Timeline of invention

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This is a chronological list of inventions.

Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first working version of the invention is used here.

Paleolithic Era

Indeterminate: Language
2.4 mya: Stone tools in Africa
1.65 mya: Hand axes in Kenya
1 mya: Controlled fire in Africa
100-500 tya: Clothing
400 tya: Pigments in Zambia ^*
400 tya: Spears in Germany ^*
100 tya: Lithic blades in Africa and the Near East
60 tya: Ships probably used by settlers of New Guinea
50 tya: Flute in Slovenia
50 tya: Bow in Tunisia [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/history/paleolithic%20egypt.htm
43 tya: Mining in Swaziland and Hungary
37 tya: Tally sticks in Swaziland ^*
30 tya: Sewing needles
26 tya: Ceramics in Moravia
25 tya: Atlatl in NW Africa ^*
12 tya: Pottery in Japan

10th millennium BC

9th millennium BC

8700 BC: Metalworking (copper pendant) in Iraq

8th millennium BC

Animal husbandry in the Near East
Plaster in Jericho

7th millennium BC

6200 BC: Map in Çatalhöyük
Cloth woven from flax fiber
Alcoholic beverages in Jiahu, China and the Near East

6th millennium BC

Irrigation in the Fertile Crescent
Ploughs in Mesopotamia

5th millennium BC

Beer and bread in Sumer
Wheel and axle combination in Mesopotamia

4th millennium BC

4000 BC: Canal in Mesopotamia
3800s BC: Engineered roadway in England
3500 BC: Plywood in Egypt
3500 BC: Writing in Sumer
3500 BC: Carts in Sumer
3100 BC: Drainage in the Indus Valley Civilization (India/Pakistan)
Dental surgery in Mehrgarh (Indus Valley Civilization)
Bronze: Susa
Silk in China
Cement in Egypt
River boats in Egypt

3rd millennium BC

2800 BC: Soap in Mesopotamia
2800 BC: Button in the Indus Valley Civilization
2600 BC: Artificial sewage systems in the Indus Valley Civilization
2500 BC: Flush toilets in the Indus Valley Civilization
2400 BC: Shipyard in Lothal (Indus Valley Civilization)
2000 BC: Currency
Sledges in Scandinavia
Alphabet in Egypt
Candles in Egypt

2nd millennium BC

1st millennium BC

600s BC: Coins in Lydia
500s BC: Sugar in India
500s BC: Dental bridge in Etruria
500s BC: Trebuchet in China
400s BC: Plastic surgery: Sushruta
400s BC: Catapult in Syracuse
300s BC: Compass in China.
300s BC: Screw: Archytas
200s BC: Crossbow in China
200s BC: Compound pulley: Archimedes
200s BC: Odometer: Archimedes?
150s BC: Astrolabe: Hipparchus
100s BC: Parchment in Pergamon
1st century BC: Glassblowing in Syria
87 BC: Clockwork (the Antikythera mechanism): Posidonius?

1st millennium

50: Mouldboard plough in Gaul
100s: Aeolipile: Hero of Alexandria
100s: Stern mounted rudder in China
105: Paper: Cai Lun
132: Rudimentary Seismometer: Zhang Heng
200s: Wheelbarrow: Zhuge Liang
200s: Horseshoes in Germany
300: Wootz steel in India
300s: Stirrup in China
300s: Toothpaste in Egypt
600s: Windmill in Persia
673: Greek fire: Kallinikos of Heliopolis
800s: Gunpowder in China
852: Parachute: Armen Firman
900: Horse collar in Europe
900s: Rocket in China
Woodblock printing in China
Porcelain in China
Spinning wheel in China or India

2nd millennium

11th century

1041: Movable type printing press: Bi Sheng

12th century

1128: Cannon in China

13th century

14th century

1350: Suspension bridges in Peru

15th century

Arquebus and Rifle in Europe
1441: Rain gauge: Jang Yeong-sil
1450s: Alphabetic, movable type printing press: Johann Gutenberg
1451: Concave lens for eyeglasses: Nicholas of Cusa
1498: Toothbrush in China

16th century

17th century

1608: Telescope: Hans Lippershey
1609: Microscope: Galileo Galilei
1620: Slide rule: William Oughtred
1623: Automatic calculator: Wilhelm Schickard
1631: Vernier scale: Pierre Vernier
1642: Adding machine: Blaise Pascal
1643: Barometer: Evangelista Torricelli
1645: Vacuum pump: Otto von Guericke
1657: Pendulum clock: Christiaan Huygens
1679: Pressure cooker: Denis Papin
1698: Steam engine: Thomas Savery
1700: Piano: Bartolomeo Cristofori

18th century

1701: Seed drill: Jethro Tull
1705: Steam piston engine: Thomas Newcomen
1710: Thermometer: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
1711: Tuning fork: John Shore
1714: Mercury thermometer: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
1730: Mariner's quadrant: Thomas Godfrey
1731: Sextant: John Hadley
1733: Flying shuttle: John Kay (Flying Shuttle)
1742: Franklin stove: Benjamin Franklin
1750: Flatboat: Jacob Yoder
1752: Lightning rod: Benjamin Franklin
1762: Iron smelting process: Jared Eliot
1767: Spinning jenny: James Hargreaves
1767: Carbonated water: Joseph Priestley
1769: Steam engine: James Watt
1769: Water Frame: Richard Arkwright
1775: Submarine Turtle: David Bushnell
1777: Card teeth making machine: Oliver Evans
1777: Circular saw: Samuel Miller
1779: Spinning mule: Samuel Crompton
1780s: Iron rocket: Tipu Sultan in India
1783: Multitubular boiler engine: John Stevens
1783: Parachute: Jean Pierre Blanchard
1783: Hot air balloon: Montgolfier brothers
1784: Bifocals: Benjamin Franklin
1784: Shrapnel shell: Henry Shrapnel
1785: Power loom: Edmund Cartwright
1785: Automatic flour mill: Oliver Evans
1786: Threshing machine: Andrew Meikle
1787: Non-condensing high pressure Engine: Oliver Evans
1790: Cut and head nail machine: Jacob Perkins
1791: Steamboat: John Fitch
1791: Artificial teeth: Nicholas Dubois De Chemant
1793: Cotton gin: Eli Whitney
1793: Optical telegraph: Claude Chappe
1797: Cast iron plow: Charles Newbold
1798: Vaccination: Edward Jenner
1798: Lithography: Alois Senefelder
1799: Seeding machine: Eliakim Spooner

19th century

1800s

1800: Electric battery: Alessandro Volta
1801: Jacquard loom: Joseph Marie Jacquard
1802: Screw propeller steamboat Phoenix: John Stevens
1802: Gas stove: Zachäus Andreas Winzler
1804: Locomotive: Richard Trevithick
1805: Submarine Nautilus: Robert Fulton
1807: Steamboat Clermont: Robert Fulton
1808: Band saw: William Newberry
Arc lamp: Humphry Davy

1810s

1811: Gun Breechloader: Thornton
1812: Metronome: Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel
1814: Steam Locomotive (Blucher): George Stephenson
1816: Miner's safety lamp: Humphry Davy
1816: Metronome: Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (reputed)
1816: Stirling engine: Robert Stirling
1816: Stethoscope: Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec
1817 two-wheeled Draisine or velocipede: Karl Drais
1817: Kaleidoscope: David Brewster
1819: Breech loading flintlock: John Hall

1820s

1821: Electric motor: Michael Faraday
1823: Electromagnet: William Sturgeon
1826: Photography: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
1826: internal combustion engine: Samuel Morey
1827: Insulated wire: Joseph Henry
1827: Screw propeller: Josef Ressel
1827: Friction match: John Walker

1830s

1830: Lawn mower: Edwin Beard Budding
1830: Stenotype on punched paper strip: Karl Drais
1831: Multiple coil magnet: Joseph Henry
1831: Magnetic acoustic telegraph: Joseph Henry (patented 1837)
1831: Reaper: Cyrus McCormick
1831: Electrical generator: Michael Faraday, Stefan Jedlik
1834: The Hansom cab is patented
1834: Louis Braille perfects his Braille system
1834: Refrigerator: Jacob Perkins
1834: Combine harvester: Hiram Moore
1835: Photogenic Drawing: William Henry Fox Talbot
1835: Revolver: Samuel Colt
1835: Morse code: Samuel Morse
1835: Electromechanical Relay: Joseph Henry
1835: Incandescent light bulb: James Bowman Lindsay
1836: Samuel Colt receives a patent for the Colt revolver (February 24)
1836: Improved screw propeller: John Ericsson
1836: Sewing machine: Josef Madersberger
1837: Photography: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
1837: First US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport (February 25)
1837: Steel plow: John Deere
1837: Standard diving dress: Augustus Siebe
1837: Camera Zoom Lens: Jozef Maximilián Petzval
1838: Electric telegraph: Charles Wheatstone (also Samuel Morse)
1838: Forerunner of Morse code: Alfred Vail
1838: closed diving suit with a helmet: Augustus Siebe
1839: Vulcanization of rubber: Charles Goodyear

1840s

1840: screw-propelled frigate, USS Princeton: John Ericsson
1840: artificial fertilizer: Justus von Liebig
1842: Anaesthesia: Crawford Long
1843: Typewriter: Charles Thurber
1843: Fax machine: Alexander Bain
1843: Ice cream maker: Nancy Johnson
1845: Portland cement: William Aspdin
1845: Double tube tire: Robert Thomson (inventor)
1846: Sewing machine: Elias Howe
1846: Rotary printing press: Richard M. Hoe
1849: Safety pin: Walter Hunt
1849: Francis turbine: James B. Francis

1850s

1852: Airship: Henri Giffard
1852: Passenger elevator: Elisha Otis
1852: Gyroscope: Léon Foucault
1855: Bunsen burner: Robert Bunsen
1855: Bessemer process: Henry Bessemer
1856: First celluloids: Alexander Parkes
1858: Undersea telegraph cable: Fredrick Newton Gisborne
1858: Shoe sole sewing machine: Lyman R. Blake
1858: Mason jar: John L. Mason
1859: Oil drill: Edwin L. Drake

1860s

1860: Linoleum: Fredrick Walton
1860: Repeating rifle: Oliver F. Winchester, Christopher Spencer
1860: Self-propelled torpedo: Ivan Lupis-Vukić
1861: Ironclad USS Monitor: John Ericsson
1861: Regenerative Furnace: Carl Wilhelm Siemens
1862: Revolving machine gun: Richard J. Gatling
1862: Mechanical submarine: Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol
1862: Pasteurization: Louis Pasteur, Claude Bernard
1863: Player piano: Henri Fourneaux
1864: First concept typewriter: Peter Mitterhofer
1865: Compression ice machine: Thaddeus Lowe
1865: Roller Coaster: LaMarcus Adna Thompson
1865: Barbed wire: Louis Jannin
1866: Dynamite: Alfred Nobel
1868: First practical typewriter: Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule, with assistance from James Densmore
1868: Air brake (rail): George Westinghouse
1868: Oleomargarine: Mege Mouries
1869: Vacuum cleaner: I.W. McGaffers

1870s

1870: Magic Lantern projector: Henry R. Heyl
1870: Stock ticker: Thomas Alva Edison
1870: Mobile Gasoline Engine, fitted to a cart precursor to 1888 automobile: Siegfried Marcus
1871: Cable car (railway): Andrew S. Hallidie
1871: Compressed air rock drill: Simon Ingersoll
1872: Celluloid (later development): John W. Hyatt
1872: Adding machine: Edmund D. Barbour
1873: Railway knuckle coupler: Eli H. Janney
1873: Modern direct current electric motor: Zénobe Gramme
1874: Electric street car: Stephen Dudle Field
1875: Dynamo: William A. Anthony
1875: Magazine (firearm): Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
1876: Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell

1876: Carpet sweeper: Melville Bissell
1876: Gasoline carburettor: Daimler
1876: Loudspeaker: Alexander Graham Bell
1877: Stapler: Henry R. Heyl
1877: Induction motor: Nikola Tesla
1877: Phonograph: Thomas Alva Edison
1877: Electric welding: Elihu Thomson
1877: Twine Knotter: John Appleby
1877: Microphone: Emile Berliner
1878: Cathode ray tube: William Crookes
1878: Transparent film: Eastman Goodwin
1878: Rebreather: Henry Fleuss
1879: Pelton turbine: Lester Pelton
1879: Automobile engine: Karl Benz
1879: Cash register: James Ritty
1879: Automobile (Patent): George B. Seldon ... note did NOT invent automobile

1880s

1880: Photophone: Alexander Graham Bell
1880: Roll film: George Eastman
1880: Safety razor: Kampfe Brothers
1880: Seismograph: John Milne
1881: Electric welding machine: Elihu Thomson
1881: Metal detector: Alexander Graham Bell
1882: Electric fan: Schuyler Skatts Wheeler
1882: Electric flat iron: Henry W. Seely
1883: Auto engine - compression ignition: Gottlieb Daimler
1883: two-phase (alternating current) induction motor: Nikola Tesla
1884: Linotype machine: Ottmar Mergenthaler
1884: Fountain pen: Lewis Waterman NB: Did not invent fountain pen, nor even "first practical fountain pen". Started manufacture in 1883, too.
1884: Punched card accounting: Herman Hollerith
1884: Trolley car, (electric): Frank Sprague, Charles Van Depoele
1885: Automobile patent granted (internal combustion engine powered): Karl Benz first automobile put into production
1885: Automobile, differential gear: Karl Benz
1885: Maxim gun: Hiram Stevens Maxim
1885: Motor cycle: Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach
1885: Alternating current transformer: William Stanley
1886: Dishwasher: Josephine Cochrane
1886: Gasoline engine: Gottlieb Daimler
1886: Improved phonograph cylinder: Tainter & Bell
1887: Monotype machine: Tolbert Lanston
1887: Contact lens: Adolf E. Fick, Eugène Kalt and August Muller
1887: Gramophone record: Emile Berliner
1888: Polyphase AC Electric power system: Nikola Tesla (30 related patents.)
1888: Kodak hand camera: George Eastman
1888: Ballpoint pen: John Loud
1888: Pneumatic tube tire: John Boyd Dunlop
1888: Harvester-thresher: Matteson (?)
1888: Kinematograph: Augustin Le Prince
1888: Automobile Mobile Gasoline Engine: Siegfried Marcus
1889: Automobile, (steam): Sylvester Roper
1889: Automobile, (gasoline): Gottlieb Daimler

1890s

1890: Pneumatic Hammer: Charles B. King
1891: Automobile Storage Battery: William Morrison
1891: Zipper: Whitcomb L. Judson
1891: Carborundum: Edward G. Acheson
1892: Color photography: Frederic E. Ives
1892: Automatic telephone exchange (electromechanical): Almon Strowger - First in commercial service.
1893: Photographic gun: E.J. Marcy
1893: Carburetor: Donát Bánki and János Csonka
1893: Half tone engraving: Frederick Ives
1893: Wireless communication: Nikola Tesla
1894: Radio transmission: Jagdish Chandra Bose
1895: Phatoptiken projector: Woodville Latham
1895: Phantascope: C. Francis Jenkins
1895: Disposable blades: King C. Gillette
1895: Diesel engine: Rudolf Diesel
1895: Radio signals: Guglielmo Marconi
1895: Shredded Wheat: Henry Perky
1896: Vitascope: Thomas Armat
1896: Steam turbine: Charles Curtis
1896: Electric stove: William S. Hadaway
1897: Automobile, magneto: Robert Bosch
1897: Modern escalator: Jesse W. Reno
1898: Remote control: Nikola Tesla
1899: Iron-mercury coherer with telephone detector: Jagdish Chandra Bose
1899: Automobile self starter: Clyde J. Coleman
1899: Magnetic tape recorder: Valdemar Poulsen
1899: Gas turbine: Charles Curtis

20th century

1900s

1900: Rigid dirigible airship: Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
1900: Self-heating can
1900s: Microwave optics: Jagdish Chandra Bose
1901: Improved wireless transmitter: Reginald Fessenden
1901: Instant coffee by Sartori Kato
1901: Mercury vapor lamp: Peter C. Hewitt
1901: Razor: King Camp Gillette
1901: Vacuum cleaner: Hubert Booth
1902: Ostwald process: Wilhelm Ostwald
1902: Radio magnetic detector: Guglielmo Marconi
1902: Air Conditioner: Willis Carrier
1902: Neon lamp: Georges Claude
1902: Radio telephone: Poulsen Reginald Fessenden
1902: Rayon cellulose ester: Arthur D. Little
1903: Electrocardiograph (EKG): Willem Einthoven
1903: Powered Monoplane: Richard Pearse
1903: Powered airplane: Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright
1903: Bottle machine: Michael Owens
1903: Windshield wiper: Mary Anderson
1904: Thermionic valve: John Ambrose Fleming
1904: Separable Attachment Plug: Harvey Hubbell
1904: Tractor: Benjamin Holt
1905: Radio tube diode: John Ambrose Fleming
1906: Sonar (first device): Lewis Nixon
1906: Triode amplifier: Lee DeForest
1907: Color photography: Auguste and Louis Lumiere
1907: Helicopter: Paul Cornu
1907: Radio amplifier: Lee DeForest
1907: Radio tube triode: Lee DeForest
1907: Vacuum cleaner, (electric): James Spangler
1907: Washing machine, (electric): Alva Fisher (Hurley Corporation)
1908: Cellophane: Jacques E. Brandenberger
1908: Geiger counter: Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford
1908: Gyrocompass: Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe
1908: Haber process: Fritz Haber
1908: Tea bag: Thomas Sullivan
1909: Monoplane: Henry W. Walden
1909: Bakelite: Leo Baekeland
1909: Gun silencer: Hiram Percy Maxim

1910s

1910: Thermojet engine: Henri Coandă
1911: Gyrocompass: Elmer A. Sperry
1911: Automobile self starter (perfected): Charles F. Kettering
1911: Air conditioner: Willis Haviland Carrier
1911: Cellophane: Jacques Brandenburger
1911: Hydroplane: Glenn Curtiss
1912: Ecstacy: Merck
1912: Photography ;Lapse-time camera for use with plants:Arthur C. Pillsbury
1912: Regenerative radio circuit: Edwin H. Armstrong
1913: Cracking process for Gasoline: William M. Burten
1913: Crossword: Arthur Wynne
1913: Double acting wrench: Robert Owen
1913: Gyroscope stabilizer: Elmer A. Sperry
1913: Radio receiver, cascade tuning: Ernst Alexanderson
1913: Radio receiver, heterodyne: Reginald Fessenden
1913: Stainless steel: Harry Brearley
1913: X-Ray (improved): William D. Coolidge
1914: Radio transmitter triode mod.: Ernst Alexanderson
1914: Liquid fuel rocket: Robert Goddard
1914: Tank, military: Ernest Dunlop Swinton
1915: Tungsten Filament: Irving Langmuir
1915: Searchlight arc: Elmer A. Sperry
1915: Radio tube oscillator: Lee DeForest
1915: Pyrex: Corning Inc.
1916: Browning Gun: John Browning
1916: Thompson submachine gun: John T. Thompson
1916: Incandescent gas lamp: Irving Langmuir
1917: Sonar echolocation: Paul Langevin
1917: Cruise missile: Charles Kettering
1918: Superheterodyne receiver: Edwin H. Armstrong
1918: Interrupter gear: Anton Fokker
1918: Radio crystal oscillator: A.M. Nicolson
1918: Pop-up toaster: Charles Strite
1919: Flip-flop circuit: William Eccles and F. W. Jordan
1919: Theremin: Leon Theremin

1920s

1922: Radar: Robert Watson-Watt, A. H. Taylor, L. C. Young, Gregory Breit, Merle Antony Tuve
1922: Technicolor: Herbert T. Kalmus
1922: Water skiing: Ralph Samuelson
1922: Photography : First mass production photo machine:Arthur C. Pillsbury
1923: Arc tube: Ernst Alexanderson
1923: Sound film: Lee DeForest
1923: Television Electronic: Philo Farnsworth
1923: Wind tunnel: Max Munk
1923: Autogyro: Juan de la Cierva
1923: Xenon flash lamp: Harold Edgerton
1925: ultra-centrifuge: Theodor Svedberg - used to determine molecular weights
1925: Television Iconoscope: Vladimir Zworykin
1925: Television Nipkow System: C. Francis Jenkins
1925: Telephoto: C. Francis Jenkins
1926: Television Mechanical Scanner: John Logie Baird
1926: Aerosol spray: Rotheim
1927: Mechanical cotton picker: John Rust
1927: PEZ Candy: Eduard Haas III
1927: Photography:First microscopic motion picture camera: Arthur C. Pillsbury
1928: sliced bread: Otto Frederick Rohwedder
1928: Electric dry shaver: Jacob Schick
1928: Antibiotics: Alexander Fleming
1928: Preselector gearbox: Walter Gordon Wilson
1929: Electroencephelograph (EEG): Hans Berger
1929: Iconoscope: Vladimir Zworykin
1929: Photography:First X-Ray motion picture camera:Arthur C. Pillsbury
1920s: Band aid: Earle Dickson
1920s: Insulin
1920s: Mechanical potato peeler: Herman Lay

1930s

1930: Neoprene: Wallace Carothers
1930: Nylon: Wallace Carothers
1930: Photography: Underwater Motion Picture Camera: Arthur C. Pillsbury
1931: the Radio telescope: Karl Jansky Grote Reber
1932: Polaroid glass: Edwin H. Land
1935: microwave radar: Robert Watson-Watt
1935: Trampoline: George Nissen and Larry Griswold
1935: Spectrophotometer: Arthur C. Hardy
1935: Casein fiber: Earl Whittier Stephen
1935: Hammond Organ: Laurens Hammond
1936: Pinsetter (bowling): Gottfried Schmidt
1937: Turboprop engine: György Jendrassik
1937: Jet engine: Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain
1938: Ballpoint pen: Laszlo Biro
1938: Fiberglass: Russell Games Slayter John H. Thomas
1939: FM radio: Edwin H. Armstrong
1939: Helicopter: Igor Sikorsky
1939: View-master: William Gruber

1940s

1942: Bazooka Rocket Gun: Leslie A. Skinner C. N. Hickman
1942: Undersea oil pipeline: Hartley, Anglo-Iranian, Siemens in Operation Pluto
1942: frequency hopping: Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil
1943: Aqua-Lung: Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan
1944: Electron spectrometer: Deutsch Elliot Evans
1945: Nuclear weapons (but note: chain reaction theory: 1933)
1946: Microwave oven: Percy Spencer
1946: Mobile Telephone Service: AT&T and Southwestern Bell
1946: Computer: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
1947: Transistor: William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen
1947: Polaroid camera: Edwin Land
1948: Long Playing Record: Peter Carl Goldmark
1948: Holography: Dennis Gabor
1949: Atomic clocks

1950s

1951: Liquid Paper: Bette Nesmith Graham
1951: Nuclear power reactor: Walter Zinn
1952: Fusion bomb: Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam
1952: Hovercraft: Christopher Cockerell
1953: Maser: Charles Townes
1953: Medical ultrasonography
1954: Transistor radio (dated from the from Regency TR1) (USA)
1954: Geodesic dome: Buckminster Fuller
1955: Velcro: George de Mestral
1955: Hard Drive: Reynold Johnson with IBM
1956: Digital clock
1956: Optical fiber: Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss
1956: Videocassette recorder: Ampex
1957: Jet Boat: William Hamilton
1957: Bubble Wrap: Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes
1958: Integrated circuit: Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor
1958: Communications satellite: Kenneth Masterman-Smith
1959: Snowmobile: Joseph-Armand Bombardier

1960s

1960: Laser: Theodore Harold Maiman
1961: Optical disc: David Paul Gregg
1961: Cochlear implant: William House
1962: Light-emitting diode: Nick Holonyak
1962: Space observatory: Ball Brothers Aerospace Corporation ^*
1963: Computer mouse: Douglas Engelbart
1967: Automatic Teller Machine: John Shepherd-Barron
1967: Hypertext: Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson
1968: Video game console: Ralph H. Baer
1969: ARPANET (first packet switching network): United States Department of Defense

1970s

1971: E-mail: Ray Tomlinson
1971: Liquid Crystal Display: James Fergason
1971: Microprocessor
1971: Pocket calculator: Sharp Corporation
1971: Magnetic resonance imaging: Raymond V. Damadian
1971: Floppy Disk: David Noble with IBM
1972: Computed Tomography: Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
1973: Ethernet: Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs
1973: Genetically modified organism: Stanley Norman Cohen and Herbert Boyer
1973: Personal computer: Xerox PARC
1974: Rubik's Cube: Ernő Rubik
1974: Hybrid vehicle: Victor Wouk ^*
1975: Digital camera: Steven Sasson
1976: Gore-Tex fabric: W. L. Gore
1977: Personal stereo: Andreas Pavel
1977: Cellular mobile phone: Bell Labs ^*
1978: Spring loaded camming device: Ray Jardine
1970s: Leaf blower in Japan

1980s

1990s

1993: Global Positioning System: United States Department of Defense

3rd millennium

21st century

2000s

2001: Digital satellite radio
2001: Self-contained Artificial heart
2002: Scramjet: University of Queensland

See also

References

Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery, Harper & Row, 1989. ISBN 0060156120
Gowlett, John. Ascent to Civilization, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1992. ISBN 0075443120

External links

History of Human Technology

Technology timelines

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