Some of important US inventions, which affected our lives. This is supposed to be a lecture with some stories behind the inventions, sorry, maybe I'll add some text later.

1. Astghik Shahkhatuni

2. DISCLAIMER!
Rome was not built in one day

3. AMERICAN
INVENTIONTS

4. Changed the ways we
COMPETE

5. A Tug of War
AC DC
G. Westinghouse Nikola Tesla Thomas Alva Edison
1846-1914 1856-1943 1847-1931
1882, AC Motor Electric Chair

6. Wage Motive
Henry Ford
1863-1947
1901, Assembly line, Ransom Eli Olds
1913, Assembly line production, Henry Ford

7. Price Motive
1916, Supermarket, Clarence Saunders

8. Changed the ways we
SEE

9. Let There Be Light
1879, Electric Light Bulb,
Thomas Alva Edison

10. Turn Off Some Light
1929, Sun glasses, Sam Foster
1937, Edwin Land, Polarized sun glasses

11. Press the Button
1885, Photographic Film, George Eastman

12. Watch the Action
1888, Kinetoscope, Thomas Alva Edison

13. Sitting High, Seeing Far
1993, GPS,
Ivan Getting & Bradford Parkinson

14. The Eye of Omniscience
1990, Optical Space Telescope, Lyman Spitzer

15. The Eye of Omniscience
1990, Lyman Spitzer

16. The Eye of Omniscience
1990, Lyman Spitzer

17. Changed the ways we
COMMUNICATE

18. Dots and Dashes
1832, Morse Code, Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse

19. Keys
Q W E R T Y
1874, QWERTY, Christopher Sholes

20. Music
1887, Disc Record, Emile Berliner
1877, Phonograph, Thomas Alva Edison

21. Talks
1973, Mobile phone, Martin Cooper

22. Letters
mouse
monkey cat
@
snail dog
1971, E-mail and @, Ray Tomlinson

23. Connections
1983, Internet

24. Changed the ways we
SPEND MONEY

25. Virtually
1904, Landlord’s game, Lizzie Magie
1935, Monopoly, Charles Darrow

26. Voluntarily
1887, Slot machine, Charles Fey

27. Momentarily
1960, Magnetic stripe card, Forrest Parry
1950, Credit card, Ralph Schneider & Frank X. McNamara

28. Changed the ways we
PLAY

29. Outdoors
1948, Flying Disc, Walter Frederick Morrison

30. Outdoors
1948, Flying Disc, Walter Frederick Morrison

31. Indoors
1947, Video game, Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. & Estle Ray Mann
1972, Video game console, Ralph H. Baer

33. …with Bubbles
1870, Chewing gum, Thomas Adams
1928, Bubble gum, Walter E. Diemer

34. …Football
1869, American football, Walter Camp

35. Changed the ways we
LEARN

36. …from games
C
R
W O R D
S
S
1913, Crossword, Arthur Wynne

37. …from books
1896, Comic Book,
Richard F. Outcault

38. …from machines
1937, Digital Computer, George Stibitz
1971, Personal Computer, John Blankenbaker

39. Changed the ways we
MOVE AROUND

40. …with our goods
1937, Shopping Cart,
Sylvan Goldman

41. …in our office
1776, Swivel Chair, Thomas Jefferson

42. …in the sky
1903, Airplane, Wilbur and Orville Wright

43. …in the sky
1903, Airplane, Wilbur and Orville Wright

44. … under the sea
1954, Nuclear Submarine, Hyman Rickover

45. … under the sea
1954, Nuclear Submarine, Hyman Rickover

46. … on the globe
1998, Microsoft Encarta Virtual Globe
2006, Virtual Globe, Google Earth

47. … to the Universe
1926, Liquid-Fuel Rocket, Robert H. Goddard

48. … in the space
1981, Space Shuttle, George Mueller

49. … on the Moon
1968, Lunar Module, Tom Kelly

50. … on the Mars
1997, Mars Rover, Howard Eisen

51. Changed the ways we
KILL

52. …from short distance
The LeMat Revolver, an unusual revolver Smith & Wesson Model 500
from the American Civil War era with 9
revolving chambers firing bullets and a
center barrel firing shot.
.44 Magnum Colt Anaconda
1836, Revolver, Samuel Colt Colt Python .357 Magnum revolvers

53. …repeatedly
"The Gun that Won the West"
1860, Repeating Riffle, Benjamin Tyler Henry

54. …non-stop
1861, Machine Gun, Richard Gutling

55. … at once
1945, Nuclear Bomb,
J. Robert Oppenheimer

56. … covertly
1894, Mousetrap, William C. Hooker

57. Changed the ways we
DRESS

58. …our legs
reveal
1938, Nylon, Wallace H. Carothers 1956, Pantyhose, Ernest G. Rice
1959, Spandex, Joseph Shivers

59. …our bodies
1873, Jeans, Levi Strauss and Jakob Davis

60. …Christmas Tree
1882, Electric Christmas Lights, Edward H. Johnson

61. …our kids
It’s a…
Diaper Cake
1950, Disposable Diaper,
Marion Donovan

62. Changed the ways we
BUILD

63. Higher and higher
1885, Sciscraper,
William Le Baron Jenney

64. HigherUAE WillisHigher
and Tower
Burj Khalifa
Dubai, Chicago, USA
828m 527 m
2010 1974

65. Through the Water
1801, Modern Suspension Bridge, James Finley

66. Through the Water
1801, Modern Suspension Bridge, James Finley

67. All in the Same Boat
1958, Integrated circuit, 1947, Transistor,
Jack Kilby William Shockley

68. Changed the ways we
EAT & DRINK

69. As fast as possible
1912, Fast Food Restaurant, Joseph horn and Frank Hardart
1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald

70. As fast as possible
1912, Fast Food Restaurant, Joseph horn and Frank Hardart

71. As fast as possible
1912, Fast Food Restaurant, Joseph horn and Frank Hardart
1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald

73. 1886, Coca Cola, John Pemberton

74. As sweet as possible

75. As sweet as possible
1897, Cotton Candy, William Morrison & John C. Wharton

76. Changed the ways we
DISCOVERED FOOD

77. …out of neglect
1930, Chocolate chip cookie, Ruth Wakefield

78. …out of spite
1853, Potato chips, George Crum

79. …out of care
1856, Condensed Milk, Gail Borden

80. …out of laziness
1905, Ice pop, Frank Epperson

81. …by accident
1945, Microwave Oven, Percy Spencer

82. …out of attentiveness
1929, Frozen Food, Clarence Birdseye

83. CONCLUSION

84. THANKS
Wikipedia and all the people, who post
stories and pictures