Inventions to choose from:
air conditioning
1902
Willis Haviland Carrier
airplane, engine-powered
1903
Wilbur & Orville Wright
answering machine, telephone
1898
Valdemar Poulsen
automobile
1889
Gottlieb Daimler
bicycle
1818
Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun
camera, portable photographic
1888
George Eastman
cardboard, corrugated
1871
Albert Jones
cotton gin
1793
Eli Whitney
iron, electric
1882
Henry W. Seely
jeans
1873
Levi Strauss, Jacob Davis
light bulb, incandescent
1879
Thomas Alva Edison
refrigerator
1842
John Gorrie
sewing machine
1841
Barthélemy Thimonnier
telephone, wired-line
1876
Alexander Graham Bell
typewriter
1868
Christopher Latham Sholes
vaccination
1796
Edward Jenner
zipper
1893
Whitcomb L. Judson
vulcanized rubber
Person
Invention
Date
James Watt
First reliable Steam Engine
1775
Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin, Interchangeable parts for muskets
1793,
1798
Samuel F. B. Morse
Telegraph
1836
Elias Howe
Sewing Machine
1844
Isaac Singer
Improves and markets Howe's Sewing Machine
1851
Cyrus Field
Transatlantic Cable
1866
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
1876
Thomas Edison
Phonograph, First Long-Lasting Incandescant Light
Bulb
1877,
1879
Nikola Tesla
Induction Electric Motor
1888
Rudolf Diesel
Diesel Engine
1892
Orville and Wilbur
Wright
First Airplane
1903
Henry Ford
Model T Ford, Large-Scale Moving Assembly Line
1908,
1913
Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine
1733 – John Kay invents the flying shuttle
1745 – E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor
1752 – Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod
1764 – James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
1768 – Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame
1769 – James Watt invents an improved steam engine
1774 – Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph
1775 – Jacques Perrier invents a steamship
1776 – David Bushnell invents a submarine
1779 – Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
1780 – Gervinus invents the circular saw
1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock; Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the
steel roller for steel production
1784 – Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine
1785 – Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
1786 – John Fitch invents a steamboat
1791 – John Barber invents the gas turbine; Early bicycles invented in Scotland
1794 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin;
1799 – Alessandro Volta invents the battery;
1804 – Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered
locomotive
1809 – Humphry Davy invents the first electric light – the first arc lamp
1814 – George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive; Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was
the first person to take a photograph
1825 – William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet
1829 – American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter
1830 – Frenchmen, Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a sewing machine
1834 –Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator type device – an ether ice machine
1835 –Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller;Charles Babbage invents a
mechanical calculator
1836 – Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson co-invent the propeller; Samuel Colt invented
the first revolver
1837 – Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
1839 – American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization; Kirkpatrick Macmillan
invents a bicycle; Welshmen,
1845 – American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine;
1850 – Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher
1858 –Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine
1862 – Richard Gatling patents the machine gun; Alexander Parkes invents the first manmade plastic
1866 – Alfred Nobel invents dynamite;
1873 – Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone;
1877 – Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph; Eadweard
Muybridge invents the first moving pictures
1885 –Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle
1886 –Gottlieb Daimler builds the world’s first four-wheeled motor vehicle