Inventors and their inventions

· Thomas Adams, inventor of chewing gum

· Mary Anderson, inventor of car windshield wipers

· Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone

· Edward Binney, co-inventor of Crayola crayons

· Clarence Birdseye, inventor of commercial frozen food

· Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor of the snowmobile

· Willis Carrier, inventor of air conditioning

· Josephine Garis Cochrane, inventor of the dishwasher

· George de Mestral, inventor of Velcro

· Rudolph Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine

· Marion Donovon, inventor of the disposable diaper

· Richard Drew, inventor of Scotch tape

· Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the phonograph, lightbulb and motion pictures

· Douglas C. Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse

· Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of modern television

· Benjamin Franklin, inventor of the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove and the odometer

· Art Fry, inventor of Post-It notesEdwin Perkins, inventor of Kool-Aid

· James Russell, inventor of the CD (compact disc)

· Ralph Samuelson, inventor of waterskiing

· Arthur Sicard, inventor of the snowblower

· Igor Skorsky, inventor of helicopters

· Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven

· Levi Strauss, inventor of blue jeans

· Ralph Teetor, inventor of cruise control

· Earl Silas Tupper, inventor of Tupperware

· Schuyler Wheeler, inventor of the electric fan

The Essay on The Impact of African American Inventors

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· Orville and Wilbur Wright, inventors of the airplane

· Gumpei Yokoi, inventor of the Game Boy

Thomas Adams, inventor of chewing gum

Adams Sons and Company was formed in 1876 by the glass merchant Thomas Adams (1818-1905) and his two sons. As a result of experiments in a warehouse of Front Street, Adams made chewing gum that had chicle as an ingredient, large quantities of which had been made available to him by General Antonio de Santa Anna of Mexico, who was in exile in Staten Island and at whose instigation Adams had tried to use the chicle to make rubber.

Adams sold the gum with the slogan “Adams’ New York Gum No. 1 — Snapping and Stretching.” The firm was the nation’s most prosperous chewing gum company by the end of the century: it built a monopoly in 1899 by merging with the six largest and best-known chewing gum manufacturers in the United States and Canada, and achieved great success as the maker of Chiclets. Mary Anderson, inventor of car windshield wipers

Mary Anderson was granted her first patent for a window cleaning device in November 1903. Her invention could clean snow, rain, or sleet from a windshield by using a handle inside the car.