| year
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Award winners
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Excellent contribution
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| 1955
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William Francis Gibbs
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Passenger ship United States
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| 1956
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Donald W. Douglas
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Douglas DC series
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| 1957
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Harold L. Hamilton , Richard M. Dilworth, and Eugene W. Kettering
|
Diesel electric locomotive
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| 1958
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Ferdinand Porsche and Heinrich Nordhoff
|
VW Beetle
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| 1959
|
Geoffrey de Havilland , Frank B. Halford, and Charles C. Walker
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Passenger aircraft with jet engine
|
| 1960
|
Frederick Darcy Braddon , Sperry Gyroscope Company
|
Three-axis gyroscope
|
| 1961
|
Robert Gilmour LeTourneau , Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
|
Construction machinery
|
| 1962
|
Lloyd J. Hibbard
|
Ignitron mercury vapor rectifier
|
| 1963
|
Earl A. Thompson
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Automatic shift
|
| 1964
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Igor Sikorsky and Michael E. Gluhareff , Sikorsky Aircraft
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S-64 Skycrane transport helicopter
|
| 1965
|
Maynard L. Pennell , Richard L. Rouzie , John E. Steiner , William H. Cook, and Richard L. Loesch , Jr., Boeing
|
Transport aircraft 707, 720 and 727
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| 1966
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Hideo Shima , Matsutaro Fuji and Shigenari Oishi
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Tōkaidō Shinkansen
|
| 1967
|
Edward R. Dye , Hugh DeHaven, and Robert A. Wolf , Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
|
Three-point seat belt / accident research
|
| 1968
|
Christopher S. Cockerell and Richard Stanton-Jones
|
Hovercraft
|
| 1969
|
Douglas C. MacMillan , M. Nielsen, and Edward L. Teale , Jr.
|
Nuclear powered merchant ship Savannah
|
| 1970
|
Charles Stark Draper
|
Inertial navigation
|
| 1971
|
Sedgwick N. Wight and George W. Baughman
|
CTC
|
| 1972
|
Leonard S. Hobbs and Perry W. Pratt , Pratt & Whitney
|
Turbojet engine JT3
|
| 1973
|
no price
|
|
| 1974
|
no price
|
|
| 1975
|
Jerome L. Goldman , Frank A. Nemec and James J. Henry and Alfred W. Schwendtner
|
Principle of the open ship ( all-hatch vessel )
|
| 1977
|
Clifford L. Eastburg and Harley J. Urbach , Timken Company
|
Tapered roller bearings
|
| 1978
|
Robert Puiseux , Michelin
|
Radial tires
|
| 1979
|
Leslie J. Clark
|
LNG as a marine fuel
|
| 1980
|
William M. Allen , Malcolm T. Stamper , Joseph F. Sutter, and Everette L. Webb , Boeing
|
Boeing 747 wide-body aircraft
|
| 1981
|
Edward J. Wasp
|
Slurry pipelines
|
| 1982
|
Werner Teich , Jörg Brenneisen , Ehrhard Futterlieb , Joachim Körber , Edmund Müller, G. Reiner Nill , Manfred Schulz and Herbert Stemmler
|
Three-phase drive for locomotives
|
| 1983
|
George Edwards , Henri Ziegler , Stanley Hooker , Archibald Russell and André Turcat
|
Supersonic airliner Concorde
|
| 1984
|
Frederick Aronowitz , Joseph E. Killpatrick , Warren M. Macek, and Theodore J. Podgorski
|
Laser gyro
|
| 1985
|
Richard K. Quinn , Carlton E. Tripp, and George H. Plude
|
Self-unloaders - Great Lakes Ships
|
| 1986
|
George W. Jeffs , Dr. William R. Lucas , Dr. George E. Mueller , George F. Page , Robert F. Thompson, and John F. Yardley
|
Space Transportation System
|
| 1987
|
Harry R. Wetenkamp
|
low-stress railway wheels ( English curved plate (parabolic deep-dish) wheels )
|
| 1988
|
John Alvin Pierce
|
Omega navigation procedure
|
| 1989
|
Harold E. Froehlich , Charles Momsen, and Allyn C. Vine
|
Deep-sea submarine Alvin
|
| 1990
|
Claud M. Davis , Richard B. Hanrahan , John F. Keeley , and James H. Mollenauer
|
En route air traffic control
|
| 1991
|
Malcom McLean
|
Multimodal transport (standard container)
|
| 1992
|
Daniel K. Ludwig
|
Super tanker
|
| 1993
|
Heinz Leiber , Wolf-Dieter Jonner and Hans Jürgen Gerstenmeier , Robert Bosch
|
Anti-lock braking system (ABS)
|
| 1994
|
Russell G. Altherr
|
backlash-free connection between freight cars
|
| 1995
|
no price
|
|
| 1996
|
Thomas G. Butler and Richard H. MacNeal
|
NASTRAN -FEM
|
| 1997
|
no price
|
|
| 1998
|
Bradford W. Parkinson
|
Global Positioning System (GPS)
|
| 1999
|
no price
|
|
| 2000
|
Engineers from SNCF and Alstom 1965–1981
|
TGV high speed train
|
| 2001
|
no price
|
|
| 2002
|
Raymond Pearlson
|
Syncrolift -Schiffsheber
|
| 2003
|
no price
|
|
| 2004
|
Josef Becker (engineer)
|
Schottel rudder propeller
|
| 2005
|
Victor Wouk
|
Hybrid car
|
| 2006
|
Antony Jameson
|
Numerical fluid mechanics (CFD) in aircraft development
|
| 2007
|
Robert F. Cook , Peter T. Mahal , Pam L. Phillips, and James C. White
|
Engineered Materials Arresting Systems (EMAS) for runway delimitation
|
| 2008
|
Thomas Stafford , Glynn Lunney , Alexei Leonow , Konstantin Buschujew
|
Apollo Soyuz Test Project
|
| 2009
|
Boris Popov
|
Total rescue system (BRS) for aircraft
|
| 2010
|
Takuma Yamaguchi
|
Articulated Tug Barge (ARTICOUPLE)
|
| 2011
|
no price
|
|
| 2012
|
Zigmund Bluvband and Herbert Hecht
|
|
| 2013
|
C. Donald Bateman
|
Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS)
|
| 2014
|
Alden J. Laborde , Bruce G. Collipp, and Alan C. McClure
|
Offshore drilling vessels
|
| 2015
|
Michael Sinnett and the Boeing 787-8 development team
|
Boeing 787-8
|
| 2016
|
Harri Kulovaara
|
|
| 2017
|
Bruno Murari
|
STMicroelectronics
|
| 2018
|
Panama Canal Authority
|
|
| 2019
|
GA Sandy Thomson
|
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