Who invented letterpress printing?

Johannes Gutenberg

Who invented the automobile?

Gottlieb Daimler

Who invented the television?

Manfred von Ardenne

Who invented the bicycle?

Karl Friedrich von Drais

Who invented jeans?

Levi Strauss

Who invented the motion picture camera?

Thomas Edison

Who invented the cotton gin?

Eli Whitney

Who invented the diesel engine?

Rudolf Diesel

Who invented the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

Who invented bifocal glasses?

Benjamin Franklin

Who invented basketball?

James Naismith

Who invented the first modern steam engine?

James Watt

Who invented the first programmable computer?

Konrad Zuse

Who invented the first functional sewing machine?

Barthelemy Thimonnier

Who invented the braille system?

Louis Braille

Who invented the battery?

Alessandro Volta

Who invented the flush toilet?

Sir John Harington

Who invented the thermometer?

Galileo

Who invented scuba equipment?

Jacques Cousteau

Who invented the microphone? 

David E. Hughes