Inventors and what they made
Robert Goddard
Founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Booker T. Washington
Connecticut
Hartford
Invented the telegraph
Samuel Morse
"Father of American Missions"
Adoniram Judson
Built the Model T
Henry Ford
Born a slave but became a scientist whose passion was plants
George Washington Carver
Delaware
Dover
Invented the phonograph
Thomas Edison
Made millions in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
Built the first successful airplane
Wright Brothers
Was a lawyer who became a revival preacher
Charles Finney
Maine
Augusta
Built the first successful steamboat
Robert Fulton
Developed a method of turning iron ore into steel
Sir Henry Bessemer
Built the first traffic signal
Garret Morgan
Baseball player who became a preacher
Billy Sunday
Massachusetts
Boston
Invented the mechanical reaper used to quickly pick cotton
Cyrus McCormick
First billionaire in history with his oil company
John D. Rockefeller
Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Dwight L. Moody
New Hampshire
Concord
Invented the shoe-lasting machine
Jan Matzeliger
The mail route by horses was called ___
the pony express