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Clock - Eli Terry
A mechanical or electrical device for measuring time, indicating hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds, typically by hands on a round dial or by displayed figures. -
Fountain pen - Lewis Waterman
a pen with a reservoir or cartridge from which ink flows continuously to the nib. -
Printing Press - Richard M. Hoe
type was placed on a revolving cylinder, a design that could print much faster than the old flatbed printing press. -
Loom - George Crompton
An apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn or thread. -
Game board - Milton Bradley
A tabletop game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. -
Door lock - Linus Jr. Yale
A device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc. -
Dynamite - Alfred Nobel
A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically molded into sticks. -
Barbed wire - Joseph Glidden
wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction. -
Breakfast cereal - John Kellogg
A food product made from processed grains that is often eaten as the first meal of the day. -
Dishwasher - Josephine Cochran
A machine for washing dishes automatically. -
Aluminum - Charles Martin Hall
the chemical element of atomic number 13, a light silvery-gray metal. -
Radio - Guglielmo Marconi
is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.
