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1958 Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
1951 Dr. William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hill NJ) 1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System 1941 Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal 1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape 1923 Garrett Morgan invents and patents traffic signal 1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne) 1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations 1914 Garrett Morgan invents and patents gas mask 1898 Will Kieth Kellogg invents Corn Flakes 1897 Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars 1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate 1893 Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat 1893 R. W. Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack 1893 Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging 1892 Dr. Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube 1892 Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer 1891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada) 1883 Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes 1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen 1881 Lewis Latimer invents and patents electric lamp with a carbon filament 1877 Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device 1869 Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan 1869 James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade 1866 Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer 1847 Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner 1846 Japan invents the rickshaw 1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches 1826 John Walker invents friction match in England 1775 Sir James Jay invents invisible ink 1742 Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove 1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer) 1621 Galileo invents telescope 580 Chinese invents toilet paper |
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