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peanut butter Joseph L. Rosefield George A. Bayle Vacuum Cleaner Zipper Velcro Ives W. McGaffey
The Toaster
George Crum
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta (18 February 1745 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist known especially for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Pedanius Dioscorides invented chewing gum. Jack Kilby invented the handheld calculator. James Russell invented the music CD. Willis Carrier invented air conditioning. Philo T. Farnsworth invented the television. Louis Le Prince invented the motion picture.
Invention?
Thermometer (medical) Flashlight (torch) 1867 1890s
When?
Bank of Stockholm Frederick Banting & Charles Best Christiaan Barnard Paul Beiersdorf Alexander Graham Bell F. H. Bennett Melitta Bentz Karl Benz
Banknotes Insulin
1661 1921
Heart transplants Adhesive plaster-covered bandages Telephone Dog biscuit Coffee filter paper Automobile, internal combustion (gasolinepowered)
1967 1882 1876 1908 1908 1885 (1st patent issued for gas-fuelled car) 1921
Charles Best & Frederick Banting Clarence Birdseye Ladislao & Georg Biro Anthony Blatner
Insulin
Blood transfusion Seat belts, 3 point (lap and shoulder) Condensed milk
Thomas & William Bowler Jacques E. Brandenburger Louis and Jacques Breguet Dr David Brewster
Harold P Brown & Dr E A Kennelly Edwin Beard Budding Dr John F. Burke & Ioannis V. Yanna William A Burt Dr Thaddeus Cahill Francois-Louis Cailler Dr Wallace Carothers Joseph Bienaime Caventou & Pierre Joseph Pelletier James Chalmers Min-Chueh Chang, Gregory Pincus, John Rock Claude Chappe John P Charlton John Charnley Godtfred Kirk Christiansen Georges Claude Christopher Sydney Cockerell Henry Cole (suggestion) & John Calcott Horsley W. F. Cooke & Charles Wheatstone Denton Cooley Paul Cornu
Electric chair
1890
1830 1979
Semaphore Postcard Artificial hip Lego Neon light Hovercraft Christmas card
Telegraph
1969 1907
Jacques Cousteau Francis Crick, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin Bartolommeo Cristofori George Crum Nicholas Cugnot Gottleib Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach Sir Humphrey Davy Johann Christoph Denner Sir James Dewar Earl Dickson Rudolf Diesel
1943 1953
Marion Donovan Heinrich Dreser & Felix Hoffman Richard Drew Philip Drinker John Dunlop Peter Durand George Eastmann
1951 1899
Adhesive tape, transparent (Scotch tape) Iron lung Tyre (pneumatic, with valve, for bicycle) Canned food (tin-plate canisters) Camera (flexible roll film)Photographic film (using celluloid)
1930 1929 1888 1810 (patent) 1888 1889 1879 (public lighting demonstration in New York) 1878 (patent) 1911 1903 1891 1923 1910 1893
Electric light bulb (incandescent filament lamp) (jointly credited with development) Phonograph (commercial)
Paul Ehrlich Willem Einthoven Karl Elsener Frank Epperson Henri Fabre George Washington Gale Ferris Adolf Fick Alva Fisher
Chemotherapy Electrocardiograph Swiss Army knife Ice-block (ice-lolly, popsicle) Seaplane Ferris wheel
Alexander Fleming Henry Ford Benjamin Franklin Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, James Watson French Academy of Sciences
Metric system
Arthur Fry Jacob Fussell Dennis Gabor Richard Jordan Gatling Dorothy Gerber Henri Giffard King Camp Gillette Joseph Glidden (Illinois) Robert Goddard Alexandre Godefoy Charles Goodyear
Post-it note Ice-cream (dairy mass-produced) Hologram (principles of holography) Machine gun Baby food (commercial) Airship Razor (disposable blade) Barbed wire Rocket, liquid fuelled (first launch) Electric hair dryer Rubber (vulcanised)
1974 1851 1947 (idea) 1862 1927 1852 1901 1874 (patent) 1926 1890 1839 1844 (patent)
Betty Nesmith Graham Dr George F. Grant Wilson Greatbatch Robert Green Hanson Crockett Gregory George Fellows Harrington Sir John Harrington James Harrison (Australia) see also Alexander Catlin Twining (US) John Harrison William Harvey Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz Henkel et Cie (Germany) Rowland Hill
Liquid paper (typing correction fluid) Golf tee (wooden) Pacemaker (artificial, implantable) Ice-cream soda Doughnut Dental drill Water closet Refrigerator (simultaneously)
1951 1899 (patent) 1960 (first implant) 1874 1847 1864 c1590 1850
1907 1837
Felix Hoffman & Heinrich Dreser John Calcott Horsley, suggested by Henry Cole Coenrad van Houten Walter Hunt (US) & Charles Rowley (UK) Christiaan Huygens
Aspirin
1899
Christmas card
1843
1828 1849
1657 1680
John Wesley Hyatt H Vernon Ingram Mary Phelps Jacob Richard James Hans Janssen Edward Jenner Jean-Baptiste Jolly Whitcombe L Judson Dr John Kellogg Dr E A Kennelly & Harold P Brown Arnold Kent (idea)
Celluloid Laser eye surgery Brassiere Slinky Microscope (compound) Smallpox (vaccine) Dry-cleaning Zip fastener Cornflakes Electric chair
1869 1964 1914 (patent) c1945 1590 1796 (first experiments) 1845 1892 1895 1890
1961
William Kent Jack Kilby Ray Kroc Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec Arthur Leslie Large John Lea & Williams Perrins Georges Leclenche Anton van Leeuwenhoek Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir
Internet Scurvy
Hyman Lipman (Philadelphia) see also Joseph Rechendorfer Hans Lippershey Joseph Lister Johan Edvard Lundstrom Ives W McGaffey Archibald Hector McIndoe Charles Macintosh Kirkpatrick Macmillan Carlton C. Magee George William Manby Italo Marcioni
1858
Telescope Antiseptic Match (safety, phosphorous) Vacuum cleaner Plastic surgery Rubber (waterproof) Bicycle (pedal) Parking meter Fire extinguisher Ice-cream cone
1608 1865 1855 1869 1940s 1823 (patent) 1839 1932 (patent) 1813 1896 1903 (cone mold patented)
Guglielmo Marconi
Radio (cross-Atlantic transmission) Telegraph (wireless) first Morse code signals over 2.4 km
1901 1895
Siegfried Marcus (experimental) Wilhelm Maybach & Gottleib Daimler Hippolyte Mege-Mouries Johann Gregor Mendel Georges de Mestral
c1864
1885
Harry M Meyer Jr & Paul D Parkman Morris Michtom John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich Joseph-Michel & JacquesEtienne Montgolfier Gordon Moore and Robert Norton Noyce Etienne J. Morel Giovanni Battista Morgagni Garrett Augustus Morgan
Rubella vaccine
1965
1902 1762
1783
Micro-processor
1971
Isaac Newton Joseph Niepce Alfred Nobel Robert Norton Noyce & Gordon Moore Elisha Graves Otis William Painter Ambrose Pare Paul D Parkman & Harry M Meyer Jr Gustave E. Pasch Louis Pasteur
Charles Pearson (idea) Pierre Joseph Pelletier & Joseph Bienaime Caventou Dr John Stith Pemberton Henry D. Perky Williams Perrins & John Lea Philips Co. Gregory Pincus, John Rock, Min-Chueh Chang John Polson Charles Gabriel Pravaz see also Alexander Wood Mary Quant Grote Reber Joseph Rechendorfer (New
Subway Quinine
1886 1893 1838 1963 1960 (approved by U.S. Federal Drug Agency)
1854 1853
York) see also Hyman Lipman Regency Electronics James J Ritty John Rock, Gregory Pincus, Min- Chueh Chang Wilhelm Roentgen Erik Rotheim X-rays Aerosol can Transistor radio Cash register Birth control pill 1954 1879 1960 (approved by U.S. Federal Drug Agency) 1895 1926 1927 (patent) Charles Rowley (UK) & Walter Safety pin Hunt (US) Erno Rubik Sidney Russell Jonas Salk Rubik's cube Electric blanket Polio (vaccine) 1977 (patent) 1912 1955 (field trial results announced) Antoine Joseph Sax Saxophone 1844 1846 (patent) Jacob Schick Henry W Seely Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner Dr Washington Sheffield William B. Shockley Isaac Merritt Singer Toothpaste tube Transistor Sewing machine (domestic, production model) James Smith and Sons Lucien Smith Sony Percy LeBaron Spencer James Starley George Stephenson Levi Strauss Joseph Swan see also Thomas Alva Edison Nikolai Tesla Barthlemy Thimmonier Cough drops Barbed wire Walkman (personal stereo tape- replayer) Microwave oven Penny Farthing bicycle Railway (first passenger steam) Blue jeans Electric light bulb (incandescent filament lamp) (jointly credited with development) Telegraph (wireless) Sewing machine 1893 (public demonstration) 1830 (patent) 1847 1867 1979 1945 1870 1825 1850 1878 (patent) 1892 1948 (patent) 1857 Razor (electric) Electric flat iron Morphine 1928 (patent) 1882 (patent) 1805 1849
Tupperware (company)
1938 1850
Alexander Catlin Twining (US) Refrigerator (simultaneously) see also James Harrison (Australia) Johann Waaler Ruth Wakefield John Walker Frederick Walton Ezra J. Warner Lewis Edson Waterman James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick Charles Wheatstone & W.F. Cooke Frank Whittle Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel Alexander Wood see also Charles Gabriel Pravaz Orville & Wilbur Wright Jet engine Metronome (pendulum) Hypodermic syringe (simultaneously) Telegraph Paper clip Chocolate chip cookie Match (friction) Linoleum Can opener Fountain pen DNA (structure)
1838
Ioannis V. Yanna & Dr John F. Artificial skin Burke Eduard Zirm Corneal transplants
1906