Important Inventors and Inventions
Samuel F.B. Morse -- telegraph (1844)
Henry Bessemer/William Kelly -- Bessemer process (1850s)
Elisha Otis -- elevator brakes (1852)
Cyrus Field -- transatlantic telegraph cable (1859) (1866)
George Pullman -- railroad sleeping car (1864)
Christopher Sholes -- 1st practical typewriter (1868) (QWERTY)
George Westinghouse -- air brakes for railroads (1869)
Elijah McCoy -- automatic engine oiler (1872)
Alexander Graham Bell -- telephone (1876)
Thomas Alva Edison -- phonograph (1876)
-- light bulb (1879)
-- motion pictures (1893)
Anna Baldwin -- milking machine (1879)
James Ritty -- cash register (1879)
Gustavus Swift -- refrigerated railroad cars (1880s)
Jan Matzeliger -- shoe laster (shoe making machine) (1884)
Lewis Waterman -- fountain pen (1884)
Granville Woods -- automatic air brakes (1887)
George Eastman -- Kodak camera (1888)
King C. Gillette -- safety razor (1895)
John Thurman -- electric vacuum (1899)
Orville & Wilbur Wright (Wright Brothers) -- airplane (1903)
Henry Ford -- assembly line for automobiles (circa 1908)
Leo Baakeland -- modern plastic (1909)
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