1. Invented bifocals, as well as swimming flippers, the rocking chair and proved that lightening was electricity.
Benjamin Franklin

2. Invented the cotton gin, which separated the cotton fiber from the seeds. The machine did the work of 50 people.
Eli Whitney
John Deere

3. Invented the first American cast steel plow, which was very effective for cutting and turning the prairie soil.
Invented the first incandescent lamp as well as the phonograph, & motion pictures.
Thomas Edison

4. Alexander Graham
Bell
Invented the telephone, as well as the metal detector, hydrofoil, & even a device for detecting icebergs,

5. George Washington Carver
Scientist who developed over 300 different products from peanuts and over 100 products from sweet potatoes.
Wright Brothers

6. Changed history by inventing the first propeller-driven airplane and making the first successful manned flight.
Robert Fulton
Invented the first American steam-driven paddle-wheel boat (steamboat) and the first steam warship.

7. Louis Pasteur
This scientist developed the process called pasteurization, which killed the bacteria in milk and kept it from turning sour.

8. Henry Ford Garrett Morgan
Invented the first affordable automobiles, like the Model T, using the assembly-line method of manufacturing.
Henry
Ford
Garrett
Morgan

9. Invented the traffic signal and the first gas mask, both of which saved many lives
His invention of the first polio vaccine ended polio epidemics , saving thousands of children and adults from the crippling disease.
Jonas
Salk

10. Cyrus
McCormick
Inventor of the mechanical reaper, a labor-saving machine that harvested grain and led to increased agricultural production.

11. Joseph
Glidden
The inventor of the first reliable barbed wire, known as “the wire that tamed the west”.