Mary Anderson invented windshield wipers
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
Clarence Birdseye invented the process of flash freezing food
George Washington Carver invented peanut products
Willis Carrier invented modern air conditioning
Josephine Cochrane invented the dishwasher
John Deere invented the steel plow
Thomas Edison invented the long-lasting lightbulb and the phonograph
Henry Ford invented the moving assembly line
Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
Grace Hopper invented the COBOL computer programming language
Margaret Knight invented the paper bag machine
Garrett Morgan invented the traffic signal and the gas mask
Elijah McCoy invented the lubricating oil cup for train engines
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph and Morse code
Nikola Tesla invented the alternating current (AC) electrical system
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur) invented the airplane
National Inventors Hall of Fame: Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright
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