Team USA

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1888: the Revolving Door

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Van_Kannel Invented the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door

 

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-1960: Automatic Sliding doors

Horton Automatics invented automatic sliding doors

 

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1929: Celluloid Sunglasses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_Grant developed Celluloid Sunglasses

 

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1916: Concrete Mixer Truck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Stepanian invented the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_mixer#Concrete_mixing_transport_truck

Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1849: The Jackhammer

Jonathan J. Couch invented the jackhammer

 

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1863: the Ratcheting Socket Wrench

J.J. Richardson invented the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_wrench

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1933: the Phillips Head Screw

Phillips screws allowed machines to easily assemble items as the bit could easily align itself.

John P. Thompson and Henry Frank Phillips invented the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Phillips

 

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1940: Walkie-Talkie

Motorola sc300

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1852: The "V shaped" folding paper bag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wolle invented the machine produced folding paper bag.

1868: The "flat bottomed" folding paper bag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_E._Knight invented the flat bottomed folding paper bag (and the machine that made it!)

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1878: the first "insert and crimp" stapler

Henry R. Heyl invented the one push insert and crimp stapler.

 

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1955: Synthetic Diamond

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric invented the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond

 

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1933: Fiberglass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_Slayter (of Owens/Corning) invented Fiberglass

 

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1971: Magnetic resonance imaging machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lauterbur co-produced the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging machine

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1882: The electric clothes iron

Henry W. Seeley invented the electric iron

~1920's: the electric steam iron

Thomas Sears invented the steam iron

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1935: Nylon

Wallace Hume Carothers (at Dupont) invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1930: Neoprene

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoprene