A team of scientists invented the sports drink Gatorade in a University of Florida lab.
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Carl J.E. Eliason, from Sayner, Wisconsin, was awarded his patent for the 'motor toboggan,' the world's first motorized snow vehicle.
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird changed the world of communication and entertainment forever when he demonstrated television for the first time.
Inventor William Austin Burt patented the typographer, also known as the typewriter in the US.
The lie detector, invented in 1921 by John Augustus Larson, was first used in the Netherlands.
American inventor Eli Whitney was granted a patent for a ground-breaking new type of cotton gin.
