John Lynott
John Lynott (* 1921 ; † 1994 ) was an American engineer at IBM who was part of the team there in the 1950s that developed the first hard drive .
Lynott was a US Navy mechanic and engineer. In the early 1950s he joined the team at IBM that developed the hard drive under Reynold B. Johnson at the IBM research center in San José ( IBM 305 RAMAC , 1956). With William A. Goddard , he developed a freely movable read and write head as a central innovation, which on an air cushion (generated by escaping compressed air) was very closely connected to the rotating magnetic memory, but did not touch it. With Lou Stevens, Ray Bowdle, Jim Davis, Dave Kean and William Goddard he held the patent for a data storage system (1954) and with Goddard he received US patent 3503060 Direct Access Magnetic Storage Disk Device in 1970 .
In 2007 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame with Goddard .
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| SURNAME | Lynott, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1921 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1994 |