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1851 Improved method of converting iron to steel William Kelly |
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1852 Passenger
elevator Elisha Otis |
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1856 Perfected “Bessemer Process” Henry
Bessemer |
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1858 Machine for sewing shoe soles onto uppers Gordon McKay |
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1864 Sleeping
Car George Pullman |
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1865 Compression Ice
Machine Thaddeus Love |
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1868 Air
Brake George
Westinghouse |
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1869 Electric Voting
Machine Thomas Edison |
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1871 Cable Street
Car Andrew S. Hallide |
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1874 Electric Street
Car Stephen Dudley Field |
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1876 Carpet
Sweeper Melville Bissell |
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1876
Telephone Alexander
Graham Bell |
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1878
Phonograph Thomas
Edison |
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1879 First practical incandescent bulb Thomas
Edison |
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1879 Cash
Register James Ritty |
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1882 Electric
Iron Henry W. Seely |
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1884 Fountain
Pen Lewis E.
Waterman |
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1886 Electric Welding Machine Elihu
Thomas |
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1888 Safety razor with throwaway blades King C.
Gillette |
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1889 Electric Sewing
Machine Singer Manufacturing Co. |
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1893 Gasoline-powered Car
Charles and Jay Frank Duryea |
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1899 Motor-driven Vacuum Cleaner John
Thurman |