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Inventor Albert ButzAt the time that he patented the the furnace regulator and alarm, Albert Butz was working in Minneapolis,minnesota.
African-American hairdresser and inventor Lyda Newman (born in Ohio in 1885) patented an improved hairbrush in New York City in 1898. She also fought for the right for women to vote, working with well-known women's suffrage activists.
Sure! The phonograph is an old-fashioned device used to play music recorded on vinyl records.
Edison patented the sound recording and reproducing phonograph in 1878 but did not invent it. Charles Cros produced a theory (April 18, 1877) concerning a phonograph, but he never made the working model. Thomas Edison did manage to manufacture a model in order to acquire the patent.
Elias Howe (born July 9, 1819) was the inventor of the first American-patented sewing machine. Legend has it that while working in a shop making mariner's tools and scientific equipment, inventing dreams and gossip were often discussed, and this was where he was inspired to create the sewing machine.
American inventor Tony Fadell invented the iPod. Tony was working as a contractor at Apple when he invented the iPod.
Telemobilscope was the name given to a very early form of radar by its inventor, Christian Hulsmeyer, who patented (and demonstrated a working prototype) in 1904. Like modern radar, it worked by transmitting radio waves and detecting the "echoes" returned from solid objects. The original Telemobilscope is in a museum in Munich -- and is said to be still in working order.
Philo Farnsworth, an American inventor, is credited with inventing the first television. He demonstrated the first working television on September 7, 1927.
If he has thought of and built a working prototype of an idea which has made life easier for mankind which has not been done before, then he, whoever he is, is an inventor.
In the 1780's or 90's American inventor John Fitch build one of the earliest working prototypes of the railroad steam engine.
On March 4, 1877 German-American inventor Emile Berliner, working in New York City, invented the microphone. It was first used as a telephone speech transmitter.