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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot 1769 STEAM / Built the first self propelled road vehicle (military tractor) for the French army: three wheeled, 2.5 mph.
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The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy
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In 1820, British scientist and inventor Michael Faraday discovered that compressing and liquefying ammonia could chill air when the liquefied ammonia was allowed to evaporate. In 1842, Florida physician John Gorrie used compressor technology to create ice, which he used to cool air for his patients in his hospital
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Gayetty of New York started producing the first packaged toilet paper in the U.S. in 1857.
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In 1866, Mahlon Loomis, an American dentist, successfully demonstrated "wireless telegraphy." Loomis was able to make a meter connected to one kite cause another one to move, marking the first known instance of wireless aerial communication
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American, Sylvester Howard Roper invented a two-cylinder, steam-engine motorcycle (powered by coal) in 1867.
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In 1870, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone)
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In 1891 Jesse Reno created a new novelty ride at Coney Island. - an elevated moving stairway - called the escalator
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The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who were credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane on December 18 1903
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Felix Hofffman Made it in 1915.
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Charles P. Strite in 1919
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Earle Dickson was employed as a cotton buyer for the Johnson & Johnson when he invented the band-aid in 1921. His wife Josephine Dickson was always cutting her fingers in the kitchen while preparing food.