INVENTIONS IN AMERICA

By: Sarah Stetson

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL’S DESIGN SKETCH OF

THE TELEPHONE.

Drawn by Alexander Bell in 1876

The telephone came a s a result of attempting to improve the telegraph.

March 10, 1876 was the success of the telephone and the death of the multiple telegraph.

EMILE BERLINERINVENTOR OF THE

GRAMOPHONE

November 8, 1887Was the date the gramophone was

successfully invented.

The purpose of this invention is recording

and reproducing spoken words or

sounds.

Berliner was the first person to begin recording on flat

discs.

EZRA WARNER JR.INVENTION OF THE CAN

OPENER

This early version of the can opener was used

mainly in military during the Civil War. It was later brought into kitchens when is was

safer to use.

MOTION PICTURE

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1953) invented the first

in 1888.

This machine used a circular disc with still photographs of the successive phases of movement around the circumference to recreate the illusion of movement.

THE WILBUR AND ORVILLE WRIGHT BROTHERS AND THE INVENTION OF

THE AIRPLANE

1903Wilbur and Orville make the first free, controlled, and sustained flights in a power-driven, heavier-than-air machine.

The first trial is made by Orville at 10:35 A.M., stays twelve seconds in the air, and flies 120 feet.

Wilbur makes the longest flight in the fourth trial, fifty-nine seconds in the air and 852 feet.

THE INVENTION OF THE RADIO

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor who developed the radio. The first radio transmission across an ocean occurred December 12, 1901.

X-rays were discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen

Roentgen was a German physicist who described this new form of radiation that allowed him to photograph objects that were hidden behind opaque shields.

These waves were called "X-radiation" because so little was known about them.

X-RAY MACHINE

COCA-COLAJohn Pemberton invented Coca-Cola on May 8th, 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia. The original Coca-Cola was created and named for its main ingredients, cocaine and the kola nut.Cocaine is no longer an ingredient of Coca-Cola, but caffeine, sugar, citric acid, and fruit oils remain

SAMUEL FOX INVENTED THE UMBRELLA

It was patented in1825. This specific umbrella is called the “ribbed” umbrella due to the ribs holding the fabric in place. Fox started the "English Steels Company," which manufactured his new umbrella.

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