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Benjamin Franklin	Lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, and a public library		american-inventors-and-innovators
Eli Whitney	Cotton gin (1793) and ideas about interchangeable parts		american-inventors-and-innovators
Robert Fulton	Made steamboats practical, starting with the Clermont in 1807		american-inventors-and-innovators
Samuel Morse	Telegraph and Morse code, 1830s-1840s		american-inventors-and-innovators
Cyrus McCormick	Mechanical reaper for harvesting grain		american-inventors-and-innovators
John Deere	Steel plow for breaking prairie soil		american-inventors-and-innovators
Elias Howe	Sewing machine with a lockstitch, 1846		american-inventors-and-innovators
Isaac Singer	Improved and sold sewing machines widely		american-inventors-and-innovators
Elisha Otis	Safety elevator, shown in 1854		american-inventors-and-innovators
Charles Goodyear	Vulcanized rubber		american-inventors-and-innovators
Samuel Colt	Revolver and mass production methods		american-inventors-and-innovators
Alexander Graham Bell	Telephone, patented in 1876		american-inventors-and-innovators
Thomas Edison	Phonograph, practical light bulb and research laboratories		american-inventors-and-innovators
Nikola Tesla	Worked on alternating current electric systems		american-inventors-and-innovators
George Westinghouse	Air brake for trains and AC power systems		american-inventors-and-innovators
Lewis Latimer	Improved the carbon filament for light bulbs		american-inventors-and-innovators
Granville Woods	Black inventor with many patents for railway and electrical devices		american-inventors-and-innovators
Elijah McCoy	Invented lubricating devices for steam engines		american-inventors-and-innovators
Madam C. J. Walker	Built a hair care business and became a self-made millionaire		american-inventors-and-innovators
George Washington Carver	Scientist who promoted peanuts and crop rotation		american-inventors-and-innovators
Booker T. Washington	Founded Tuskegee Institute		american-inventors-and-innovators
Wright brothers	Made the first powered airplane flight in 1903 at Kitty Hawk		american-inventors-and-innovators
Henry Ford	Model T and the moving assembly line		american-inventors-and-innovators
George Eastman	Simple Kodak cameras and roll film		american-inventors-and-innovators
Garrett Morgan	Improved traffic signal and a safety hood		american-inventors-and-innovators
Charles Drew	Developed blood banking methods		american-inventors-and-innovators
Percy Julian	Chemist who made medicines from plants		american-inventors-and-innovators
Hedy Lamarr	Actress who co-invented a frequency-hopping idea used later in wireless tech		american-inventors-and-innovators
Grace Hopper	Helped create early programming languages		american-inventors-and-innovators
Steve Jobs	Co-founder of Apple; helped popularize personal computers		american-inventors-and-innovators
Bill Gates	Co-founder of Microsoft		american-inventors-and-innovators
Jonas Salk	Developed a polio vaccine, 1955		american-inventors-and-innovators
Albert Sabin	Developed an oral polio vaccine		american-inventors-and-innovators
Robert Goddard	Launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926		american-inventors-and-innovators
Philo Farnsworth	Demonstrated all-electronic television in 1927		american-inventors-and-innovators
Lee de Forest	Invented the audion vacuum tube, important for radio		american-inventors-and-innovators
Mary Anderson	Invented the windshield wiper in 1903		american-inventors-and-innovators
Josephine Cochrane	Invented the dishwasher in 1886		american-inventors-and-innovators
Margaret Knight	Invented the flat-bottomed paper bag machine		american-inventors-and-innovators
Stephanie Kwolek	Invented Kevlar, a super strong fiber		american-inventors-and-innovators
Ruth Handler	Created the Barbie doll		american-inventors-and-innovators
Earle Dickson	Invented the Band-Aid for his wife in 1920		american-inventors-and-innovators
Walter Hunt	Invented the safety pin in 1849		american-inventors-and-innovators
Ole Evinrude	Invented the outboard motor		american-inventors-and-innovators
Willis Carrier	Invented modern air conditioning		american-inventors-and-innovators
Clarence Birdseye	Developed quick-freezing for foods		american-inventors-and-innovators
Gideon Sundback	Improved the zipper		american-inventors-and-innovators
James Naismith	Invented basketball in 1891		american-inventors-and-innovators
Frederick McKinley Jones	Invented refrigeration units for trucks		american-inventors-and-innovators
Katherine Johnson	Calculated flight paths for NASA		american-inventors-and-innovators
Mark Dean	Co-developed key IBM PC technologies		american-inventors-and-innovators
Jerry Lawson	Helped develop the first cartridge-based video game console		american-inventors-and-innovators
Ralph Baer	Called the father of video games for the Magnavox Odyssey		american-inventors-and-innovators
Wilbur Wright	Older Wright brother who piloted first flights		american-inventors-and-innovators
Orville Wright	Younger Wright brother, who piloted the first flight		american-inventors-and-innovators
Patent	Government record giving an inventor exclusive rights to an invention		american-inventors-and-innovators
Patent Office	Government office that registers patents; the first US patent law was in 1790		american-inventors-and-innovators
Smithsonian	Museums that preserve American inventions		american-inventors-and-innovators
Innovation	A new idea, method or device		american-inventors-and-innovators
Prototype	An early test version of an invention		american-inventors-and-innovators
Franklin's kite experiment	1752 test linking lightning to electricity		american-inventors-and-innovators
Telegraph line to California	Completed in 1861		american-inventors-and-innovators
First transcontinental telephone call	Made in 1915		american-inventors-and-innovators
Apollo program	NASA program that landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972		american-inventors-and-innovators