Montrose native Miller Reese Hutchison is responsible for inventing the portable hearing aid.
Alabama's George F. Kirchoff is credited with inventing the airbag.
Demopolis native Waldo Semon, a chemist, invented the material that's used to make vinyl (polyvinyl chloride or PVC).
In 1929, a Tuscaloosa-born Jemison Van de Graaff created the Van de Graaff Generator.
Mary Anderson, a Greene County native, invented windshield wipers in 1903.
On July 20, 1969, the Saturn V, sent the first Americans to the moon. It was designed and built at Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center.
A hydrocopter used for rescues was invented by Birmingham's James W. Justis 1954.
The Super Soaker water gun, was invented by Mobile native Lonnie Johnson and released in 1989.