Inventors and Inventions

calculus

Leibniz and Newton

benzene

Faraday

gasoline-powered engine (tractor)

Froelich

(discovered of) anesthesia

Morton

(use of) anesthesia (in dentistry)

Wells

gregorian calendar

Pope Gregory (XII)

mirror

Liebig

light emitting diode

Holonyak

fingerprinting

Vucetich

needle

Rynd

hypodermic syringe

Wood or Pravaz (virtually simultaneously in 1853)

pepsi

Bradham

telephone

Bell

power loom

Cartwright

condensed milk

Borden

atomic bomb

Fermi (explosive)

nuclear reactor

Fermi (energy producer)

safety razor

Gillette

sewing machine

Howe

mechanical reaper

McCormick

typewriter

Sholes

handheld machine gun (tommy gun)

Thompson

cylinder lock

Yale

light bulb

Edison (source of light)

motion picture projector

Edison (picture related device)

air conditioning

Carrier

gyrocompass

Sperry

cyclotron

Lawrence

Nylon (Dupont, Inc.)

Carothers

hydrogen bomb

Teller

polio vaccine

Salk

laser

Gould

spinning cotton

Slater (weaving machine to make thread or yarn)

thread mill

Slater (thread producing machine using the circular ramping movement of a rotating tool)

steam locomotive (Tom Thumb)

Cooper, Peter

steel plow

Deere

frozen food

Birdseye (a way to preserve food)

submarine

Bushnell

bifocals

Franklin (eyeglasses with two distinct optical powers)

American rocket (liquid propelled)

Goddard

foot treadle (for a sewing machine)

Singer

suspension bridge (Brooklyn Bridge)

Roebling

helicopter

Sikorsky

air brake

Westinghouse

television components

Zworykin

working television

Farnsworth

camera, roll film

Eastman

fountain pen

Waterman

vacuum tube

De Forest

diphtheria skin test

Bela Schick

electric razor

Jacob Schick

dehydrated food processing

Birdseye (a way to process food)

revolver

Colt

oral polio vaccine

Sabin

lightning rod

Franklin (did this thing with some sky bolts....)

cotton gin

Whitney (machine that separates cotton fibres from their seeds)

interchangeable parts

Whitney (components that are nearly identical and so can be used for any assembly of the same type)

steam shovel

Otis, William

vulcanized rubber

Goodyear

modern oil well (Titus, PA)

Drake

passenger elevator

Elisha Otis

trans-atlantic cable

Field

cylinder phonograph

Edison (medium to record and produce sound)

gasoline-powered automobile

Duryea (Charles + Frank)

sleeping car

Pullman

assembly line for automobiles

(Ransom) Olds

astronomical telescope

Galileo (Italian)

hot air balloon

Montgolfier (Joseph + Jacques)

spinning jenny

Hargreaves

pendulum clock

Huygens

photography

Daguerre

gas burner

Bunsen

dynamite

Nobel

internal combustion engine

Daimler (and Benz)

rigid dirigible airship

Zeppelin

aqua-lung (scuba thing)

Cousteau + Gagnan

parachute

Garnerin

escalator

Reno

smallpox vaccine

Jenner (Edward)

antiseptics

Lister

contact lenses

Frick

telegraph

Morse

repeating rifle

Winchester

revolving machine gun

Gatling

barbed wire

Glidden

Pony Express

Russell (William)

moving assembly line

Ford

analog computer

Bush

printing press

Gutenberg

Barometer

Torricelli

mercury thermometer

Fahrenheit

thermometer

Galileo (1593)

improved steam engine

Watt (James)

electric battery

Volta

gyroscope

Foucault

steel making process

Bessemer

electric ignition

Karl (Benz)

wireless telegraph

Marconi (point to point communication tool)

radio

Marconi (device using a specific type of electromagnetic wave to communicate)

Geiger counter (measures radiation)

Geiger