INVENTION ! INVENTOR ! YEAR
| INVENTION | YEAR | INVENTOR | COUNTRY | | aerosol can | 1926 | Erik Rotheim | Norway | | air conditioning | 1902 | Willis Haviland Carrier | US | | airbag, automotive | 1952 | John Hetrick | US | | airplane, engine-powered | 1903 | Wilbur & Orville Wright | US | | airship | 1852 | Henri Giffard | France | | alphabet | c. 1700–1500 BC | Semitic-speaking peoples | eastern coast of Mediterranean Sea | | American Sign Language | 1817 | Thomas H. Gallaudet | US | | animation, motion-picture | 1906 | J. Stuart Blackton | US | | answering machine, telephone | 1898 | Valdemar Poulsen | Denmark | | aspartame | 1965 | James Schlatter | US | | aspirin | 1897 | Felix Hoffmann (Bayer) | Germany | | assembly line | 1913 | Henry Ford | US | | astrolabe | c. 2nd century | — | — | | AstroTurf | 1965 | James M. Faria, Robert T. Wright | US | | audiotape | 1928 | Fritz Pfleumer | Germany | | automated teller machine (ATM) | 1968 | Don Wetzel | US | | automobile | 1889 | Gottlieb Daimler | Germany | | baby food, prepared | 1927 | Dorothy Gerber | US | | bag, flat-bottomed paper | 1870 | Margaret Knight | US | | Bakelite | 1907 | Leo Hendrik Baekeland | US | | ball bearing | 1794 | Philip Vaughan | England | | balloon, hot-air | 1783 | Joseph & Étienne Montgolfier | France | | bandage, adhesive | 1921 | Earle Dickson | US | | bar code | 1952 | Joseph Woodland | US | | barbed wire | 1874 | Joseph Glidden | US | | barometer | 1643 | Evangelista Torricelli | Italy | | battery, electric storage | 1800 | Alessandro Volta | Italy | | beer | before 6000 BC | Sumerians, Babylonians | Mesopotamia | | bicycle | 1818 | Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun | Germany | | bifocal lens | 1784 | Benjamin Franklin | US | | bikini | 1946 | Louis Réard | France | | blood bank | late 1930s | Charles Richard Drew | US | | blow-dryer | 1920 | Racine Universal Motor Co., Hamilton Beach Manufacturing Co. | US | | bomb, atomic | 1945 | J. Robert Oppenheimer, et al. | US | | bomb, thermonuclear (hydrogen) | 1952 | Edward Teller, et al. | US | | boomerang | c. 15,000 years ago | Aboriginal peoples | Australia | | Braille system | 1824 | Louis Braille | France | | brassiere (bra) | 1913 | Mary Phelps Jacob | US | | bread, sliced (bread-slicing machine) | 1928 | Otto Frederick Rohwedder | US | | button | c. 700 BC | Greeks, Etruscans | Greece, Italy | | buttonhole | 13th century | — | Europe | | calculator, electronic hand-held | 1967 | Jack S. Kilby | US | | calculus | 1680s | Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (invented separately) | England and Germany (respectively) | | calendar, modern (Gregorian) | 1582 | Pope Gregory XIII | Italy | | camcorder | 1982 | Sony Corp. | Japan | | camera, motion picture | 1891 | Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson | US | | camera, portable photographic | 1888 | George Eastman | US | | can, metal beverage | 1933 | American Can Co. | US | | can opener | 1858 | Ezra J. Warner | US | | candle | c. 3000 BC | — | Egypt, Crete | | canning, food | 1809 | Nicolas Appert | France | | carbon-14 dating | 1946 | Willard F. Libby | US | | cardboard, corrugated | 1871 | Albert Jones | US | | cards, playing | c. 10th century | — | China | | cash register | 1879 | James Ritty | US | | cat litter | 1947 | Edward Lowe | US | | catalog, mail-order | 1872 | Aaron Montgomery Ward | US | | cellophane | 1911 | Jacques E. Brandenberger | Switzerland | | celluloid | 1869 | John Wesley Hyatt | US | | cement, portland | 1824 | Joseph Aspdin | England | | cereal flakes, breakfast | 1894 | John Harvey Kellogg | US | | chewing gum (modern) | c. 1870 | Thomas Adams | US | | chocolate | c. 3rd–10th century | Maya, Aztecs | Central America, Mexico | | chronometer | 1762 | John Harrison | England | | clock, pendulum | 1656 | Christiaan Huygens | The Netherlands | | clock, quartz | 1927 | Warren A. Marrison | Canada/US | | cloning, animal | 1970 | John B. Gurdon | UK | | coffee, drip | 1908 | Melitta Bentz | Germany | | coffee, decaffeinated | 1905 | Ludwig Roselius | Germany | | coins | c. 650 BC | Lydians | Turkey | | compact disc (CD) | 1980 | Philips Electronics, Sony Corp. | The Netherlands, Japan | | compass, magnetic | c. 12th century | — | China, Europe | | computed tomography (CT scan, CAT scan) | 1972 | Godfrey Hounsfield, Allan Cormack | UK, US | | computer, electronic digital | 1939 | John V. Atanasoff, Clifford E. Berry | US | | computer, laptop | 1983 | Radio Shack Corp. | US | | computer, personal | 1974 | MITS (Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems) | US | | concrete, reinforced | 1867 | Joseph Monier | France | | condom, latex | c. 1930 | — | — | | contact lenses | 1887 | Adolf Fick | Germany | | contraceptives, oral | early 1950s | Gregory Pincus, John Rock, Min Chueh Chang | US | | corn, hybrid | 1917 | Donald F. Jones | US | | correction fluid, white | 1951 | Bette Nesmith | US | | cotton gin | 1793 | Eli Whitney | US | | coupon, grocery | 1894 | Asa Candler | US | | crayons, children's wax | 1903 | Edwin Binney, C. Harold Smith | US | | cream separator (dairy processing) | 1878 | Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval | Sweden | | credit card | 1950 | Frank McNamara, Ralph Schneider (Diners' Club) | US | | crossword puzzles | 1913 | Arthur Wynne | US | | DDT | 1874 | Othmar Zeidler | Germany | | defibrillator | 1952 | Paul M. Zoll | US | | dentures | c. 700 BC | Etruscans | Italy | | detector, metal | late 1920s | Gerhard Fisher | Germany/US | | detector, home smoke | 1969 | Randolph Smith, Kenneth House | US | | diamond, artificial | 1955 | General Electric Co. | US | | diapers, disposable | 1950 | Marion Donovan | US | | digital videodisc (DVD) | 1995 | consortium of international electronics companies | Japan, US, The Netherlands | | dishwasher | 1886 | Josephine Cochrane | US | | DNA fingerprinting | 1984 | Alec Jeffreys | UK | | doughnut, ring-shaped | 1847 | Hanson Crockett Gregory | US | | door, revolving | 1888 | Theophilus von Kannel | US | | drinking fountain | c. 1905–1912 | Luther Haws, Halsey W. Taylor (invented separately) | US | | dry cleaning | 1855 | Jean Baptiste Jolly | France | | dynamite | 1867 | Alfred Nobel | Sweden | | elastic, fabric | c. 1830 | Thomas Hancock | UK | | electric chair | 1888 | Harold P. Brown, Arthur E. Kennelly | US | | electrocardiogram (ECG, EKG) | 1903 | Willem Einthoven | The Netherlands | | electroencephalogram (EEG) | 1929 | Hans Berger | Germany | | electronic mail (e-mail) | 1971 | Ray Tomlinson | US | | elevator, passenger | 1852 | Elisha Graves Otis | US | | encyclopedia | c. 4th century BC or 77 AD | Speusippus (compliation of Plato's teachings) or Pliny the Elder (comprehensive work) | Greece or Rome | | engine, internal-combustion | 1859 | Étienne Lenoir | France | | engine, jet | 1930 | Sir Frank Whittle | UK | | engine, liquid-fueled rocket | 1926 | Robert H. Goddard | US | | engine, steam | 1698 | Thomas Savery | England | | escalator | 1891 | Jesse W. Reno | US | | eyeglasses | 1280s | Salvino degli Armati or Alessandro di Spina | Italy | | facsimile (fax) | 1842 | Alexander Bain | Scotland | | fiber optics | 1955 | Narinder S. Kapany | India | | fiberglass | 1938 | Owens Corning (corp.) | US | | film, photographic | 1884 | George Eastman | US | | flashlight, battery-operated portable | 1899 | Conrad Hubert | Russia/US | | flask, vacuum (Thermos) | 1892 | Sir James Dewar | Scotland | | food processor | 1971 | Pierre Verdon | France | | foods, freeze-dried | 1946 | Earl W. Flosdorf | US | | foods, frozen | c. 1924 | Clarence Birdseye | US | | Fresnel lens | 1820 | Augustin-Jean Fresnel | France | | fuel cell | 1839 | William R. Grove | UK | | genetic engineering | 1973 | Stanley N. Cohen, Herbert W. Boyer | US | | Geiger counter | 1908 | Hans Geiger | Germany | | glass | c. 2500 BC | Egyptians or Phoenicians | Egypt or Lebanon | | glass, safety | 1909 | Édouard Bénédictus | France | | greeting card, Christmas | 1843 | John Callcott Horsley | England | | guillotine | 1792 | Joseph-Ignace Guillotin | France | | guitar, electric | 1941 | Les Paul | US | | gunpowder | c. 10th century | — | China or Arabia | | hanger, wire coat | 1903 | Albert J. Parkhouse | US | | helicopter | 1939 | Igor Sikorsky | Russia/US | | holography | 1948 | Dennis Gabor | Hungary | | hypodermic syringe | 1853 | Charles Gabriel Pravaz | France | | in vitro fertilization (IVF), human | 1978 | Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards | UK | | ink | c. 2500 BC | — | Egypt, China | | insulin, extraction and preparation of | 1921 | Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Charles H. Best | Canada | | integrated circuit | 1958 | Jack S. Kilby | US | | Internet | 1969 | Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) at the Dept. of Defense | US | | iron, electric | 1882 | Henry W. Seely | US | | irradiation, food | 1905 | — | US/UK | | jeans | 1873 | Levi Strauss, Jacob Davis | US | | JELL-O (gelatin dessert) | 1897 | Pearle B. Wait | US | | jukebox | 1889 | Louis Glass | US | | Kevlar | 1965 | Stephanie Kwolek | US | | Kool-Aid (fruit drink mix) | 1927 | Edwin E. Perkins | US | | laser | 1958 | Gordon Gould and Charles Hard Townes, Arthur L. Schawlow (invented separately) | US | | laundromat | 1934 | J.F. Cantrell | US | | lawn mower, gasoline-powered | c. 1940 | Leonard Goodall | US | | Lego | late 1940s | Ole Kirk Christiansen | Denmark | | light bulb, incandescent | 1879 | Thomas Alva Edison | US | | light bulb, fluorescent | 1934 | Arthur Compton | US | | light-emitting diode (LED) | 1962 | Nick Holonyak, Jr. | US | | linoleum | 1860 | Frederick Walton | UK | | lipstick, tube | 1915 | Maurice Levy | US | | liquid crystal display (LCD) | 1963 | George Heilmeier | US | | lock and key | c. 2000 BC | Assyrians | Mesopotamia | | locomotive | 1829 | George Stephenson | England | | longbow | c. 1000 | — | Wales | | loudspeaker | 1924 | Chester W. Rice, Edward W. Kellogg | US | | magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) | early 1970s | Raymond Damadian, Paul Lauterbur | US | | margarine | 1869 | Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès | France | | matches, friction | 1827 | John Walker | England | | metric system of measurement | 1795 | French Academy of Sciences | France | | microphone | 1878 | David E. Hughes | UK/US | | microscope, compound optical | c. 1600 | Hans & Zacharias Jansen | The Netherlands | | microscope, electron | 1933 | Ernst Ruska | Germany | | microwave oven | 1945 | Percy L. Spencer | US | | miniature golf | c. 1930 | Garnet Carter | US | | mirror, glass | c. 1200 | Venetians | Italy | | missile, guided | 1942 | Wernher von Braun | Germany | | mobile home | 1919 | Glenn H. Curtiss | US | | money, paper | late 900s | — | China | | Monopoly (board game) | 1934 | Charles B. Darrow | US | | Morse code | 1838 | Samuel F.B. Morse | US | | motor, electric | 1834 | Thomas Davenport | US | | motor, outboard | 1907 | Ole Evinrude | Norway/US | | motorcycle | 1885 | Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach | Germany | | mouse, computer | 1963–64 | Douglas Engelbart | US | | Muzak | 1922 | George Owen Squier | US | | nail, construction | c. 3300 BC | Sumerians | Mesopotamia | | necktie | 17th century | — | Croatia | | neon lighting | 1910 | Georges Claude | France | | nuclear reactor | 1942 | Enrico Fermi | US | | nylon | 1937 | Wallace H. Carothers | US | | oil lamp | 1784 | Aimé Argand | Switzerland | | oil well | 1859 | Edwin Laurentine Drake | US | | pacemaker, cardiac | 1952 | Paul M. Zoll | US | | paper | c. 105 | Ts'ai Lun | China | | paper clip | 1899 | Johan Vaaler | Norway | | paper towel | 1931 | Arthur Scott | US | | parachute, modern | 1797 | André-Jacques Garnerin | France | | parking meter | 1932 | Carl C. Magee | US | | particle accelerator | 1929 | Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton | Ireland/UK | | pasteurization | 1864 | Louis Pasteur | France | | pen, ballpoint | 1938 | Lazlo Biro | Hungary | | pencil | 1565 | Conrad Gesner | Switzerland | | periodic table | 1871 | Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev | Russia | | personal watercraft, motorized | 1968 | Bombardier, Inc. | Canada | | petroleum jelly | 1870s | Robert Chesebrough | US | | phonograph | 1877 | Thomas Alva Edison | US | | photocopying (xerography) | 1937 | Chester F. Carlson | US | | photography | 1837 | Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre | France | | photography, instant | 1947 | Edwin Herbert Land | US | | Play-Doh | 1956 | Noah W. & Joseph S. McVicker | US | | plow, steel | 1836 | John Deere | US | | pocket watch | c. 1500 | Peter Henlein | Germany | | polyethylene | 1935 | Eric Fawcett, Reginald Gibson | UK | | polygraph (lie detector) | 1921 | John A. Larson | US | | polyvinyl chloride (PVC) | 1872 | Eugen Baumann | Germany | | Post-it Notes | mid-1970s | Arthur Fry (3M) | US | | potato chips | 1853 | George Crum | US | | printing press, movable type | c. 1450 | Johannes Gutenberg | Germany | | Prozac | 1972 | Ray W. Fuller, Bryan B. Molloy, David T. Wong | US | | radar | c. 1904 | Christian Hülsmeyer | Germany | | radio | 1896 | Guglielmo Marconi | Italy | | radio, car | early 1920s | William P. Lear | US | | rayon | 1884 | Louis-Marie-Hilaire Bernigaud, count of Chardonnet | France | | razor, electric | 1928 | Jacob Schick | US | | razor, safety | c. 1900 | King Camp Gillette | US | | reaper, mechanical | 1831 | Cyrus Hall McCormick | US | | record, long-playing (LP) | 1948 | Peter Carl Goldmark | US | | refrigerator | 1842 | John Gorrie | US | | remote control, television | 1950 | Robert Adler | US | | respirator | c. 1955 | Forrest M. Bird | US | | revolver | 1835–36 | Samuel Colt | US | | Richter scale | 1935 | Charles Francis Richter, Beno Gutenberg | US | | rifle, assault | 1944 | Hugo Schmeisser | Germany | | roller coaster | 1884 | LeMarcus A. Thompson | US | | rubber, vulcanized | 1839 | Charles Goodyear | US | | rubber band | 1845 | Stephen Perry | UK | | saccharin | 1879 | Ira Remsen, Constantin Fahlberg | US, Germany | | saddle | c. 200 BC | — | China | | safety pin | 1849 | Walter Hunt | US | | satellite, successful artificial earth | 1957 | Sergey Korolyov, et al. | USSR | | satellite, communications | 1960 | John Robinson Pierce | US | | saxophone | 1846 | Antoine-Joseph Sax | Belgium | | Scotch tape | 1930 | Richard Drew (3M) | US | | scuba gear | 1943 | Jacques Cousteau, Émile Gagnan | France | | seat belt, automotive shoulder | 1959 | Nils Bohlin (Volvo) | Sweden | | sewing machine | 1841 | Barthélemy Thimonnier | France | | shoelaces | 1790 | — | England | | silicone | 1904 | Frederic Stanley Kipping | UK | | skateboard | 1958 | Bill & Mark Richards | US | | skates, ice | 1000 BC | — | Scandinavia | | skates, roller | 1760s | Joseph Merlin | Belgium | | ski, snow | c. 2000–3000 BC | — | Sweden, Finland, Norway | | skyscraper, steel-frame | 1884 | William Le Baron Jenney | US | | slot machine | 1890s | Charles Fey | US | | snowmobile | 1922 | Joseph-Armand Bombardier | Canada | | soap | 600 BC | Phoenicians | Lebanon | | soft drinks, carbonated | 1772 | Joseph Priestley | UK | | sonar | 1915 | Paul Langevin | France | | stamps, postage | 1840 | Sir Rowland Hill | UK | | stapler | 1866 | George W. McGill | US | | steamboat, successful | 1807 | Robert Fulton | US | | steel, mass-production | 1856 | Henry Bessemer | UK | | steel, stainless | 1914 | Harry Brearley | UK | | stereo, personal | 1979 | Sony Corp. | Japan | | stereophonic sound recording | 1931 | Alan Dower Blumlein | UK | | stethoscope | 1819 | René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec | France | | stock ticker | 1867 | Edward A. Calahan | US | | stove, electric | 1896 | William Hadaway | US | | stove, gas | 1826 | James Sharp | UK | | straw, drinking | 1888 | Marvin Stone | US | | submarine | 1620 | Cornelis Drebbel | The Netherlands | | sunglasses | 1752 | James Ayscough | UK | | sunscreen | 1944 | Benjamin Green | US | | supermarket | 1930 | Michael Cullen | US | | synthesizer, music | 1955 | Harry Olson, Herbert Belar | US | | synthetic skin | 1981 | Ioannis V. Yannas, John F. Burke | US | | tampon, cotton | 1931 | Earle Cleveland Haas | US | | tank, military | 1915 | Admiralty Landships Committee | UK | | tea bag | early 1900s | Thomas Sullivan | US | | teddy bear | 1902 | Morris Michtom | US | | Teflon | 1938 | Roy Plunkett | US | | telegraph | 1832–35 | Samuel F.B. Morse | US | | telephone, wired-line | 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell | Scotland/US | | telephone, mobile | 1946 | Bell Laboratories | US | | telescope, optical | 1608 | Hans Lippershey | The Netherlands | | television | 1923, 1927 | Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, Philo Taylor Farnsworth | Russia/US, US | | thermometer | 1592 | Galileo | Italy | | thermostat | 1830 | Andrew Ure | UK | | threshing machine | 1778 | Andrew Meikle | Scotland | | tire, pneumatic | 1888 | John Boyd Dunlop | UK | | tissue, disposable facial | 1924 | Kimberly-Clark Co. | US | | tissue, toilet | 1857 | Joseph Gayetty | US | | toaster, electric | 1893 | Crompton Co. | UK | | toilet, flush | c. 1591 | Sir John Harington | England | | toothbrush | 1498 | — | China | | tractor | 1892 | John Froehlich | US | | traffic lights, automatic | 1923 | Garrett A. Morgan | US | | transistor | 1947 | John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, William B. Shockley | US | | typewriter | 1868 | Christopher Latham Sholes | US | | ultrasound imaging, obstetric | 1958 | Ian Donald | UK | | vaccination | 1796 | Edward Jenner | England | | vacuum cleaner, electric | 1901 | Herbert Cecil Booth | UK | | Velcro | 1948 | George de Mestral | Switzerland | | vending machine | c. 100–200 BC | — | Egypt | | Viagra | 1997 | Pfizer Inc. | US | | video games | 1972 | Nolan Bushnell | US | | videocassette recorder | 1969 | Sony Corp. | Japan | | videotape | 1950s | Charles Ginsburg | US | | virtual reality | 1989 | Jaron Lanier | US | | vision correction, laser | 1987 | Stephen Trokel | US | | washing machine, electric | 1907 | Alva J. Fisher | US | | wheel | about 3500 BC | proto-Aryan people or Sumerians | Russia/Kazakhstan or Mesopotamia | | wheelbarrow | 1st century BC | — | China | | wheelchair | 1590s | — | Spain | | windmill | 644 | — | Persia | | wine | before 4000 BC | — | Middle East | | World Wide Web | 1989 | Tim Berners-Lee | UK | | wristwatch, digital | 1970 | John M. Bergey | US | | X-ray imaging | 1895 | Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | Germany | | Zamboni (ice resurfacing machine) | 1949 | Frank J. Zamboni | US | | zipper | 1893 | Whitcomb L. Judson | US
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