017 | Haren S. Gandhi | 1941 | Automotive exhaust catalyst |
| 2017 | Harold E. Froehlich | 1922 | Deep-sea submersible |
| 2017 | Howard Head | 1914 | Laminated ski; oversized tennis racket |
| 2017 | Iver Anderson | 1953 | Lead-free solder |
| 2017 | Marshall Jones | 1941 | Industrial laser |
| 2017 | Tom Leighton | 1956 | Content delivery network |
| 2018 | Adi Shamir | 1952 | RSA cryptography |
| 2018 | Arogyaswami Paulraj | 1944 | MIMO wireless technology |
| 2018 | Ching W. Tang | 1947 | Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) |
| 2018 | Howard S. Jones | 1921 | Conformal antenna |
| 2018 | Jacqueline Quinn | 1967 | EZVI (Emulsified Zerovalent iron) |
| 2018 | Joseph Shivers | 1920 | LYCRA fiber (Spandex) |
| 2018 | Leonard Adleman | 1945 | RSA cryptography |
| 2018 | Marvin H. Caruthers | 1940 | Chemical synthesis of DNA |
| 2018 | Mary Engle Pennington | 1872 | Food preservation and food storage |
| 2018 | Paul Terasaki | 1929 | Tissue typing for organ transplants, Terasaki tray |
| 2018 | Ronald Rivest | 1947 | RSA cryptography |
| 2018 | Stan Honey | 1955 | Sports broadcast graphic enhancements |
| 2018 | Steven Van Slyke | 1956 | Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) |
| 2018 | Sumita Mitra | 1949 | Nanocomposite dental materials |
| 2018 | Warren S. Johnson | 1847 | Temperature control |
| 2019 | Alonzo G. Decker Jr. | 1884 | Portable hand-held electric drill |
| 2019 | Andrew Higgins | 1886 | Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) |
| 2019 | Chieko Asakawa | 1958 | Home Page Reader |
| 2019 | David Wait | 1953 | Microarray |
| 2019 | Dennis Ritchie | 1941 | UNIX operating system |
| 2019 | Edmund O. Schweitzer III | 1947 | Digital protective relay |
| 2019 | Frederick Novello | 1916 | Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide) |
| 2019 | James Sprague | 1909 | Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide) |
| 2019 | James Truchard | 1943 | LabVIEW |
| 2019 | Jeff Kodosky | 1949 | LabVIEW |
| 2019 | John Baer | 1917 | Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide) |
| 2019 | Joseph C. Muhler | 1923 | Stannous fluoride toothpaste |
| 2019 | Joseph Lee | 1849 | Bread machine |
| 2019 | Karl H. Beyer Jr. | 1914 | Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide) |
| 2019 | Ken Thompson | 1943 | UNIX operating system |
| 2019 | Rebecca Richards-Kortum | 1964 | Medical devices for low-resource settings |
| 2019 | S. Duncan Black | 1883 | Portable hand-held electric drill |
| 2019 | William J. Warner | 1955 | Digital non-linear editing system |
| 2019 | William Nebergall | 1914 | Stannous fluoride toothpaste |
| 2020 | Dana Bookbinder | 1956 | Bend-insensitive optical fiber |
| 2020 | Edward W. Bullard | 1893 | Hard hat |
| 2020 | Edward Sisler | 1930 | 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) |
| 2020 | Evelyn Berezin | 1925 | Computer systems for business use |
| 2020 | Floyd Smith | 1884 | Modern parachute |
| 2020 | Frank Zybach | 1894 | Center-pivot irrigation |
| 2020 | Harry Cameron | 1872 | Blowout preventer (BOP) |
| 2020 | Hinda Miller | 1950 | Sports bra |
| 2020 | James Abercrombie | 1891 | Blowout preventer (BOP) |
| 2020 | James McEwen | 1948 | Automatic surgical tourniquet |
| 2020 | John Nicholson | 1925 | Ibuprofen |
| 2020 | Lisa Lindahl | 1948 | Sports bra |
| 2020 | Margaret Wu | 1950 | Synthetic lubricants |
| 2020 | Mick Mountz | 1965 | Mobile robotic material handling |
| 2020 | Ming-Jun Li | 1959 | Bend-insensitive optical fiber |
| 2020 | Peter Wurman | 1965 | Mobile robotic material handling |
| 2020 | Polly Smith | 1949 | Sports bra |
| 2020 | Pushkar Tandon | 1967 | Bend-insensitive optical fiber |
| 2020 | R. Rox Anderson | 1950 | Laser dermatology |
| 2020 | Raffaelo D'Andrea | 1967 | Mobile robotic material handling |
| 2020 | Stewart Adams | 1923 | Ibuprofen |
| 2020 | Sylvia Blankenship | 1954 | 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) |
| 2022 | Carl Benz | 1844 | Automobile |
| 2022 | James Buchanan Eads | 1820 | Steamboat |
| 2022 | Lonnie Johnson | 1949 | Super Soaker |
| 2022 | Marian Croak | 1955 | VoIP |
| 2022 | Patricia Bath | 1942 | Cataract surgery |
| 2023 | Angela Hartley Brodie | 1934 | Steroidal aromatase inhibitors |
| 2023 | Cyril Keller | 1922 | Skid-steer loader |
| 2023 | Drew Weissman | 1959 | Messenger RNA |
| 2023 | Emmanuelle Charpentier | 1968 | CRISPR gene editing |
| 2023 | James A. Parsons Jr. | 1900 | Alloy 20 |
| 2023 | Jennifer Doudna | 1964 | CRISPR gene editing |
| 2023 | Katalin Karikó | 1955 | Messenger RNA |
| 2023 | Louis Keller | 1923 | Skid-steer loader |
| 2023 | Luis von Ahn | 1978 | reCAPTCHA |
| 2023 | Lynn Conway | 1938 | Very Large Scale Integration |
| 2023 | Marjorie Stewart Joyner | 1896 | Permanent wave machine |
| 2023 | Philippe Horvath | 1970 | CRISPR gene editing |
| 2023 | Robert Bryant | 1962 | Langley Research Center-Soluble Imide |
| 2023 | Rodolphe Barrangou | 1975 | CRISPR gene editing |
| 2023 | Roger Tsien | 1952 | Green fluorescent protein |
| 2023 | Rory Cooper | 1959 | Wheelchair |