| Key | Yr. | Name | Name | Invention, Discovery, Event |
| Chem | 1827 | Walker | John | Brit invents friction match, antimony sulfide and potassium chlorate tip |
| Chem | 1856 | Perkin | Henry | Synthesizes artifical (aniline) dye, mauve |
| Chem | 1856 | Perkin | F-Color Chemistry | Dyes Summary |
| Chem | 1858 | Hofmann | August | Magenta dye from coal tar |
| Chem | 1861 | Solvay | Ernest | Efficient sodium bicarbonate process from salt water, ammonia, CO2 |
| Chem | 1865 | Organic Chem | F-Sum | Berzelius, Berthelot, Wohler, Biot, Liebig, Kolbe, Kekuhl, Schonbein, Perkin, Hofmann, Hyatt |
| Chem | 1888 | Kahlbaum | George | Plastic bottles from metacrylate, 1st plastic |
| Chem | 1890 | Despeissis | Louis | Cellulose from cellulose in copper ammonionium solution of Schwietzer in 1857 |
| Chem | 1891 | Frasch | Herman | Sulfur removal from deep wells with supheated water |
| Chem | 1892 | Cross, Bevan | Beadle | Viscose rayon process founds artificial fiber industry |
| Chem | 1930 | Semon | Waldo | PVC from Goodrich labs, IG Farben polysterene, also at time melamine resin |
| Materials | 1823 | MacIntosh | Charles | Rubber disolved in naphtha, waterproofing |
| Materials | 1839 | Goodyear | Charles | Vulcanization rubber, sulfur added for hot cold stability. Sulfur crosslinks with rubber polymer |
| Materials | 1868 | Spill | Daniel | Xylonite precursor to Celluloid synthetic plastic |
| Materials | 1869 | Hyatt | John | Celluloid, not independent of Parkes, Spill, ivory billiard substitute, |
| Materials | 1882 | Swan | Joseph | Artificial silk rayon from cellulose, Bernigaud produces 1884 |
| Materials | 1891 | Acheson | Edward | Carborundum from diamond attempt |
| Materials | 1893 | Moissan | Henri | Artifical diamond from heat and pressure |
| Materials | 1893 | Libbey | Edward | fabric woven from glass fibers and silk |
| Materials | 1902 | Reseach | Company | GE 1901, DuPont, Park Davis |
| Materials | 1904 | Parkin | W.C. | Salt added for non flammable celluloid |
| Materials | 1905 | Safety | Glass | Celluloid between 2 glass layers |
| Materials | 1905 | Einstein | F-P-Albert | Michelson, Morley, Williams, Lorentz, Fitzgerald, Einstein, Maxwell, Eotvos, Minkowski, Eddington |
| Materials | 1906 | Baekeland | Leo | Formaldyhyde phenol heated with pressure for Bakelite |
| Materials | 1908 | Brandenberger | Jacques | Cellophane tape patent |
| Materials | 1909 | Baekeland | Leo | Bakelite begins replacing wood, ivory, hard rubber |
| Materials | 1918 | Composites | F-Sum | Griffith strong glass fiber, fiberglass, graphite, Kevlar, Kwolek, silicon doped arsenic or boron |
| Materials | 1924 | Resins | Urea formaldyhyde doorknobs to electrical switchplates | |
| Materials | 1927 | Drew | Richard | Scotch ellophane tape, on sale 1928 |
| Materials | 1933 | Michels | Johannes | ICI commercializes Dutch developed polyethylene plastic |
| Materials | 1934 | Switzer | Joseph | Fluorescent paint, found DayGlo |
| Materials | 1935 | Carothers | Wallace | Dupont nylon patent, discovered 1934, start in 1927 |
| Materials | 1935 | Adams | Basil | Ion exchange resins from coal remove salts from water |
| Materials | 1937 | Druyne | Norman | Gordon-Aerolite plastic blend of flax and phenolic resin, forerunner of fiberglass |
| Materials | 1940 | Whinfeld | Dickson | Terylene in UK, Dacron US, better heat resistance than nylon, wear than rayon, holds color |
| Materials | 1941 | Bayer | Otto | Farben polyurethane from 1937-9 Bayer work |
| Materials | 1942 | Denoye | Gross | Johnson & Johnson produce duck tape waterproof seal for ammunition, later duct tape |
| Materials | 1943 | Dow | Corning | Silicones |
| Materials | 1947 | Graham | Robert | Armorite, first plastic lens for spectacles |
| Materials | 1948 | Mestral | George | Velcro idea from burs on socks and dog coat |
| Materials | 1948 | Glidden | Latex paint, fast dry, water base, easy cleanup | |
| Materials | 1951 | Joyner | Fred | Cyanocrylate sticks to everything, becomes Kodak Superglue |
| Materials | 1955 | Lorch | Walter | Ion exchange to soften water |
| Materials | 1964 | Kwolek | Stephanie | Kelvar high strength, low weight plastic |
| Materials | 1965 | Faria | Wright | Astroturf mainly from nylon |
| Materials | 1967 | Shirikawa | Hideki | Polyacytelene after too much catalyst, metallic, small electric conduct |
| Materials | 1974 | 3M | Post it notes after noticing that good bookmark is needed | |
| Materials | 1976 | Shirakawa | Kideki | Bromine to polyacetylene increases elctrical conductivity |
| Materials | 1987 | Superconductors | F-Sum | Onnes, Bardeen, Cooper, Schrieffer, Bednorz, Muller, Josephson junction |
| Materials | 1987 | Ching-WuChu | Paul | Superconductor at liquid nitrogen temp -321F |
| Materials | 1987 | Nippon | Zeon | Plastic with memory, when bent keeps shape at low temp, returns at higher |
| Materials | 1991 | Iijima | Sumio | Nanotubes discovered, carbon atoms in chicken wire patterns |
| Petro | 1849 | Young | James | Distilled coal tar, paraffin for candles, sealing, lub, adhesives begins with rubber cement |
| Petro | 1853 | Kier | Samuel | Kerosene first from Abe Gesner via coal, then petro to replace whale oil for light |
| Petro | 1854 | Silliman | Benjamin | Distills oil to tar, haphthalene, gasoline, solvents |
| Petro | 1859 | Drake | Edwin | Titusville oil well drilled suffessfully, start of geog research in oil finds |
| Petro | 1863 | Van Syckel | Samuel | PA 1st oil pipeline to railway 7 mi |
| Petro | 1865 | Rockefeller | John | 1st large oil refinery Cleveland |
| Petro | 1908 | Hughes | Tool | Steel-toothed rock drill bit |
| Petro | 1911 | Burton | William | Thermal cracking for refining petroleum |
| Petro | 1912 | Bergius | Friedrich | High pressure hydrogen saturate coal and petro, leads to liquefaction coal |
| Petro | 1968 | Seven | Sisters | Supertanker, Suez less important |