MIT Inventions & Breakthroughs
MIT has a long history of entrepreneurship and innovation. From practical inventions to scientific breakthroughs, MIT has contributed greatly to the progress of the world over its 140+ year history. Below, find a list of just some of the inventions, breakthroughs, companies and creations that have come from the MIT community.
- Ethernet - Robert Metcalf '68
- The Supreme Court building - Cass Gilbert 1880
- Campbell Soup - John Dorrance 1895
- Theory of the inflationary universe - Prof. Alan Guth '68
- GPS (Global Positioning System) - Ivan Getting '33
- Lego Mindstorms - MIT Media Lab
- Texas Instruments Inc. - Cecil Green '23
- Artificial Skin - Ioannis Yannas SM '59
- Hypertext - Prof. Vannevar Bush PhD '16
- Technicolor - Herbert Kalmus 1903
- Evidence of quarks - Professors Henry Kendall and Jerome Friedman
- Disposable-blade safety razors - William Nickerson 1876
- Plan for Canberra, Australia - Marion Mahony Griffin 1894
- Fax Machine - Shintaro Asano SM '61
- Spacewar, the first computer game - Steve Russell '60
- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Building - I.M. Pei '40
- Inertial guidance system - Charles Stark Draper '26
- Analog Devices, Inc. - Raymond Stata '57
- Discovery of human oncogenes - Prof. Robert Weinberg
- The Internet Archive - Brewster Kahle '82
- Modern linguistics - Prof. Noam Chomsky
- Doppler radar - Bernard Gordon '48
- Voice recognition technology - Ray Kurzweil '70
- The field of Marketing Science - Prof. John Little
- "Car Talk" - Tom '58 & Ray '72 Magliozzi
- Credit card holograms - Prof. Stephen Benton '63
- RSA Public Key Cryptography - Professors Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman
- Rockman amplifier - Tom Scholz '69
- The World Wide Web - Senior Research Scientist Tim Berners-Lee
- Biogen Inc. - Prof. Phillip Sharp
- The "butterfly effect" - Prof. Edward Lorenz
- Bose stereo - Professor Amar Bose '51
- Rockefeller Center - Raymond Hood 1903
- Spreadsheets - Daniel Bricklin '73
