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>telegraph
pic related

>train
All of Watt's early work and research was done in the service of Glasgow University, a public institution.

>interchangeable parts
Was first developed for the US and British militaries.

>telephone
Graham's inventing and research was first supported by his father and then the University of Boston before he went into the private sector.

>light bulb
A rare exception

>airplane
Only made possible on a commercial scale by military testing in WW1

>assembly line
just an extension of the division of labor in manufacturing , which was pioneered by chinese state run monopolies centuries before Ford.

>battery
Volta's research was all done in the service of public universities.

>printing press
Pre-capitalist innovation.

Out of these only one is completely the result of capitalist competition, and even then the electric light bulb would be useless without the state sponsored electrification of the country.