Inventions Timeline

Inventions Timeline

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past events which were of considerable significance to the
famous people involved in this time period.

 

 

2400 BCThe abacus, the first known calculator, was invented in Babylonia
 

500 BCPanini Introduced the forerunner to modern formal language theory

300 BCPingala invented the binary number system

87 BCAntikythera Mechanism was built in Rhodes to track movement of the stars

673AGreek fire was invented by  Kallinikos of Heliopolis

724Liang Ling-Can invents the first fully mechanical clock

800sGunpowder in China

852Parachute was invented by  Armen Firman

900Horse collar in Europe

1041 Movable type printing press was invented by  Bi Sheng

1280Eyeglasses

1350 Suspension bridges in Peru

1450Alphabetic, 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

1671Gottfried 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

1820The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
 

1822Charles 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

1943Enigma: 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
 


1957Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians

1958Silicon chip: The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
 

1960Laser 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
 


1983Camcorder was invented by  Sony

1990World Wide Web was invented by  Tim Berners-Lee

2001Digital satellite radio


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