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Inventions
*James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball.
James Naismith devised a set of thirteen rules of basketball:
The ball may be thrown in any direction with one orboth hands.
The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but never with the fist.
A player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it,allowance to be made for a man running at good speed.
The ball must be held in or between the hands. The arms or body must not be used for holding it.
*William G. Morgan (1870-1942), who was bornin the State of New York, has gone down in history as the inventor of the game of volleyball, to which he originally gave the name "Mintonette".
*Skee-Ball invented and patented by J.D. Estes ofPhiladelphia.
*Skeet shooting was invented by a bird hunter, Charles E. Davies, in 1915 under the original name of "clock shooting." The new sport of skeet shooting became very popular throughout theUnited States, and was even used for a practical purpose: during World War II,
*William Phelps Eno (1858-1945) was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in roadsafety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic safety", despite never having learned to drive a car himself.
*Edward N. Hines. He is one of the most important innovators inroad development. Was responsible for the construction of the first full mile of concrete road pavement in the world, the stretch of Woodward Avenue between Six Mile and Seven Mile Roads in Detroit*William G. Morgan .He invented the electric automatic traffic light
*Traffic cones were invented in 1914 by Charles P. Rudabaker. The first cones were made of concrete. In the 2000s, most cones aremade of brightly-colored plastic.
*Nikola Tesla. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of...