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Identify the inventors--and their inventions--for whom the following streets were named: 

Howe  Bell  Fulton 


Elias Howe Jr. was an American inventor Alexander Graham Bell was Robert Fulton was an American engineer
best known for his creation of the modern a Scottish-born inventor, and inventor who is widely credited with
lockstitch sewing machine.   scientist, and engineer who developing a commercially successful
is credited with inventing steamboat; the first was called North River
and patenting the first Steamboat.  
practical telephone. He also
co-founded the American
Telephone and Telegraph
Company in 1885.  

Morse  Watt  Edison 


Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an James Watt was a Scottish Thomas Alva Edison was an American
American inventor and painter. After having inventor, mechanical inventor and businessman who has been
established his reputation as a portrait engineer, and chemist who described as America's greatest inventor.
painter, in his middle age Morse contributed improved on Thomas He developed many devices in fields such
to the invention of a single-wire telegraph Newcomen's 1712 as electric power generation, mass
system based on European telegraphs.  Newcomen steam engine communication, sound recording, and
with his Watt steam engine motion pictures. 
in 1776, which was
fundamental to the changes
brought by the Industrial
Revolution in both his native
Great Britain and the rest of
the world. 
Whitney  Tesla  Marconi 
Eli Whitney was an American inventor, Nikola Tesla was a Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi was an
widely known for inventing the cotton gin, Serbian-American inventor, Italian inventor and electrical engineer,
one of the key inventions of the Industrial electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on
Revolution and shaped the economy of the mechanical engineer, and long-distance radio transmission,
Antebellum South.   futurist best known for his development of Marconi's law, and a radio
contributions to the design telegraph system. 
of the modern alternating
current electricity supply
system.  

Hurley     Northrop 
Jonathan Hurley Invented the hockey puck.  John Knudsen was an American aircraft
industrialist and designer, who founded the
Northrop Corporation in 1939. His career
began in 1916 as a draftsman for Lockheed
Aircraft Manufacturing Company. He joined
the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1923,
where in time he became a project
engineer. 

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