15 Inventions of Armenians that changed the world

1.Stephan Stepanian -Truck Mounted Revolving Concrete Drum Mixer, revolutionized the concrete industry.

2. Gabriel Kazanjian  officially registered invention of  blow-dryer or hair dryer in 1911.

 

3. Kristafor Ter-Serobyan - invented the green color of US $ (which can't be faked). 

For this, he received U.S. $ 6,000.

4. Luther George Simidzhyan - invented the ATM, owns more than 200 patents of various inventions, including in the field of photography (for example self-posing portrait camera).

5. 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.

6. Raymond Vahan Damadyan (born March 16, 1936, NY USA) is an Armenian-American medical practitioner and inventor of the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine.

7. Dr. Albert Kapikyan is an Armenian-American virologist who developed the first licensed vaccine against rotavirus (which is the most common cause of severe diarrhea in infants). He received Sabin Gold Medal for his pioneering work on the vaccine.                           

8. Varazdat Kazanjyan is the father and pioneer of plastic surgery. During the First World War Dr. he used his skills as a prosthetic dentist to reconstruct the faces of thousands of soldiers disfigured during the war.

9. Alexander "Alex" Manoogyan is the inventor of ice cream waffle cons (that probably each of us loves a lot).

10.Rupen Eksergian - US anti-aircraft gun mount and recoil, WWII. 

11. Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905 — 1970) was a Soviet aircraft designer of Armenian descent. Mikoyan invented "MIG" Military aircraft.

12. Arthur Bulbulian invented A-14 oxygen mask used in WWII by US Army and air force.

13. Hovhannes Adamyan - founder of the principles of black-and-white and color television, the first VCR.

14. Alex Manoogyan - Single Handle Faucet Design.

 15. Jirayr Tezel invented hair follicle plug transplanting device.