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)
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
George Washington Carver
Peanut Butter
1880
Henry W. Seeley
Electric Iron
1882