Innovation Museum

Made computing personal, then reshaped consumer electronics around design.

Not just a toy — a platform for aspirational play that reshaped the toy industry.

A track coach whose tinkering reshaped how running shoes are made.

Built Magna from a single tool-and-die shop into a global auto-parts giant.

Put capable CNC machine tools within reach of small and mid-sized shops.

Turned the automobile from a luxury into something ordinary families could own.

A die-cast toy line built on precision tooling and low-friction engineering.

Helped turn the microprocessor into the engine of the computing age.

Turned a frustration with clogging vacuums into a design-led engineering company.

Founded Toyota's automobile business and seeded the ideas behind just-in-time production.

Grew from a one-man tool shop into one of the world's largest automotive suppliers.

Turned toys into engineered, mass-manufactured consumer products.

Standardized fast food into a globally repeatable operation.

Paired footwear engineering with brand-building to redefine athletic products.

Championed the alternating-current systems that carry electricity across the modern grid.

Co-founded Nike and built its distribution and brand.

Turned a single efficient restaurant into a global franchising system.

Reinvented the restaurant kitchen as an assembly line for fast, consistent food.

Co-founded Mattel and created Barbie — proof that consumer-product innovation is real innovation.

Made orbital rockets routinely reusable, cutting the cost of reaching space.

Co-founded Apple and championed tightly integrated, design-led products.

Engineered the early Apple computers that started the company.

Built one of the first industrial research laboratories and made electric light practical.

Refined lean manufacturing into a discipline studied by factories worldwide.

Solved the problem of controlled, powered flight and opened the age of aviation.