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Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
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Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp. Makes home life easier for people with the money to buy one.
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George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive. Eventually makes travel over long distances much easier. Also alows massive amounts of goods to be transported across land easily.
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture.
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William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
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American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter. Alows papers and books to be written more efficiently
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American, Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper. Reduces the amount of work needed to harvest crops. Production increases.
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Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent. Makes it far easier to plant one of the main staple crops of the North and Midwest
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Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
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Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotype photography.
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Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
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Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator
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Samuel Colt invented the first revolver. makes life on the frontier more and less dangerous. this invention is widely used in the Civil War
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph. Begins a time of lightning fast communication
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Samual Morse invents Morse Code. This system of tones is used to turn the telegraph into an effective mode of comunication
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle
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Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
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Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator. Makes daily life easier.
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Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton. gives cotton a glossy glow. Improves the quality and astethitic apeal of cotton clothes.
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Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction. Allows dentistry work to be done far less painfully making dentist appointments more pleasurable.
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Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics. A ground breaking invention in the medical industry still used today.
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Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher. Makes home life easier for those who can afford it.
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Jean Bernard Léon Foucault invents gyroscope. First used as a teaching aid. Now, it is what makes the screen "flip" on your iphone.
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John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics. First used as a teaching aid. Now it is the main cable in use for internet and phone cables.
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George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel. Makes long travel on trains more bearable.
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Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine. Makes home life far easier for those fortunate enough to have one.
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Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine. leads to the firts automobiles, motorcycles and many other motor driven vehicles.
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Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock. Makes door locks easier and cheaper to manufacture. Similar locks are still used today.
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Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
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Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic. Makes a lighter, cheaper solid to use in industry. Very widely used today.
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Richard Gatling patents his machine gun. Revolutionalizes war. Names it the Gatling gun.
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Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo. A new weapon used to deystroy ships. Newer versions are still used today.
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Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. An explosive that makes excavation easier and more dangerous. Still widely used today.
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Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter. Typewriters are easily available. This revolutionalizes the business and writing worlds
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J P Knight invents traffic lights.
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Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
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A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog. Makes products easily available for people in the back country.
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Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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Earmuffs were invented by Chester Greenwood in 1873, when he was only fifteen years old. Earmuffs were made for safety purposes, and it consisted of a metal or plastic headband attatching the two muffs together.
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The first electric dental drill was patented by George F. Green in 1875. By 1912 the drills could reach speeds of up to 3000rpm (rotations per minute). Green's invention revolutionized denistry in the United States.
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. Makes long distance instant comunication posible for the everyday person.
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Thomas Edison invents the ylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph. Makes home life more enjoyable to those who can afford it.
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Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures or movies
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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb. Begins the electric revolution.
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Thomas Edison invents the first practical and commercially available light bulb. Electric light soon becomes widely abailable making home life far easier.
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The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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David Houston patents the roll film for cameras. Will allow for millions of Americans to posses cameras and use them easily
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
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Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano. A great entertainment peace for homes or resturaunts for those who could afford it.
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The eletric iron, an appliance used to remove wrinkles from various fabrics, was first invented by Henry W. Seely in New York, and was patented a year later. The iron stretches the fibers in a fabric through the use of heat, smoothening the fabric when it cools.
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A thermostat is a device used for regulating the temperature of a system. The thermostat switches the heating and cooling systems as needed to maintain a steady temperature. It was invented in 1883 by Warren S. Johnson.
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Using junctions coated with selenium and an extremely thin layer of gold, Charles Fritts had invented the solar cell. A solar cell is a device that directly converts the energy in light into electrical energy through the process discored in 1839 called the photovoltaic effect.
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James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register. Changes business life drastically.
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Charles Parson patents the steam turbine
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Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen..
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The first skyscraper in the world was built in Chicago (After the Great Fire of 1871, Chigaco had been the hot spot for many risky architectual experiments.) This skyscraper was a 10-story Home Insurance Company Building completed in 1885, and was designed by William Le Baron Jenney from Massachusetts.
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John Pemberton invents coca cola, a drink we still have today. minus the cocaine ofcourse
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Emile Berliner invents the first Gamaphone
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F.E Muller and Adolf Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses. These are the beginning of a vast contact industry we have today
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German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar. Still used today to detect airplanes, read the speed of moving objects, and many other things.
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Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
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The ballpoint pen was a creation of John Loud of Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was an American leather tanner, and invented the ballpoint pen in 1888. The ballpoint pen had a chamber filled with ink that dispensed at the tip as the small sphere tip rolled.
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Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
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Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator. newer versions are still in use today.
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Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
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American, W.L. Judson invented the zipper. it revolutionized the clothing industry.
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Lumiere brothers make the first movie camera made up from a film processing unit and a projector.
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The internal combustion engine muffler was invented and patented in 1897 by Milton O. Reeves. The muffler is a device that reduces the noise put out by a machine. The exhaust blows through the muffler in the internal combusion engine.
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Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster. Provides fun for the Whole Family! Begins amusement parks.
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John Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner. Cheaper and more modern looking vaccumm cleaner. Made life easier for the wealthy
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The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Made Air travel possible, even across the Atlantic Ocean.
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King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
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The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission. The very begnings of radio brodcast that we all enjoy today.
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First discovered by Waldemar Jungner in 1899, the nick-iron battery was developed by Thomas Edison in 1901. Edision developed the battery for it to be used as an energy source for electric vehicles. Edison states that the nickel-iron design was "far superior to batteries using lead plates and acid."
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The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
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George Claude invented neon light.
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Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
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Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
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The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane. This new invention eventualy evolves the transportation world.
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Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
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Benjamin Holt invents a tractor. Makes the farming industry farm more streamlined. removes some of the back breaking labor.
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Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2. A break through in the areas of science and mathematics.
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William Kellogg invents Cornflakes
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Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device.
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The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu. Another revolution in the newly begining flight industry.
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Model T first sold by Ford Motor Company. Ford's automobile made the automobile easy to buy for many families.
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Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates which are used in fertalizer.
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J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter which measures radiaton. Used widely throughout the Nuclear industry today.
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Instant coffee invented by G. Washington. Makes coffe easier to make and far more enjoyable for the everyday person.
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The suppressor was a silencer attached to the barrel of a gun to reduce the ammount of noise and flash produced. It was typically a metal tube with internal mechanisms that served the purpose of muffling the sound. The silencer was invented by Hiram Percy Maxim in 1909.
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Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
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Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system. Makes starting your car far easier, before you had to hand crank the car to start it.
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Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
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The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
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Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
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The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy.
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The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne. A new form of puzzle for newspapers to publish and for people to enjoy.
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Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask. Used widely in WWI and 2.
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Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex a less breakable glasswere
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Radio tuners invented, that received different stations.
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Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly. Reformed the steel industry, used widely today from drill bits to sailboat parts.
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The tow truck is a vehicle used to transport other vehicles to a location, typically being a repair garage. The tow truck was invented by Ernest Holmes Sr. from Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1916. He was inspired to invent this after having to pull a car out of a creek by used "blocks, ropes, and six men."
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The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Today, every radio or television set uses this invention.
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Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
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The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite. Made home life easier for the everyday person.
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Arc Welding Invented
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Short-wave radio invented.
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The flip flop circuit invented by William Eccles and F. W. Jordan.
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The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
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The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
