Team USA

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1899: The Flashlight (aka Torch)

American Electrical and Novelty Manufacturing Company (Eveready)

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1940's: Chemotherapy

Louis S. Goodman and Alfred Gilman invented Chemotherapy

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1950's Proton Beam Therapy (Cancer treatment)

Robert R Wilson ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Wilson )
invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_therapy

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1915: Pyrex Glass

Eugene Sullivan, director of research at Corning Glass Works, invented Pyrex glass (low expansion when heated, shock resistant)

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1921: Polygraph (lie detector)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Augustus_Larson invented the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1932: Zippo Lighter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grant_Blaisdell invented the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo

8:28 mark

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1936: Voice Synthesizer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Dudley (Bell Labs) created the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voder


1952: Voice Recognition

Bell Laboratories "Audrey".

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1965: The Press-and-Seal plastic ziplock bag

Steven Ausnit invented the ziplock bag.

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1801: Steel-framed Skyscraper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Le_Baron_Jenney designed the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Insurance_Building which is considered the first steel framed skyscraper

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors:

1883: First Steel-wire Suspension Bridge

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Augustus_Roebling was the first steel-wire suspension bridge in the world.

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors

1907: Bakelite (the first plastic)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Baekeland invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors

1905: "Caterpillar/Crawler" tread tractor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Holt invented the first practical crawler tread tractor

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors

1927: Constant Velocity Joint (CV Joint)

Alfred H. Rzeppa invented the CV-Joint (early version)

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors

1932: The Cyclotron (particle accelerator)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_O._Lawrence invented the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron
(and won the Nobel Prize)

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors

~1900 The Gasoline/Battery powered Submarine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Holland invented the submarine that used batteries for submerged power and gasoline when surfaced.