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inventions
inventions back then and now -
first piano
Bartolomeo Cristofori was the first to invent the piano -
first fire extinguisher
French C. Hopffer was the first to invent the fire extinguisher -
first flying shuttle
john kay was the first to invent the flying shuttle -
first steam engine
john watt invents the new and approved steam engine -
first submarine
david bushnell was the first one to create the first submarine -
first steam boat
john fitch invents the first steam boat -
small pox vaccination
edward jenner was the first person to make a vaccination for small pox -
first soda fountain
Samuel Fahnestock was the first one too invent the soda fountain -
first grain elevator
joseph dart invents the very first grain elevator -
sewing machine
American, Elias Howe was the first person to invent the sewing machine -
first steam turbine
Charles Parson was the first person to invent the steam turbine. helped with people to go across the sea and river -
very first radio
In 1893 the inventor Nikolai Tesla demonstrated a wireless radio in St. Louis, Missouri. helped with people to understand music. -
first gas motored and manned plane
Wilbur and Orville Wright spent four years of research and development to create the first successful powered airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer. It first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, with Orville at the controls. changed the way u can walk u can fly now -
first helicoptor
French engineer Paul Cornu in his first helicopter in 1907. Note that he is sitting between the two rotors, which rotated in opposite directions to cancel torque. This helicopter was the first flying machine to have risen from the ground using rotor blades instead of wings. -
first stainless steel
In 1913, Harry Brearley of Sheffield, UK discovered 'rustless' steel. Although there had been many prior attempts, Brearley has been credited with inventing the first true stainless steel, which had a 12.8% chromium content. He had added chromium to molten iron to produce a metal that did not rust. it helped with big products that were made -
fortune cookies
However, many still hold to the popular belief that fortune cookies were invented by a Chinese-American named David (Tsung) Jung, who owned the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles. He claimed to have stuffed the cookies with passages from the Bible and handed them out to unemployed men near his bakery in 1918. helped with people believing in there fortune