The concept
From Edison to the age of AI.
Past innovations, honored alongside the bold ideas of the future.
The center will celebrate Americans from every corner of the mosaic whose work changed industries and the world. Featured stories may include the founders behind Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, NVIDIA, Vista Equity, Palantir, Prodea and Zscaler, and the industrialists before them: Carnegie, Ford, Chrysler and Edison.
In the galleries
Close enough to touch.
Bronze busts, touch screens and AI kiosks will bring each story close.
Roots of innovation
They arrived with ideas.
Many of the ideas that built America came with newcomers: the Chinese-born architect I. M. Pei, the Russian-born television pioneer Vladimir Zworykin, the German-born printing innovator Ottmar Mergenthaler, Andrew Grove, a refugee who rose to lead Intel, the Hungarian solar scientist Mária Telkes and the Slovak parachute inventor Štefan Banič. Each found here the freedom to build. Today, innovators like Taiwanese-born NVIDIA co-founder Jensen Huang carry that tradition into the age of AI.
Side by side
From the factory floor to the orange grove.
Henry Ford’s moving assembly line put the automobile within reach of working families. Lue Gim Gong, a Chinese immigrant in Florida, bred a frost-resistant orange that helped sustain the state’s citrus industry.
A showcase for giving
Innovation that gives back.
The memorial invites today’s leaders of American industry to give back to the many people they serve and employ. The center will showcase their innovations, present and future.
The idea
Gallery
Support the memorial
Put your legacy beside theirs.
Founding patrons will be named beside the stories they helped tell.