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