It's the Little Things That Make Life Wonderful

We take so much for granted in our daily lives, so many things that make our daily lives a pleasure.

Aerosol sprays

Air Conditioning

Aluminum foil

ATMs

Automatic transmission

Ballpoint pens

Bar codes

Bic lighters

Bikinis

Blenders

Bras

CD’s

Clothes dryer

Color Photography

Credit cards

Deadbolt locks

Digital

Disposable diapers

Drive through windows

DVD’s

FM

Garage door openers

Gore Tex

Hair Dryers

Head phones

Instant replay

Instant photography

Juice Paks

Microwaves

Model T

Nylon

Permanent press

Plastic/trash bags

Post-its

Power tools

Refrigerators

Saran wrap

Slinkees

Television

The Pill

Toasters

Traffic Signals Transistors

TV remotes

Velcro

Viagra

Wheelies

Xerox

Zipper

Almost all of these 20^th Century innovations were the product of (mostly) American ingenuity.

None were made, to paraphrase the President, by President Obama. Nor were any of these made by the government. I’ve omitted government funded research products, anything from Silicon Valley because of government funding, and the GPS.