Transportation
First steamboat built and taken down Ohio and Mississippi by Nicholas Roosevelt, Netherlander ... first elevated railroad in New York City was built by José Francisco de Navarro, a Spaniard, in 1878 ... first demonstration of steam railroad in practice by John Stevens, English, in 1825 ... the Clermont, our first commercially successful steamboat, built by Robert Fulton, Irish ... greatest of clipper ships, Rainbow and Sea Witch, built by John Griffith, Welsh ... wagons and automobiles produced by Studebaker Brothers, German.
Inventor of modern suspension bridge was John Roebling, German, who built beautiful Brooklyn Bridge ... the Niagara cantilever bridge, for heavy railroad traffic, invented by Charles Schneider, German ... the Northwest opened up by railroad builder James J. Hill, Scotch-Irish ... transatlantic flier, Charles Lindbergh, and airship commander, Charles Rosendahl, Swedes.
Manufacturing
Window glass manufactured by Caspar Wistar, German, in 1739 ... decorative stoves and glass of highly prized nature manufactured in 18th century by Heinrich Stiegel, German ... the New England cotton mills established by Samuel Slater, English ... first to unite all processes for manufacturing finished cloth in one factory was Patrick Jackson, Irish ... art of making gunpowder perfected by Eleuthere Dupont, French.
Great steel works of Pittsburgh founded by Andrew Carnegie, Scot, assisted by William Jones, Welsh ... iron and steel industries of Pueblo, Colorado, established by Daniel Jones, Welsh ... famous pioneer organ builder, Matthias Moller, a Dane ... pianos and other instruments by Steinway, Knabe, Weber, Wurlitzer, Gemünder, Germans ... steel manufactured by Charles Schwab, German ... sugar produced by Havemeyer, German ... food products by Heinz and Fleischmann, Germans ... world-noted cymbals made by Zildijian, Armenian ... airplane builders are Igor Sigorsky, Russian; Bellanca, Italian; Douglas, Scot; Boeing, German; and Curtiss, English-German.
Communication
The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, Scot ... the telegraph was invention of Joseph Henry and Samuel Morse, Scotch-Irish ... steam-cylinder printing press, making possible our great daily newspapers, was brain child of Robert Hoe, English ... Erie Canal built by DeWitt Clinton, Irish-Netherlander ... long distance telephone and wireless telegraphy made possible by Michael Pupin, Yugoslav ... inventor of wireless switch was Fritz Lowenstein, German Jew ... new device for transmitting radio photographs by Arthur Korn, German Jew ... loud speaker invented by Peter Jensen, Dane ... Zworykin, Russian, pioneered in television ... first printing press imported to California by Agustin Zamorana, Spaniard.