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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

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