Inventions and Inventors

1847-1931: Thomas Edison. First light bulb, first phonograph, and motion picture camera.

1865: First Ambulance service. Made in Cleveland, Ohio.

1871: Orville Wright born in Dayton, Ohio. First flight was in 1903.

1879: First cash register, made by James J. Ritty, made in Dayton, Ohio. 

1914:  First traffic light  made in Cleveland, Ohio.

1959: Ermal Fraze invented the pop-top can in Kettering, Ohio.