R&D 100 Archive of Winners
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| Product | Organization | Co-Developers |
|---|---|---|
| Accelerating Rate Calorimeter | Columbia Scientific Industries Corp., Dow Chemical Co. | , D. Townsend, V. Caldecourt, E. Timm, R. Solem |
| Accurel | Armak Co. (Akzona) | A. Castro |
| Acoustic Indicator for Surface and Subsea Vessels RS/906 | Honeywell Inc. | Gil Raudsep |
| AO SRIII | American Optical Corp. | D. L. Guyton, S. B. Persson |
| C-Cubed Darlington | General Electric Co. | S. Krishna |
| C-MOS Memory HM6147 | Hitachi Ltd. | T. Makimota |
| Corrosive-Resistant Thermal Barrier Coating | Department of Energy, NASA (Lewis Research Center) | , S. R. Levine, P. E. Hodge, R. A. Miller |
| DEC System 2020 | Digital Equipment Corp. | Robert Reid |
| Deep Ocean Sampler | National Bureau of Standards | Harry Davis, Meyer Waxman |
| DOT Alloys | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Union Carbide/Nuclear) | C. T. Liu, H. Inouye, A.C. Schaffhauser |
| Dow Corning 888 | Dow Corning Co. | J. S. Kummins |
| Electrodeposited Iron Foil | Gould Inc. | P. K. Subramanyan |
| EM-109 Transmission Electron Microscope | Carl Zeiss Inc. | E. Guetter, W. Egle |
| EMBA-III | Extranuclear Laboratories Inc. | R. T. Brackmann |
| Energy-Saver Solid-State Relay for Induction Motor | Electronic Relays Inc., NASA (Marshall Space Center) | J. E. Pascente, F. Nola |
| F-100 Compressor Stator Link | Gould Inc., Pratt & Whitney Aircraft (Gov. Prod), U. S. Air Force Systems Command (Air Force Materials Lab/Manufacturing Tech), United Tech. Corp | E. L. Thellmann, N. E. Alber, George Brodi, Larry P. Clark |
| FAST-LC System | Technicon Instruments Corp. | D. Burns |
| Fire-Barrier Sheet | 3M Co. (Technical Ceramic Products ) | R. R. Licht |
| Fire-Resistant Diesel Fuel | Southwest Research Institute, U. S. Army (Energy and Water Res. Lab.) | George E. Fodor, W. D. Weatherford, Bernard R. Wright |
| Flow Injection Analyzer FIA 1000 | Lachat Chemicals Inc. | C. B. Ranger |
| Gel-Sphere-Pac Process | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Union Carbide/Nuclear ) | |
| Haynes Alloy No. 711 | Cabot Corp. | W. L. Silence |
| Heliophase | AETA Corp. | Roger F. French |
| Hewlett Packard 300 | Hewlett-Packard Co. | James Cockrum |
| Hexsyn Rubber | Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. | R. M. Pierson, J. Lal |
| High Power RF Field Effect Transistors | Varian Associates (Communications Transistor Corp.) | S. Ludvik |
| Hollow Roller Bearing | Torrington Co. (Ingersoll-Rand ) | W. L. Bowen |
| ikon Lampas M2 | Nippon Kogaku K. K. | K. Nakazawa, A. Tanimoto |
| Imaging Particle Detector SSL Model 239 | Surface Science Laboratories Inc. | C. Carlson, M. Kelly |
| ixiscope | NASA (Goddard Space Flight Center) | J. I. Trombka, S. M. Seltzer |
| Kevex Analyst | Kevex Corp. | G. W. Kramer, G. W. Meyer |
| Koralox | General Electric Co. | M. T. Borom, Wayne Pasco, Frederic Klug, Irvin Huseby |
| Lamma 500 Laser Microprobe Mass Analyzer | Leybold-Heraeus GmbH | R. Wechsung |
| LaRC-160 Polyimide Matrix Resin | NASA (Langley Research Center) | T. L. St. Clair |
| Laser Diode HLP 3000 | Hitachi Ltd. | Yasushi Koga |
| Light Pen System | Varian Associates (Ultrasound ) | R. Daigle |
| Lixiscope | NASA (Goddard Space Flight Center) | L. I. Yin |
| Low Cost Thin Film Solar Cell | University of Delaware (Inst. Of Energy Conversion) | Allen M. Barnett, Julio A. Bragagnolo, Robert B. Hall, James E. Phillips, John D. Meakin |
| Low-Cost Laser-Diffused Solar Cells | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Union Carbide ) | J. Narayan, R. T. Young, R. F. Wood |
| Mead Opas | Mead Corp. | G. T. Davis |
| Mettler PC 4400 | Mettler Instruments AG | P. Kunz |
| Microshell Pellet | KMS Fusion Inc. | David E. Solomon |
| MiDiCIMS-2450 Analytical Mass Spectrometer | Extranuclear Laboratories Inc. | M. W. Siegel |
| Model 1020 Very Wide Range Ion Gauge | Alto Engineering | D. Briglia, M. Paige |
| Model 1204 SpectroMonitor III | Laboratory Data Control | Evans Goodnight, Brian Leaver, Emmett Watson |
| Model 18890 Thin-Film Rayotube | General Signal Corp. (Leeds & Northrup Co.) | R. D. Baxter |
| Model 380A Tunable CW Ring Dye Laser | Spectra-Physics Corp. | Steven M. Jarrett |
| Model 480 Digital Ammeter | Keithley Instruments Inc. | R. A. Miles |
| Model 5000 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer | Perkin-Elmer Corp. | T. W. Barnard |
| Model 642 Electrometer | Keithley Instruments Inc. | R. J. Erdman |
| Model 8566A Microwave Spectrum Analyzer | Hewlett-Packard Co. | S. Linkwitz, D. Humphreys, J. Lamy, L. Martin |
| Model 965 Photo-Conductivity Detector | Tracor Inc. | Randall C. Hall |
| Model 97-08 Orion | Orion Research Inc. | W. M Krebs, R. Ernst, S. Shiller |
| Model M-150C ALC/GPC | Waters Associates | John Nelson |
| Model RSK-D1 RS232C Fiberoptic Data Transmission Link | Fibronic Ltd., Valtec Corp. | |
| Models QV-2 and QH-2 Q/Pac High Capacitance Power Distribution Element | Rogers Corp. | D. H. DeVries |
| Molten Salt Chemical Waste Destruction System | Rockwell International | S. J. Yosim |
| MSC 88010 Flipac GaAs Power FET | Microwave Semiconductor Corp. | L. Drukier, J. W. Thompson |
| Narrow-Gap Liquid-Metal Current Collector | General Electric Co. | |
| NasvyTrac | NASA (Lewis Research Center), Transmission Research Inc. | , A. L. Nasvytis |
| Nd-Doped Fluorophosphate Laser Glass | Hoya, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (Y-Div.), National Bureau of Standards, Owens-Illinois, Schott | T. Izumitami, Marvin J. Weber, S. E. Stokowski, E. P. Wallerstein, W. Haller, P. Vergano, C. Rapp, K. Mader, N. Neuroth |
| Nikon Lampas M2 | Nippon Kogaku K. K. | S. Yoshida |
| Omnigraphic Series 100 | Bausch & Lomb Inc. (Houston Instruments) | James Parnell |
| Oxford 470-41 NMR Magnet | Oxford Instruments, Science Research Council (Rutherford Lab) | R. Wheatley, Nr. Didcot |
| Passive Solar Energy Heating Module | M.I.T. | Shawn Buckley |
| Phase Monitoring Inspection System | M.I.T. | S. Buckley |
| Powerclad Electroprimer SA-6412 | Northrup Corp., Sherwin-Williams Co. | S. L. Diener, S. J. Mels |
| Prep I | Du Pont Co. | J. G. Forsythe, D. R. Johnson, L. M. St. Onge |
| Prima | ITT Rayonier Inc. | T. E. Muller |
| Process for Granular Activated Carbon | Carborundum Co. (Kennecott Copper Corp.) | H. Murty, A. Pietrantuone |
| Prop | Phillips Petroleum Co. | M. M. Johnson, G. P. Nowack, D. C. Tyler |
| PW1400 X-Ray Spectrometer | N. V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken | D. Gotz, L. Augustus, A. Wolf |
| PZ555 Inchworm System | Burleigh Instruments Inc. | W. G. May, C. Hoffman |
| R-1 UV Radiation Hazard Monitor | Oakwood Electronic Systems Inc. | Mark Sobottke, Clifford Kruer |
| Redox Energy Storage System | NASA (Lewis Research Center) | Lawrence H. Thaller |
| Silicate Cluster 102 | Olin Corp. | K. O. Knollmueller |
| Silicon Crystal Ingots with Square Cross-Section | Crystal Systems Inc. | Frederick Schmid, Chandra P. Khattak |
| Single Stage Coal Combustor/Gasifier | General Electric Co. (Space Sciences Lab) | Satoaki Omori, Charles S. Cook |
| Sirotem | Commonwealth Scientific & Ind. Res. Org, Geoex Pty. Ltd. | G. Buselli, B. O'Neill |
| Speak and Spell | Texas Instruments Inc. | Paul Breedlove, Jim Moore, Larry Brantingham, Richard Wiggins, Gene Frantz |
| Spectromonitor III UV | Laboratory Data Control | Dennis Janzen |
| Spectrum Efficient Network for Satellite Comm. | Army Satellite Communications Agency, Defense Communication Engineering Center, Westinghouse Electric Corp. | , R. Moore |
| Speeflo | ElectroGasDynamics Inc. | D. H. Malcolm |
| Submillimeter Wave Spectrometer | M.I.T. | H. R. Fetterman |
| Sulphlex | Southwest Research Institute | Allen Ludwig, John Dale, Henry Frazier |
| Superconductive Tunnel Junction Transistor | Argonne National Laboratory | K. E. Gray |
| Tapered Fluidized Bed Bioreactor | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Union Carbide/Nuclear) | C. D. Scott, C. W. Hancher, D. D. Lee |
| Thallous Chloride T1 201 | New England Nuclear | I. Gruverman |
| Thorstrand | Hexcel Corp., MBAssociates | G. L. Patz, D. Davenport |
| Toroid Joining Gun | NASA (Langley Research Center) | J. D. Buckley, R. J. Swain, R. L. Fox |
| Translation Kit/Reticulocyte Lysate Methionine | New England Nuclear | M. J. Stone, T. D. Stevens |
| Trapped Miner Electromagnetic Tramsmitter | U. S. Bureau of Mines | H. K. Sacks, John N. Murphy, John Durkin |
| Tri-Max | International Petroleum Engineering Corp. | A. A. Sheshtawy |
| Triggered Vacuum Gap Circuit Interrupter TVGR-1 | General Electric Co. | J. A. Rich, C. P. Goody, J. C. Sofianek |
| Truetemp 8100 | Williamson Corp. | A. S. Anderson, J. J. Cardarelli |
| TV Monitoring Process for Electron Beam Welding | Union Carbide Corp. (Nuclear ) | C. M. Davenport, J. J Henry, K. A. Kitzke |
| Ultrathin Metal Foil | Lebow Corp. | E. B. Graper |
| Water Recycling System | Purecycle Corp. | Howard W. Selby |
| Watermark | EMI Ltd. | H. Clow |
| Waycool | Varian Associates | R. Paretra |
| X-Ray Magnifier | National Bureau of Standards | Masao Kuriyama, W. J. Boettinger, H. E. Burdette |