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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