The plastic shirt collar was patented in the US by Walter Hunt.
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Scottish inventor John Logie Baird changed the world of communication and entertainment forever when he demonstrated television for the first time.
German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin granted a patent for the navigable balloon.
The world's favorite paper joiner, the stapler was patented by C. H. Gould in England.
Thomas Edison filed his patent for the Optical Phonograph.
A team of scientists invented the sports drink Gatorade in a University of Florida lab.