Everyday Inventions
Date Invention Inventor
1) 1903 Safety razor King Camp Gillette
2) 1904 Ice cream cone Italo Marcioni
3) 1920 Tea Bag Joseph Krieger
4) 1931 Electric razor Col Jacob Schick
5) 1938 Ballpoint pen László Biro
6) 1950 Credit card Frank X. McNamara
7) 1971 E-mail Ray Tomlinson
8) 1974 Personal computer MITS
9) 1979 Mobile Phone NTT
10) 1989 World Wide Web Tim Berners-lee
Young Inventors
Louis Braille
He invented Braille, the raised-dot writing used by blind people, at the of 15. Louis himself was blind.
Charles Babbage
Babbage was 19 when he first thought of the idea of the mechanical computer.
Horatio Adams
Adams was only 16 when he assisted his father, Thomas, in his experiments with chicle, the dried sap of a Mexican jungle tree. This led to the invention of chewing gum.
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