THE NATION'S PRIDE 



593 



LIST OF EPOCH-MAKING INVENTIONS BY PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES DURING 



THE EAST FIFTY YEARS 



Inventor. 



Date. 



Telephone 



Typewriter 



Cash register 



Incandescent lamp 



Talking machine 



Electric furnace reduction 



Electrolytic alkali production 



Transparent photograph film 



Motion-picture machine 



Buttonhole sewing machine 



Carborundum 



Calcium carbide 



Artificial graphite 



Split-phase induction motor 



Air brake 



Electric welding 



Type-bar casting 



Chain-stitch shoe-sewing machine 



Single-type composing machine 



Continuous-process match machine 



Chrome tanning 



Disk plows (modern type) 



Welt machine 



Electric lamp 



Recording adding machine 



Celluloid 



Automatic knot-tying harvester machine 



Water gas 



Machine for making barbed wire 



Rotary converter 



Automatic car-coupler 



High-speed steel 



Dry-air process for blast furnace 



Block signals for railways 



Trolley car 



Harveyized armor plate 



Bell 



Sholes 



Patterson 



Edison 



....do 



Cowles 



Castner 



Eastman 



Edison 



Reece 



Acheson 



Willson 



Acheson 



Tesla 



Westinghouse 



Thomson 



Mergenthaler 



French & Myers 



Lanston 



Beecher 



Schulz 



Hardy 



Goodyear 



Brush 



Burroughs 



Hyatt 



Appleby 



Lowe 



Glidden 



Bradley 



Janne}^ 



Taylor & White 



Gayley , 



Robinson , 



Van Depoele & Sprague 

 Harvey 



1876 

 1878 

 1885 

 1880 

 1878 

 1885 

 1890 

 1888 



1893 



1881 



1891 



1888 



1896 



1887 



1869 



1889 



1885 



1881 



1887 



1888 



1884 



1896 



1871 



1879 



1888 



1870 



1880 



1875 



1875 



1887 



1873 



1901 



1894 



1872 



1 884- 1 887 



1891 



As compared with this list, note the following list of important inventions that have 

 been made during the same period by foreigners, which has been compiled from information 

 furnished by the 43 examining divisions of the Patent Office : 



Invention. 



Date. 



Inventor. 



Nationality. 



Electric steel 



Dynamite 



Artificial alizarene (dye) 



Siphon recorder 



1900 

 1867 

 1869 

 1874 

 1877 

 1900 

 1886 

 1900 

 1880 

 1884 

 1883 

 1888 

 1890 

 1893 



Heroult 



Nobel 



Graebe & Lieberman 



Thompson 



Otto 



French. 

 Swedish. 

 German. 

 English. 



Gas engine, Otto cycle 



Wireless telegraphy 



Smokeless powder 



Diesel oil motor 



German. 



Marconi 



Italian. 



Vielle 



Diesel 



French. 

 German. 



Centrifugal creamer 



De Laval 



Swedish. 



Manganese steel 



Electric transformer 



Hadfield 



Gaulard & Gibbs 



English. 

 Do. 



Cyanide process for extracting metal 

 Mantle burner 



Arthur & De Forrest. . . . 

 Welsbach 



Do. 

 Austrian. 



Bv-product coke oven 



Hoffman 



Do. 









