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Thursday, 11 December 2014

Inventions of the Armenians

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1	Michel M. Ter-Pogossian (1925 – June 19, 1996) was an Armenian-American physicist who is one of the fathers of positron emission tomography (PET), the first functional brain imaging technology. PET could effectively be used to evaluate what areas of the brain were active during various mental processes versus looking at the structure of the brain through conventional CT. Ter-Pogossian was born in Berlin, the only child of Armenian parents who had settled in Germany after escaping the Armenian Genocide during World War I. The family moved to France when Michel was a young child.
2	Stephan Stepanian -Truck Mounted Revolving Concrete Drum Mixer, revolutionized the concrete industry
3	Raymond Vahan Damadian (born March 16, 1936, NY USA) is an Armenian-American medical practitioner and inventor of the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine. His research into sodium and potassium in living cells led him to his first experiments with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) which caused him to first propose the MR body scanner in 1969. Damadian discovered that tumors and normal tissue can be distinguished in vivo by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) because of their relaxation times. Damadian was the first to perform a full body scan of a human being in 1977 to diagnose cancer. Damadian invented an apparatus and method to use NMR safely and accurately to scan the human body, a method now well known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
4	Luther George Simjian (January 28, 1905 in Ottoman Empire – October 23, 1997) was an Armenian-American inventor of numerous devices and owner of over 200 patents. He invented a self-posing portrait camera, with which the photographed person could see and optimize their own image in a mirror before the photo was actually taken. In 1939 Simjian had the idea to build the Bankmatic Automated Teller Machine, probably his most famous invention. Despite the scepticism of the banks, he registered 20 patents for it and developed a number of features and principles that can still be found in today's ATMs, including their name. Simijian invented a number of very different devices and technologies, e. g. a teleprompter, medical ultrasound devices, a remote-controlled postage meter, a golf simulator and a meat tenderizer. He never ceased inventing in his laboratories in Fort Lauderdale. At the age of 92, he got his last patent on a process for improving the sound of wood for musical instruments, seven months before his death in 1997.
5	Peter Vosbikian Peter was an Armenian - American inventor. His most famous invention is the automatic, self-wringing sponge mop. He is related to the glorious Stuart based Morgan Vosbikian. Who is also Armenian.
6	Boris Artashesovich Babayan (born Baku, 20 December 1933) is an Armenian supercomputer architect, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the Soviet Union. Babayan was born in Baku to an Armenian family. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1957. He completed his Ph.D. in 1964 and his doctorate of science in 1971.
7	Dr. Albert Kapikian is an Armenian-American virologist who developed the first licensed vaccine against rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhea in infants. He was awarded theSabin Gold Medal for his pioneering work on the vaccine.He is the 13th recipient of this recognition,awarded annually by the sabin vaccine institute. He graduated from Cornell Medical College in 1956 and began a career with the National Institutes of Health in 1957. In 1998 he was appointed Deputy Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases where he continues to work on rotavirus vaccines. He is the head of epidemiology section.
8	Ed Iskenderian invented the first hydraulic racing camshaft. The name Ed Iskenderian is a legend among racers worldwide. Ed's life history parallels the proverbial success story. He was born in 1921 in the grapevine country of Tulare County, California. While attending Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles, Ed's pet project was building a Model T Ford roadster. Ed learned the fundamentals of mechanics by working with the Model T Fords and later adapted the overhead conversion by Frontenac (more commonly known as Fronty), as well as the George Riley head known to the racers in those days as the "multi-flathead."
9	Varazdat Kazanjian - father and pioneer of plastic surgery. During the First World War Dr. Varazdat Kazanjian used his skills as a prosthetic dentist to reconstruct the faces of thousands of soldiers disfigured during combat. He went on to transform the emerging field of plastic surgery into a highly respected surging speciality.
10	Alexander "Alex" Manoogian (June 28, 1901 – July 10, 1996) was an Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist who had most of his career in Detroit, Michigan. A survivor of the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians, Alex Manoogian moved to the United States and eventually founded the Masco Corporation. Manoogian's greatest business achievement came with his redesign of the Delta faucet, a watershed event that helped change the plumbing industry.
11	Ardashes Aykanian - bendy straw, spoon straw, first form of tupperware, strip on car windshields, Coca-Cola plastic bottle production machine, extracted uranium.
12	Roger Edward Collingwood Altounyan (1922–1987) -invented pressured inhaler and cromolyn sodium therapy used for asthma, allergies, nasal sprays, eye drops. Roger Altounyan was an Armenian physician and pharmacologist who pioneered the use of sodium cromoglycate as a remedy for asthma. His family relocated to the United Kingdom where he studied medicine and started his pioneering research.
13	Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905 — 1970) was a Soviet aircraft designer of Armenian descent. In partnership with Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich he designed many of the famous MiG military aircraft. Mikoyan invented "MIG" Military aircraft.
14	Arthur Bulbulian invented A-14 oxygen mask used in WWII by US Army and air force.
15	Jirayr Tezel - hair follicle plug transplantant device
16	Semyon Davidovich Kirlian (1898 – 1978) was a Russian inventor and researcher of Armenian descent discovered and developed Kirlian photography, using high voltage, high frequency fields.
17	Rupen Eksergian - US anti-aircraft gun mount and recoil, WWII.
18	Hovhannes Adamyan - principles of black and white and color television broadcasting, first video player. Hovhannes (Ivan) Abgari Adamian (1879, Baku - 1932, Leningrad) was an Armenian engineer, an author of more than 20 inventions. The first experimental color television was shown in London in 1928 based on Adamian's tricolor principle, and he is recognized as one of the founders of color television.
19	Asatour Sarafian (the same Oscar H. Banker) was an Armenian American inventor who patented a number of works, including the automatic transmission for automobiles, the needleless inoculation gun, the primary controls of the first Sikorsky helicopter, and power steering.He is considered the "father of automatic transmission."Some have accredited Banker as the inventor of automatic transmission.Asatour left the Ottoman Empire as a teenager and settled in Chicago.On his arrival in Ellis Island, Asatour Sarafian took up the name Oscar Banker and began working for a shop that specialized in machinery. While working at the machine shop, Banker invented a saw-filing machine.After his first invention, Banker dedicated his life to inventing.After battling for eight years with automobile engineering companies, Banker's proposition was accepted and his automatic transmission was adopted by General Motors.Eventually, Banker came to be known as “the man who made Ralph Nader.” He was also mentioned in Ralph Nader's book Unsafe at Any Speed.Banker was also noted for his contribution to aviation mechanics. He invented the primary control of the first Sikorsky helicopter.Banker invented a pneumatic inoculation gun. The gun was accepted by the Med-E-Jet company in Cleveland, Ohio.
20	Emik Avakian (1923 - July 11, 2013) was an Armenian American inventor and owner of numerous patents including breath-operated computer, a mechanism that facilities putting wheelchairs on automobiles, and a self operating robotic wheel that converts manual wheel chairs into automatic. Many of his inventions were geared towards the improvement of disabled peoples lives and he won many awards recognizing these efforts. In 1961, President of the United States John F. Kennedy honored Avakian for his outstanding contributions to handicap employment.