Additional Resources – The Republic of Gadgets – America’s Great Inventors
- Benjamin Franklin, Kite Experiment, Philadelphia, PA, 1752
- The Founding Fathers, the U.S. Constitution and the Experiment in Ordered Liberty, Philadelphia, PA, 1788 to the Present
- The United States Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, D.C., 1790 to the Present
- Eli Whitney, the Cotton Gin, Savannah, GA, 1793
- Robert Fulton, the Steamboat, Submarine, and Torpedo, NYC, 1807
- Samuel Colt, Colt Fire-Arms, Paterson, NJ, 1836
- Samuel Morse, Telegraph System and Morse Code, Washington, D.C., 1844
- Charles Goodyear, Vulcanized Rubber, Springfield, MA/New York, 1844
- Alexander Graham Bell, the Telephone, Boston, MA, 1876
- Thomas A. Edison, Light Bulb, Phonograph, Motion Picture Camera, and Research Laboratory, Menlo Park, NJ, 1879
- Nikola Tesla, Alternating Current (AC) Induction Motor, NY, 1888
- Henry Ford, Model T and Assembly Line, Detroit, MI, 1908/1913
- The Wright Brothers, First Flight, Kitty Hawk, NC, 1903
- George Washington Carver, Scientist, Tuskegee, AL, 1915-23
- Robert Goddard, First Liquid-Fueled Rocket, Auburn, MA, 1926
- Philo Farnsworth, All-Electronic Television, San Francisco, CA, 1927
- Howard Hughes, Aviation Pioneer, Culver City, CA, 1930s-40s
- Jonas Salk, Polio Vaccine, Pittsburgh, PA, 1955
- United States Department of Defense, the Internet, Los Angeles/UCLA, USA, 1960s-1970s
- NASA/Thomas Kelley, Apollo Lunar Module, Bethpage, NY, 1969
- Ray Tomlinson, Electronic Mail, Boston, MA, 1971
- Martin “Marty” Cooper, Cellular Mobile Phone, Schaumburg, IL, 1973
- John Blankenbaker, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs & Bob Noyce/IBM-Intel-Apple-Microsoft, Personal Computers, Silicon Valley, CA, 1970s
- Lyman Spitzer, Jr., Space Telescope, Princeton, NJ, 1946-1990
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google, Palo Alto, CA, 1998
