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  • The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
  • Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
1901
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1903
1904
1905
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1908
  • The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
  • Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
  • Model T first sold.
  • J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter
  • Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates. 
1909
1910
1911
  • Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
1912
  • Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
  • The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
  • Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
1913
  • The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
  • The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy.
  • Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
  • Gideon Sundback invented the modern zipper.
1914
  • Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
1915
  • Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
1916
  • Radios tuners invented, that received different stations.
  • Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
1917
  • Gideon Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first zipper).
1918
  • The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Today, every radio or television set uses this invention.
  • Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
1919
  • The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
  • Short-wave radio invented.
  • The flip-flop circuit invented.
  • The arc welder invented.
1920
  • The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
  • The Band-Aid (pronounced 'ban-'dade) invented by Earle Dickson.
1921
  • Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
  • John Larson invented the lie detector.
1922
  • Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
  • The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
1923
  • Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
  • The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
  • John Harwood invented the self-windingwatch in 1923.
  • Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
1924
  • The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
  • Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
1925

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