Inventions Timeline

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2400 BC The abacus, the first known calculator, was invented in Babylonia
 
500 BC Panini Introduced the forerunner to modern formal language theory
300 BC Pingala invented the binary number system
87 BC Antikythera Mechanism was built in Rhodes to track movement of the stars
673A Greek fire was invented by  Kallinikos of Heliopolis
724 Liang Ling-Can invents the first fully mechanical clock
800s Gunpowder in China
852 Parachute was invented by  Armen Firman
900 Horse collar in Europe
1041 Movable type printing press was invented by  Bi Sheng
1280 Eyeglasses
1350 Suspension bridges in Peru
1450 Alphabetic, movable type printing press was invented by  Johann Gutenberg
1492 Nürnberg Terrestrial Globe by German mapmaker Martin Behaim
1500 Ball bearing was invented by  Leonardo Da Vinci together with flying machines, including a helicopter, the first mechanical calculator and one of the first programmable robots
 
1510 Pocket watch was invented by  Peter Henlein
1540 Ether was invented by  Valerius Cordus
1576 Ironclad warship was invented by  Oda Nobunaga
1581 Pendulum was invented by  Galileo Galilei
1593 Thermometer was invented by  Galileo Galilei
1608 Telescope was invented by  Hans Lippershey
1609 Microscope was invented by  Galileo Galilei
1620 Slide rule was invented by  William Oughtred
1642 Adding machine was invented by  Blaise Pascal
1643 Barometer was invented by  Evangelista Torricelli
1645 Vacuum pump was invented by  Otto von Guericke
1657 Pendulum clock was invented by  Christiaan Huygens
1679 Pressure cooker was invented by  Denis Papin
1698 Steam engine was invented by  Thomas Savery
1700 Piano was invented by  Bartolomeo Cristofori
1671 Gottfried Leibniz is known as one of the founding fathers of calculus
1705 Steam piston engine was invented by  Thomas Newcomen
1710 Thermometer was invented by  Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
1742 Franklin stove was invented by  Benjamin Franklin
1752 Lightning rod was invented by  Benjamin Franklin
1767 Spinning jenny was invented by  James Hargreaves
1769 Steam engine was invented by  James Watt
1783 Parachute was invented by  Jean Pierre Blanchard
1783 Hot air balloon was invented by  Montgolfier brothers
1791 Steamboat was invented by  John Fitch
1798 Vaccination was invented by  Edward Jenner
1804 Locomotive was invented by  Richard Trevithick
1814 Steam Locomotive (Blucher) was invented by  George Stephenson
1816 Miner's safety lamp was invented by  Humphry Davy
1816 Stethoscope was invented by  Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec
1820 The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
 
1822 Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer
1821 Electric motor was invented by  Michael Faraday
1826 Photography was invented by  Joseph Nicephore Niepce
1830 Lawn mower was invented by  Edwin Beard Budding
1834 Braille was invented by  Louis Braille
1834 Refrigerator was invented by  Jacob Perkins
1834 Combine harvester was invented by  Hiram Moore
1835 Morse code was invented by  Samuel Morse

Revolver was invented by  Samuel Colt
 
1838 Electric telegraph was invented by  Charles Wheatstone (also Samuel Morse)
1839 Vulcanization of rubber was invented by  Charles Goodyear
1842 Anaesthesia was invented by  Crawford Long
1843 Typewriter was invented by  Charles Thurber
1846 Sewing machine was invented by  Elias Howe
1846 Rotary printing press was invented by  Richard M. Hoe
1849 Safety pin was invented by  Walter Hunt
1862 Revolving machine gun was invented by  Richard J. Gatling
1862 Mechanical submarine was invented by  Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol
1866 Dynamite was invented by  Alfred Nobel
1870 Stock ticker was invented by  Thomas Alva Edison
1876 Gasoline carburettor was invented by  Daimler
1877 Phonograph was invented by  Thomas Alva Edison
1877 Microphone was invented by  Emile Berliner
1878 Cathode ray tube was invented by  William Crookes
1880 Photophone was invented by  Alexander Graham Bell
1885 Motor cycle was invented by  Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach
1891 Zipper was invented by  Whitcomb L. Judson
1893 Wireless communication was invented by  Nikola Tesla
1895 Diesel engine was invented by  Rudolf Diesel

Radio signals were invented by  Guglielmo Marconi
 
1898 Remote control was invented by  Nikola Tesla
1901 Vacuum cleaner was invented by  Hubert Booth
1903 Powered airplane was invented by  Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright
1907 Color photography was invented by  Auguste and Louis Lumiere
Helicopter was invented by  Paul Cornu
Radio amplifier was invented by  Lee DeForest
 
1909 Bakelite was invented by  Leo Baekeland
1923 Sound film was invented by  Lee DeForest
Television Electronic was invented by  Philo Farnsworth
 
1924 Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logie Baird
1928 Antibiotics were invented by  Alexander Fleming
1931 Iconoscope was invented by  Vladimir Zworykin
1937 Jet engine was invented by  Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain

Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine
 
1938 Ballpoint pen was invented by  Laszlo Biro
1943 Enigma: Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine

Colossus: Alan Turing develops the the code-breaking machine Colossus

Aqua-Lung was invented by  Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan
 
1946 Microwave oven was invented by  Percy Spencer
1951 Nuclear power reactor was invented by  Walter Zinn
1956 Optical fiber was invented by  Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss

Videocassette recorder was invented by  Ampex
 
1957 Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians
1958 Silicon chip: The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
 
1960 Laser was invented by  Theodore Harold Maiman
1961 Optical disc was invented by  David Paul Gregg
1963 Computer mouse was invented by  Douglas Engelbart
1967 Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) was invented by  John Shepherd-Barron

Hypertext was invented by  Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson
 
1968 Video game console was invented by  Ralph H. Baer
1969 ARPANET was invented by  United States Department of Defense
1971 E-mail was invented by  Ray Tomlinson

Liquid Crystal Display was invented by  James Fergason

Pocket calculator was invented by  Sharp Corporation

Floppy Disk was invented by  David Noble with IBM
 
1973 Ethernet was invented by  Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs

Personal computer was invented by  Xerox PARC
 
1983 Camcorder was invented by  Sony
1990 World Wide Web was invented by  Tim Berners-Lee
2001 Digital satellite radio


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