invention

He inventing CorningWear … and photogray sunglasses.

“That’s when I said ‘Aha.’ I knew then and there it was an important discovery.”

Dolby was transfixed by sound: how it was made, and how it could be recorded.

“It’s hard to think of a vegetable peeler as radical. But I guess it was.”

Burford’s ideas were the best thing since sliced bread.

He designed a bike that went places — and one that didn’t, which is what made it sell.

Kudelski created the first portable audio tape recorder while still a student.

Woodland invented the bar code.

You’ve probably never heard of Ovshinsky, but every day you probably use at least one product he invented.