Who invented the automatic gas shut off valve assembly?
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It was invented by J. A. Kammerdiner in 1940. Patent #2215044
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Something he invented.
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Thermal power plant?  Commercial coal powered electric generator?  \nProbably done by Thomas Edison in 1882.  It was located on Pearl Street in lower Manhattan.
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The Great Idea Finder credits Johnson and Johnson Co. with inventing duct tape in 1942. (see link below)\n\nRichard Drew invented adhesive tape (masking tape). \n\n"Adhesive tape (specifically masking tape) was invented in the 1920's by Richard Drew of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, Co. (3M). Duct tape (the WWII military version) was first created and manufactured in 1942 (approximate date) by the Johnson and Johnson Permacel Division. Its closest predecessor was medical tape."
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the automatic \nfrom wales\n\nhttp://www.theautomatic.co.uk/
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You can go here :\n\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgum.htm
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I FOUND IT!\n\nHere: http://www.eldritchpress.org/jwj/auto.htm
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electropneumatic circuit \n\nhttp://www.festo-didactic.com/ov3/media/customers/1100/0000607001156324537.pdf\n\n:>peace
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Oliver Lodge\n\nPatented Invention: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_spark_plugs.htm\n\nAlso Edmund Berger (but he didn't patent)
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Arthur Giblin was the inventor of the first flushable toilet. It is believed that he later sold the rights to market his invention to Thomas Crapper, a fellow plumber and boss.
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American Machine and Foundry
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Inventions that aid and protect the ability to breath where gas, smoke or other poisonous fumes exist, occurred before 1915 and the first use of modern chemical weapons. Modern chemical warfare began in Ypres, France; when German soldiers first used chlorine gas on April 22, 1915, to attack the French. Long before that date, miners, firemen, and underwater divers all had a need for helmets that could provide breathable air, and the early prototypes for gas masks were developed to meet those needs.  \n\nIn 1823, brothers, John and Charles Deane patented a smoke protecting apparatus for firemen that was later modified for underwater divers. Augustus Siebe marketed an early diving suit in 1819. Siebe's suit included a helmet to which air was pumped via a tube to the helmet and spent air escaped from another tube. The inventor founded Siebe, Gorman and Co., a company that developed and manufactured respirators for a variety of purposes that was later instrumental in developing defense respirators. \n\nIn 1849, Lewis P. Haslett patented an "Inhaler or Lung Protector," the first U.S. patent (#6529) issued for an air purifying respirator. Haslett's device filtered dust from the air. In 1854, Scottish chemist John Stenhouse invented a simple mask that used charcoal to filter noxious gases. \n\nIn 1860, Frenchmen, Benoit Rouquayrol and Auguste Denayrouse invented the Résevoir-Régulateur, intended for use in rescuing miners in flooded mines, the Résevoir-Régulateur could be used underwater. The device was made up of a nose clip, and a mouthpiece attached to an air tank that the rescue worker carried on his back.  \n\nIn 1871, British physicist John Tyndall invented a fireman's respirator that filtered air against smoke and gas. In 1874, British inventor, Samuel Barton patented a device that "permitted respiration in places where the atmosphere is charged with noxious gases, or vapors, smoke, or other impurities" according to U.S. patent #148868. \n\nAmerican, Garrett Morgan patented the Morgan safety hood and smoke protector in 1914. Two years later, Garrett Morgan made national news when his gas mask was used to rescue 32 men trapped during an explosion in an underground tunnel 250 feet beneath Lake Erie. The publicity sold the safety hood to firehouses across the United States. Some historians site the Morgan design as the basis for early U.S. army gas masks used during WW1, others do not. \n\nEarly air filters include simple devices such as a soaked handkerchief held over the nose and mouth. Those devices evolved into various hoods worn over the head and soaked with protective chemicals, goggles for the eyes and later filters drums were added.  \n\nThe British built a carbon monoxide respirator for use during WW1 in February 1915, before the first use of chemical gas weapons. It was discovered that unexploded enemy shells gave off high enough levels of carbon monoxide to kill soldiers in the trenches, foxholes, and other contained environments. Similar, to the dangers of the exhaust from a car with its engine turned on in an enclosed garage.  \n\nCanadian, Cluny Macpherson designed a fabric 'smoke helmet' with a single exhaling tube, impregnated with chemical sorbents to defeat the airborne chlorine used in the gas attacks. Macpherson's designs were used and modified by allied forces and are considered the first to be used to protect against chemical weapons.  \n\nIn 1916, the Germans added larger air filter drums to their respirators containing gas neutralize chemicals. The allies soon added filter drums to their respirators as well. One of the most notable gas masks used during WW1 was the British Small Box Respirator or SBR designed in 1916. The SBR was probably the most reliable and heavily used gas masks used during WW1.
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Thomas Edison invented the Incandescent light bulb that we know today. It's light is produced by electrical current heating up a filament. The extreme heat of the filament is what gives off the light. \nThe low pressure mercury arc lamp of Peter Cooper Hewitt is the very direct parent of today's modern fluorescent lights. It was found that these low pressure [mercury] arc lamps would put out large amounts of ultra-violet light. Folks then figured that if they coated the inside of the light bulb with a fluorescent chemical (one that absorbed UV light and re-radiated that energy as visible light) they could make an efficient light source.
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The traffic light\nGas masks (both by Garrett Morgan)\n\nLong haul refrigeration systems on trucks.\n\nThe ironing board.\n\nOpen heart surgery.\n\nStreet sweeper trucks.\n\nThe electronic resistor (for which help make electronics possible)\n\nThe filament in a lightbulb (for which was Edison's toughest feat)\n\nThe WC (restroom) on trains.\n\nModern music.\n\nThe super soaker.\n\nThe jenny coupler (it links railroad cars, a dangerous task for which is how it's black inventor Andrew Beard, lost his leg.)\n\nCarver invented peanut butter, adhesives, bleach, chili sauce, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, talcum powder and more.\n\nMatzeliger invented an automatic method for lasting shoes, which made the mass production of affordable shoes possible.\n\n\nDr. Charles Richard Drew invented the possibility of blood banks.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSo enjoy your affordable shoes, PB, music, anything electronic that you have, milk when you don't live near a dairy farm, your flat shirts, clean streets, incandescent lights, vacuum tubes... but don't say black people haven't done anything to make life more livable for you.
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Leo Baekeland\nSetting out to make an insulator, he invented the first true plastic and transformed the world\n1907
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Ford was the first company to use an assembly line.\n\nA Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emporer Chien Lung in about 1678.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wright_%28inventor%29