Cloth & Clothing
First developed in the 1930s this first fully synthetic textile was used as the first effective replacement for silk in items from stockings to military parachutes
What is nylon
Josephine Cochran invented this device in 1883–which is now found in 75% of American kitchens— following frustrations with her servants chipping her fine China
What is a dish washer
This car manufacturer ‘s cars were so aerodynamically retrogressive they were more efficient driven backwards
What is Chrysler?
The death and burial of this congressman’s wife before he could get home motivated him to invent this way of dispatching nearly instantaneous Messages’ , dubbed the Victorian internet which effectively ending the pony express
What is Morse code/telegram
The first African American woman to secure a medical patent obtained it for the discovery of a medical procedure that resolved this common cloudy eye condition
What are cataracts
Originally dubbed “waist overalls” and made of white duck cloth, the average American owns seven pairs of this invention that is famous for its copper rivets holding the pockets together
What are blue jeans
Originally called the automatic, and famous for it’s fail safe technology, this 1830s vehicle made modern skyscrapers possible and was developed by a man named Elisha Otis
What is the elevator
Type of train, weighing less than 2 percent of the average train at the time, was known for it’s sleek stainless steel veneer, fine dining experience, and the fact that it hauled over 90% of troops and materiel to military bases during mobilization to enter WWII
What are streamliner trains?
After five failed attempts by the same inventor and entrepreneur, and building the largest ship ever made, this line was successfully laid at the bottom of the ocean in 1866 allowing messages between America and Europe
Transatlantic cable
In 1965, while working for DuPont to develop new synthetic textiles for new lines of apparel, chemist Stephanie Louise Kwolek accidentally discovered this fabric material which is 5x stronger than steel, fireproof, and bulletproof
What is Kevlar
In 1834 Walter Hunt invented this useful device to automate needle and thread work but did not seek a patent due to his daughter’s protests that it would put seamstresses out of work
what are sewing machines
Willis Carrier developed the rational psychometric formula In tandem with this late nineteen century invention commissioned by a lithography company to keep its paper from wrinkling by removing humidity from the air
What is the air conditioner?
Construction on this famous bridge relied on over ten volumes it higher mathematical calculations, saved the lives of 21 workmen through a safety net system underneath the bridge scaffolding, can sweat up to 28 feet to the right or left, and is painted a distinctive International Orange
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
This inventor, whose own wife was deaf, taught Helen Keller how to speak, invented a dehusking machine at the age of 12, brought the telephone into experience, and later developed the photophone, a way to transit voice wirelessly using beams of light, the initial predecessor of todays fibrotic
Who is Alexander Graham bell
Having invented the first taser to “keep bills away” and inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, inventor Earl Bakker constructed this wearable device that uses electricity to keep people alive
What is an artificial pacemaker
This Yankee lawyer wanting to impress his love interest invented in a mere nine days the cotton gin which reduced cotton processing time by 50-fold
Who is Eli Whitney
First marketed as the phantom doorman, this invention found a use for vacuum tubes beyond service in radio devices
What are automatic doors
Erie Canal this 363 mile East-west $7M water way alternative to bringing goods to market via Mississippi River and New Orleans was the largest public works project in western civilization since the great pyramid at Giza the then equivalent of a bullet train by cutting ground travel time by 75%
What are shipping containers
Also known as desktop or additive manufacturing, this invention uses stereolithography to convert CAD drawings into products using ultraviolet lasers and photopolymer resins and is ultimately predicted to usher in a third industrial Revolution
What is 3D printing?
Dismissed as a quack by PHDs and shunned by the cancer research community, Raymond Damadian developed this machine that uses radio waves to discern the composition human body, primarily to detect cancer
What is an MRI/magnetic resonance imaging
This arch support company turned shoe manufacturer in the 1960s boasted scientific clinical trials behind its shoe design and is named after three-clawed chicken feet which the founder considered an example of perfect balance
What is new Balance?
This post WWII precursor to the microwave oven was known for its ability to quickly cook and dispense hot dogs for dense concentrations of hungry patrons, such as lunch hour at grand central station
What is speedy weeny?
The initial name of the Riverside freeway
What is the redondo beach freeway
In 1916 Clarence sanders started the world first chain of indoor self serve supermarkets called by this brand name which would grow from 1 to 1200 store locations in just 6 years and the largest American retailer until 1965
What is piggly wiggly
Dr. Charles Drew discovered a way to drastically increase the shelf line of this bodily fluid and thereby saved countless lives during WWII
What is blood plasma