N. Joseph Woodland Bar code inventor
Woodland invented the bar code.
From This is True for 16 December 2012
invention
Inventors and big picture idea people not otherwise in another category
Stanford Ovshinsky Tech innovator
You’ve probably never heard of Ovshinsky, but every day you probably use at least one product he invented.
From This is True for 21 October 2012
Tom Sims Snowboard inventor
Sims came up with the idea for the snowboard, and then made it happen.
From This is True for 16 September 2012
Eugene Polley Remotely famous
Polley invented the first TV remote control. “It’s almost as important as sex.”
From This is True for 27 May 2012
Willard Boyle Bell physicist
Boyle (with George E. Smith) invented digital photography.
From This is True for 15 May 2011
Gertrude Neumark Rothschild Illuminated physicist
Her ideas led to blue and ultraviolet LEDs.
From This is True for 21 November 2010
Louis Moyroud Cold type inventer
Moyroud and a colleague invented phototypesetting, which led to the digital layouts we use today.
From This is True for 4 July 2010
Ronald Howes Sr. Inventor
Howes invented toys, including some for the military.
From This is True for 21 February 2010
Walter Morrison Frisbee inventor
Morrison invented the Frisbee, but he didn’t call it that.
From This is True for 14 February 2010
Lester Shubin Bulletproof chemist
Shubin realized a new fabric could be used to make “bulletproof” vests. And then there were the dogs.
From This is True for 29 November 2009