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Invention

Invention Name
and Creation
Date

Name of
Inventor

Category
(Transportation,
Communication,
and Productivity)

Impact of
invention on a
particular
industry and
American
society

Telephone

Telephone
March 10, 1876

Alexander
Graham Bell

Communication

The telephone
brought us to the
age of
secondary
orality.

Phonograph

Phonograph
1877

Thomas Edison

Productivity

Music changed
from being a
group
experience to a
personal one.

Type writer

Type writer
1868

Christopher
Latham Sholes
and Carlos
Glidden and
Samuel W.
Soule

Communication

Revolutionized
business and for
it to expand and
sped up life.

Airplane

Airplane
December 17,
1903

Wilbur and
Orville Wright

Transportation

Airplanes have
changed our
way of thinking
and has given us
a different way to
travel harsh
distances.

Air Breaks

Air breaks
September 28,
1869

WABCO

Transportation
and Productivity

Changed the
way of
transportation

Hand-held

Hand-held

George Eastman Productivity

Discovered a

Camera

Camera
1888

Refrigerated
Train Car

Refrigerated
Train Car
1867

new way to
capture
moments.

William Davis

Productivity

Transformed the
meat business.