| A | B |
| Robert Adler | wireless TV remote |
| Leo Baekeland | the first consumer plastics (Bakelite) |
| Alexander Graham Bell | the telephone |
| Edward Binney & Harold Smith | crayons |
| Charles Brannock | the device that shoe stores use to measure feet |
| David Bushnell | the submarine |
| Nolan Bushnell | the first video games (also founded Chuck E. Cheese⢠restaurants) |
| Marvin Camras | magnetic recording tape |
| Chester Carlson | the photocopy machine |
| Alexander Cartwright | baseball |
| Ananda Chakrabarty | oil-eating bacteria (used to clean oil spills) |
| Charles Darrow | Monopoly (TM) board game |
| Earle Dickson | Band-Aid(TM) brand adhesive bandages |
| Marion Donovan | disposable diapers |
| Richard Drew | Scotch(TM) Tape |
| George Eastman | photograpic film (the first dry, transparent, flexible type) |
| Thomas Edison | the phonograph |
| Douglas Englebart | the computer mouse |
| Henry Ford | the assembly line |
| Art Fry and Spencer Silver | Post-It(TM) Notes |
| King C. Gillette | disposable razors |
| Gordon Gould | the laser |
| Bette Nesmith | Liquid Paper(TM) correction fluid |
| Arthur Granjean | Etch-A-Sketch(TM) |
| Steve Jobs | personal computer |
| Whitcomb Judson | the zipper |
| Jack St.Clair Kilby | the microchip |
| Samuel Morse | Morse code |
| Elisha Otis | the elevator |
| Roy Plunkett | Teflon(TM) |
| James T. Russel | the compact disc |
| Percy Spencer | the microwave oven |
| Levi Strauss | blue jeans |
| Earl S. Tupper | Tupperware(TM) |
| Ruth Wakefield | chocolate chip cookies |