>>212118594Airplane – Wright Brothers (1903)
Light Bulb – Thomas Edison (1879)
Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell* (1876; Scottish-born, invented in U.S.)
Assembly Line (modernized) – Henry Ford (1913)
Internet (ARPANET) – U.S. Department of Defense / DARPA team (1969)
Nuclear Bomb – Manhattan Project (et al., 1945)
Transistor – William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain (1947)
GPS – U.S. Department of Defense (1978)
Credit Card (Diners Club) – Frank McNamara (1950)
Steam Engine (Improved Version) – James Watt (1776)
Television (Mechanical) – John Logie Baird (1926)
Television (Electronic) – Philo Farnsworth (1927)
World Wide Web – Tim Berners-Lee (1989)
Jet Engine – Frank Whittle (1937)
Radar – Robert Watson-Watt (1935)
Reflecting Telescope – Isaac Newton (1668)
Steam Locomotive – George Stephenson (1825)
Penicillin (Antibiotic) – Alexander Fleming (1928)
Hovercraft – Christopher Cockerell (1955)
Insulin – Frederick Banting & Charles Best (1921)
IMAX Film Technology – Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, et al. (1967)
Electron Microscope (Practical Version) – James Hillier & Albert Prebus (1938)
Canadarm (Space Robotics) – Spar Aerospace / Canadian engineers (1981)
Pager – Alfred J. Gross (1949)
Java Programming Language (co-created) – James Gosling (1995)
Zipper (modern version) – Gideon Sundback (1913, based in Canada)
Walkie-Talkie – Donald Hings (1937)
External Portable Pacemaker – John Hopps (1950)
C-Section Clamp (surgical innovation) – Emily Stowe (early 1900s)
Basketball – James Naismith (1891; Canadian born, invented in U.S.)
4chan (imageboard website) – Christopher Poole (2003)