| Year | Invention | Inventor |
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| 1450 | "Moveable Type" | Gutenburg |
| 1593 | "Thermometer" | Galileo |
| 1608 | "Telescope" | Lippershey
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| 1609 | "Telescope" | Galileo
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| 1611 | "Telescope" | Kepler
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| 1620 | "Slide Rule" | Oughtred
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| 1642 | "Adding Machine" | Blaise Pascal
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| 1643 | "Barometer" | Torricelli
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| 1657 | "Pendulum Clock" | Huygens
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| 1705 | "Engine Steam Piston" | Newcomen
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| 1709 | "Piano" | Cristofori
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| 1710 | "Thermometer" | Reaumur
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| 1714 | "Thermometer Mercury" | Fahrenheit
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| 1730 | "Mariner's Quadrant" | Thomas Godfrey
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| 1733 | "Flying Shuttle" | Kay
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| 1742 | "Franklin Stove" | Benjamin Franklin
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| 1750 | "Flatboat" | Jacob Yoder
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| 1752 | "Lightning Rod" | Benjamin Franklin
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| 1762 | "Iron Smelting Process" | Rev. Jared Eliot
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| 1767 | "Spinning Jenny" | Hargreaves
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| 1769 | "Engine Steam Piston" | Watt
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| 1775 | "Submarine The Turtle" | David Bushnell
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| 1777 | "Card Making Machine" | Oliver Evans
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| 1777 | "Circular Saw" | Miller
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| 1779 | "Spinning Mule" | Crompton Eng
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| 1785 | "Power Loom" | Cartwright
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| 1785 | "Automatic Flour Mill" | Oliver Evans
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| 1783 | "Multitubular Boiler Engine" | John Stevens
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| 1783 | "Bifocals" | Benjamin Franklin
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| 1783 | "Balloon" | Montgolfier
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| 1784 | "Shrapnel Shell" | Shrapnel
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| 1785 | "Parachute" | Blanchard
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| 1787 | "Non-Condensing High Press. En." | Oliver Evans
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| 1791 | "Steamboat" | John Fitch
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| 1790 | "Pot and Pearl Ash Process Man." | Samuel Hopkins
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| 1790 | "Cut and Head Nail Machine" | Jacob Perkins
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| 1790 | "Arkwright Process in US" | Samuel Slater
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| 1793 | "Cotton Gin" | Eli Whitney
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| 1793 | "Moldboard Plow" | Thomas Jefferson
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| 1797 | "Cast Iron Plow" | Charles Newbold
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| 1799 | "Seeding Machine" | Eliakim Spooner
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| 1800 | "Electric Battery" | Volta
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| 1802 | "ScrewPropeller Stmbt. Phoenix" | John Stevens
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| 1805 | "1st Marine Torpedo" | Robert Fulton
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| 1807 | "Steamboat Clermont" | Robert Fulton
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| 1808 | "Band Saw" | Newberry
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| 1811 | "Gun- Breechloader" | Thornton
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| 1816 | "Miner's Safety Lamp" | Davy
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| 1816 | "Hand Printing Press" | George Clymer
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| 1816 | "Metronome" | Malzel
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| 1817 | "Kaleidoscope" | Brewster
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| 1819 | "Breech Loading Flintlock" | John Hall
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| 1819 | "Stethoscope" | Laenec
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| 1822 | "Artificial Teeth" | C.M. Graham
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| 1825 | "Electromagnet" | Sturgeon
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| 1827 | "Insulated Wire" | Joseph Henry
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| 1827 | "Friction Match" | John Walker
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| 1830 | "1st US Locomotive Tom Thumb" | Peter Cooper
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| 1831 | "Multiple Coil Magnet" | Joseph Henry
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| 1831 | "1st Magnetic Acoustic Telegraph" |
Joseph Henry
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| 1831 | "Reaper" | Cyrus McCormick
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| 1834 | "Electric Motor" | Thomas Davenport
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| 1835 | "Photography" | Talbot
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| 1835 | "Revolver" | Samuel Colt
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| 1836 | "Improved Screw Propeller" | John Ericsson
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| 1837 | "Photography" | Daguerre
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| 1837 | "Steel Plow" | John Deere
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| 1839 | "Photography" | Niepce
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| 1839 | "Vulcanization of Rubber" | Charles Goodyear
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| 1840 | "Ship w/subwater mach.Princeton" | John Ericsson
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| 1843 | "Typewriter" | Charles Thurber
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| 1844 | "Practical Telegraph" | Samuel F.B. Morse
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| 1845 | "Portland Cement" | Aspdin
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| 1845 | "Double Tube Tire" | Thomson
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| 1846 | "Sewing Machine" | Elias Howe
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| 1846 | "Rotary Printing Press" | Richard M. Hoe
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| 1849 | "Safety Pin" | Walter Hunt
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| 1849 | "Turbine, Hydraulic" | Francis
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| 1852 | "Airship" | Giffard
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| 1852 | "Passenger Elevator" | Elisha G. Otis
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| 1852 | "Gyroscope" | Foucoult
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| 1855 | "Gas Burner" | Bunsen
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| 1856 | "Steel Process" | Bessemer
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| 1858 | "Shoe Sole Sowing Machine" | Lyman R. Blake
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| 1858 | "Mason Jar" | Mason
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| 1859 | "Successful Oil Drill" | Edwin L. Drake
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| 1860 | "Linoleum" | Walton
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| 1860 | "Repeating Rifle" | Oliver F. Winchester
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| 1860 | "Repeating Rifle" | Spencer
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| 1861 | "Ironclad Monitor" | John Ericsson
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| 1861 | "Furnace for Steel" | Siemens
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| 1862 | "Revolving Machine Gun" | Richard J. Gatling
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| 1863 | "Player Piano" | Fourneaux
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| 1864 | "Sleeping Car Pioneer" | George M. Pullman
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| 1865 | "Compression Ice Machine" | Thaddeus Lowe
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| 1866 | "Dynamite" | Alfred Nobel
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| 1867 | "Practical Typewriter" | Christopher L. Sholes
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| 1868 | "Typewriter" | "Soule, Glidden"
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| 1868 | "Air Brake" | George Westinghouse
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| 1868 | "Lawn Mower" | Hills
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| 1868 | "Oleomargarine" | Mege Mouries
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| 1869 | "Suction Vacuum Cleaner" | I.W. McGaffers
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| 1870 | "Magic Lantern Movie Projector" | Henry R. Heyl
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| 1870 | "Stock Ticker" | Thomas Alva Edison
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| 1871 | "Cable Car" | Andrew S. Hallidie
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| 1871 | "Compressed Air Rock Drill" | Ingersoll
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| 1872 | "Celluloid" | John W. Hyatt
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| 1872 | "Adding Machine" | Edmund D. Barbour
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| 1874 | "Electric Street Car" | Stephen Dudle Field
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| 1874 | "Barbed Wire" | Glidden
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| 1875 | "Barbed Wire" | Haisn
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| 1875 | "Dynamo" | William A. Anthony
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| 1875 | "Gun- Magazine" | Hotchkiss
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| 1875 | "Automobile, Experimental" | Marcus
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| 1876 | "Telephone" | Alexander Graham Bell
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| 1876 | "Telephone" | Elisha Gray
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| 1876 | "Carpet Sweeper" | Melville R. Bissell
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| 1876 | "Gasoline Carburetor" | Daimler
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| 1877 | "-95 Induction Motor AC N" | ikola Tesla
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| 1877 | "Welding, Electric" | Thomson
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| 1878 | "Cathode Ray Tube" | Crookes
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| 1878 | "Phonograph" | Thomas Alva Edison
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| 1878 | "Transparent Film" | Eastman Goodwin
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| 1879 | "1st Practical Incandescent Bulb" | Thomas Alva Edison
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| 1879 | "Automobile Engine" | Benz
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| 1879 | "Cash Register" | Ritty
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| 1879 | "Automobile Patent" | George B. Seldon
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| 1880 | "Photophone" | Bell
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| 1880 | "Roll Film" | George Eastman
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| 1880 | "Safety Razor" | Kampfe Brothers
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| 1881 | "Electric Welding Machine" | Elihu Thomson
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| 1882 | "Electric Fan" | Schuyler Skatts Wheeler
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| 1882 | "Electric Flat Iron" | Henry W. Seely
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| 1883 | "Auto Engine Compression Ignit." | Daimler
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| 1884 | "Linotype Machine" | Ottmar Mergenthaler
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| 1884 | "Fountain Pen" | Waterman
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| 1884 | "Punch Card Accounting" | Herman Hollerith
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| 1884 | "Trolley Car, Electric" | Sprague, Van de Poele
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| 1885 | "AC Transformer" | Stanley
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| 1885 | "Automobile, Differential Gear" | Benz
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| 1885 | "Motor Cycle" | Daimler
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| 1886 | "Gasoline Engine" | Daimler
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| 1887 | "Monotype Machine" | Tolbert Lanston
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| 1887 | "Record Disk" | Emile Berliner
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| 1887 | "Automobile, Gasoline" | Daimler
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| 1888 | "Kodak Hand Camera" | George Eastman
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| 1888 | "Ballpoint Pen" | Loud
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| 1888 | "Pneumatic Tube Tire" | Dunlop
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| 1888 | "Harvester- Thresher" | Matteson
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| 1889 | "Automobile, Steam" | Roper
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| 1890 | "Pneumatic Hammer" | Charles B. King
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| 1891 | "Automobile Storage Battery" | William Morrison
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| 1891 | "Submarine" | Holland
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| 1891 | "Zipper" | Judson
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| 1891 | "Carborundum" | Edward G. Acheson
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| 1892 | "Color Photo" | Ives
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| 1892 | "Automobile, Electric" | Morrison
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| 1892 | "Automobile, Gasoline" | Duryea
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| 1893 | "Photographic Gun" | E.J. Marcy
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| 1893 | "Engraving Half Tone" | Ives
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| 1895 | "Phatoptiken Projector" | Woodville Latham
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| 1895 | "Phantascope" | C. Francis Jenkins
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| 1895 | "Disposable Blades" | King C. Gillette
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| 1895 | "Diesel Engine" | Diesel
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| 1895 | "Radio Signals" | Marconi
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| 1896 | "Vitascope" | Thomas Armat
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| 1896 | "Turbine, Steam" | Curtis
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| 1896 | "Electric Stove" | William S. Hadaway
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| 1897 | "Automobile, Magneto" | Bosch
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| 1899 | "Automobile Elec. Self Starter" | Clyde J. Coleman
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| 1899 | "Tape Recorder, Magnetic" | Poulsen
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| 1899 | "Turbine, Gas" | Curtis
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| 1900 | "Airship Rigid Dirigible" | Zeppelin
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| 1901 | "Improved Wireless Transmitter" | Reginald Fessenden
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| 1901 | "Mercury Vapor Lamp" | Peter C. Hewitt
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| 1902 | "Radio Magnetic Detector" | Marconi
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| 1902 | "Radio Telephone" | Poulsen Fessenden
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| 1902 | "Rayon Cellulose Ester" | Arthur D. Little
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| 1903 | "Electrocardiograph EKG" | Einthoven
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| 1903 | "Airplane" | Wilbur and Orville Wright
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| 1903 | "Bottle Machine" | Owens
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| 1904 | "Seperable Attachment Plug" | Harvey Hubbell
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| 1905 | "Radio Tube Diode" | Fleming
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| 1906 | "Triode Amplifier" | Lee DeForest
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| 1907 | "Radio Amplifier" | Lee DeForest
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| 1907 | "Radio Tube Triode" | Lee DeForest
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| 1907 | "Vacuum Cleaner, Electric" | Spangler
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| 1907 | "Washer, Electric" | "Hurley, Co."
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| 1909 | "Monoplane" | Henry W. Walden
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| 1909 | "Bakelite -Thermosetting Plastic" | Leo H. Baekeland
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| 1909 | "Gun- Silencer" | "Maxim, H.P."
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| 1911 | "Gyrocompass" | Elmer A. Compass
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| 1911 | "Auto Self Starter Perfected" | Charles F. Kettering
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| 1911 | "Air Conditioner" | Carrier
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| 1911 | "Cellophane" | Brandenburger
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| 1911 | "Airplane Hydro" | Glenn Curtiss
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| 1912 | "Regenerative Radio Circuit" | Edwin H. Armstrong
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| 1913 | "Improved X-Ray" | William D. Coolidge
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| 1913 | "Double Acting Wrench" | Owen
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| 1913 | "Cracking Process for Gasoline" | William M. Burten
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| 1913 | "Gyroscope Stabilizer" | Elmer A. Sperry
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| 1913 | "Geiger Counter" | Geiger
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| 1913 | "Radio Receiver, Cascade Tuning" | Alexanderson
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| 1913 | "Radio Receiver, Heterodyne" | Fessenden
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| 1914 | "Radio Transmitter Triode Mod." | Alexanderson
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| 1914 | "Liquid Fuel Rocket" | Robert H. Goddard
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| 1914 | "Tank, military" | Swinton
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| 1915 | "Filament Tungsten" | Langmuir
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| 1915 | "Searchlight Arc" | Elmer A. Sperry
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| 1915 | "Radio Tube Oscillator" | Lee DeForest
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| 1916 | "Gun- Browning" | Browning
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| 1916 | "Thompson Submachine Gun" | John T. Thompson
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| 1916 | "Incandescent Gas Lamp" | Langmuir
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| 1918 | "Super Heterodyne" | Edwin H. Armstrong
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| 1918 | "Radio Crystal Oscillator" | Nicolson
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| 1918 | "Toaster" | Strite
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| 1922 | "-26 RADAR" | Taylor Young Breit Tuve
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| 1922 | "Technicolor" | Herbert T. Kalmus
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| 1923 | "Arc Tube" | Alexanderson
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| 1923 | "Sound Film" | Lee DeForest
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| 1923 | "TV Electronic" | Philo Farnsworth
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| 1923 | "Wind Tunnel" | Munk
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| 1925 | "TV Iconoscope" | Vladimir Zworykin
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| 1925 | "TV Nipkow System" | C. Francis Jenkins
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| 1925 | "Telephoto" | C. Francis Jenkins
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| 1926 | "TV Mechanical Scanner" | Baird
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| 1927 | "Mechanical Cotton Picker" | John Daniel Mack Donald Rust
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| 1928 | "Radio Beacon" | Donovan
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| 1928 | "Autogiro" | Harold F. Picairn
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| 1928 | "Electric Dry Shaver" | Jacob Schick
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| 1929 | "Electroencephelograph EEG" | Berger
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| 1930 | "Neoprene" | Carrothers
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| 1930 | "Nylon Synthetic" | Carrothers
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| 1932 | "Polaroid Glass" | Edwin H. Land
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| 1935 | "Spectrophotometer" | Arthur C. Hardy
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| 1935 | "Casein Fiber" | Earl Whittier Stephen Gould
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| 1937 | "Jet Plane" | Frank Whittle
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| 1938 | "Fiberglas" | Games Slayter John H. Thomas
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| 1939 | "FM Radio" | Edwin H. Armstrong
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| 1939 | "Helicopter" | Igor Sikorsky
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| 1942 | "Bazooka Rocket Gun" | Capt. L.A. Skinner C.N. Hickman
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| 1944 | "Electron Specrometer" | Deutsch Elliot Evans
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| 1947 | "Transistor" | "Shockley, Brattein, Bardeen"
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| 1948 | "Long Playing Record" | Dr. Peter Goldmark
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| 1948 | "Polaroid Camera" | Edwin H. Land
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