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SOME IMPORTANT INVENTIONS. |
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| Date | Invention |
Inventor |
| 1450 | Movable type |
Johannes Gutenberg (Ger.) |
| 1550 | Spinning Wheel |
China ? |
| 1590 ? | Compound Microscope |
Zacharias Janssen (Dutch) |
| 1593 | Thermometer |
Galileo Galilei (Ital.) |
| 1608 - 9 | Refracting Telescope |
Hans Lippershey (Dutch) Galileo Galilei (Ital.) |
| 1670 | Refracting Telescope |
Isaac Newton (Brit.) |
| 1698 | Steam Pump |
Thomas Savery (Brit.) |
| 1712 | Beam Engine |
Thomas Newcomen (Brit.) |
| 1733 | Flying Shuttle |
John Kay (Brit.) |
| 1760 | Lightening Conductor |
Benjamin Franklin (US) |
| 1767 | Spinning Jenny |
James Hargreaves (Brit.) |
| 1768 | Spinning Frame |
Richard Arkwright (Brit.) |
| 1779 | Spinning Mule |
Samuel Crompton (Brit) |
| 1780s | Double-acting Steam Engine/Governor |
James Watt (Scot.) |
| 1783 | Hot-air Balloon |
Montgolfier Brothers (Fr.) |
| 1787 ? | Power Loom |
Edmund Cartwright (Brit.) |
| 1790s | Cotton Gin |
Eli Whitney (US) |
| 1800 ? | Electric Battery |
Alessandro Volta (It.) |
| 1800 | Lathe |
Henry Maudsley (Brit.) |
| 1804 | Glider |
George Cayley (Brit.) |
| 1804 | Steam Locomotive |
Richard Trevithick (Brit.) |
| 1807 | Steamboat |
Robert Fulton (US) |
| 1812 | Mechanical Printing Press |
Friedrich König (Ger.) |
| 1815 | Safety Lamp |
Humphrey Davy (Brit.) |
| 1816 | Stethoscope |
René T. H. Laënec (Fr.) |
| 1830s | Photography |
Joseph Nicephore Niépce (Fr.) Louis J. M. Daguerre (Fr.) Willian Fox Talbot (Brit.) |
| 1834 | First Digital Computer (Mechanical) |
Charles Babbage (Brit.) |
| 1836 | Revolver |
Samuel Colt (US) |
| 1836 | Screw Propeller |
John Ericcson (Swed.) |
| 1837 | Telegraph |
Willian Cooke (Brit.) Charles Wheatstone (Brit.) Samuel Morse (US) |
| 1839 | Steam Hammer |
James Nasmyth (Scot.) |
| 1845 | Sewing Machine |
Elias Howe (US) |
| 1852 | Safety Lift (Elevator) |
Elish Graves Otis (US) |
| 1867 | Dynamite |
Alfred Nobel (Swed.) |
| 1867 | Typewriter |
Christopher L. Sholes (US) Carlos Glidden(US) Samuel W. Soule (US) |
| 1976 | Four-Stroke Internal Combustion Engine |
Nikolaus August Otto (Ger.) |
| 1876 | Telephone |
Alexander Graham Bell (US) |
| 1877 | Phonograph |
Thomas Alva Edison (US) |
| 1878 | Cathode Ray Tube |
Willian Crookes (Brit.) |
| 1878/9 | Electric Lamp |
Joseph Swan (Brit.) Thomas Alva Edison (US) |
| 1884 | Steam Turbine |
Charles Parsons (Brit.) |
| 1885 | Petrol Engine |
Karl Benz (Ger.) Gottlieb Daimler (Ger.) |
| 1888 | Pneumatic Tyre |
John Boyd Dunlop (Brit.) |
| 1891 | Roll Film |
George Eastman (US) |
| 1893 | Diesel Engine |
Rudolf Diesel (Ger.) |
| 1895 | Radio |
Guglielmo Marconi (Ital.) |
| 1903 | Powered Flight |
Wilbur Wright (US) Orville Wright (US) |
| 1904 | Radio Valve (Tube) |
John Ambrose Fleming (Brit.) |
| 1926 | Liquid-Propelled Rocket |
Robert Hutchings Goddard (US) |
| 1926-28 | Television |
John Logie Baird (Scot.) Vladimir Zworykin (US) |
| 1930 | Cyclotron |
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (US) |
| 1935 | Radar |
Robert Watson-Watt (Brit.) |
| 1936/9 | Helicopter |
Heinrich Focke )Ger.) Igor Sikorsky (US) |
| 1937 | Jet Engine |
Frank Whittle (Brit.) |
| 1942 |
First Digital Computer (Electronic) 'Colossus' |
Bletchley Park Technicians (Brit.) |
| 1944 |
Second Digital Computer (Electronic) 'ENIAC' |
Howard Aitken (US) |
| 1950s | Rotary Petrol Engine |
Felix Wankel (Ger.) |
| 1955 | Hovercraft |
Christopher Cockerell (Brit.) |
| TBA | First Jet Airliner (Comet) |
De Haviland (Brit.) |
| 1978 | First Supersonic Jet Airliner (Concorde) |
BAE (Brit.) Aerospeciales (Fr.) |
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