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Timeline of Significant American Inventions and
Innovations
1752 Benjamin Franklin, lightning rod
1776 David Bushnell,
submarine
1784 Benjamin Franklin, bifocals
1787 John
Fitch, steamboat
1794 Eli Whitney, cotton gin
1806 Benjamin
Thompson, coffee pot
1818 Thomas Blanchard, woodworking lathe
1831
Cyrus McCormick, mechanical harvester
1833 Walter Hunt, lock-stitch
sewing machine
1834 John A and Hiram A. Pitts, threshing
machine
1836 Samuel Colt, revolver
1843 Charles Goodyear, vulcanized
rubber
1843 John Gorrie, mechanical refrigeration
1844 Sameuel F. B.
Morse, telegraph
1846 Richard M. Hoe, cylinder printing press
1857
Elisha Graves Otis, passenger elevator safety device (braking
system)
1863 James Plimpton, roller skates
1865 William Bullock, web
offset printing press
1873 Christopher Latham Sholes,
typewriter
1875 Thomas Alva Edison, mimeograph
1876 Alexander Graham
Bell, telephone
1877 Thomas Alva Edison, phonograph
1879 Thomas Alva
Edison, incandescent light bulb
1882 Dr. Schuyler Skaats Wheeler,
electric fan
1888 George Eastman, camera
1889 Josephine Cockran,
improved dishwasher
1891 Jesse W. Reno, escalator
1892 Charles and
Frank Duryea, gas-powered automobile
1897 Edwin S. Votey, player
piano
1902 Willis H. Carrier, air conditioner
1903 Orville and
Wilbur Wright, airplane
1911 Charles F. Kettering, automobile
self-starter
1926 Robert H. Goddard, liquid-fueled rocket
1927 Philo
Farnsworth, television
1929 Clarence Birdseye, frozen food
1932 Dr.
William Bennett Kouwenhoven, defibrillator
1938 Researchers at E. I.
duPont de Nemours & Co., nylon
1939 John Atanasoff and Clifford
Berry, digital computer
1945 Percy Spencer, microwave cooking
1946
Willard F. Libby, carbon dating
1947 Dr. Edwin H. Land, Polaroid
camera
1948 Leo Fender, electric guitar
1953 Dr. John H. Gibbon,
heart-lung machine
1957 Dr. Jonas Salk, polio vaccine injection
1957
Dr. Albert Sabin, oral polio vaccine
1958 Jack St. Clair Kilby,
integrated circuit
1958 Willy Higginbotham, electronic game
1960
Theodore H. Maiman, laser
1964 IBM (Company), first mass-produced
computer operating system
1970 Corning Glass (Company), optical
fiber
1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen, beginnings of the Microsoft
corpation
1976 Seymour Cray, supercomputer
1981 NASA, launches the
first Space Shuttle
1982 Dr. Robert Jarvik, artificial heart
1983
Birth of the Internet
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