This statesman, politican, scholar, inventor, and one of early presidents of USA invented the swivel chair, the spherical sundial, the moldboard plow, and the cipher wheel.

Invented in 1937.

Banneker was a member of the planning committee that designed Washington, DC along with Pierre L'Enfant. When L'Enfant was fired Banneker recreated the plans from memory.

Frisbie made a brand of pies that were popular with Yale students in the 1870's. After eating the pies they would throw the pie tins through the air.

Lewis Edson Waterman patented the first practical fountain pen in 1884.

Awarded a Patent in 1770. It used 8 bobbins at once.

It was originally called 'Tom Thumb Golf'.

Invented in 1942.

King Louis XIV was very short and didn't like looking up at people he spoke to, so he had a tall pair of shoes made for him.

Joseph F. Glidden was born in New York on Jan. 18, 1812. He invented barbed wire in 1873 and was granted the patent on Nov. 24, 1874. After a three year battle over the patent, which he eventually won, Gidden became known as the "Father of Barbed Wire".