| The Inventions 1752-1988 |
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| Year |
Invention |
Inventor |
Year |
Invention |
Inventor |
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| 1752 |
lightning conductor |
Benjamin Franklin |
1886 |
car (petrol engine) |
Karl Benz |
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| 1764 |
spinning jenny |
James Hargreaves |
1887 |
celluloid film |
Goodwin |
|
| 1768 |
spinning frame |
Richard Arkwright |
1888 |
pneumatic tire |
John Boyd Dunlop |
|
| 1769 |
condenser (steam engine) |
James Watt |
1888 |
alternating-current motor |
Nikola Tesla |
|
| 1774 |
telegraph (electric) |
Georges Louis Lesage |
1888 |
gramophone record |
Emil Berliner |
|
| 1775 |
steam ship |
Jacques Perrier |
1889 |
photographic film |
George Eastman |
|
| 1776 |
submarine |
David Bushnell |
1892 |
escalator |
Jesse Reno |
|
| 1779 |
spinning mule |
Samuel Crompton |
1894 |
automatic loom |
J H Northrop |
|
| 1780 |
circular saw |
Gervinus |
1894 |
cinematograph |
Auguste and Louis Lumičre |
|
| 1783 |
hot air balloon |
Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier |
1894 |
turbine ship |
Charles Parsons |
|
| 1784 |
safety lock |
Joseph Bramah |
1895 |
X-ray |
Wilhelm Rontgen |
|
| 1785 |
chemical bleaching |
Claude Berthollet |
1895 |
safety razor |
King C Gillette |
|
| 1792 |
cotton ginny |
Eli Whitney |
1898 |
diesel engine |
Rudolf Diesel |
|
| 1792 |
gas lighting |
William Murdoch |
1900 |
cellophane |
J E Brandenburger |
|
| 1795 |
preserving jar (foods) |
Francois Appert |
1900 |
airship |
Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
|
| 1798 |
lithography |
Alois Senefelder |
1901 |
radio |
Guglielmo Marconi |
|
| 1799 |
sheet paper making machine |
Louis Robert |
1901 |
vacuum cleaner (electric) |
Hubert Cecil Booth |
|
| 1800 |
electric battery |
Alessandro Volta |
1902 |
windshield wipers |
Mary Anderson |
|
| 1802 |
wood-planing machine |
Joseph Bramah |
1903 |
electrocardiagraph |
Wilhelm Einthoven |
|
| 1804 |
locomotive |
Richard Trevithick |
1903 |
airplane |
Orville and Wilbur Wright |
|
| 1807 |
conveyor belt |
Oliver Evans |
1906 |
freeze-drying |
Arsene D'Arsonval and
Georges Bordas |
| 1810 |
canning |
Nicholas Appert |
1907 |
electric washing machine |
Hurley Machine Co. |
|
| 1812 |
photographic lens |
William H Wollaston |
1907 |
facsimile machine (fax) |
Arthur Korn |
|
| 1813 |
power loom |
William Horrocks |
1907 |
bakelite |
Leo Bakeland |
|
| 1823 |
waterproof material |
Charles Macintosh |
1911 |
neon light |
Georges Claude |
|
| 1824 |
cement |
Joseph Aspdin |
1913 |
stainless steel |
Harry Brearly |
|
| 1829 |
typewriter |
William Burt |
1924 |
loudspeaker |
Rice-Kellogg |
|
| 1831 |
electric generator |
Michael Faraday |
1926 |
television |
John Logie Baird |
|
| 1834 |
harvesting machine |
Cyril McCormick |
1926 |
liquid fuel rocket |
Robert Goddard |
|
| 1835 |
revolver |
Samuel Colt |
1933 |
electron microscope |
Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska |
|
| 1835 |
computer |
Charles Babbage |
1934 |
cat's eyes |
Percy Shaw |
|
| 1838 |
photography (on paper) |
William Henry Fox Talbot |
1935 |
parking meter |
Carlton C Magee |
|
| 1839 |
bicycle |
Kirkpatrick Macmillan |
1937 |
turbo jet |
Frank Whittle |
|
| 1843 |
underground railway |
Charles Pearson |
1938 |
ball-point pen |
Laszlo and Georg Biró |
|
| 1845 |
hydraulic crane |
W G Armstrong |
1938 |
nylon |
Wallace Carrothers |
|
| 1846 |
sewing machine |
Elias Howe |
1938 |
xerography |
Charles Carson |
|
| 1846 |
rotary printing press |
Richard Hoe |
1939 |
helicopter |
Igor Sikorsky |
|
| 1850 |
synthetic oil |
James Young |
1939 |
atom bomb |
Otto Frisch, Niels Bohr, Rudolf Peierls |
|
| 1850 |
refrigerator |
James Harrison and Alexander Twining |
1941 |
terylene |
J R Whinfield and J T Dickson |
|
| 1851 |
mechanical elevator |
Elisha Otis |
1942 |
turbo-prop engine |
Max Mueller |
|
| 1854 |
hydraulic elevator |
Elisha Otis |
1944 |
digital computer |
Harvard University |
|
| 1855 |
celluloid |
Alexander Parks |
1945 |
microwave oven |
Percy Le Baron Spencer |
|
| 1855 |
steel production |
Henry Bessemer |
1948 |
transistor |
William Shockley,Bardeen, Brattain |
|
| 1856 |
synthetic dye |
William Henry Perkin |
1950 |
gas-turbine powered car |
Rover Motor Co. |
|
| 1861 |
colour photography |
James Clerk Maxwell |
1954 |
solar battery |
Bell Telephone Co. |
|
| 1866 |
telegraph (transatlantic) |
William Thompson |
1956 |
video recorder |
Ampex Co. |
|
| 1867 |
pasteurisation |
Louis Pasteur |
1959 |
hovercraft |
Christopher Cockerell |
|
| 1868 |
tungsten steel |
Robert Mushet |
1959 |
microchip |
Kilby and Robert Noyce |
|
| 1868 |
traffic lights |
J P Knight |
1960 |
laser |
Charles Townes |
|
| 1871 |
pneumatic drill |
Samuel Ingersoll |
1967 |
laser surgery operating theater |
Cincinatti, US |
|
| 1872 |
electric typewriter |
Thomas Edison |
1969 |
Concorde supersonic |
Britain-France |
|
| 1873 |
barbed wire |
Joseph Glidden |
1969 |
test tube baby |
Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe |
|
| 1876 |
microphone |
Alexander Graham Bell |
1969 |
V/STOL Harrier |
Hawker Siddeley |
|
| 1876 |
telephone |
Alexander Graham Bell |
1970 |
747 Jumbo jet |
Boeing |
|
| 1877 |
electric welding |
Elisha Thomson |
1971 |
microprocessor |
Marcian Hoff |
|
| 1877 |
phonograph |
Thomas Edison |
1972 |
pocket calculator |
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|
| 1878 |
electric railway |
Ernst Werner von Siemens |
1976 |
industrial robot |
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|
| 1879 |
electric lamp |
Thomas Edison |
1976 |
space shuttle |
NASA |
|
| 1880 |
pendulum seismograph |
James Ewing, Thomas Gray, Sir John Milne |
1978 |
TGV high speed train |
France |
|
| 1882 |
electric flat iron |
Harry W Seeley |
1979 |
walkman |
Sony |
|
| 1883 |
automatic machine gun |
Sir Hiram Maxim |
1979 |
compact dicc |
Philips and Sony |
|
| 1884 |
fountain pen |
Lewis Waterman |
1981 |
personal computer |
IBM |
|
| 1884 |
car (internal combustion) |
Gottlieb Daimler |
1985 |
battery-powered vehicle |
Clive Sinclair |
|
| 1885 |
adding machine |
William Burroughs |
1987 |
digital audio tape |
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| 1885 |
petrol engine |
Gottlieb Daimler |
1988 |
video walkman |
Sony |
|
| 1885 |
motorcycle |
Gottlieb Daimler |
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