1826-1876
Samuel Colt | Colt Revolver W
ith the first of its kind revolving cylinder, Samuel Colt’s powerful and reliable revolver is credited as the gun that won the West because of its ability to fire more than one bullet without reloading.
COLT
Along with being crucial to
the young nation’s Manifest Destiny, it provided a means of self-defense for settlers and law enforcement when attacked by bandits during the Frontier wars. Its impact didn’t stop there.
With its highly innovative design, it launched what many consider the industrial revolution in the East. Honorable mentions: John Deere, 1837, lightweight steel plow; Charles
Goodyear, 1839, first vulcanized rubber; Alexander Graham Bell, 1876, first telephone; Nicolaus Otto, 1876, internal combustion engine; and Thomas Edison, 1879, first light bulb.
PLOW 1876-1926
Orville and Wilbur Wright | Airplane P
erhaps the most vital inventions in the nation’s history came during this period, but none changed the nation and world more than the Wright brothers’ invention, the first powered and controlled flight of an airplane. Their 1903 invention would lead to
Americans being able to avoid long, often treacherous journeys by train or coach and the rapid movement of goods from one coast to the other. It also laid the foundation for the modern
aerospace industry and just six decades later, resulted in scientists and engineers following their dream of flight to land the
first men on the Moon. In a quote that echoes Franklin’s
thoughts on the need to grow and innovate, Orville Wright discussed the need for Americans to never accept that something simply cannot be done. “If we worked on
the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance,” he said.
Honorable mentions: George
Eastman, 1884, first film in roll form; Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, 1886, first four-wheel auto; Willis Carrier, 1902, first air conditioning unit; Albert Einstein, 1905, Theory of Relativity; Elmer Sperry, 1917, first guided missile; John Logie Baird, 1925, first television.
FIRST FOUR-WHEEL CAR
TIRE
TELEPHONE
LIGHT BULB
INTERNAL ENGINE
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
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