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	*Timeline of Groundbreaking Inventions* On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was awarded U.S. patent no. 174,465 for the invention of the telephone. This patent is often referred to as the most valuable ever issued by the U.S. Patent Office. Click on the titles below to learn more about a few of the many other inventors and inventions that have changed the way we travel, communicate, work, and live.

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	1450: Johanes Gutenberg & the printing press 1807: Robert Fulton & the steamboat 1838: Samuel Morse & Morse Code 1863: Louis Pasteur & sterilization 1876: Alexander Graham Bell & the telephone 1879: Thomas Edison & the light bulb 1888: George Eastman & the Kodak camera	1896: Guglielmo Marconi & the wireless telegraph 1903: The Wright brothers & the airplane 1913-14: Henry Ford & the assembly line 1926: Robert Goddard & the rocket 1943: Jacques Cousteau & the Aqua-Lung 1955: Jonas Salk & the polio vaccine 2001: Steve Jobs & the iPod