Connecticut is the birth place of many inventors and inventions. Click on the inventions below to learn more:
- Eli Whitney is best known for inventing the cotton gin.
- Alfred Carlton Gilbert was an Olympic Gold Medalist, graduate of Yale University, and inventor. He invented the erector set.
- The frisbee was inspired by Yale students throwing Frisbie Pie Company's pie tins to one another across the lawn at Yale University.
- Igor Sikorsky was a Russian-American who worked to design helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
- Silly Putty was invented in Connecticut, but it was invented by accident! Scientists were looking to create synthetic rubber, and one of their failed experiments was silly putty.
- One of the first combat submarines, "The Turtle," was designed in 1775 by David Bushnell. Connecticut is also responsible for building the first nuclear powered submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus.
- Charles Goodyear was a scientist who invented vulcanized rubber.
- David Mullany created the wiffle ball after watching his son and his friend play baseball with a golf ball and broomstick.