The Evan Hansen article noted earlier opens with a list of the fourteen 2015 inductees into the (U.S.) National Inventors Hall of Fame. He let's us know that we're in good company if we don't recognize any of their names. Of course I had to look them up, and sure enough among these inductees we can find:

• the inventor of the X-Ray Spectrometer
• the developers of commercially reproducible artificial skin
• the chief researcher and developer of the first transgenic plants
• the inventor of a graphical calculator that simplified and reduced the work of electrical engineers
• the inventor of a waterproof diaper cover
• the developer of Bluetooth Wireless Technology
• the inventors of polarization-control technology used in products such as projection televisions, front-projection displays, and most 3D digital cinema installations