America’s Greatest Inventions

Invented as a direct response to King George III’s Cue Ball Proclamation of 1763.

After being introduced to gonorrhea during his time as an envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin set out to create this uniquely American form of sexually transmitted illness.

Americans ingeniously evolved this defense mechanism to escape from underwater predators.

Invented by Thomas Edison.

Henry Ford’s original name for the Model T, which he introduced in 1908 as an exclusive transportation method for the white race.

This uniquely American exclamation was easily one of the top two most significant discoveries of the Manhattan Project.

The late president represents just one of more than 300 products that agriculturalist George Washington Carver derived from peanuts in the early 20th century.

Until this device’s introduction by GE in 1935, the idea of defecating in one’s kitchen sink was merely a pipe dream.

Created in the 1940s by physicist Percy Spencer, who was looking for a way to make food both squishy and scalding hot.

This energy-efficient cross allowed the KKK to commit hate crimes with 80 to 90% more efficiency than it could by simply burning one.

Created by NASA in 1966, this technology allows astronauts to simulate the experience of being submerged in a lunar alien nest.

Looks like your out-of-office day is ruined now.

The continent of Europe was accidentally invented in 1982 by a couple of American scientists who were tinkering with landmasses.

We created them, and we can destroy them.