Notes on Inventors & Inventions

 

Inventor

Invention

Year

Cyrus McCormick

Mechanical Reaper

1831

John Deere

Steel Plow

1846

Joseph Glidden

Barbed Wire

1874

Elias Howe

Sewing Machine

1844

John Fitch

Steamboat

1787

Alexander Graham Bell

Telephone

1876

Charles Hires

Root Beer

1869

JamesNaismith

Basketball

1892

Frederick W. Thayer

Catcher’s Mask

1878

George Westinghouse

Air Brake (for trains)

1869

George Eastman

Roll Film Camera

1888

Charles W. Post

Breakfast Cereal

1897

Elisha Otis

Elevator Safety Brake

1861

Lewis Walker

Zipper

1893

Robert Chesebrough

Vaseline

1870

George Pullman

Railroad Sleeper Car

1859

Hiram Pitts

Steam Thresher

1837

Henry Bradley

Margarine

1871

Frank Epperson

Popsicle

1905

Christopher Sholes

Typewriter

1872

Charles Goodyear

Vulcanized Rubber

1839

Thomas Edison

Incandescent Lamp

1879

Samuel Morse

Telegraph

1844

George Washington Carver

Peanut Butter

1880

Henry W. Seeley

Electric Iron

1882