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Invents

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 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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