American Inventions
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AMERICAN INVENTIONSThe Dawn of the Modern Era
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THE TYPEWRITERInvented in 1874 by Christopher Scholes
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TELEPHONEAlexander Graham Bell
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BELL AND HIS ASSISTANT SHOWING OFF THEIR FIRST TELEPHONE
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1892 FIRST PHONE CALLNY TO Chicago
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FIRST SUBWAY , NY CITY1870’s
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PHONOGRAPH
THOMAS EDISON PROTOTYPE
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THOMAS EDISON INCANDESCENT LIGHT
ORIGINAL DESIGNS
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MAIL ORDER CATALOG
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GEORGE EASTMAN---KODAK CAMERA
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DANIEL BURNHAM AND LOUIS SULLIVAN
Flat Iron Building NY CITY Guaranty Building Buffalo NY 1894
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EDWIN DRAKE
Titusville Pennsylvania---first steam powered oil drill
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GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE
Invented the Alternator and the Airbrake for trains. He is also credited with investigating electric current and safer ways of handling electricity
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BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Longest Suspension Bridge in the world for many years.
Completed at great cost in 1883
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WRIGHT FLYER
1903 The Wright Brothers of Ohio came to Kitty Hawk NC to test their powered flyer.
First Powered Flight
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HENRY FORDHe didn’t invent the car. He simply mass produced it cheaply so everyone could afford one.
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TUSKEEGE INSTITUTEOne of many Black Colleges opened during reconstructionMade famous by its many high level graduates and talented professors!
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GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERFamous for Chemistry and experiments for using peanuts for various purposes in order to improve agriculture and science
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MEN OF ACTION
BOOKER T WASHINGTON W.E.B. DU BOIS