| LASZLOBIRO | Hungarian-born inventor who patented the first modern ballpoint pen (6,4) |
| HANSBURG | New Yorker who invented/patented the first modern pogo stick in 1919 (8) |
| ANWANG | Chinese-born inventor who developed magnetic core memory |
| BRA | Mary Phelps Jacob patented the 1st modern one |
| SAMUELCOLT | *Inventor who patented the first revolver [stallion] |
| ELIASHOWE | US inventor who patented the first lockstitch sewing machine in 1846 (5,4) |
| GATLING | Richard J. ___, US inventor who patented the first practical machine gun in 1862 (7) |
| COCHRANE | Inventor who patented the first commercially successful dishwasher in 1886 (9,8) |
| JOSEPHINE | Inventor who patented the first commercially successful dishwasher in 1886 (9,8) |
| BIRO | Laszlo ___, Hungarian journalist who patented the first practical ballpoint pen (4) |
| HOWE | US inventor who patented the world's first lockstitch sewing machine (4) |
| BAUER | Eddie who patented the first quilted down jacket |
| WHITTLE | Frank, English aeronautical engineer who patented the first jet engine in 1930 (7) |
| ATOMICHRON | Tho' Marconi designed the first modern time machine, this ... (10) |
| DONQUIXOTE | Book which is often called the first modern novel |
| SINGER | Inventor who designed, built and patented the first commercially successful sewing machine (6) |
| ROBERT | Forename of either the polymath discoverer of the law of elasticity, the inventor of the Bunsen burner or the Royal Society co-founder regarded as the first modern chemist (6) |
| LUMIERE | Brothers who patented the cinematograph, considered the world's first film-makers (7) |
| SPENCER | Percy ___, US physicist who patented the microwave oven (eventually called the Radarange) in 1945 (7) |
| THOMASEDISON | US inventor who patented more than a thousand inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent electric lamp and the microphone |
