Inventions of the 1920’s By: Rogue Thompson, Alyssa Fuller, Tyler Daughtery

Thesis To inform students on the inventions of the 1920’s

Automobile With A Combustion Engine Henry Ford Model T Created more jobs Better way to get around

Traffic Lights Invented by William Plotss ▫Police officer Wasn’t the original inventor. ▫London 1868 Rigged from three railroad lights, wires and, switches. Within a year, Detroit had 12 active traffic lights.

Band-Aids Earle Dickson was employed at Johnson and Johnson where they made gauze tape. His wife was very accident prone and he came up with the idea to have tape with a piece of gauze in the middle to stop bleeding. He sold them four years later when Johnson and Johnson decided to invest.

PEZ Candy 1927 Eduard Haas Sold as a cigarette alternative Then sold as a kids candy one year later

Kool Aid Edwin Perkins 1927 It’s original name was Kool Ade spots.aspx

Works Cited pezcandy.htmhttp:// pezcandy.htm /a/bandaid.htmhttp://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventions /a/bandaid.htm