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  • Inventor
    a person who comes up with new ideas for products and new ways of doing things.
  • Thomas Edison
    He was called " the wizard of Menlo Park"; best known for inventions such as the phonograph and the light bulb.
  • Charles Kettering
    He invented the first automobile self-starter to replace the crank.
  • (James) Murray Spangler
    He invented the household vacuum cleaner after suffering asthma as a janitor.
  • James Ritty
    He invented the cash register to solve the problem of workers stealing their profits.
  • Garrett Morgan
    He invented the first traffic light to have three signal lights.
  • Granville Woods
    He was from Cincinnati, invented the first electric railway telegraph service.
  • Charles Goodyear
    He developed the process or method of vulcanizing rubber for tires.
  • Great Migration
    the movement of people to Ohio cities to work in factories.
  • Wright Brothers
    Two brothers from Dayton, Ohio who successfully made the first flight in their invented plane.