Inventions During Bunyan Family History

1793 Cotton gin
1795 Robert and James Bunyan arrive from Scotland
1795 Food canning
1799 Robert Bunyan dies
1807 Steamboat
1815 William Bunyan is born
1816 Stethoscope
1817 Machine manufactured pins
1818 Transatlantic steamer
1823 Blackboard
1824 Portland cement
1826 Photography
1829 Steam tractor
1830 Fountain pen
1831 Horse drawn reaping machine
1836 Sleeping cars on railroads : Colt revolver
1837 Telegraph
1840 Truss supports for making train bridges
1841 Monkey wrench
1842 Anesthesia
1844 Vulcanizing rubber process : Safty match
1845 Baseball
1846 Howe improves sewing machines
1847 Rubber pneumatic tire
1848 Baby carriage
1849 Safety pin
1851 Household sewing machine
1853 Hay baler : Safety elevator : Hypodermic syringe
1858 Edward Thomson Bunyan is born
1858 Manual can opener : Burglar alarm
1859 Oil well
1860 Repeating rifle : Bessemer steelmaking Internal combustion engine
1861 Postcard
1862 Rapid fire machine gun
1863 Tissue paper dress patterns
1864 Pullman sleeping car
1866 Curve ball
1867 Elevated railways: Dynamite
1868 Typewriter
1869 Air brakes for locamotives
1872 Wooden toothpick machine made : Vaseline
1873 James dies
1873 Barbed wire : Blue jeans : Earmuffs
1876 Telephone : Carpetsweeper
1877 Phonograph :
1878 Incandescent light : Dry plate photography : Celluloid film
1879 Cash register : Supermarkets
1880 Talking doll :
1884 Automatic machine gun: Photographic paperstrip film
1885 Time clock : Skyscraper : Gasoline automobile
1886 Coca Cola syrup : Electric arc welding
1887 Player pianos :
1888 Electric tramway : Paper drinking straw : Electric chair : Ballpoint pen
1889 Portable typewriter : Sound motion picture camera (kinetograph): Coin operated telephone system : Aluminum manufacturing process
1890 Ice cream sundaes : Zipper
1892 Basketball : Diesel engine
1893 Shredded wheat
1895 Electric locamotive : Volleyball : Radio : Xray machine : Glassblowing machines (bottles}
1896 Newpaper comic strip (Yellow Kid)
1899 Leonides Hamlin Bunyan is born
1899 Wooden golf tee
1900 William Bunyan dies
1900 Semiautomatic pistol
1901 Electric typewriter : Tractor treads (later used for bulldozers and tanks) : Double edged safety razor : Electric washing machine : Electroacoustic hearing aid
1902 Rayon : Air conditioning
1903 First sustained airplane flight : Photocopying
1904 Tire chains : Offset printing press
1905 Vick's Magic Croup Salve (VapoRub)
1906 Jukebox : Genetic studies (fruit fly)
1907 Vacuum tube : Electric vacuum cleaner : Helicopter
1908 Assembly-line automobile production : Military aircraft
1909 Electric toaster : Plastic
1910 Airplane take off from a sea vessel : Electric motor for small appliances : Gasoline powered combine harvester
1911 Air conditioner : Automobile selfstarter
1912 Electric dishwasher
1913 Crossword puzzles : Electric refrigerator : Snowmobile
1914 Alkaline storage battery : Electric traffic lights : Wireless brassiere
1915 Tractor trailer : Pyrex :Kraft processed cheese
1916 Automatic windshield wipers : Loudspeaker address system : Birth control clinic : Battle tank
1917 Aerial torpedo
1918 Techniques of modern neurosurgery
1919 Dial telephones
1920 Electric hair dryers
1921 Kotex
1922 Chocolate ice cream bar (Eskimo Pie) : Industrial freezing process : Radios in Model-T
1923 Video camera
1924 Kleenex : Gas chamber
1925 Cellulose adhesive tape
1926 Power steering : Hot-strip steel mill : Truck mounted concrete mixers
1927 William Edward Bunyan is born
1927 Public demonstration of television : Iron lung
1928 Mickey Mouse : Rice Krispies : Transcontinental bus service
1929 Quartz-resonator electric clock : Color television signals
1930 Stewardesses : PVC plastic : Prepackaged frozen food
1931 Nylon fiber : Alka-Seltzer : Electric shavers
1932 Radio telescope : Atomic particle separator : High grade gasoline
1933 Commercial airliner (Boeing 247) : Monopoly : Toll House cookies : FM radio
1934 Pressure suits for high altitude flying : Latex contraceptive for men : Launderette
1935 Successful commercial airliner (DC-3) : Electro magnetic organ
1936 Thermostat controlled electric irons : Vitamin pills
1937 Electric coffee grinder : Tampons : Binary calculators : "Hydromatic" car transmissions
1938 Xerographic imaging : Electric garbage disposal: Teflon
1939 Solor powered home : Paperback books : Jet engine aircraft
1940 Radioactive isotope uranium : McDonald's
1941 Radioactive element plutonium :
1942 Infrared photographic film : Synthetic rubber : Controlled, sustained nuclear reaction : Bazooka
1943 Napalm deployed : Operational nuclear reactor
1944 IBM Controlled Calculator
1945 Nuclear fission bombs exploded : Tupperware
1946 Mobile telephone system : Microwaves : Cloud seeding
Drive-in bank : Carbon-14 dating
1947 Tubeless automobile tire : Rocket exceeds speed of sound
Frozen orange juice : Long playing records : Transistors
Silly Putty : Offshore oil drilling
1948 Poloroid camera : Scrabble : Hang gliders : Calculator "software"
1950 Credit card : Kidney transplant
1951 Univac computer
1952 Susan Carolyn Bunyan is born!
1952 Edward Thomson Bunyan dies
1952 Hydrogen bomb : Sex change operation : Salk polio vaccine
1953 Dot matrix printing : Nuclear power reactor : Open heart surgery
1954 John Bunyan is born
1954 Boeing 707 travels 566 mph : FORTRAN programming :
        Kidney tranplant with living donor : Silicon photovoltaic cell
1955 Automatic car door locks : Nuclear powered submarine
Ultrasound : Multitrack tape recordings
1956 Visual telephone system : Kidney dialysis : Computerized banking
1957 Plasmapheresis : Portable oxygen resuscitators : Artificial sattelite
1958 Neutron bomb : Barbie
1960 Laser
1963 Zip Codes
1971 Microprocessor
1972 CAT scanner
1983 Compact disc
1984 Leonides Hamlin Bunyan dies

Invention list compiled from Microsoft Encarta '96 CD ROM version.