Inventors Flashcards
Memorizing the inventors on p. 565 of your textbook. Chapter 20 test will include these people.
1
Q
Elisha Otis
A
passenger elevator brake (1852)
2
Q
George Pullman
A
sleeping car (1864)
3
Q
George Westinghouse
A
air brake (1869)
4
Q
Elijah McCoy
A
automatic engine-oiling machine (1872)
5
Q
Andrew S. Hallidie
A
cable streetcar (1873)
6
Q
Stephen Dudley Field
A
electric streetcar (1874)
7
Q
Alexander Graham Bell
A
telephone (1876)
8
Q
Thomas Alva Edison
A
phonograph (1877) and first practical incandescent light bulb (1879)
9
Q
Anna Baldwin
A
milking machine (1878)
(Photo unavailable, probably due to sexism)
10
Q
James Ritty
A
cash register (1879)
11
Q
Jan E. Matzeliger
A
shoemaking machine (1883)
12
Q
Lewis E. Waterman
A
fountain pen (1884)
13
Q
Granville T. Woods
A
automatic air brake (1887)
14
Q
Charles and J. Frank Duryea
A
gasoline-powered car (1893)
15
Q
King C. Gillette
A
safety razor with throwaway blades (1895)
17
Q
Leo H. Baekeland
A
improved plastic (1909)
