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• A clothes hanger, or coat hanger, is a device in the shape of human shoulders designed to facilitate the hanging of a coat, jacket, sweater, shirt, blouse or dress in a manner that prevents wrinkles, with a lower bar for the hanging of pants. Invented by albert park house in 1903.

• Air-conditioning is mechanism designed to extract heat from an occupied space air temperature using a refrigeration cycle. It was made in 1902 by Willis Haviland Carrier. http://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/

• One particular invention that has made the means of communication astonishingly easier is the Telephone, originally thought of by Alexander Graham Bell. While before, people used a tin can telephone, which only spanned so far, the first practical telephone made communication far easier. In today’s society, we rely on telephones for just about all communication needs, from getting supplies, to social greetings, and other such things. Also, with the development of cellular telephones, communications can be made from just about anywhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_telephone http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3625

• An over industrious output onto society since its early days is the Automobile, made popular by Henry Ford. With the production of his first Model T-Ford along with the invention of the assembly line, he made cars more available and affordable for all. Even today, several different car manufacturing businesses have sprouted from his original idea to create and build more and more advanced vehicles for the future.

• The Cotton gin is a machine invented in 1793 invented by American Eli Whitney. The machine quickly and easily separates the cotton fibers from the seedpods and the sometimes sticky seeds. It uses a combination of a wire screen and small wire hooks to pull the cotton through the screen, while brushes continuously remove the loose cotton lint to prevent

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