Electric light bulb, Kinetoscope, and Phonograph are among his most famous inventions.
Thomas Edison
This invention made it possible to cover a wound with a clean pad of gauze and sticky tape.
What is a Band-Aid?
Invented dynamite, a fairly safe explosive, and donated most of his fortune to fund Prizes to honor the best work each year in the areas of literature, chemistry, physics, medicine and peace.
Alfred Nobel (Nobel Peace Prize)
This developed after students at Yale University made a game of gliding empty metal pie plates through the air. In 1964, Wham-O introduced the first professional model and a new sport was born.
What is a frisbee?
This team sport was first developed in Worcester, MA in 1880. It involved small pins, a ball and an alley.
What is bowling?
While running a school for the deaf, he and his partner, Thomas Watson, invented the telephone in 1876.
Alexander Graham Bell
In 1930, an inn in Wakefield, MA needed a new dessert and the owner added one new ingredient to an old favorite recipe. Chocolate lovers were in heaven.
What is the chocolate chip cookie?
This Scottish engineer is known for developing an improved design for a steam engine that led to the Industrial Revolution.
Who is James Watt?
Alexander Fleming, A Scottish researcher, discovered the first substance, penicillin, that could kill bacteria. This led to discovering or manufacturing many more of these drugs that can control infections by killing bacteria.
What are antibiotics?
He didn't invent the automobile but he did change the way automobiles were manufactured making them faster and cheaper to build.
Who was Henry Ford?
William Morton, a Boston doctor, is credited with the first use of this substance during surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846. His patient not only survived the operation but felt no pain as he slept through it.
What is an anesthetic?
In 1945, Gimbel's Dept, Store in New York sold out of 10,000 devices (sold for $12.50 each) advertised as "fantastic...miraculous fountain pen...guaranteed to write for two years without refilling." The first patent for such a device was awarded in 1888, but took almost 60 years to perfect...now we can buy them for less than a $1.00 in all colors.
What is ballpoint pen?