Invented in the USA
Posted on July 9, 2025
by Kelly P
Developing ideas takes vision and perseverance! Josephine Cochrane invented, marketed, and sold her dishwasher, originally with the idea of saving effort for women working in the home. Garrett Morgan not only invented the first three-way traffic light, but also an early version of the gas mask, which was successfully used at a tunnel accident in Cleveland, Ohio. Are you interested in learning more about inventors like Josephine and Garrett? These books focus on the American inventors who made their dreams into a reality, and in turn made lives better around the world! Hopefully they will inspire you to innovate too!
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