| Snowmobile | caterpillar track/belt | 1922 | Joseph-Armand Bombardier | Canada
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| Waterski | water transport/recreation | 1922 | Ralph Samuelson | USA
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| Bulldozer | 2 caterpillar tracks | 1923 | James Cummings | USA
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| Power steering | easier control | 1923 | Francis W. Davis, George Jessup | USA
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| All metal (aluminum) airplane | | 1926 | William Stout | USA
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| Life preserver | inflatable | 1928 | Peter Markus | USA
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| Bathysphere | deep submersible | 1928 | Otis Barton | USA
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| Jet engine | allows supersonic flight | 1928 | Frank Whittle | UK
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| Parking meter | automated timer | 1932 | Carl C. Magee | USA
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| Cat's eyes | road edge reflectors | 1934 | Percy Shaw | UK
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| Gyroscope for flight | rocket guidance, 2 axis controls | 1935 | Robert Goddard | USA
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| Volkswagen beetle | popular car | 1938 | Ferdinand Porsche | Germany
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| Ballistic missile | rocket propulsion | 1938 | Walter Dornberger | Germany
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| Jet flight | | 1939 | Siegfried and Walter Gunter | Germany (33)
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| Helicopter | single rotor | 1939 | Igor Sikorsky | USSR/USA
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| Jeep | general purpose military vehicle | 1940 | Karl Pabst | USA
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| V-2 rocket | first successful rocket/guided missile | 1942 | Wernher von Braun | Germany (32)
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| SCUBA gear | underwater personal travel (aqualung) | 1943 | Jacques Cousteau | France
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| V-1 guided flying bombs | doodlebugs | 1944 | Robert Lisserr | Germany
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| ICBM | intercontinental ballistic missile | 1947 | US Air Force | USA
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| Supersonic airplane | | 1947 | US Air Force | USA
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| Air bag | safety device | 1952 | John W. Hetrick | USA
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| Black box | flight recorder | 1953 | David Warren | Australia
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| Backhoe loader | dual duties | 1953 | Joseph Cyril Bamford | UK
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| Vertical take off and land plane | VTOL | 1954 | Hugh Graham Convay | USA
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| Jet boat | shallow water effective | 1954 | William Hamilton | New Zealand
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| Nautilus nuclear submarine | near limitless submersion | 1954 | US Navy | USA
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| Container ship | most of world exports | 1955 | White Pass and Yukon Co. | Canada (94)
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| Skateboard | urethane wheels, ball bearings | 1955, 1970 | Bill and Mark Richards | USA
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| Hovercraft | air cushion ride | 1955 | Christopher Sidney Cockerell, Will R. Bertelsen | UK
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| Trucking container | truck, rail, and water transport | 1956 | Malcolm McLean | USA (94)
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| Catalytic converter | decreases emissions | 1956 | Eugene Houdry | France
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| Sputnik satellites I and II | first satellites | 1957 | Sergey Korolev et al. | USSR
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| Portable nuclear generator | for space vehicles | 1959 | Jerome Morse | USA
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| Shoulder harness | car safety restraint | 1959 | Nils Bohlin, Volvo | Sweden
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| Weather satellite | improved forecasting | 1959 | Verner Suomi | Finland/USA
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| Nuclear aircraft carrier | | 1960 | US Navy | USA
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| Geostationary satellite | communications technology | 1964 | Harold Rosen, Hughes Aircraft | USA
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| Snowboard | | 1965 | Sherman Poppin , Tom Sims | USA
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| Ski-doo snowmobile | commercially successful | 1965 | Joseph-Armand Bombardier | Canada
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| Trailer hitch | | 1966 | Ludwig Bacher | Canada
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| Apollo 11 moon landing | | 1969 | NASA | USA
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| Car alarm | car security | 1970 | Charles E. Davis | USA
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| 747 jet airplane | | 1970 | Boeing | USA
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| Space station | | 1971 | | USSR
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| Anti lock brakes | safer stopping | 1971 | Bendix Co, Chrysler, Toyota | Japan/USA
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| Electronic ignition | improved car starting | 1972 | Charles Kettering | USA
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| Jet ski | stand up jet boat | 1973 | Clayton Jacobson | USA
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| Functional airbags | safety devices | 1973 | General Motors | USA
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| Tire pressure sensor | tire safety | 1974 | George E. Garcia | USA
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| Maglev train | magnetic levitation, superconducting | 1979 | Gordon Danby, James Powell | USA
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| Space shuttle | reusable spacecraft, silica ceramic tiles | 1981 | NASA | USA
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| Stealth fighter | low radar signal technology | 1982 | Denys Overholser, Petr Ufimtsev | USA/USSR
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| Self driving vehicle | autonomous | 1984 | Ernst Dickmanns, Mercedes | Germany
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| B-2 stealth bomber | exterior non-metal composite constructed | 1988 | Hal Markarian, Northrup Grummon | USA
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