Important Inventors and Inventions



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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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