Innovative Inventions

  • Anton von Leeuenhoek invents the microscope.

  • Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.

  • Orville and Wilbur Wright fly the airplane.

  • Elias Howe invents the sewing machine.

  • Samuel Morris invents the telegraph.

  • John Deere invented the first cast steel plow.

  • Charles Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber.

  • Elisha Graves Otis invents the elevator break.

  • Joseph Gayetty invents toilet paper.

  • Ezra Warner invents the can opener.

  • Levis Strauss invents the blue jeans.

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.

  • Nicholas August Otton invents the first gas powered motor.

  • Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.

  • Wiliam Seward Burroughs invents the adding machine.

  • John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola.

  • George Eastman invented the first hand held camera and rolled film.

  • George Ferris invents the Ferris Wheel.

  • Whitcomb L. Judson invents the zipper.

  • Wilhelm von Roentgen discovers X-rays.

  • Nilola Tesla invents the radio.

  • Edwin Binney and Harold Smith invent Crayola Crayons.

  • Mary Anderson invents the windsheild wiper.

  • Frank Epperson invents the popsicle.

  • Frank Henry Fleer invents bubble gum.

  • Earle Dickson invents the Band-Aid.

  • John Logie Baird invents the television.

  • Ruth Wakefield invents the chocolate chip cookie.

  • Richard Drew invents scotch tape.

  • Jonas Salk invents a vaccine for polio.