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Benjamin Franklin
Lightning rod
Tim Berners-Lee
World Wide Web
Nikola Tesla
Alternating Current (AC) electric system
Eli Whitney
Cotton gin
Samuel Morse
Morse code and the Telegraph
Garrett Morgan
Three-position traffic signal
Charles Babbage
Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
Alfred Nobel
Dynamite
John Gorrie
Mechanical refrigeration system
James Dyson
Bagless vacuum cleaner
James Watt
Improvements to steam engine
Thomas Edison
Phonograph
Alexander Fleming
Discovery of Penicillin
George Eastman
Roll film
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
X-rays
Antonio Meucci
Early voice communication device
Earle Dickson
Adhesive Bandages
Edwin H. Land
Polaroid Instant Camera
Guglielmo Marconi
Radio
Stephanie Kwolek
Kevlar
The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur)
Flying machine
Percy Spencer
Microwave oven
Leo Hendrik Baekeland
Bakelite
Philo Farnsworth
Electronic television
Leonardo da Vinci
Conceptual inventions
Karl Benz
First practical automobile
Rudolf Diesel
Diesel engine
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
John Logie Baird
Mechanical television
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