Inventors
and their
Inventions
Benjamin Franklin
Lightning Rod Bifocals Swimming Fins
Franklin Stove/Fireplace
Cyrus McCormick
Scythe
men weeping….
Reaper
Elijah McCoy
Lubricator that oiled pistons
Alexander Graham Bell
…drawings…
Telephone
Igor Sikorsky
sketches
drawings….
With Igor Sikorsky at the controls, the VS-
300 hovers during an early public
demonstration flight in 1939.
The Sikorsky XR-4 was first flown on January
14, 1942. It was the test version of the popular
R-4 used extensively in World War II.
The Sikorsky R-4 was first used in
combat in May 1944.
Clarence Birdseye
Georges de Mestral
Velcro
hooks (left) and loops (right)
Charles Goodyear
Raw Rubber Usable
Thomas Edison
Other invention….
Robert Fulton
Steam Boat
Robert Goddard
AKA “Moon Man”
Josephine Cochran
Dishwasher
George Washington
sixteen-sided barn
Thomas Jefferson
Two-sided Clock
Nikola Tesla
Alternating-Current (AC) Motor
Henry Ford
Mary Anderson
Garrett Morgan
Elmer Wavering
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Allen Breed
Air Bags
Alfred Nobel
Wilhelm Roentgen
This X-ray set is one Print of first "medical" x-
of the oldest anywhere ray, of his wife's hand.
in the world.
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Orville Wilbur
The 1900 glider.
Samuel F.B. Morse Joseph Henry
Sketch of "telegraph" Henry showed
his classes at the Albany Academy.
Vladimir Zworykin
Television
Johannes Gutenberg
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