INVENTORS

Alexander Graham Bell
invented the telephone

John Moses Browning
firearms inventor/designer

Peter Cooper
built the first modern skyscraper, the first commercial locomotive, and patented the first gelatin dessert which was later named Jell-O

Thomas Edison
invented the stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and electric light bulb

Benjamin Franklin
invented the lightning rod

Elias Howe
invented sewing machine

William Lear
airplane creator

Cyrus McCormick
invented grain reaper

Guglielmo Marconi
developed radio

Eli Whitney
invented the cotton gin

Sir Frank Whittle
invented turbo jet engine

Orville and Wilbur Wright
brothers who built the first successful airplane


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