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Middle Ages
Historians differ in their opinions of when the Middle Ages began and ended, most sources define the Middle Ages as an historical period from 500 AD to 1450 AD. While there was a suppression of knowledge and learning, the Middle Ages was a period full of discovery and inventing.
1023
First paper money printed in China.
1045
Movable type printing by Bi Sheng in China
Circa 1050
Crossbow invented in France.
1182
Magnetic compass invented.
Circa 1200
Clothing buttons invented.
1202
The Hindu-Arabic numbering system introduced to the west by Italian mathematician, Fibonacci.
1249
Rodger Bacon invented his gunpowder formula.
Circa 1250
Gun invented in China.
Circa 1268 - 1289
Invention of eyeglasses.
Circa 1280
Mechanical clocks invented.
Circa 1285 - 1290
Windmills invented.
1295
Modern glassmaking begins in Italy.
1328
First sawmill.
1326
First mention of a handgun.
1366
Scales for weighing invented.
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15th Century
The 15th century gave birth to three major events: the beginning of the Renaissance Era (circa 1453) with a return to research and learning after the Dark Ages; the birth of the Age of Discovery with increased exploration and improved naval ships and navigation methods that created new trade routes and trade partners; and the birth of modern printing marked by 15th century master printer Johann Gutenberg's invention of movable type presses (1440) that made the inexpensive mass-printing of books possible.
The 15th century gave birth to three major events: the beginning of the Renaissance Era (circa 1453) with a return to research and learning after the Dark Ages; the birth of the Age of Discovery with increased exploration and improved naval ships and navigation methods that created new trade routes and trade partners; and the birth of modern printing marked by 15th century master printer Johann Gutenberg's invention of movable type presses (1440) that made the inexpensive mass-printing of books possible.
1400
First golf balls invented.
The first piano called the Spinet invented.
1411
Trigger invented.
1420
Oil painting invented.
1421
In Florence, hoisting gear invented.
1450
Nicholas of Cusa creates spectacles of polished lenses for nearsighted persons.
1455
Johannes Gutenberg invents printing press with metal movable type.
1465
In Germany, drypoint engravings invented.
1475
Muzzle-loaded rifles invented in Italy and Germany.
1486
In Venice, the first known copyright granted.
1485
Leonardo DaVinci designed the first parachute.
1487
Bell chimes invented.
1492
Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines.
Martin Behaim invented the first map globe.
1494
Whiskey invented in Scotland.
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16th Century
The 16th century - was a time of unprecedented change, the very beginning of the modern era of science, a time of great exploration, religious and political urmoil, and extraordinary literature.
The 16th century was a time of unprecedented change, the very beginning of the modern era of science, a time of great exploration, religious and political urmoil, and extraordinary literature.
In 1543, Copernicus published his theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe, rather, the Earth and the other planets orbited around the Sun. Called the Copernican Revolution, his theory forever changed astronomy, and ultimately changed all of science.
During 16th century, advancements were made in the theories of mathematics, cosmography, geography and natural history. 16th century inventions related to the fields of engineering, mining, navigation and the military arts were prominent.
1500
Wheel-lock musket invented.
The first flush toilets appeared.
1510
Leonardo DaVinci designs a horizontal water wheel.
Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein.
1513
Urs Graf invents etching.
1565
A graphite pencil invented by Conrad Gesner.
1568
Bottled beer invented in London.
1569
Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection.
1589
Englishmen, William Lee invents a knitting machine called the stocking frame.
1590
Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope.
1593
Galileo Galilei invents a water thermometer.
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The 17th century, also referred to as the 1600s, spanned the years 1601 to 1700.
During the 17th century major changes in philosophy and science took place. Before the 17th century began, science and scientists were not truly recognized. In fact, at first people like the 17th century genius Isaac Newton were called natural philosophers, since there was no concept of the word scientist for most of the 17th century.
The intrusion of newly invented machines became part of the daily and economic lives of 17th century folk. During the 17th century, the science of chemistry developed from medieval alchemy, and the 17th century science of astronomy evolved from astology.
By the end of the 17th century, a scientific revolution had occurred and science had become an established mathematical, mechanical, and empirical body of knowledge. Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton, and others had become noted scientists.
1600 - 1650
1651 - 1699
1608
Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
1620
The earliest human-powered submarine invented by Cornelis Drebbel.
1624
William Oughtred invents a slide rule.
1625
Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
1629
Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
1636
W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
1642
Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
1643
Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
1650
Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
1656
Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
1660
Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region.
1663
James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
1668
Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
1670
The first reference to a candy cane is made.
Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
1671
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
1674
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria with a microscope.
1675
Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.
1676
Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
1679
Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
1698
Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
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18th Century
The 18th century (also referred to as the 1700s) began the first Industrial Revolution[/link">. Modern manufacturing began with steam engines replacing animal labor. The 18th century saw the widespread replacement of manual labor by new inventions and machinery.
The 18th century was also part of the "The Age of Enlightenment", an historical period characterized by a change away from traditional religious sources of authority, and a move towards science and rational thought.
The effects of 18th century enlightenment led to the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution.The 18th century saw the spread of capitalism and the increased availability of printed materials.
1700 - 1750
1751 - 1799
1701
Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
1709
Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1711
Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
1712
Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
1717
Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
1722
French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
1724
Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
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.
1755
Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary on April 15th after nine years of writing. In the preface Samuel Johnson wrote, "I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven."
1757
John Campbell invents the sextant.
1758
Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
1761
Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
1764
James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
1767
Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
1768
Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
1769
James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
1774
Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
1775
Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
1776
David Bushnell invents a submarine.
1779
Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
1780
Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
Gervinus invents the circular saw.
1783
Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
The Montgolfier brothers invent the hot-air balloon.
Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
1784
Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
1785
Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
Jean Pierre Blanchard invents a working parachute.
1786
John Fitch invents a steamboat.
1789
The guillotine is invented.
1790
The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
1791
John Barber invents the gas turbine. Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
1792
William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
The first ambulance.
1794
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
1795
Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
1796
Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
1797
Wittemore patents a carding machine.
A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
1798
The first soft drink invented.
Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
1799
Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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19th Century
The 19th century was the age of machine tools - tools that made tools - machines that made parts for other machines, including interchangeable parts. The assembly line was invented during the 19th century, speeding up the factory production of consumer goods.
By definition, the 19th century lasted from 1801 through 1900 according to the Gregorian calendar. It is also referred to as the "1800s." The invention of useable electricity, steel, and petroleum products during the 19th century lead to a second industrial revolution (1865–1900), that featured the growth of railways and steam ships, faster and wider means of communication, and inventions with names we all know today.
The 19th century - was the age of machine tools - tools that made tools - machines that made parts for other machines, including interchangeable parts. The assembly line was invented during the 19th century, speeding up the factory production of consumer goods.
The 19th century gave birth to the professional scientist, the word scientist was first used in 1833 by William Whewell. Inventors began to design practical internal combustion engines. The lightbulb, telephone, typewriter, sewing machine, all came of age during the 19th century.
1800 to 1833
1834 to 1866
1867 to 1899
1800
Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
1804
Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive. Unfortunately, the machine was too heavy and broke the very rails it was traveling on.
1809
Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
1810
German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
Peter Durand invents the tin can.
1814
George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive.
The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture.
1815
Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
1819
Samuel Fahnestock patents a soda fountain.
René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
1823
Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
1824
Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
1825
William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
1827
John Walker invents modern matches.
Charles Wheatstone was the first person to coin the phrase microphone.
1829
American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing for the blind. William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
1830
Frenchmen, Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
1831
American, Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
Michael Faraday invents a electric dynamo.
1832
The first patented stereoscope was invented by Charles Wheatstone in 1832 and patented in 1838.
1834
Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator type device - an ether ice machine.
1835
Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotype photography.
Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
1836
Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson co-invent the propellor.
Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
1837
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
1838
Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
I839
American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
1840
Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
1841
Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
1842
Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
1843
Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
1844
Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
1845
American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
1846
Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
1847
Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
1848
Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair.
1849
Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
1850
Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher.
1851
Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
1852
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault invents gyroscope.
Henri Giffard builds an airship powered by the first aircraft engine - an unsuccessful design.
1853
George Cayley invents a manned glider.
1854
John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
1855
Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
Georges Audemars invents rayon.
1856
Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
1857
George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
1858
Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
1861
Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle.
Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
1862
Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
1866
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
1867
Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
1868
George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
J P Knight invents traffic lights.
1872
J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
1873
Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
1874
American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
1877
Thomas Edison invents the ylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
1878
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
1880
The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
1881
Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
1884
George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
Frenchmen, H. de Chardonnet invents rayon.
Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
1885
Harim Maxim invents the machine gun.
Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
1886
Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.
John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
1887
German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire.
Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
1888
Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
1889
Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
1891
Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
1892
Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
1893
American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
Edward Goodrich Acheson invents carborundum.
1895
Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
1896
American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
1898
Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine.
1899
I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
John Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
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20th Century *****NOTE: Examine cause, math, specifics to jumps every ten years.*****
20th Century (1900-1999)
The technology, science, and inventions of the 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80, and 90s.
1900
We began the 20th century with the infancy of airplanes, automobiles, and radio, The zeppelin was invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
1901
King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
1902
Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
The birth of the Teddy Bear.
George Claude invented neon light.
1903
Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
1904
Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve.
1905
Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
Mary Anderson receives a patent for windshield wipers.
1906
William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device.
Lee Deforest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode).
1907
Leo Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite.
Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
1908
The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
Model T first sold.
J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter.
Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.[/liu]
1909
Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
1910
Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris.
1911
Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
1912
Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
1913
The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy.
Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
Gideon Sundback invented the modern zipper.
1914
Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
1915
Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
1916
Radio tuners invented, that received different stations.
Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
1917
Gideon Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first zipper).
1918
The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Today, every radio or television set uses this invention.
Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
1919
The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
Short-wave radio invented.
The flip-flop circuit invented.
The arc welder invented.
1920
The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
The Band-Aid (pronounced 'ban-'dade) invented by Earle Dickson.
1921
Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
John Larson invented the lie detector.
1922
Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
1923
Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
1924
The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
1925
The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
1926
Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
1927
Eduard Haas III invents PEZ candy.
JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
Technicolor invented.
Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
1928
Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
1929
American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
1930
Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer, Richard G. Drew.
The frozen food process patented by Clarence Birdseye.
Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents neoprene.
The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
1931
Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
1932
Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
The zoom lens and the light meter invented.
Carl C. Magee invents the first parking meter.
Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope.
1933
Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
Stereo records invented.
Richard M. Hollingshead builds a prototype drive-in movie theater in his driveway.
1934
Englishmen, Percy Shaw invents cat eyes or roads reflectors.
Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
1935
Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon ( polymer 6.6.)
The first canned beer made.
Robert Watson-Watt patented radar.
1936
Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
1937
Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
The first jet engine is built.
1938
The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
Strobe lighting invented.
LSD was synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann of Sandoz Laboratories.
Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
The first working turboprop engine.
1939
Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
The electron microscope invented.
1940
Dr William Reich invents the orgone accumulator.
Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
1941
Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
Aerosol spray cans invented by American inventors, Lyle David Goodloe and W.N. Sullivan.
Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor.
1942
John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
Mueller designs a turboprop engine.
1943
Synthetic rubber invented.
Richard James invents the slinky.
James Wright invent silly putty.
Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
1944
The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
1945
Vannevar Bush proposes hypertext.
The atomic bomb invented.
1946
The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
1947
British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
Mobile phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold commercially until
1948
The Frisbee ® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
1949
Cake mix invented.
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The 50s - have always been described as a conservative period socially, however, advancements in technology were about to change all that. During the 50s, television became the dominant media. While television had been invented many years previous, the 50s saw nearly every family buying a television set, and nearly everyone watching television for longer and longer periods of time. Television broadcasts became our number one source of news, information, and entertainment during the 50s. Live news broadcasts were now possible coast to coast, and this has changed our world forever.
1950
The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
1951
Super glue invented.
Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
Charles Ginsburg invented the first video tape recorder (VTR).
1952
Mr Potato Head patented.
The first patent for bar code issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
The first diet soft drink sold.
Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.
1953
Radial tires invented.
The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
David Warren invented the black box - flight recorder.
Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.
1954
Oral contraceptives invented - the pill.
The first nonstick teflon pan produced.
The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
1955
Tetracycline invented.
Optic fiber invented.
1956
The first computer hard disk used.
The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter.
1957
Fortran (computer language) invented.
1958
The computer modem invented.
Gordon Gould invents the laser.
The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1959
The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
Barbie Doll invented.
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip.
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The 60s - have been described by historians as the ten years having the most significant changes in history. By the end of the 60s humanity had entered the spaceage by putting a man on the moon. The 60s were influenced by the youth of the post-war baby boom - a generation with a fondness for change and far-out gadgets.
1960
The halogen lamp invented.
1961
Valium invented.
The nondairy creamer invented.
1962
The audio cassette invented.
The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.
Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.
Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.
1963
The video disk invented.
1964
Acrylic paint invented.
Permanent-press fabric invented.
BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.
1965
Astroturf invented.
Soft contact lenses invented.
NutraSweet invented.
The compact disk invented by James Russell.
Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek.
1966
Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.
1967
The first handheld calculator invented.
1968
The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
The first computer with integrated circuits made.
Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
1969
The arpanet (first internet) invented.
The artificial heart invented.
The ATM invented.
The bar-code scanner is invented.
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The 70s - began the age of the practical computer made possible by the invention of the floppy disk and the microprocessor that occurred during the 70s.
1970
The daisy-wheel printer invented.
The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
1971
The dot-matrix printer invented.
The food processor invented.
The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.
VCR or videocassette invented.
1972
The word processor invented.
Pong first video game invented by Nolan Bushnell.
Hacky Sack invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall.
1973
Gene splicing invented.
The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
Bic invents the disposable lighter.
1974
The post-it notes invented by Arthur Fry.
Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction.
1975
The laser printer invented.
The push-through tab on a drink can invented.
1976
The ink-jet printer invented.
1977
Magnetic resonance imaging invented by Raymond V. Damadian.
1978
Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston invented the VisiCalc spreadsheet.
The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
1979
Cell phones invented.
Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray.
Walkman invented.
Scott Olson invents roller blades.
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**Note:Most popular consumer products still around today were invented in the 80s for example: cell phones and home computers.
The 80s - saw the rise of the multi-national corporations, while the growth rate during the 80s was 3.2% per year, the highest 9 year rate in American history, a complex combination of causes (economic, financial, legislative and regulatory) led to the extraordinary number of bank failures in the 80s. And a new definition of the expression "corporate greed" was found.
1980
The hepatitis-B vaccine invented.
1981
MS-DOS invented.
The first IBM-PC invented.
The scanning tunneling microscope invented by Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer.
1982
Human growth hormone genetically engineered.
1983
The Apple Lisa invented.
Soft bifocal contact lens invented.
First Cabbage Patch Kids sold.
Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term "virtual reality".
Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.
Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
1984
The CD-ROM invented.
The Apple Macintosh invented.
1985
Windows program invented by Microsoft.
1986
A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Muller.
Synthetic skin invented by G. Gregory Gallico, III.
Fuji introduced the disposable camera.
1987
The first 3-D video game invented.
Disposable contact lenses invented.
1988
Digital cellular phones invented.
The RU-486 (abortion pill) invented.
Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler.
Prozac invented at the Eli Lilly Company by inventor Ray Fuller.
The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart.
Ralph Alessio and Fredrik Olsen received a patent for the Indiglo nightlight. The bluish green light is used to illuminate the entire face of a watch.
1989
High-definition television invented.
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The 90s - saw the invention of the internet and the rise of Microsoft. The 90s saw the invention of genetic engineering, as well as cloning, and stem cell research.
1990
The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
1991
The digital answering machine invented.
1992
The smart pill invented.
1993
The pentium processor invented.
1994
HIV protease inhibitor invented.
1995
The Java computer language invented.
DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented.
1996
Web TV invented.
1997
The gas-powered fuel cell invented.
1998
Viagra invented.
1999
Scientists measure the fastest wind speed ever recorded on earth, 509 km/h(318 mph).
Tekno Bubbles patented.
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2000
The mystery of Ginger.
Environmentally friendly transformer fluid from vegetable oils invented by T.V. Oommen.
FluidSense infusion pump invented (automatic and standardized intravenous applicator).
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Modern Inventions of 2001
AbioCor artificial heart invented by Abiomed - the Abiocor represents groundbreaking medical miniaturization technology. Nuvaring birth control invented by Organon.
Artificial liver invented by Dr. Kenneth Matsumura and Alin Foundation.
Fuel cell bike invented by Aprilia.
Self-cleaning windows invented by PPG Industries.
On October 23, 2001 Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player the iPod, created under project codename Dulcimer.
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2001
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Modern Inventions of 2002
Braille Glove invented by Ryan Patterson.
Phone tooth invented by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau.
Nano-tex - nanotechnology wearable fabrics invented by Nano-tex LLC.
Birth control patch invented by Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical.
Foveon Camera Chip invented by Richard Merrill.
Date Rape Drug Spotter invented by Francisco Guerra.
Solar Tower invented by Jorg Schlaich.
Virtual keyboard invented by Canesta and VKB.
ICOPOD invented by Sanford Ponder.
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2002
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Modern Inventions of 2003
Optical Camouflage System invented by Susumu Tachi, Masahiko Inami, and Naoki Kawakami
Toyota's Hybrid Car
Ice Bike invented by Dan Hanebrink
New Toy Robots Max the robotic cat invented by Omron, LUCKY, THE ROVING ROBO-RAPTOR invented by Walt Disney Imagineering, and Sony builds Aibo a companion called Orio.
New Fabrics, Salmon Skin Leather invented by Claudia Escobar and Skini, and Luminex a glowing fabric invented by Luminex.
Java Log a log for your fireplace made from used coffee grinds and invented by Rod Sprules
Infrared Fever Screening System used in public buildings to scan for people with a high temperature from a fever or sars invented by Singapore Technologies Electronics and the Singapore Defense Science and Technology Agency
The No-Contact Jacket invented by Adam Whiton and Yolita Nugent, protects the wearer by electric shocking any attackers.
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2003
Popular Science Best of What's New 2003
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Modern Inventions of 2004
Adidas 1 are the thinking shoes with a built in microprocessor that decides how soft or firm support the wearer needs. Chosen by Popular Science magazine as the best recreation invention of 2004.
Translucent Concrete developed by Hungarian architect Aron Losonczi and called LitraCon and is based on a matrix of parallel optical glass fibers embedded into the concrete that can transmit light and color from the outside. However, this is not the only translucent concrete out there. Inventor Bill Price has been developing another variety.
Ka-on or Flower Sound are plants that play music invented by the Japanese based Let's Corporation. Flowers bouquets will act as loudspeakers when placed in a special vase that has electronics hidden in the base.
Intel Express Chipsets - Grantsdale and Alderwood are the code names of Intel's newest chips that will provide superior and inexpensive built-in sound and video capacities for the PC including the ability to do high definition video editing without additional computer cards.
SonoPrep invented by bioengineer Robert Langer, is a device that will deliver medication by sound waves rather than injection. According to the Sontra Medical Corporation, SonoPrep's manufacturer: The small, battery-powered device applies low-frequency ultrasonic energy to the skin for 15 seconds. The ultrasound temporarily rearranges lipids in the skin, opening channels that let fluids be delivered or extracted. After about 24 hours, the skin returns to normal.
Popular Science Best of What's New 2004
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2004
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Modern Inventions of 2005
YouTube - the online video sharing and viewing community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. YouTube was named Time Magazines Invention of the year in 2006.
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2005
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New inventions of 2008 include: - smog-earing cement, high altitude flying windmills, bionic contacts, pig-urine plastic.
Inventors' Pick for Top Inventions of 2008
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2008
Popular Science Best of What's New 2008
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Middle Ages
Historians differ in their opinions of when the Middle Ages began and ended, most sources define the Middle Ages as an historical period from 500 AD to 1450 AD. While there was a suppression of knowledge and learning, the Middle Ages was a period full of discovery and inventing.
1023
First paper money printed in China.
1045
Movable type printing by Bi Sheng in China
Circa 1050
Crossbow invented in France.
1182
Magnetic compass invented.
Circa 1200
Clothing buttons invented.
1202
The Hindu-Arabic numbering system introduced to the west by Italian mathematician, Fibonacci.
1249
Rodger Bacon invented his gunpowder formula.
Circa 1250
Gun invented in China.
Circa 1268 - 1289
Invention of eyeglasses.
Circa 1280
Mechanical clocks invented.
Circa 1285 - 1290
Windmills invented.
1295
Modern glassmaking begins in Italy.
1328
First sawmill.
1326
First mention of a handgun.
1366
Scales for weighing invented.
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15th Century
The 15th century gave birth to three major events: the beginning of the Renaissance Era (circa 1453) with a return to research and learning after the Dark Ages; the birth of the Age of Discovery with increased exploration and improved naval ships and navigation methods that created new trade routes and trade partners; and the birth of modern printing marked by 15th century master printer Johann Gutenberg's invention of movable type presses (1440) that made the inexpensive mass-printing of books possible.
The 15th century gave birth to three major events: the beginning of the Renaissance Era (circa 1453) with a return to research and learning after the Dark Ages; the birth of the Age of Discovery with increased exploration and improved naval ships and navigation methods that created new trade routes and trade partners; and the birth of modern printing marked by 15th century master printer Johann Gutenberg's invention of movable type presses (1440) that made the inexpensive mass-printing of books possible.
1400
First golf balls invented.
The first piano called the Spinet invented.
1411
Trigger invented.
1420
Oil painting invented.
1421
In Florence, hoisting gear invented.
1450
Nicholas of Cusa creates spectacles of polished lenses for nearsighted persons.
1455
Johannes Gutenberg invents printing press with metal movable type.
1465
In Germany, drypoint engravings invented.
1475
Muzzle-loaded rifles invented in Italy and Germany.
1486
In Venice, the first known copyright granted.
1485
Leonardo DaVinci designed the first parachute.
1487
Bell chimes invented.
1492
Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines.
Martin Behaim invented the first map globe.
1494
Whiskey invented in Scotland.
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16th Century
The 16th century - was a time of unprecedented change, the very beginning of the modern era of science, a time of great exploration, religious and political urmoil, and extraordinary literature.
The 16th century was a time of unprecedented change, the very beginning of the modern era of science, a time of great exploration, religious and political urmoil, and extraordinary literature.
In 1543, Copernicus published his theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe, rather, the Earth and the other planets orbited around the Sun. Called the Copernican Revolution, his theory forever changed astronomy, and ultimately changed all of science.
During 16th century, advancements were made in the theories of mathematics, cosmography, geography and natural history. 16th century inventions related to the fields of engineering, mining, navigation and the military arts were prominent.
1500
Wheel-lock musket invented.
The first flush toilets appeared.
1510
Leonardo DaVinci designs a horizontal water wheel.
Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein.
1513
Urs Graf invents etching.
1565
A graphite pencil invented by Conrad Gesner.
1568
Bottled beer invented in London.
1569
Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection.
1589
Englishmen, William Lee invents a knitting machine called the stocking frame.
1590
Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope.
1593
Galileo Galilei invents a water thermometer.
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The 17th century, also referred to as the 1600s, spanned the years 1601 to 1700.
During the 17th century major changes in philosophy and science took place. Before the 17th century began, science and scientists were not truly recognized. In fact, at first people like the 17th century genius Isaac Newton were called natural philosophers, since there was no concept of the word scientist for most of the 17th century.
The intrusion of newly invented machines became part of the daily and economic lives of 17th century folk. During the 17th century, the science of chemistry developed from medieval alchemy, and the 17th century science of astronomy evolved from astology.
By the end of the 17th century, a scientific revolution had occurred and science had become an established mathematical, mechanical, and empirical body of knowledge. Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton, and others had become noted scientists.
1600 - 1650
1651 - 1699
1608
Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
1620
The earliest human-powered submarine invented by Cornelis Drebbel.
1624
William Oughtred invents a slide rule.
1625
Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
1629
Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
1636
W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
1642
Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
1643
Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
1650
Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
1656
Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
1660
Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region.
1663
James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
1668
Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
1670
The first reference to a candy cane is made.
Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
1671
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
1674
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria with a microscope.
1675
Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.
1676
Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
1679
Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
1698
Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
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18th Century
The 18th century (also referred to as the 1700s) began the first Industrial Revolution[/link">. Modern manufacturing began with steam engines replacing animal labor. The 18th century saw the widespread replacement of manual labor by new inventions and machinery.
The 18th century was also part of the "The Age of Enlightenment", an historical period characterized by a change away from traditional religious sources of authority, and a move towards science and rational thought.
The effects of 18th century enlightenment led to the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution.The 18th century saw the spread of capitalism and the increased availability of printed materials.
1700 - 1750
1751 - 1799
1701
Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
1709
Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1711
Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
1712
Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
1717
Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
1722
French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
1724
Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
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.
1755
Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary on April 15th after nine years of writing. In the preface Samuel Johnson wrote, "I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven."
1757
John Campbell invents the sextant.
1758
Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
1761
Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
1764
James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
1767
Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
1768
Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
1769
James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
1774
Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
1775
Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
1776
David Bushnell invents a submarine.
1779
Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
1780
Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
Gervinus invents the circular saw.
1783
Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
The Montgolfier brothers invent the hot-air balloon.
Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
1784
Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
1785
Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
Jean Pierre Blanchard invents a working parachute.
1786
John Fitch invents a steamboat.
1789
The guillotine is invented.
1790
The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
1791
John Barber invents the gas turbine. Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
1792
William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
The first ambulance.
1794
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
1795
Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
1796
Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
1797
Wittemore patents a carding machine.
A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
1798
The first soft drink invented.
Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
1799
Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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19th Century
The 19th century was the age of machine tools - tools that made tools - machines that made parts for other machines, including interchangeable parts. The assembly line was invented during the 19th century, speeding up the factory production of consumer goods.
By definition, the 19th century lasted from 1801 through 1900 according to the Gregorian calendar. It is also referred to as the "1800s." The invention of useable electricity, steel, and petroleum products during the 19th century lead to a second industrial revolution (1865–1900), that featured the growth of railways and steam ships, faster and wider means of communication, and inventions with names we all know today.
The 19th century - was the age of machine tools - tools that made tools - machines that made parts for other machines, including interchangeable parts. The assembly line was invented during the 19th century, speeding up the factory production of consumer goods.
The 19th century gave birth to the professional scientist, the word scientist was first used in 1833 by William Whewell. Inventors began to design practical internal combustion engines. The lightbulb, telephone, typewriter, sewing machine, all came of age during the 19th century.
1800 to 1833
1834 to 1866
1867 to 1899
1800
Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
1804
Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive. Unfortunately, the machine was too heavy and broke the very rails it was traveling on.
1809
Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
1810
German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
Peter Durand invents the tin can.
1814
George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive.
The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture.
1815
Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
1819
Samuel Fahnestock patents a soda fountain.
René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
1823
Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
1824
Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
1825
William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
1827
John Walker invents modern matches.
Charles Wheatstone was the first person to coin the phrase microphone.
1829
American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing for the blind. William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
1830
Frenchmen, Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
1831
American, Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
Michael Faraday invents a electric dynamo.
1832
The first patented stereoscope was invented by Charles Wheatstone in 1832 and patented in 1838.
1834
Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator type device - an ether ice machine.
1835
Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotype photography.
Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
1836
Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson co-invent the propellor.
Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
1837
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
1838
Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
I839
American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
1840
Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
1841
Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
1842
Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
1843
Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
1844
Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
1845
American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
1846
Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
1847
Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
1848
Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair.
1849
Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
1850
Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher.
1851
Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
1852
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault invents gyroscope.
Henri Giffard builds an airship powered by the first aircraft engine - an unsuccessful design.
1853
George Cayley invents a manned glider.
1854
John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
1855
Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
Georges Audemars invents rayon.
1856
Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
1857
George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
1858
Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
1861
Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle.
Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
1862
Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
1866
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
1867
Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
1868
George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
J P Knight invents traffic lights.
1872
J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
1873
Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
1874
American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
1877
Thomas Edison invents the ylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
1878
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
1880
The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
1881
Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
1884
George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
Frenchmen, H. de Chardonnet invents rayon.
Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
1885
Harim Maxim invents the machine gun.
Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
1886
Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.
John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
1887
German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire.
Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
1888
Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
1889
Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
1891
Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
1892
Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
1893
American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
Edward Goodrich Acheson invents carborundum.
1895
Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
1896
American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
1898
Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine.
1899
I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
John Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
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20th Century (1900-1999)
The technology, science, and inventions of the 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80, and 90s.
1900
We began the 20th century with the infancy of airplanes, automobiles, and radio, The zeppelin was invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
1901
King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
1902
Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
The birth of the Teddy Bear.
George Claude invented neon light.
1903
Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
1904
Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve.
1905
Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
Mary Anderson receives a patent for windshield wipers.
1906
William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device.
Lee Deforest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode).
1907
Leo Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite.
Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
1908
The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
Model T first sold.
J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter.
Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.[/liu]
1909
Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
1910
Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris.
1911
Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
1912
Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
1913
The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy.
Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
Gideon Sundback invented the modern zipper.
1914
Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
1915
Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
1916
Radio tuners invented, that received different stations.
Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
1917
Gideon Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first zipper).
1918
The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Today, every radio or television set uses this invention.
Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
1919
The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
Short-wave radio invented.
The flip-flop circuit invented.
The arc welder invented.
1920
The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
The Band-Aid (pronounced 'ban-'dade) invented by Earle Dickson.
1921
Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
John Larson invented the lie detector.
1922
Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
1923
Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
1924
The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
1925
The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
1926
Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
1927
Eduard Haas III invents PEZ candy.
JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
Technicolor invented.
Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
1928
Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
1929
American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
1930
Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer, Richard G. Drew.
The frozen food process patented by Clarence Birdseye.
Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents neoprene.
The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
1931
Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
1932
Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
The zoom lens and the light meter invented.
Carl C. Magee invents the first parking meter.
Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope.
1933
Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
Stereo records invented.
Richard M. Hollingshead builds a prototype drive-in movie theater in his driveway.
1934
Englishmen, Percy Shaw invents cat eyes or roads reflectors.
Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
1935
Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon ( polymer 6.6.)
The first canned beer made.
Robert Watson-Watt patented radar.
1936
Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
1937
Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
The first jet engine is built.
1938
The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
Strobe lighting invented.
LSD was synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann of Sandoz Laboratories.
Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
The first working turboprop engine.
1939
Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
The electron microscope invented.
1940
Dr William Reich invents the orgone accumulator.
Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
1941
Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
Aerosol spray cans invented by American inventors, Lyle David Goodloe and W.N. Sullivan.
Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor.
1942
John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
Mueller designs a turboprop engine.
1943
Synthetic rubber invented.
Richard James invents the slinky.
James Wright invent silly putty.
Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
1944
The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
1945
Vannevar Bush proposes hypertext.
The atomic bomb invented.
1946
The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
1947
British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
Mobile phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold commercially until
1948
The Frisbee ® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
1949
Cake mix invented.
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NOTE:
The 50s - have always been described as a conservative period socially, however, advancements in technology were about to change all that. During the 50s, television became the dominant media. While television had been invented many years previous, the 50s saw nearly every family buying a television set, and nearly everyone watching television for longer and longer periods of time. Television broadcasts became our number one source of news, information, and entertainment during the 50s. Live news broadcasts were now possible coast to coast, and this has changed our world forever.
1950
The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
1951
Super glue invented.
Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
Charles Ginsburg invented the first video tape recorder (VTR).
1952
Mr Potato Head patented.
The first patent for bar code issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
The first diet soft drink sold.
Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.
1953
Radial tires invented.
The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
David Warren invented the black box - flight recorder.
Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.
1954
Oral contraceptives invented - the pill.
The first nonstick teflon pan produced.
The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
1955
Tetracycline invented.
Optic fiber invented.
1956
The first computer hard disk used.
The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter.
1957
Fortran (computer language) invented.
1958
The computer modem invented.
Gordon Gould invents the laser.
The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1959
The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
Barbie Doll invented.
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip.
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The 60s - have been described by historians as the ten years having the most significant changes in history. By the end of the 60s humanity had entered the spaceage by putting a man on the moon. The 60s were influenced by the youth of the post-war baby boom - a generation with a fondness for change and far-out gadgets.
1960
The halogen lamp invented.
1961
Valium invented.
The nondairy creamer invented.
1962
The audio cassette invented.
The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.
Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.
Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.
1963
The video disk invented.
1964
Acrylic paint invented.
Permanent-press fabric invented.
BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.
1965
Astroturf invented.
Soft contact lenses invented.
NutraSweet invented.
The compact disk invented by James Russell.
Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek.
1966
Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.
1967
The first handheld calculator invented.
1968
The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
The first computer with integrated circuits made.
Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
1969
The arpanet (first internet) invented.
The artificial heart invented.
The ATM invented.
The bar-code scanner is invented.
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The 70s - began the age of the practical computer made possible by the invention of the floppy disk and the microprocessor that occurred during the 70s.
1970
The daisy-wheel printer invented.
The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
1971
The dot-matrix printer invented.
The food processor invented.
The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.
VCR or videocassette invented.
1972
The word processor invented.
Pong first video game invented by Nolan Bushnell.
Hacky Sack invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall.
1973
Gene splicing invented.
The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
Bic invents the disposable lighter.
1974
The post-it notes invented by Arthur Fry.
Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction.
1975
The laser printer invented.
The push-through tab on a drink can invented.
1976
The ink-jet printer invented.
1977
Magnetic resonance imaging invented by Raymond V. Damadian.
1978
Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston invented the VisiCalc spreadsheet.
The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
1979
Cell phones invented.
Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray.
Walkman invented.
Scott Olson invents roller blades.
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**Note:Most popular consumer products still around today were invented in the 80s for example: cell phones and home computers.
The 80s - saw the rise of the multi-national corporations, while the growth rate during the 80s was 3.2% per year, the highest 9 year rate in American history, a complex combination of causes (economic, financial, legislative and regulatory) led to the extraordinary number of bank failures in the 80s. And a new definition of the expression "corporate greed" was found.
1980
The hepatitis-B vaccine invented.
1981
MS-DOS invented.
The first IBM-PC invented.
The scanning tunneling microscope invented by Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer.
1982
Human growth hormone genetically engineered.
1983
The Apple Lisa invented.
Soft bifocal contact lens invented.
First Cabbage Patch Kids sold.
Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term "virtual reality".
Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.
Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
1984
The CD-ROM invented.
The Apple Macintosh invented.
1985
Windows program invented by Microsoft.
1986
A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Muller.
Synthetic skin invented by G. Gregory Gallico, III.
Fuji introduced the disposable camera.
1987
The first 3-D video game invented.
Disposable contact lenses invented.
1988
Digital cellular phones invented.
The RU-486 (abortion pill) invented.
Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler.
Prozac invented at the Eli Lilly Company by inventor Ray Fuller.
The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart.
Ralph Alessio and Fredrik Olsen received a patent for the Indiglo nightlight. The bluish green light is used to illuminate the entire face of a watch.
1989
High-definition television invented.
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The 90s - saw the invention of the internet and the rise of Microsoft. The 90s saw the invention of genetic engineering, as well as cloning, and stem cell research.
1990
The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
1991
The digital answering machine invented.
1992
The smart pill invented.
1993
The pentium processor invented.
1994
HIV protease inhibitor invented.
1995
The Java computer language invented.
DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented.
1996
Web TV invented.
1997
The gas-powered fuel cell invented.
1998
Viagra invented.
1999
Scientists measure the fastest wind speed ever recorded on earth, 509 km/h(318 mph).
Tekno Bubbles patented.
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2000
The mystery of Ginger.
Environmentally friendly transformer fluid from vegetable oils invented by T.V. Oommen.
FluidSense infusion pump invented (automatic and standardized intravenous applicator).
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Modern Inventions of 2001
AbioCor artificial heart invented by Abiomed - the Abiocor represents groundbreaking medical miniaturization technology. Nuvaring birth control invented by Organon.
Artificial liver invented by Dr. Kenneth Matsumura and Alin Foundation.
Fuel cell bike invented by Aprilia.
Self-cleaning windows invented by PPG Industries.
On October 23, 2001 Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player the iPod, created under project codename Dulcimer.
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2001
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Modern Inventions of 2002
Braille Glove invented by Ryan Patterson.
Phone tooth invented by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau.
Nano-tex - nanotechnology wearable fabrics invented by Nano-tex LLC.
Birth control patch invented by Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical.
Foveon Camera Chip invented by Richard Merrill.
Date Rape Drug Spotter invented by Francisco Guerra.
Solar Tower invented by Jorg Schlaich.
Virtual keyboard invented by Canesta and VKB.
ICOPOD invented by Sanford Ponder.
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2002
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Modern Inventions of 2003
Optical Camouflage System invented by Susumu Tachi, Masahiko Inami, and Naoki Kawakami
Toyota's Hybrid Car
Ice Bike invented by Dan Hanebrink
New Toy Robots Max the robotic cat invented by Omron, LUCKY, THE ROVING ROBO-RAPTOR invented by Walt Disney Imagineering, and Sony builds Aibo a companion called Orio.
New Fabrics, Salmon Skin Leather invented by Claudia Escobar and Skini, and Luminex a glowing fabric invented by Luminex.
Java Log a log for your fireplace made from used coffee grinds and invented by Rod Sprules
Infrared Fever Screening System used in public buildings to scan for people with a high temperature from a fever or sars invented by Singapore Technologies Electronics and the Singapore Defense Science and Technology Agency
The No-Contact Jacket invented by Adam Whiton and Yolita Nugent, protects the wearer by electric shocking any attackers.
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2003
Popular Science Best of What's New 2003
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Modern Inventions of 2004
Adidas 1 are the thinking shoes with a built in microprocessor that decides how soft or firm support the wearer needs. Chosen by Popular Science magazine as the best recreation invention of 2004.
Translucent Concrete developed by Hungarian architect Aron Losonczi and called LitraCon and is based on a matrix of parallel optical glass fibers embedded into the concrete that can transmit light and color from the outside. However, this is not the only translucent concrete out there. Inventor Bill Price has been developing another variety.
Ka-on or Flower Sound are plants that play music invented by the Japanese based Let's Corporation. Flowers bouquets will act as loudspeakers when placed in a special vase that has electronics hidden in the base.
Intel Express Chipsets - Grantsdale and Alderwood are the code names of Intel's newest chips that will provide superior and inexpensive built-in sound and video capacities for the PC including the ability to do high definition video editing without additional computer cards.
SonoPrep invented by bioengineer Robert Langer, is a device that will deliver medication by sound waves rather than injection. According to the Sontra Medical Corporation, SonoPrep's manufacturer: The small, battery-powered device applies low-frequency ultrasonic energy to the skin for 15 seconds. The ultrasound temporarily rearranges lipids in the skin, opening channels that let fluids be delivered or extracted. After about 24 hours, the skin returns to normal.
Popular Science Best of What's New 2004
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2004
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Modern Inventions of 2005
YouTube - the online video sharing and viewing community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. YouTube was named Time Magazines Invention of the year in 2006.
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2005
Modern Inventions of 2006
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Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2006
Popular Science Best of What's New 2006
Modern Inventions of 2007
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Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2007
Popular Science Best of What's New 2007
Modern Inventions of 2008
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New inventions of 2008 include: - smog-earing cement, high altitude flying windmills, bionic contacts, pig-urine plastic.
Inventors' Pick for Top Inventions of 2008
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2008
Popular Science Best of What's New 2008
Modern Inventions of 2009
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New inventions of 2009 - include: a new computer interface called the sixth sense, and a retinal implant for the blind.
ew computer interface called the sixth sense, and a retinal implant for the blind.
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