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Steam Engine
Oliver Evans was an american inventor who pioneered the high-pressure steam engine -
Steamboat
Robert Fulton was an American inventor, engineer, and artist who brought steamboating from the experimental stage to commercial success. -
Mechanical Reaper
Cyrus McCormich was an American industrialist and inventor who is generally credited with the development of the mechanical reaper. -
Screw Propeller
John Ericsson was a Swedish-born American naval engineer and inventor who built the first armored turret warship and developed the screw propeller. -
Safety Pin
Walter Hunt was a mechanic from New York who invented the safety pin while he was twisting a piece of wire, trying to think of something that would help him pay off a fifteen dollar debt -
Elevator Brake
Elisha Graves Otis was an American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. -
Pullman car
George Pullman was an American industrialist and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, a luxurious railroad coach designed for overnight travel -
Dynamite
Alfred was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist, who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives and who also founded the Nobel Prizes. -
Fountain Pen
Lewis Edson Waterman was the inventor of the capillary feed fountain pen and the founder of Ideal Pen Company and Waterman Pen Company. -
Escalator
Inventor and Engineer Jesse Wilford Reno invented the first working escalator in 1891 (patented March 15, 1892), that was known as the "inclined elevator" -
Bottle Cap
William Painter was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and the founder of Crown Holdings, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. He most notably invented the crown cork bottle cap and bottle opener. -
Radio
Italian inventor and engineer Guglielmo Marconi developed, demonstrated and marketed the first successful long-distance wireless telegraph and in 1901 broadcast the first transatlantic radio signal
