Cousteau and Post-it note inventor noted
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April 1, 2010, Thursday
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THE inventors of Post-it notes and the technologies that led to video games, modern scuba diving equipment and Global Positioning System technology are among 16 new members of the United States National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Frenchmen Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan are entering the Hall posthumously for their invention of Aqua-Lung.
The 2010 honorees were being inducted yesterday at the Commerce Department. Previous members include Edward Calahan, inventor of the stock ticker, and Samuel Blum for his contribution to the invention of LASIK eye surgery.
Roger Easton said his group was trying to solve a different problem when they created the technology that formed the foundation for GPS.
"It started really with a problem very different from GPS," he said of the research on time signals.
"Some weeks later the idea came that why don't we use it for navigation?"
Ralph Baer developed early video game technology while working for a defense contractor. Before inventing the system that became known as the Magnavox Odyssey home video game system, he often was asked by co-workers how the group would make any money from the project.
"People thought I was wasting my time and the company's money for that matter," said Baer, who is still working in the gaming industry.
"There's no way anybody could have predicted how fast this industry would take off."
The Akron, Ohio-based hall was founded by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations. It has inducted members since 1973 and will have honored 421 inventors with the new class, which includes six living and 10 deceased inventors.
Frenchmen Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan are entering the Hall posthumously for their invention of Aqua-Lung.
The 2010 honorees were being inducted yesterday at the Commerce Department. Previous members include Edward Calahan, inventor of the stock ticker, and Samuel Blum for his contribution to the invention of LASIK eye surgery.
Roger Easton said his group was trying to solve a different problem when they created the technology that formed the foundation for GPS.
"It started really with a problem very different from GPS," he said of the research on time signals.
"Some weeks later the idea came that why don't we use it for navigation?"
Ralph Baer developed early video game technology while working for a defense contractor. Before inventing the system that became known as the Magnavox Odyssey home video game system, he often was asked by co-workers how the group would make any money from the project.
"People thought I was wasting my time and the company's money for that matter," said Baer, who is still working in the gaming industry.
"There's no way anybody could have predicted how fast this industry would take off."
The Akron, Ohio-based hall was founded by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations. It has inducted members since 1973 and will have honored 421 inventors with the new class, which includes six living and 10 deceased inventors.
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