American Innovations

United States of America Innovations:

Colonial Period:

Swimfin (1717)
Octant (1730)
Franklin Stove (1742)
Mail Order (1744)
Charge Conservation (1747)

 Lightning Rod (1749)

 Flexible Urinary Catheter (1752)

Independence and the Federalist Era:

Swivel Chair (1776)

Flatboat (1782)

Bifocals (1784)

Automatic Flour Mill (1787)

Cracker (1792)

Cotton Gin (1793)

Wheel Cypher (1795)

Rumford Fireplace (1796)

Cupcake (1796)

Suspension Bridge (1801)

Fire Hydrant (1801)

Amphibious Vehicle (1805)

Vapor-Compression Refrigeration (1805)

Coffee Percolator (1806)

Circular Saw (1813)

Dental Floss (1815)

Detachable Collar (1827)

Graham Cracker (1829)

Electric Doorbell (1831)

Chloroform (1831)

Sewing Machine - lock-stitch (1833)

Combine Harvester (1834)

Relay (1835)

Morse Code (1836)

Cooking Gridiron(1836)

Circuit Breaker (1836)

Sleeping Car (1839)

Vulcanized Rubber (1839)

 Inhalational Anaesthetic (1842)

 Grain Elevator (1842)

Hand-Cranked Ice Cream Maker (1843)

Rotary Printing Press (1843)

Pressure-Sensitive Tape (1845)

Maynard Tape Primer (1845)

Baseball (1845)

Printing Telegraph (1846)

Gas Mask (1847)

Ring-Shaped Doughnut (1847)

Jackhammer (1849)

Safety Pin (1849)

Dishwasher (1850)

Rotary Hook (1851)

Fire Alarm Box (1851)

Burglar Alarm (1853)

Potato Chips (1853)

Spring Clothes Pin (1853)

Breast Pump (1853)

Egg Beater (1856)

Condensed Milk (1856)

Toilet paper- mass-produced and rolled (1857)

Pink Lemonade (1857)

 Mason Jar (1858)

Pencil Eraser (1858)

 Ironing Board (1858)

Dustpan (1858)

Electric Stove (1858)

Escalator (1859)

Petroleum Jelly (1859)

Vacuum Cleaner (1860)

Civil War and the Reconstruction Era:

 Jelly Bean (1861)

Kinematoscope (1861)

Post Card (1861)

Hand-Cranked Machine Gun (1861)

Breakfast Cereal (1863)

Ratchet Wrench (1863)

Double-Barreled Cannon (1863)

Cowboy Hat (1865)

Rotary Printing Press -web (1865)

Urinal in Restroom (1866)

 Chuckwagon (1866)

Steam-Powered Motorcycle (1867)

Paper Clip (1867)

Barbed Wire (1867)

Ticker Tape (1867)

Refrigerator Car (1867)

 Paper Bag (1868)

Tape Measure (1868)

American Football (1869)

Pipe Wrench (1869)

Clothes Hanger (1869)

Rotary Can Opener (1869)

Diner (1872)

Earmuffs (1873)

Silo (1873)

 Jeans (1873)

 Ice Cream Soda (1874)

 QWERTY (1874)

Phonograph (1877)

Gilded Age:

 Cash Register (1879)

Metal Detector (1881)

Electric Iron (1881)

Electric Fan (1882)

Salt Water Taffy (1883)

 Solar Cell (1883)

Thermostat (1883)

Machine Gun (1884)

Dissolvable Pill (1884)

Skyscraper (1885)

Popcorn Machine (1885)

Photographic Film (1885)

Cooking Mixer (1885)

Telephone Directory (1886)

Screen Door (1887)

Gramophone Record (1887)

Softball (1887)

Drinking Straw (1888)

Ballpoint Pen (1888)

Payphone (1889)

Progressive Era:

Stop Sign (1890)

Tabulating Machine (1890)

Smoke Detector (1890)

 Ferris Wheel (1891)

 Tesla Coil (1891)

Rotary Dial (1891)

 Zipper (1893)

Medical Glove (1894)

Volleyball (1894)

Cotton Candy (1897)

Muffler (1897)

Candy Corn (1898)

Remote Control (1898)

Nickel-Zinc Battery (1900)

Merrill-Crowe Process (1900)

Assembly Line (1901)

Disposable Safety Razor (1901)

Hearing Aid (1902)

Postage Meter (1902)

Teddy Bear (1902)

Air Conditioning (1902)

Tea Bag (1903)

Airplane (1903)

Windshield Wipers (1903)

Automatic Transmission (1904)

Banana Split (1904)

Typesetting (1906)

Paper Towel (1907)

Candy Apple (1907)

Paper Shredder (1909)

Headset (1910)

Propane (1910)

Road Surface Marking (1911)

Autopilot (1912)

Electric Blanket (1912)

Electric Traffic Light (1912)

Smoking-Cancer Link (1912)

Traffic Cone (1914)

Fortune Cookie (1914)

Supermarket (1916)

Tow Truck (1916)

Heparin (1916)

Covalent Bonding (1916)

Vitamin A (1917)

Superheterodyne Receiver (1918)

Torque Wrench (1918)

Grocery Bag (1918)

Hydraulic Brake (1918)

Blender (1919)

Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age:

Polygraph (1921)

Adhesive Bandage (1921)

Headrest (1921)

 Garage Door (1921)

 Convertible (1921)

Bulldozer (1923)

Instant Camera (1923)

Cheeseburger (1923)

 Earth Inductor Compass (1924)

Masking Tape (1925)

Reuben Sandwich (1925)

Tilt-A-Whirl (1926)

Garage Door Opener (1926)

 Power Steering (1926)

Drive Thru (1926)

Jukebox (1927)

Garbage Disposal (1927)

Kool-Aid (1927)

Quartz Clock (1927)

Recliner (1928)

Bubble Gum (1928)

Clip-On Tie (1928)

Electric Razor (1928)

Iron Lung (1928)

Great Depression and World War II:

Freon (1929)

Tampon (1929)

Sunglasses (1929)

Frozen Food (1929)

Cheesesteak (1930)

Chocolate Chip Cookie (1930)

Electric Guitar (1930)

Heavy Hydrogen (1931)

Cosmic Radio Waves (1931)

Homeostasis (1932)

Heavy Water (1933)

Richter Magnitude Scale (1935)

Black Light (1935)

 Parking Meter (1935)

 pH meter (1935)

Phillips-Head Screw (1936)

Programming Languages (1936)

Chair Lift (1936)

Vitamin E (1936)

Bass Guitar (1936)

O-Ring (1937)

Digital Computer (1937)

Shopping Cart (1937)

Beach Ball (1937)

Fiberglass (1938)

Nylon (1938)

 Soft Serve Ice Cream (1938)

  Teflon (1938)

Yield Sign (1939)

Automated Teller Machine (1939)

 Plutonium (1940)

Deodorant (1941)

Bazooka (1942)

Magnetic Proximity Fuse (1943)

Americium (1944)

Microwave Oven (1945)

Block Heater (1945)

Cold War:

Tupperware (1946)

Filament Tape (1946)

Credit Card (1946)

Waterproof Diaper (1946)

Defibrillator (1947)

Supersonic Aircraft (1947)

Hair Spray (1948)

Warfarin (1948)

Cat Litter (1948)

Hand Dryer (1948)

 Cable Television (1948)

Video Game (1948)

 Radiocarbon Dating (1949)

Atomic Clock (1949)

Crash Test Dummy (1949)

Artificial Snowmaking (1950)

Leaf Blower (1950)

 Californium (1950)

Teleprompter (1950)

 Cooler (1951)

Correction Fluid (1951)

Airbag (1951)

Barcode (1952)

Polio Vaccine (1952)

Artificial Heart (1952)

Heart-Lung Machine (1953)

Marker Pen (1953)

 DNA Structure (1953)

WD-40 (1953)

Apgar Scale (1953)

Zipper Storage Bag (1954)

TV Dinner (1954)

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (1954)

 Radar Gun (1954)

Crosby-Kugler Capsule (1955)

Nuclear Submarine (1955)

Hard Disk Drive (1955)

Batch Processing Operating System (1956)

Videotape (1956)

Particle Storage Ring (1956)

Laser (1957)

Confocal Microscopy (1957)

Gamma Camera (1957)

 Lisp Programming Language (1958)

Integrated Circuit (1958)

Weather Satellite (1959)

Child Safety Seat (1960)

Magnetic Stripe Card (1960)

Global Navigation Satellite System (1960)

Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill (1960)

Electronic Spreadsheet (1961)

Wearable Computer (1961)

Communications Satellite (1962)

Jet Injector (1962)

Glucose Meter (1962)

Computer Mouse (1963)

BASIC (1963)

Balloon Catheter (1963)

Plasma Display (1964)

 8-Track Cartridge (1964)

  Kevlar (1965)

Cordless Telephone (1965)

Compact Disc (1965)

Hand-Held Calculator (1968)

Virtual Reality (1968)

Lunar Module (1969)

Laser Printer (1969)

Wide-Body Aircraft (1969)

Taser (1969)

Mousepad (1969)

Wireless Local Area Network (1970)

 Personal Computer (1971)

Fuzzball Router (1971)

Microprocessor (1971)

Floppy Disk (1971)

  E-Mail (1971)

Global Positioning System (1972)

Recombinant DNA (1973)

 Mobile Phone (1973)

 Voicemail (1973)

 Universal Product Code (1974)

Digital Camera (1974)

Popcorn Bag (1978)

Bulletin Board System (1978)

Control-Alt-Delete (1981)

Space Shuttle (1981)

Graphic User Interface (1981)

 Internet (1983)

 LCD Projector (1984)

Atomic Force Microscope (1986)

Tumor Suppressor Gene (1986)

Tilt And Roll Luggage (1988)

Nicotine Patch (1988)

Firewall (1988)

Resin Identification Code (1988)

Contemporary Era:

CMOS Image Sensor (1994)

DNA Computing (1994)

Segway PT (1994)

Bose–Einstein Condensate (1995)

JavaScript (1995)

Adobe Flash (1996)

 Embryonic Stem Cell Lines (1998)

 Torino Scale (1999)

 iBOT (1999)

Nanowire Battery (2007)

  Human Genome And Variation Mapping (2007)

 Bionic Contact Lens (2008)

^  I knew that Americans had invented many of these items. It's very interesting that we have contributed so much to the world. ^

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(before_1890)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(1890–1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(1946–91)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions_(after_1991)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_discoveries