This eponymous invention is now used around the world and has given blind people the priceless gift of reading. As a boy on his Utah farm, Philo Farnsworth used to enjoy watching the plows go back and forth. In , at the age of 15, he had the sketches and diagrams to compile an electronic television system. Just six years later, Farnsworth's image dissector transmitted its first electronic image. This paved the way for the electronic device that changed the world.
While watching a traveling circus in , a year-old Iowa boy named George Nissen thought that it would be really cool if performers could bounce back up in the air and continue their tricks. While on the University of Iowa's gymnastics team four years later, he and his coach perfected the fun contraption, which he later named "trampoline," after the Spanish word for diving board. Roughly 75 years later, the trampoline provides endless backyard fun for millions around the world.
Samuelson was already a strong aquaplaner at the age of 18 in Minnesota, but he wanted to create something similar to snow skiing on the water. He eventually took two wooden boards, bending the tips up by softening the wood by boiling them in a kettle, and started skiing on a lake between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Samuelson did not have the first patent of the invention but is now rightly recognized for inventing water skis, a crowning achievement in water sports.
Where J. Armand Bombardier lived as a child in southeastern Quebec in the early 's, they didn't blow the roads during the snowy winters. So cars had to be put away in favor of horse-drawn sleighs.
Bombardier started out learning mechanical engineering as a teen and came up with a crude, surface-skimming vehicle with a small propeller. In , at age 19, he began making gas powered machines that would be the precursor to the snowmobile that is now essential in so many parts of the world. George Westinghouse was years-old when he saw two trains crash into each other when the two conductors were unable to apply the breaks quickly enough. To prevent these crashes, the next year, Westinghouse came up with a train breaking system based on compressed air that was a foolproof way to stop a train or moving vehicle in a much more fast manner.
This invention has saved countless lives since its invention and a version of this breaking system is still used today. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App.
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Menu Home About Contact. June 11, Five-year-old Robert Patch made both transportation history and playtime history when he submitted a patent application for a toy truck he had designed. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading
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