text: *George Washington Carver's research in new agricultural products, crop rotation, and soil fertility at Tuskegee University between 1896 and 1943
  *Isolation of antibiotics, including streptomycin (in 1943), by Selman Waksman at Rutgers University Cook Campus
  *Columbia Dry Cell, the first sealed dry cell battery successfully manufactured for the mass market, by the National Carbon Company in 1896