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<<nobr>>
<<set _psg = [], _passages = ["Luis", "Guillermo", "Alberto", "Humberto", "Olga", "Lydia", "Luis Von", "Alejandro", "Lonnie", "Frederick", "Marie", "Mark", "Lewis", "James", "Alfred", "Peter", "Tuan", "Steven", "Ashok", "Ajay", "Mary", "Aaron", "Thomas", "An", "Shirley", "Edison", "Edison2", "Tesla", "Tesla2", "Valerie", "Patricia", "Kobie"]>>
<<for _psgName range _passages>>
<<if !hasVisited(_psgName)>><<set _psg.push(_psgName)>><</if>>
<</for>>
<<if _psg.length > 0>>
<<set _psg = either(_psg)>>
<<else>>
<<set _psg = "Default Passage">>
<</if>>
<</nobr>>
<div class="button">
<<button 'Time Machine Activate' _psg>><</button>></div>
<<nobr>><<if $time is 1>>You have nine trips left<</if>><<if $time is 2>>You have eight trips left<</if>><<if $time is 3>>You have seven trips left<</if>><<if $time is 4>>You have six trips left<</if>><<if $time is 5>>You have five trips left<</if>><<if $time is 6>>You have four trips left.<</if>><<if $time is 7>>You have three trips left.<</if>><<if $time is 8>>You have two trips left<</if>><<if $time is 9>>You have one trip left<</if>><<if $time gt 9>><<goto "Dead">><</if>><</nobr>>
<<if $team is 1>>You have four more team slots<</if>><<if $team is 2>>You have three more team slots<</if>><<if $team is 3>>You have two more team slots<</if>><<if $team is 4>>You have one more team slot.<</if>><<if $team gt 4>><<goto"Last Pick">><</if>>
[[Team]]
<nobr><h1>Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena</h1>
<h2>1917-1965</h2></nobr>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/guillermo.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" ></div>
<p><div class="transbox"><p>In 1940 at the age of 23, Camarena applied for a patent for the “chromoscopic adapter for television equipment.” It was meant to adapt existing black and white equipment so that it could transmit and recieve images in color. A system similar to his was used by NASA in 1979 to take color photos and video of Jupiter.
Camarena was also a strong advocate for tele-education for medical schools and broadcasting educational shows for children. In an effort to bring color television to low income families he would revise his invention several times to lower the cost. Some of the systems he put in place were used during the Covid pandemice of 2020-21.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Camarena" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
<a href="https://mexicodailypost.com/2021/09/22/mexican-engineer-guillermo-gonzalez-camarena-was-color-tv-inventor/" target="_blank">Mexico Daily Post</a>
<a href="https://www.latintimes.com/who-was-guillermo-gonzalez-camarena-remembering-mexican-genius-behind-color-tv-380390" target="_blank">Latin Times</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $guillermo to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
[[Team]]
<h1>Luis Miramontes</h1>
<h2>1925-2004</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/LuisMiramontes.png" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
Working as a lab assistant with Carl Djerassi in 1951, Luis Miramonte synthesized norethisterone, a key component of "the pill" oral contraceptive. Though by far the most significant of his inventions, Miramontes holds fifteen other patents in chemistry.
Miramontes was also granted several patents for "Method(s) of cleaning engine exhaust gases."
Clearly if you have problem that requires a chemical solution Luis Miramontes is your man.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_E._Miramontes" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $luis to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
[[Team]]
<h1>Alberto Vinicio Baez</h1>
<h2>1912-2007</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/alberto.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
During the cold war physicist were in high demand to help in the arms race. Baez was a pacifist and turned down many jobs for the defense industry. He focused his research on x-rays and helped develop both the x-ray microscope and telescope which harness the power of parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to the human eye. Basically, he made it so you could see really, really, really small things, or things in galaxies far, far away.
He is also the father of folk singer Joan Baez.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Baez" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $alberto to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
[[Time Machine]]
<<if $time gt 4>>Once you have collected between four and seven inventors to help you save the world from a/an <b><<print $adventure>></b>, click on the "End Game" link at the bottom of the page. You will be taken to form where you can create the story of how your inventors saved the world.
If you can't remember exactly what each inventor did, you can click on their picture to go back to their biography and take some notes.<</if>>
<div class="image-grid">
<<if $luis is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Luis2">
<img src="images2/LuisMiramontes.png" width="224" height="253" alt="Luis Miramontes" /></a>
<figcaption>Luis Miramontes
Oral Contraceptive</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $guillermo is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Guillermo2"><img src="images2/guillermo.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena" /></a>
<figcaption>Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena
Color television adaptor
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $olga is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Olga2"><img src="images2/olga.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Olga D. Gonzalez" /></a>
<figcaption>Olga D. Gonzalez-Sanbria
Long Cycle-Life Nickel-Hydrogen Batteries
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $luisvon is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Luis Von2"><img src="images2/luis.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Luis Von Ahn" /></a>
<figcaption>Luis Von Ahn
System for verifying identity (CAPTCHA)
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $alberto is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Alberto2"><img src="images2/alberto.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Alberto Vinicio Baez" /></a>
<figcaption>Alberto Vinicio Baez
X-ray reflector microscope
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $alejandro is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Alejandro2"><img src="images2/alejandro.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Alejandro Zaffaroni" /></a>
<figcaption>
Alejandro Zaffaroni
Transdermal patch for medicine delivery </figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $humberto is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Humberto2"><img src="images2/humberto.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Humberto Fernandez-Moran Villalobos" /></a>
<figcaption>Humberto Fernandez-Moran Villalobos
Diamond scalpel
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $lydia is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Lydia2"><img src="images2/lydia.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Lydia Villa-Komaroff" /></a>
<figcaption>Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Recominant DNA molecule
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $lonnie is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Lonnie2"><img src="images2/lonnie.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Lonnie Johnson" /></a>
<figcaption>Lonnie Johnson
Super Soaker water gun
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $james is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="James2"><img src="images2/james.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="James West" /></a>
<figcaption>James West
electret transducer technology later used in 90 percent of contemporary microphones
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $frederick is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Frederick2"><img src="images2/frederick.png" width="224" height="253" alt="Frederick McKinley Jones" /></a>
<figcaption>Frederick McKinley Jones
Portable air-cooling unit for trucks
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $alfred is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Alfred2"><img src="images2/alfred.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Alfred L. Cralle" /></a>
<figcaption>Alfred L. Cralle
Ice cream molded scoop
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $mark is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Mark2"><img src="images2/mark.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Mark Dean" /></a>
<figcaption>Mark Dean
IBM personal computer
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $lewis is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Lewis2"><img src="images2/lewis.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Lewis Latimer" /></a>
<figcaption>Lewis Latimer
Carbon filament for the lightbulb
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $marie is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Marie2"><img src="images2/marie.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Marie Van Britton Brown" /></a>
<figcaption>Marie Van Britton Brown
Home security system
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $shirley is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Shirley2"><img src="images2/shirley.png" width="224" height="253" alt="Shirley Jackson" /></a>
<figcaption>Shirley Jackson
Conducted physics experiments that led to the fax machine, touchtone phone, and caller id.
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $an is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="An2"><img src="images2/an.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="An Wang" /></a>
<figcaption>An Wang
Founder of Wang Laboratories and contributed to the development of magnetic core memory.
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $peter is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Peter2"><img src="images2/peter.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Peter Tsai" /></a>
<figcaption>Peter Tsai
N95 masks
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $tuan is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Tuan2"><img src="images2/tuan.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Tuan Vo-Dinh" /></a>
<figcaption>Tuan Vo-Dinh
Laser and optical scan technology to diagnose disease.
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $steven is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Steven2"><img src="images2/steven.jfif" width="224" height="253" alt="Steven Shih Chen" /></a>
<figcaption>Steven Shih Chen
Video sharing and founder of YouTube
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $ashok is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Ashok2"><img src="images2/ashok.jfif" width="224" height="253" alt="Ashok Gadgil" /></a>
<figcaption>Ashok Gadgil
UV Waterworks to easily decontaminate water
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $ajay is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Ajay2"><img src="images2/ajay.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Ajay Bhatt" /></a>
<figcaption>Ajay Bhatt
USB connector
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $mary is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Mary2"><img src="images2/mary.jfif" width="224" height="253" alt="Mary Golda Ross" /></a>
<figcaption>Mary Golda Ross
Co-author of NASA Planetary Flight Handbook Vol. III
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $aaron is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Aaron2"><img src="images2/aaron.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Aaron Yazzie" /></a>
<figcaption>Aaron Yazzie
Planetary sample acquisition and handling
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $thomas is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Thomas2"><img src="images2/thomas.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Thomas David Petite" /></a>
<figcaption>Thomas David Petite
Smart Grid technology enables multiple applications to operate over a shared, interoperable network
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $valerie is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Valerie2"><img src="images2/valerie.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Valerie Thomas" /></a>
<figcaption>Valerie Thomas
The illusion transmitter and expert in satellite photography.
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $patricia is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Patricia2"><img src="images2/patricia.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Patricia Bath" /></a>
<figcaption>Patricia Bath
She is a pioneer in laser eye surgery holding several patents to perfect the process.
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
<<if $kobie is true>>
<figure>
<a data-passage="Kobie2"><img src="images2/kobie.jpg" width="224" height="253" alt="Kobie Boykins" /></a>
<figcaption>Kobie Boykins
He designed the solar arrays and actuators for the Mars rovers.
</figcaption></figure>
<</if>>
</div>
[[End Game]] [[Team]]
<h1>Humberto Fernandez-Moran Villalobos</h1>
<h2>1924-1999</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/humberto.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
Fernandez-Moran is credited with creating the diamond knife or scalpel. It is an extremely sharp blade that is used in many eye surgeries. He also created the ultra microtome which can cut extremely thin slices of a specimen so that it may be examined with a microsope.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Fern%C3%A1ndez-Mor%C3%A1n" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $humberto to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
[[Team]]
<h1>Olga D. González-Sanabria</h1>
<h2></h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/olga.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
Gonzalez-Sanabria developed the long cycle-Life nickel-hydrogen battery which is currently powering parts of the International Space Station (ISS). She currently works at NASA's Glenn Research Center where she as been employed for the last thirty years. The nickel-hydrogen battery technology led to the devlopment of the lithium ion battery which is in many of our devices today. Without Gonzalez-Sanabria's contributions the long life of the mars rovers and many other space exploring apparatus would not be possible.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_D._Gonz%C3%A1lez-Sanabria" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $olga to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
[[Team]]
<h1>Luis Von Ahn</h1>
<h2>1978-</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/luis.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
von Ahn is probably best know for his Captcha technology that verifies whether a user is human or an Internet bot. Using hand written text users are asked to type in the characters. Machines are incable of decyphering the text. He later turned it into reCaptcha which uses actual text from scanned documents that computers are unable to identify. User entries are then used to help finish the scanned text.
He also gamified image identification using the ESP Game. Two players are asked to come up with a many words as possible describing an image. The winner the person that comes up with the most, but the real purpose of the game is to generate a database of photo tags. This technology was eventually licensed to Google for their image search.
Finally von Ahn is the cofounder of Duolingo a language education platform.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $luisvon to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
[[Team]]
<h1>Alejandro Zaffaroni</h1>
<h2>1923-2014</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/alejandro.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
Zaffaroni is known for developing the transdermal patch which is now commonly used to deliver nicotine and birth control homrmones. He was also involved in developing corticosteroids and the DNA microarray. Corticosteroids are used to cure multiple diseases and the microarray helps to measure the genotype in a genome.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Zaffaroni" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $alejandro to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9FBzDMdEmu9JOpKr9SXDoZ9ydqULOXuck4f6ay6-ZFRw9Og/viewform?embedded=true" width="640" height="549" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading…</iframe>[[Team]]
<h1>Lonnie Johnson</h1>
<h2>1949-</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/lonnie.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
Lonnie Johnson has over 250 patents to his name, but he is most famously known as the inventor of the Super Soaker. He also is the genius behind "a pneumatic launcher for a toy projectile," which most of us just call a Nerf Gun.
Johnson worked as an engineer for the Air Force where he worked on the stealth bomber and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developing the nuclear power source for the Galileo missions to Jupiter.
He is currently work on the Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter System. This is an engine that takes thermal energy and converts it to electricity with zero emissions.
Also if you need a robot, he created one for his H.S. science fair.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Johnson_(inventor)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $lonnie to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
<p><div class="transbox"><p>The world is about to end in a cataclysmic disaster. (You will get to choose your adventure below.) You have been tasked with assembling the greatest inventors to apply their expertise to this problem.
You have access to a time machine, but it has a faulty time regulator which does not let you control when you go.
<h1>Objective</h1>
Collect a team of inventors that are best suited to help you solve the disaster and write a story describing the solution.
<h1>How To Play</h1>
Though this can be played as a single player, it would work best as a team party game.
Choose your adventure at the bottom of this page and then go to the Time Machine.
Click the "Time Machine" button and you will be taken to the profile of a random inventor. You can either "Choose" or "Decline" them as a member of your team.
There is enough power in your Time Machine for ten (10) trips, so choose wisely.
Once you have five (5) team members or used up your ten (10) trips your game is over and you will be directed to a Google Doc to create a story about your team solving the problem.
<h1>Special Cards</h1>
Watch out for <b>Thomas Edison</b> who will steal your patents which erases anyone that you have selected for the team. He will leave you with enough energy to make four (4) more trips in your Time Machine.
Luckily <b>Nikola Tesla</b> is also in the time stream. If you meet him, he will give you a charge for an additional trip in the time machine.
<h1>How To Win</h1>
This is a party style game, so there is no traditional winner. You will end up writing a story like [[this|sample]].
Choose your adventure
<<listbox "$adventure" [[Time Machine]]>>
<<option "Zombie Apocalypse">>
<<option "Alien Invasion" >>
<<option "Meteor Strike">>
<<option "Robot Uprising">>
<<option "Totalitarian Surveilance State">>
<<option "Stolen Nuclear Codes">>
<<option "UN Hostage Situation">>
<<option "Global Pandemic">>
<</listbox>>
Go to [[Time Machine]]
</p></div></p>
<<set $time to 0>>
<<set $team to 0>>
Your time machine battery is dead. Unfortunately you will be unable to collect any more inventors. It is time to fix this <b> <<print $adventure>></b>. Check out your [[Team]].<<cacheaudio "journey" "music2/journey.mp3">>
[[Team]]
<h1>Lydia Villa-Komaroff</h1>
<h2>1970-</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/lydia.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
Villa-Komaroff has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT. While working in the lab of Novel Laureate Walter Gilbert, Villa-Komaroff authored a landmark paper on how bacteria, through the use of recombinant DNA, can be used to produce insulin.
She continued to work with neurologists, developmental biologists, endocrinologists, and cell biologists to study the protiens necessary for life. One of the more important discoveries in her later career was the protein amyloid beta role in Alzheimer's.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Villa-Komaroff" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $lydia to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
[[Team]]
<h1>Frederick McKinley Jones</h1>
<h2>1893-1961</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/frederick.png" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
Jones designed a portable cooling unit around 1938, though he did not recieve the patent until 1949. His device proved valuable during WWII because it allowed for the transport of blood, medicine and food.
Jones had other inventions in a variety of areas including a portable x-ray machine.
He would go on to form the ThermoKing corporation "the global leader in transport refrigeration and heating for trailers, trucks, buses, rail cars and shipboard containers"
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_McKinley_Jones" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
<a href="https://www.thermoking.com/na/en.html" target="_blank">ThermoKing</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $frederick to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
[[Team]]
<h1>Mark Dean</h1>
<h2>1957-</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/mark.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
Dean holds three of the nine patents for the personal computer (PC). As an engineer for IBM he also created the color computer monitor and is responsible for the industry stadard architecture bus which allowed for the easy connect of perephial devices such as keyboards, disc drives, and printers.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dean_(computer_scientist)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p>
<a href="https://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/inventors/dean.htm" target="_blank">Scholastic</a><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $mark to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
[[Team]]
<h1>Marie Van Britton Brown</h1>
<h2>1922-1999</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/marie.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
Brown's work is the classic case of necessity being the mother of invention. As a nurese she often worked non-conventional hours spending much time home alone. This compounded with the lengthy response times from the police in her Queens neighborhood led Brown to create a home security system.
What started with placing peep holes at different levels in the door eventually led to a closed-circuit television system with push button police calls.
He work is referenced in at least 32 future patents and led to the modern home security systems.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $marie to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
[[Team]]
<<set $time to $time+1>>
[[Team]]
<h1>James West</h1>
<h2>1931-</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/james.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
West created the foil electret microphone that now constitutes nearly 90% of all commercially produced microphones in everything from telephones, camcorders, hearing aids, to baby monitors.
West has also been a life long advocate of greater diversity in the STEM fields.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Edward_Maceo_West" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p><center><<button "Choose" "Time Machine">> <<set $james to true>><<set $team to $team+1>><</button>> <<button "Reject" "Time Machine">><</button>></center>
</div>
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<h1>Alfred L. Cralle</h1>
<h2>1866-1919</h2>
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Cralle was working as a porter in a drug store in a hotel and noticed that ice cream kept sticking to the spoon when the servers were dishing it. This led to him developing the ice cream mold and disher, or the modern ice cream scoop with a built in scraper.
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<h1>Lewis Latimer</h1>
<h2>1848-1928</h2>
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Before recieving the patent for an improved method for making carbon filaments for light bulbs, Latimer patented an "improvement in water-closets for railroad-cars." Two years after developing the carbon process for a competitor, Latimer was hired by Thomas Edison's company. Edison would often do this to competitors.
Latimer also developed a design for electric lamps, a cooling apparatus, a locking hat rack and a "book support."
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<h1>Shirley Jackson</h1>
<h2>1946-</h2>
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Jackson has a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She worked at Bell Labs researching semiconductors that are vital to the operation of all modern day electronics. Some sources say that her research led to the develpment of caller id, the touchtone phone, and fiber optics.
President Bill Clinton named her the chairperson of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that is in charge of nuclear reactor safety and nuclear waste disposal.
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<h1>An Wang</h1>
<h2>1920-1970</h2>
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Working at Harvard at the time Wang developed a pulse transfer controlling device which was essential for magnetic core memory. He sold his patent to IBM for $500,000 and use the money to start Wang Laboratories.
Wang Labs made a variety of computing and word processing devices. In the early 70s they produced the Wang 2200 which was one of the first desktop computers with a large CRT display.
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<h1>Tuan Vo-Dinh</h1>
<h2>1948-</h2>
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Vo-Dinh studies photonics, the physical properties of light and has a ridiculously long list of patents that most cover the use of light/lasers to diagnose disease.
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<h1>Ashok Gadgil</h1>
<h2>1950-</h2>
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Gadgil has a Ph.D. in physics and currently works as the Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory.
Gadgil developed UV Waterworks that uses ultra-violet light to decontaminate water for very little cost and can deliver safe drinking water to remote and economically depressed areas.
He is also the co-counder of the Darfur Stove Project that brings highly effecient stoves to the people of Sudan.
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<h1>Ajay Bhatt</h1>
<h2>1957-</h2>
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If you have ever used the USB port on you laptop, then you have Ajay Bhatt to thank for it. Along with developing the USB Bhatt has worked on several other computer connections such as the accelerated graphic ports (AGP) and PCI Express.
Basically, if you need to connect something to a computer and have it run fast. Ajay Bjatt is your guy.
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<h1>Peter Tsai</h1>
<h2>1952-</h2>
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Tsai had retired but returned to work during the Covid-19 pandemic to study the sterilization of his most noteworthy invent the N-95 mask.
Though originally devoloped for industrial use, it was soon discovered that it could be used in medical settings as well, and of course became very familiar to us all during the pandemic.
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<h1>Steven Shih Chen</h1>
<h2>1978-</h2>
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As the cofounder of YouTube Chen is a leader in video sharing capabilities. Not only did he help found YouTube, but he has also created the video sharing app MixBit.
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<h1>Mary Golda Ross</h1>
<h2>1908-2008</h2>
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A member of the Cherokee Nation, Ross was one of forty engineers, and the only woman, to work for the Lockheed Skunkworks. The Skunkworks was an elite team of engineers tasked with working on top secret aircraft.
Ross's early work focused on the P-38 Lightning, the fastest plane at that time. After the war she studied aeronautics and celestial mechanics and returned to Lockheed to continue her work on many top secret projects.
In the 60s she worked on the Polaris reentry vehicle as well as the Polaris and Trident missiles.
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<h1>Aaron Yazzie</h1>
<h2>1986-</h2>
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Yazzie is a mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is focussed on sample acquistion and handling. He worked on the Mars Ingenuity helicopter and the Perserverance rover.
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<h1>Thomas David Petitte</h1>
<h2>1956-</h2>
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Petitte is known for his work with wireless mesh technologies. He is the guy that can get your refrigerator to talk to the toaster. The networks will allow users to remotely control, activate, and monitor wireless devices.
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<h1>Thomas Alva Edison</h1>
<h2>1847-1931</h2>
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<h1>EDISON HAS STOLEN YOUR PATENTS!</h1>
Known as one of the most prolific inventors in American history, he also has a reputation as a somewhat unscrupulous business man.
You will have to start over. You were able to steal enough electricity from his direct current generator for four trips in your time machine.
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<h1>Nikola Tesla</h1>
<h2>1856-1943</h2>
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<h1>POWER UP!</h1>
Using his patented Tesla Coil, Nikola Tesla has given your time machine enough energy for an additional trip.
Nikola Tesla was in constant battle with Thomas Edison. Most famously they fought over the type of electrical current we should use. Edison favored direct current (DC), while Tesla supported alternating current (AC). Alternatiing current eventually won out, but it is Edison that still gets all of the credit.
Though it can't be verified, Tesla is often attibuted with the following quote. "I don’t care that they stole my idea... I care that they don’t have any of their own.”
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<h1>Thomas Alva Edison</h1>
<h2>1847-1931</h2>
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<p><div class="transbox"><p>
<h1>EDISON HAS STOLEN YOUR PATENTS!</h1>
Known as one of the most prolific inventors in American history, he also has a reputation as a somewhat unscrupulous business man.
You will have to start over. You were able to steal enough electricity from his direct current generator for four trips in your time machine.
[[Time Machine]]
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<h1>Nikola Tesla</h1>
<h2>1856-1943</h2>
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<p><div class="transbox"><p>
<h1>POWER UP!</h1>
Using his patented Tesla Coil, Nikola Tesla has given your time machine enough energy for an additional trip.
Nikola Tesla was in constant battle with Thomas Edison. Most famously they fought over the type of electrical current we should use. Edison favored direct current (DC), while Tesla supported alternating current (AC). Alternatiing current eventually won out, but it is Edison that still gets all of the credit.
Though it can't be verified, Tesla is often attibuted with the following quote. "I don’t care that they stole my idea... I care that they don’t have any of their own.”
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"We are assembled here today because you are the greatest minds still available during this zombie outbreak. Would I rather have had some doctors and biologist? Sure, but instead we have a bunch of computer nerds and <b>Dr. Villa-Kamaroff</b>. <b>Lydia</b>, why don't you tell us about the cure that you have been working on."
"Sure. As you may know the zombie plague is caused by an alien life form that rewrites our DNA. Many people believe it was brought back on one of Jeff Bezos' trips to Mars, but that is irrelevant. I have been working with my team, and we think that we have developed a 'vaccine.' Using reombinant DNA technology we have repurposed the E Coli bacteria to reverse the effects of the alien virus. Normally we would just get the zombies to eat some tainted romaine lettuce, but since their diet consist entirely of human brains we need to find a better method of delivery."
<b>Mark Dean</b> raises his hand. "I think I can make an autonomous drone that would be able to force feed the zombies the lettuce."
<b>Lydia</b> rolls her eyes, "We don't need to feed them lettuce. We just need to inject them with the bacteria."
"Oh, well that will be easier," <b>Dean</b> replied.
"<b>Thomas</B>, weren't you working on smart grids before all hell broke loose?" <b>Shirley Jackson</b> asks.
"Yes, why?"
"Well we could work together by combining my work with Bell Labs and your smart grid, so that the drones could communicate with each other and work together."
<b>Thomas</b> nods his head in agreement, but it is obvious that he sees a problem.
"What is the problem <b>Mr. Petitte</b>?"
"Well," <b>Thomas</b> pauses choosing his words carefully, "it's the batteries. I don't think any of us want to be running out into the zombie fields to plug in drones to a virtually non-existent power grid."
"Problem solved, bruh."
Everyone turns to look at the woman sitting in the corner. It is <b>Dr. Olga Gonzalez-Sanabria</b>. "I'm like a battery genius. I have been making long lasting batteries for NASA space missions. If I can make a battery that can last on a trip to Jupiter, then I sure as heck can power a few drones here on Earth."
A few months later the Zombie Abatement Program (ZAP) launches its drone army. They are amazing efficient in delivering the vaccine and nearly all of perambulating pariah are cured within two years.
Unfortunately, the AI used to help guide the drones felt useless after curing the zombies and decided to attack non-zombies. We will obviously need to assemble a team of scientist to put down the robotic uprising.
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<h1>Valerie Thomas</h1>
<h2>1943-</h2>
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Valerie Thomas invented the illusion transmitter in 1980. Using concave mirrors she was able to transmit images that appeared to be in three dimensions.
She also oversaw the creatin of NASA's LandSat program which is charged with colleting satelite images of Earth. She became a sought after international expert in satellite imagery. These satellite images are used for everything from meteorology to agriculture. You can also zoom in on your house using Google Earth.
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<h1>Patricia Bath</h1>
<h2>1942-2019</h2>
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Bath holds several patents for her Laserphaco Probe, a device that dissolves cataracts, cleans the eye, and allows for easy lens replacement. Her invention has help thousands of people have better vision.
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<h1>Luis Miramontes</h1>
<h2>1925-2004</h2>
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Working as a lab assistant with Carl Djerassi in 1951, Luis Miramonte synthesized norethisterone, a key component of "the pill" oral contraceptive. Though by far the most significant of his inventions, Miramontes holds fifteen other patents in chemistry.
Miramontes was also granted several patents for "Method(s) of cleaning engine exhaust gases."
Clearly if you have problem that requires a chemical solution Luis Miramontes is your man.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_E._Miramontes" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<nobr><h1>Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena</h1>
<h2>1917-1965</h2></nobr>
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<p><div class="transbox"><p>In 1940 at the age of 23, Camarena applied for a patent for the “chromoscopic adapter for television equipment.” It was meant to adapt existing black and white equipment so that it could transmit and recieve images in color. A system similar to his was used by NASA in 1979 to take color photos and video of Jupiter.
Camarena was also a strong advocate for tele-education for medical schools and broadcasting educational shows for children. In an effort to bring color television to low income families he would revise his invention several times to lower the cost. Some of the systems he put in place were used during the Covid pandemice of 2020-21.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Camarena" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
<a href="https://mexicodailypost.com/2021/09/22/mexican-engineer-guillermo-gonzalez-camarena-was-color-tv-inventor/" target="_blank">Mexico Daily Post</a>
<a href="https://www.latintimes.com/who-was-guillermo-gonzalez-camarena-remembering-mexican-genius-behind-color-tv-380390" target="_blank">Latin Times</a>
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<h1>Alberto Vinicio Baez</h1>
<h2>1912-2007</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/alberto.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
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During the cold war physicist were in high demand to help in the arms race. Baez was a pacifist and turned down many jobs for the defense industry. He focused his research on x-rays and helped develop both the x-ray microscope and telescope which harness the power of parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to the human eye. Basically, he made it so you could see really, really, really small things, or things in galaxies far, far away.
He is also the father of folk singer Joan Baez.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Baez" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Humberto Fernandez-Moran Villalobos</h1>
<h2>1924-1999</h2>
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Fernandez-Moran is credited with creating the diamond knife or scalpel. It is an extremely sharp blade that is used in many eye surgeries. He also created the ultra microtome which can cut extremely thin slices of a specimen so that it may be examined with a microsope.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Fern%C3%A1ndez-Mor%C3%A1n" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Olga D. González-Sanabria</h1>
<h2></h2>
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Gonzalez-Sanabria developed the long cycle-Life nickel-hydrogen battery which is currently powering parts of the International Space Station (ISS). She currently works at NASA's Glenn Research Center where she as been employed for the last thirty years. The nickel-hydrogen battery technology led to the devlopment of the lithium ion battery which is in many of our devices today. Without Gonzalez-Sanabria's contributions the long life of the mars rovers and many other space exploring apparatus would not be possible.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_D._Gonz%C3%A1lez-Sanabria" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Luis Von Ahn</h1>
<h2>1978-</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/luis.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
<p><div class="transbox"><p>
von Ahn is probably best know for his Captcha technology that verifies whether a user is human or an Internet bot. Using hand written text users are asked to type in the characters. Machines are incable of decyphering the text. He later turned it into reCaptcha which uses actual text from scanned documents that computers are unable to identify. User entries are then used to help finish the scanned text.
He also gamified image identification using the ESP Game. Two players are asked to come up with a many words as possible describing an image. The winner the person that comes up with the most, but the real purpose of the game is to generate a database of photo tags. This technology was eventually licensed to Google for their image search.
Finally von Ahn is the cofounder of Duolingo a language education platform.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Alejandro Zaffaroni</h1>
<h2>1923-2014</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/alejandro.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
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Zaffaroni is known for developing the transdermal patch which is now commonly used to deliver nicotine and birth control homrmones. He was also involved in developing corticosteroids and the DNA microarray. Corticosteroids are used to cure multiple diseases and the microarray helps to measure the genotype in a genome.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Zaffaroni" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Lydia Villa-Komaroff</h1>
<h2>1970-</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/lydia.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
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Villa-Komaroff has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT. While working in the lab of Novel Laureate Walter Gilbert, Villa-Komaroff authored a landmark paper on how bacteria, through the use of recombinant DNA, can be used to produce insulin.
She continued to work with neurologists, developmental biologists, endocrinologists, and cell biologists to study the protiens necessary for life. One of the more important discoveries in her later career was the protein amyloid beta role in Alzheimer's.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Villa-Komaroff" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Lonnie Johnson</h1>
<h2>1949-</h2>
<div class="container"><img src="images2/lonnie.jpg" width="224" height="253" style="float:left" >
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Lonnie Johnson has over 250 patents to his name, but he is most famously known as the inventor of the Super Soaker. He also is the genius behind "a pneumatic launcher for a toy projectile," which most of us just call a Nerf Gun.
Johnson worked as an engineer for the Air Force where he worked on the stealth bomber and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developing the nuclear power source for the Galileo missions to Jupiter.
He is currently work on the Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter System. This is an engine that takes thermal energy and converts it to electricity with zero emissions.
Also if you need a robot, he created one for his H.S. science fair.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Johnson_(inventor)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Frederick McKinley Jones</h1>
<h2>1893-1961</h2>
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Jones designed a portable cooling unit around 1938, though he did not recieve the patent until 1949. His device proved valuable during WWII because it allowed for the transport of blood, medicine and food.
Jones had other inventions in a variety of areas including a portable x-ray machine.
He would go on to form the ThermoKing corporation "the global leader in transport refrigeration and heating for trailers, trucks, buses, rail cars and shipboard containers"
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_McKinley_Jones" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
<a href="https://www.thermoking.com/na/en.html" target="_blank">ThermoKing</a>
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<h1>Mark Dean</h1>
<h2>1957-</h2>
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Dean holds three of the nine patents for the personal computer (PC). As an engineer for IBM he also created the color computer monitor and is responsible for the industry stadard architecture bus which allowed for the easy connect of perephial devices such as keyboards, disc drives, and printers.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dean_(computer_scientist)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Marie Van Britton Brown</h1>
<h2>1922-1999</h2>
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Brown's work is the classic case of necessity being the mother of invention. As a nurese she often worked non-conventional hours spending much time home alone. This compounded with the lengthy response times from the police in her Queens neighborhood led Brown to create a home security system.
What started with placing peep holes at different levels in the door eventually led to a closed-circuit television system with push button police calls.
He work is referenced in at least 32 future patents and led to the modern home security systems.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>James West</h1>
<h2>1931-</h2>
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West created the foil electret microphone that now constitutes nearly 90% of all commercially produced microphones in everything from telephones, camcorders, hearing aids, to baby monitors.
West has also been a life long advocate of greater diversity in the STEM fields.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Edward_Maceo_West" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Alfred L. Cralle</h1>
<h2>1866-1919</h2>
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Cralle was working as a porter in a drug store in a hotel and noticed that ice cream kept sticking to the spoon when the servers were dishing it. This led to him developing the ice cream mold and disher, or the modern ice cream scoop with a built in scraper.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_L_Cralle" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Lewis Latimer</h1>
<h2>1848-1928</h2>
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Before recieving the patent for an improved method for making carbon filaments for light bulbs, Latimer patented an "improvement in water-closets for railroad-cars." Two years after developing the carbon process for a competitor, Latimer was hired by Thomas Edison's company. Edison would often do this to competitors.
Latimer also developed a design for electric lamps, a cooling apparatus, a locking hat rack and a "book support."
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Howard_Latimer" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Shirley Jackson</h1>
<h2>1946-</h2>
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Jackson has a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She worked at Bell Labs researching semiconductors that are vital to the operation of all modern day electronics. Some sources say that her research led to the develpment of caller id, the touchtone phone, and fiber optics.
President Bill Clinton named her the chairperson of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that is in charge of nuclear reactor safety and nuclear waste disposal.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ann_Jackson" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Valerie Thomas</h1>
<h2>1943-</h2>
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Valerie Thomas invented the illusion transmitter in 1980. Using concave mirrors she was able to transmit images that appeared to be in three dimensions.
She also oversaw the creatin of NASA's LandSat program which is charged with colleting satelite images of Earth. She became a sought after international expert in satellite imagery. These satellite images are used for everything from meteorology to agriculture. You can also zoom in on your house using Google Earth.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Thomas" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Patricia Bath</h1>
<h2>1942-2019</h2>
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Bath holds several patents for her Laserphaco Probe, a device that dissolves cataracts, cleans the eye, and allows for easy lens replacement. Her invention has help thousands of people have better vision.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Bath" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>An Wang</h1>
<h2>1920-1970</h2>
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Working at Harvard at the time Wang developed a pulse transfer controlling device which was essential for magnetic core memory. He sold his patent to IBM for $500,000 and use the money to start Wang Laboratories.
Wang Labs made a variety of computing and word processing devices. In the early 70s they produced the Wang 2200 which was one of the first desktop computers with a large CRT display.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Wang" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Tuan Vo-Dinh</h1>
<h2>1948-</h2>
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Vo-Dinh studies photonics, the physical properties of light and has a ridiculously long list of patents that most cover the use of light/lasers to diagnose disease.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuan_Vo-Dinh" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Ashok Gadgil</h1>
<h2>1950-</h2>
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Gadgil has a Ph.D. in physics and currently works as the Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory.
Gadgil developed UV Waterworks that uses ultra-violet light to decontaminate water for very little cost and can deliver safe drinking water to remote and economically depressed areas.
He is also the co-counder of the Darfur Stove Project that brings highly effecient stoves to the people of Sudan.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok_Gadgil" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Ajay Bhatt</h1>
<h2>1957-</h2>
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If you have ever used the USB port on you laptop, then you have Ajay Bhatt to thank for it. Along with developing the USB Bhatt has worked on several other computer connections such as the accelerated graphic ports (AGP) and PCI Express.
Basically, if you need to connect something to a computer and have it run fast. Ajay Bjatt is your guy.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajay_Bhatt" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Peter Tsai</h1>
<h2>1952-</h2>
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Tsai had retired but returned to work during the Covid-19 pandemic to study the sterilization of his most noteworthy invent the N-95 mask.
Though originally devoloped for industrial use, it was soon discovered that it could be used in medical settings as well, and of course became very familiar to us all during the pandemic.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tsai" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Steven Shih Chen</h1>
<h2>1978-</h2>
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As the cofounder of YouTube Chen is a leader in video sharing capabilities. Not only did he help found YouTube, but he has also created the video sharing app MixBit.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Chen" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Mary Golda Ross</h1>
<h2>1908-2008</h2>
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A member of the Cherokee Nation, Ross was one of forty engineers, and the only woman, to work for the Lockheed Skunkworks. The Skunkworks was an elite team of engineers tasked with working on top secret aircraft.
Ross's early work focused on the P-38 Lightning, the fastest plane at that time. After the war she studied aeronautics and celestial mechanics and returned to Lockheed to continue her work on many top secret projects.
In the 60s she worked on the Polaris reentry vehicle as well as the Polaris and Trident missiles.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_G._Ross" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Aaron Yazzie</h1>
<h2>1986-</h2>
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Yazzie is a mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is focussed on sample acquistion and handling. He worked on the Mars Ingenuity helicopter and the Perserverance rover.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Yazzie" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Thomas David Petitte</h1>
<h2>1956-</h2>
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Petitte is known for his work with wireless mesh technologies. He is the guy that can get your refrigerator to talk to the toaster. The networks will allow users to remotely control, activate, and monitor wireless devices.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_David_Petite" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>
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<h1>Kobie Boykins</h1>
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Kobie Boykins was on the team that built the solar array for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. It was originally thought that the rovers would work for 90 days. They ended working for approximately 5 years thanks to the efficiency of the solar arrays.
Boykins also designed the actuators, a device that helps the rover move, for the Curiosity rover.
As of 2018 Boykins, still works at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Finally, he is also an avid hockey player.
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<h1>Kobie Boykins</h1>
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Kobie Boykins was on the team that built the solar array for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. It was originally thought that the rovers would work for 90 days. They ended working for approximately 5 years thanks to the efficiency of the solar arrays.
Boykins also designed the actuators, a device that helps the rover move, for the Curiosity rover.
As of 2018 Boykins, still works at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Finally, he is also an avid hockey player.
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