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Leeuenhoek invents the microscope to look at things more closely.
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Morse invents the telegraph to make long distance message to ships and sailors in Morse code.
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Whitney invents the cotton gin to make it easier on cotton workers to strip the plants of their cotton.
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Deere invents the cast steel plow to make a more durable plow.
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Howe invents the sewing machine to make it easier for people in the sewing business to make clothes faster.
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Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber to make a more durable rubber that is better for tires.
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Otis invents the elevator brake (the safety elevator) to make people want to go on elevators and so that builders can build taller buildings.
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Gayetty invents toilet paper so that people can have better personal hygeine and they don't get infections or raw skin.
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Warner invents the can opener to make it so that there was a dedicated tool to open the can without having to chisel it open.
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Otton invents the gas powered motor to make transportation faster so that people could get where they wanted to go in less time.
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Strauss makes the first blue jeans to have something that was more durable than regular pants so that they would protect your legs better.
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Bell invents the telephone so you could talk long distances instead of sending Morse code.
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Edison improves the lightbub because the previous light bulbs were impractical and burned out very quickly.
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Burroughs invents the adding machine so that people can do math easier and quicker then when you had to write it down on paper.
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Eastman invents the first handheld camera and rolled film so that you could take photographs easier instead of having to get a photographer to come and take a photo you could just get a handheld camera and rolled film from a store.
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Tesla invents the radio so that people could play music to other people at home and tell news faster than having it be printed on a newspaper.
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Pemberton invents Coca-Cola so that people could have a drink that was fizzy and had a very yummy taste.
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Ferris makes first Ferris Wheel as an attraction for the Chicago World's Fair.
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Judson invents the zipper so that it would be a water proof seal for items that if they got wet they would be ruined.
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Roentgen discovers x-rays because he was doing an experiment in his lab when he noticed a powder near his vaccuum tube was glowing.
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Binney and Smith invent Crayola Crayons because one of them was a school teacher and wanted something for his students to be able to color with that would stay and not smear.
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Anderson invents the windshield wiper to make it so that when people are driving down the road they had something that could wipe their windshields so that they could see through their windshields.
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The Wright brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk because it was close to where they built their plane and it had a long strip of sand.
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Epperson invents the popsicle when he leaves water with soda powder and a stirring stick on his porch in San Francisco, CA.
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Fleer makes bubblegum when he tries to make a more stretchable gum that is less sticky.
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Dickson invents the band-aid because his wife was always cutting and burning herself when she was cooking and he wanted to find a way so that his wife could bandage herself without needing any help.
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Baird invents the television so that people can see other people instead of just having to hear them on the radio and so that people could do a play and everyone would be able to see the play not just the people who were at the play.
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Wakefield bakes the first chocolate chip cookies when she cuts a Nestle chocolate bar that she was given from the Nestle Corporation, and she puts in the cookie batter and she thought the chocolate would melt but it just got really gooey.
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Drew invents scotch tape when one of his workers put something sticky on a piece of cellophane.
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Salk invents the polio vaccine so that he can cure the polio virus because a lot of people were dying from it.