INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
1780 - Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal lenses for glasses
1837 - Samuel Morse invented telegraph
1852 - Isaak Singer made a sewing machine
1853 - George Grum made very thin French fries - potato chips
1860 - Levi Strauss made the first jeans in California
1876 - Alexander Bell invented the telephone
1877 - Thomas Edison invented the phonograph
1886 - Josephine Cochrane invented the dishwasher
1886 - Dr.John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia
1886 - A rich man Lorrilard from Tuxedo Park, N.Y. got the idea of a tuxedo
1886 - David McConnel started Avon cosmetics
1888 - George Eastman produced the Kodak camera
1890 - a doctor in St.Luis first made peanut butter
1892 - Charles and Frank Duryea invented the first gasoline automobile
1892 - William Wrigley made flavoured chewing gum
1896 - Henry Ford built his first car
1903 - Brothers Wright flew in their motor airplane
1903 - King Gillette made safe blades for razors
1904 - The hamburgers were served for the first time
1906 - The Hot Dog name was invented by Ted Dorgan
1913 - Arthur Wayne made the first crossword puzzle in the newspaper
1916 - Garret Morgan invented the traffic light
1922 - W.Kellog made Corn Flakes
1922 - Mr. and Mrs.Wallace started the magazine “Reader’s Digest”
1924 - Vladimir Zworygin invented television
1938 - Chester Carlson invented a machine to make Xerox copies
1939 - Igor Sikorsky built the helicopter
1955 - Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine
1961 - Two brothers opened McDonald’s
1972 - Nolan Bushnell invented Video Game
1973 - A pilot Frederick Smith started delivering mail in one day - Federal Express
1977 - Jobs and Wozniak launched the personal computer (PC) industry
1982 - Robert Jarvik made the artificial heart
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