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Saul K. Fenster, Chair Emeritus
Grand Entrance
Candida Aversenti, Co- Vice Chair
2001 Special Awards
2001 Inventors of the Year
2001 Members of the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame
Chair's Message
Harry Roman, Chair
, ! 2001 Advancement of Invention Award
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ouglas Brown was in his East even old skis/ boards/ and other mate-
Brunswick garage bundling rials to be discarded.
papers as part of his newspaper distri- Brown spent four years planning
bution business when he grew frus- how to manufacture and market his
trated by fruitless attempts to tie them. invention. He and his aunt/ Virginia
He thought there had to be a better Brown/ of South Orange, founded a
way and later discussed his ideas with company/ Zel Products Inc./ based in
his son David/ who was then in his East Brunswick/ that now sells thou-
early twenties. sands of the '/String Things// annually
David/ who is now 33 and a North to counties and municipalities. Regular
Brunswick resident/ devised a suc- customers include Hudson County/ the
cessful prototype for solving the dilem- cities of Newark and Jersey City and
ma. He devised the "String Thing/' a the townships of East Brunswick and
small, notched piece of recyclable Egg Harbor.
cardboard with a center hole/ slits on Brown has retained Pittsburgh
the sides and an attached eight-foot- Steelers football player Josh Miller to
long string. market the invention. Miller appears in
The person tying up newspapers uniform on the packaging with the
loops the string around the materials, slogan: "Josh Miller Gets On The
pushes the stri ng th rough the center Recycling Kick!" The /lString Thing// is
hole and ties the bundle tightly. Next/ Brown/s first and only patent. Other
string is wrapped around the materials family members hold six unrelated
the other way. Finally/ the string is patents. Also named on the '/String
pulled into the side slots which finish Thing/! patent are Brown's aunt/
the tying. The entire process should Virginia, and his father/ Douglas.
take less than a minute. Brown received a bachelor/s degree
In addition to newspapers and mag- from The Richard Stockton College of
azines/ Brown/s device can securely tie New Jersey/ Pomona.
junk mail/ loose branches/ and maybe
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you've noticed those omnipresent possible abduction, and to prevent
plastic security tags hanging patients from wandering away from a
from garments in stores, you're looking convalescent or psych iatric faci Iity.
at a component of an electronic sur- More than 164,000 of these systems
veillance system invented by Dr. Philip are installed worldwide. Owners of
Anderson of Madison. This invention discount, variety, home improvement,
helps prevent theft and shoplifting. hardware, entertainment, and specialty
Earlier security systems were prone to stores, say Anderson's invention is
false alarms and poor detection rates. their top choice for security.
In 1987, as president of the former A professor of physics at Ramapo
Livingston-based company, Identitech College since 1990, Anderson teaches
Corporation, then a joint venture of introductory and advanced physics,
Allied-Signal Inc., Morris Township, electronics and invention courses. He
(now Honeywell International, Inc., has 20 years of experience with prod-
Morris Township) and Sensormatics uct development and is a consultant to
Electron ics Corporation, Deerfield Fortune 500 companies and the U.S.
Beach, FL, Anderson developed this Army. He has 29 U.S. patents and
technology which uses amorphous more than 100 patents worldwide cov-
metal, another Allied product. ering amorphous metals, sensors, and
Anderson's electronic article sur- medical, automotive and security
veillance system consists of two parts: devices.
A small strip of amorphous metal Anderson received a doctoral
attached to an item, and two electro- degree in physics from Drexel
magnetic sensors positioned near an University, Philadelphia, PA, a master's
exit. When someone exits past the sen- degree in electrical engineering and a
sors with an item still containing the master's degree in physics, both from
security tag, the metal strip within the Drexel University, and a bachelor's
tag begins vibrating. The movement, in degree in physics from Widener
turn, disturbs the detection system's University, Chester, PA.
electromagnetic field and triggers an
alarm to warn store personnel of a
possible theft.
Hospitals use other versions of this
security system to protect babies from
J. Thomas Jennings
Container Manufacturing, Inc.
lectrical enginee ames D. reduce the bit rate needed for trans-
johnston, a Morris Township resi- mission or storage of audio by a factor
dent, has been called the father of per- of ten or greater. Seven of johnston's
ceptual audio coding for his work in patents related to this new technology
audio sound at AT&T Bell Laboratories were filed from 1991 to 1997. Lucent
since 1976. Today, he is a technology Technologies, Murray Hill, now owns
leader at AT&T Labs Research, them.
Florham Park. His work has enabled MP3 has been the motor of change
the distribution of digital music over for the music industry. A large number
the Internet as well as digital radio. of new Internet companies use the
Throughout the 1990s, johnston technology which has emerged from
invented a number of basic techniques this work as the foundation of the elec-
which are used in perceptual audio tronic music distribution business.
coding and especially in Moving Sales of products directly based on
Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Layer-3 MP3 technology, like AAC players and
(also referred to as MP3) and MPEG jukebox systems, are estimated to
Layer-2 Advanced Audio Coding reach $1 billion this year and at least
(AAC). MPEG (pronounced M-peg), is double that sum next year.
the name of the family of standards johnston was born in northeastern
used for coding audio-visual informa- Ohio. He received his bachelor's and
tion (e.g., movies, video, music) in a master's degrees from Carnegie Mellon
digital compressed format. AAC is an University, Pittsburgh, in electrical
audio compression format that is more engineering with side interests in
efficient than MP3. mathematics, radio broadcasting and
The major advantage of MPEG files coherent image signal processing. He
compared to other video and audio is a fellow of the Audio Engineering
coding formats is that MPEG files are Society, a senior member of the
much smaller for the same qual ity of Institute for Electronic and Electrical
sounds and images because they use Engineers, and has published more
sophisticated compression techniques. than 50 technical papers and has been
johnston is hailed for making files awarded more than 20 U.5. patents.
smaller because he found a way to
Jack H. Winters
AT&T Labs Research
Gerald R. Ash
AT&T Labs
1927, the late electrical engineer The theory was first used to improve
S. Black (1898-1983) former- long-distance telephone service, and
ly of Summit, was on a ferry heading has recently been appl ied to fields such
toward his office in New York City as biomechanics, bioengineering, digi-
when an idea that would change the tal computers, artificial limbs for the
course of electronic communications disabled, automatic controls for wheel
popped into his head. His idea was for chairs, and high fidelity sound repro-
a "negative feedback amplifier," where- duction. Many new weapons systems,
by distortion is eliminated by feeding such as radar-directed bombing and
back part of the communication signal radar-controlled missiles, depend on
into the amplifier. At the time of his negative feedback for their success.
invention, Black worked at Western Throughout his lifetime, Black was
Electric's West Street Labs, New York also a literary critic, teacher and lectur-
City, the forerunner of Bell Telephone er. During World War II, Black was the
Laboratories. first to produce pulse modulation and
Black sketched his idea on the only designed pulse code modulation multi-
paper available to him then, a copy of channel microwave radio relay
The New York Times. He had been systems, which today are widely used
researching the solution to distortion in for military and domestic uses.
amplified sound for almost four years Black graduated from Worcester
before this breakthrough. It was proba- Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA in
bly the most significant patent of some 1921 and received an honorary doctor-
347 patents granted to him. ate in engineering from Worcester
Early in his career, Black was Polytechnic Institute. Born in 1898 in
assigned the task of reducing amplifier Leominster, MA, Black adapted his neg-
distortion so that a large number of ative feedback system to aid the blind
multichannel amplifiers could be and deaf from 1966 until his death.
hooked up in random to carry tele- Black was inducted into the National
phone calls over longer distances. The Inventors Hall of Fame, Akron, OH, in
job required an amplifier superior to 1981 . He was awarded the Worcester
any then existing. Many other Polytechnic Institute's highest honor, the
researchers before Black were aware Robert H. Goddard Award in 1981 for
of this need. On that fateful morning in recognition of outstanding professional
1927, Black realized that by utilizing achievements. He also received 10
negative feedback, he could obtain a medals, 11 fellowships, nine awards
desired reduction in distortion at the and numerous honors. Black wrote
expense of a sacrifice in amplification. Modulation Theory, published in 1953.
Donald L. Campbell
Homer Z. Martin (1910-1993)
Eger V. Murphree (1898-1962)
Charles W. Tyson (1900-1977)
Standard Oil Development Co. of New Jersey
our researchers from Standard Oil formerly of Elizabeth, the late Eger V.
Development Co. of New Jersey Murphree (1898-1962) and the late
(now Exxon) in Linden, achieved one Charles W. Tyson (1900-1977) both
of the most important chemical engi- formerly of Summit.
neering breakthroughs of the last cen-
Donald L. Campbell
tury. In 1942, the quartet,
Born in Clinton, Iowa, in 1904,
affectionately dubbed the "four horse- Donald L. Campbell, Bay Head, has
men" by their colleagues because of
always been fascinated by inventing
their team's effectiveness, developed
and solving problems. Campbell spent
the fluid catalytic cracking process.
41 years with Exxon, 25 of them with
This process, whereby large hydro-
Exxon Research and Engineering
carbon molecules are broken into
Company. In September 1999,
smaller ones at high temperatures,
Campbell was inducted into the
enabled petroleum refiners to trans-
National Inventors Hall of Fame,
form crude oil into high-octane gaso-
Akron, OH. In October 1999, he
line. Today, fluid catalytic cracking is
received the Ronald H. Brown
used worldwide to produce 500 mil-
American Innovator Award, presented
lion gallons of gasoline daily, approxi-
by the U.S. Commerce Department's
mately 50 percent of global demand.
Patent and Trademark Office,
Historians say that this invention was
Washington, D.C. He attended Iowa
instrumental to the Allies' air victories
State University, Ames, Iowa, and
in World War II. They also credit it
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
with ushering in the age of the auto-
and Harvard Business School, Boston.
mobile in the last century and the
When he retired in 1969, Campbell
development of a multitude of other
had amassed 30 patents for Exxon.
refined petroleum products such as
plastics, fabrics and cosmetics. Homer Z. Martin
The four inventors - all of them Martin worked from 1937 until his
then residing in New Jersey - included 1973 retirement as a research chemi-
Donald L. Campbell, then of Short cal engineer at Exxon Research and
Hills, now of Bay Head, the late Engineering Company. His accom-
Homer Z. Martin, Ph.D. (1910-1993) plishments include garnering 82
patents. Martin received a bachelor's renamed Esso Research and Engineering
degree in chemical engineering from in 1955.ln 1956, he was given the job
the Armour Institute of Technology, of directing military projects related to
Chicago, in 1931, and master's and the guided-missile program.
doctoral degrees in chemical engineer- He served one year as special assis-
ing from the University of Michigan, tant to former U.s. Secretary of
Ann Arbor, MI. Upon retiring to Sun Defense Charles Wilson. Murphree,
City, AZ in 1973, he joined the Sun who also served as a member of
City Symphony and Musicians clubs, the committee that organized the
Fine Arts Society, Doctor's Quartet, Manhattan Project, was widely recog-
Sun City Chamber Group, and Men's nized as a leader in the fields of
Golf Association. He was a member of synthetic toulene, butadiene and
the American Chemical Society and hydrocarbon synthesis, fluid catalytic
American Institute of Engineers. cracking, fluid hydroforming, and
fluid coking.
Eger V. Murphree
Born in Bayonne in 1898, Charles W. Tyson
Murphree moved to Kentucky with his Born in Chicago in 1900, Tyson
family as a youngster. He received a received his bachelor's and master's
bachelor's degree in chemistry and degrees in chemical engineering from
mathematics and a master's degree in Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
chemistry from Kentucky University. He served as director of the petroleum
Upon receiving his degrees, he worked development division before his
for several years as a high school appointment in 1961 as special assis-
teacher and football coach, then he tant to the vice president of Exxon
attended MIT. In 1924, he worked at Research and Engineering. At his
Solvay Process Company as a chemi- retirement in 1962, he held 50 patents.
cal engineer, and in 1930, joined what
was then Standard Oil Development
Co. of New Jersey. From 1947 to
1962, he served as president of
Standard Oil Development Company,
Abdul Gaffar
Colgate-Palmolive Company
entists and researchers say the lion in annual dental care costs.
most significant breakthrough for Moreover, an additional $400 million
dental health since the introduction of is estimated to be saved from the
fluoride in the 1950s was the 1988 decline in treatment for advanced
discovery of Colgate Total, the nation's periodontal disease, which the use of
first antibacterial toothpaste. Longtime this special toothpaste can prevent.
Princeton resident Abdul Gaffar, a The active ingredient in Colgate
researcher and executive since the Total is triclosan, an antibacterial
early 1970s at Colgate-Palmolive agent. Gaffar's invention of a copoly-
Company, Piscataway, invented the mer delivery system for triclosan
four patents which contributed to the allows the antibacterial agent to stay
product's discovery and success. Gaffar on teeth as it acts to destroy bacteria
is now vice president for growth tech- that tries to invade the teeth and gums.
nology development for the company. Triclosan remains on the teeth for up
When Colgate Total was introduced to 12 hours between brushings, pre-
in the United States in 1998, Business venting formation of bacterial plaque -
Week magazine hailed it as one of the the precursor of gingivitis.
year's best products. It is the first Gaffar earned a doctorate in
multi-benefit product approved by the immunochemistry/microbiology from
U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Ohio State University, Columbus, a
the control of dental infections; 31 master's degree in bacteriology/chem-
dental associations around the world istry from Brigham Young University,
have endorsed it because it's been Utah, and a bachelor's degree in
cI in ically proven to reduce gi ngivitis chemistry/bacteriology from the
(advanced gum disease) up to 30 per- University of Karachi, Pakistan.
cent. Studies show that by using
Colgate Total, consumers can not only
save their teeth, but up to $875 mil-
Arun Netravali
Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories
ormer Ewing resident and Trenton digital HOTV systems vying to become
native son Glenn A. Reitmeier, the next standard for television in the
a researcher and manager at Sarnoff U.S. After successfu I testi ng of the sys-
Corporation, Princeton since 1977, tem, he became a key member of the
has been an important inventor and a Oigital HOTV Grand Alliance, a group
critical advocate for the creation of of representatives formed in 1993,
high definition television (HOTV). His with representatives from seven promi-
1992 patent, "An HOTV Compression nent U.S. organizations that had devel-
System," described the key system oped competing digital HOTV systems.
architecture for a packetized transport The Grand Alliance, which received
layer that makes digital television a the encouragement of the U.S. Federal
flexible del ivery system for all types Communications Commission, created
of digital data. a best-of-the-best of competing systems
The layer has become a crucial part to create a U.S. standard for HOTV.
of the United States standard for digital Later, Reitmeier took a leading role
high definition television and the in the Advanced Television Systems
MPEG-2 standard, established by the Committee (ATSC), the industry-wide
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). organization which formalized the
MPEG (pronounced M-peg) is the alliance's work to gain FCC approval
name of the family of standards used in 1996. To date, Canada, Mexico,
for coding audio-visual information Korea and Taiwan have also adopted
(e.g., movies, video, music) in a digital, the ATSC standards.
compressed format. Reitmeier received his bachelor's
Reitmeier has contributed to digital degree in engineering from Villanova
television developments like object University, Villanova, PA, and his
coding and wavelet image compres- master's degree in systems engineering
sion in MPEG-4, advanced MPEG-2, from the University of Pennsylvania
compressed bitstream processing, Moore School of Electrical Engineering,
improved integrated circuits for digital Philadelphia. He was an adjunct
television receivers, and the integration faculty member in the department of
of video in computers. He holds 45 electrical engineering at Villanova
patents in digital television technology, University from 1980 to 1989. Since
with other patents pending. 1995, he has lived in Yardley, PA with
Starting in 1989, Reitmeier led the his wife Elaine and their two children.
development of the Advanced Oigital
HOTV system, one of four competing
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Public Service Electric & Gas, Chair Provost for the Earth Institute;
Columbia University
Candida Aversenti, President and
COO; General Magnaplate, Inc. Saul K. Fenster, President; New jersey
Co- Vice Chair Institute of Technology, Chair Emeritus
We are most grateful for the financial support of the following contributors. Their
generous support of the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame makes it possible for us
to continue our efforts to nurture the spirit of invention in New Jersey.
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