1793: cotton gin (Whitney)
1800: galvanic cell (Volta)
1801: public railroad with horsepower (Wandsworth-Croydon)
steamboat Charlotte Dundas (Symington)
steam carriage (Trevithick)
1802: machine dresser for cotton warps
planing machine (Bramah)
1803: side-paddle steamboat (Fulton)
1804: Jacquard loom for figured fabrics
Oliver Evans' amphibious
steam carriage
1805: twin screw propellor
1807: kymograph (recording continuous movement) (Young)
1813: power loom (Horrocks)
1814: grass tedder (Salmon)
1817: push-cycle (Drais)
1818: milling machine (Whitney)
stethoscope (Laennec)
1820: bentwood (Sargent)
incandescent lamp (De la Rue)
1821: iron steamboat (Manby)
1822: steel alloys (Faraday)
1823: principle of motor (Faraday)
calculating machines
(Babbage)
1824: Portland cement (Aspdin)
1825: electromagnet (Sturgeon)
Stockton & Darlington railway
Thames
tunnel (Brunel)
1826: reaping machine (Bell)
1827: steam automobile (Hancock)
high-pressure steam boiler [1400 lbs]
(Perkins)
chromo-lithography
1828: hot blast in iron production (Nielson)
machine-made steel pen
(Gillot)
1829: blind print (Braille)
filtration plant for water (Chelsea,
London)
Liverpool & Manchester Railway
sewing machine (Thimonnier)
paper matrix stereotype (Genoux)
1830: Compressed air for sinking shafts and tunnels under water (Thomas
Cochrane)
Elevators (used in factories)
1831: Reaping machine (McCormick)
dynamo (Faraday)
Chloroform
1832: Water turbine (Fourneyron)
1833: Magnetic telegraph (Gauss and Weber)
telegraph (Gauss and
Weber)
1834: Electric battery in power boat (Jacobi)
Anilin dye in coal tar
(Runge)
workable liquid refrigerating machine (Jacob Perkins)
1835: commutator for dynamo
electric telegraph
electric automobile
(Davenport)
1836: first application of electric telegraph to railroads (Stephenson)
1837: electric motor (Davenport)
needle telegraph (Wheatstone)
1838: electro-magnetic telegraph (Morse)
single wire circuit with
ground (Steinheil)
steam drop hammer (Nasmyth)
two-cycle
double-acting gas engine (Barnett)
propellor steamship (Ericsson)
1839: manganese steel (Heath)
electrotype (Jacobi)
callotype
(Talbot)
Daguerrotype (Niépce and Daguerre)
hot
vulcanization of rubber (Goodyear)
1840: incandescent lamp (Grove)
corrugated iron roof (East Counties
railroad station)
micro-photopgraphy (Donne)
first steel cable
suspension bridge, Pittsburgh (Roebling)
1841: paper positives in photography (Talbot)
1842: electric engine (Davidson)
1843: aerostat
typewriter (Thurber)
spectrum analysis
(Miller)
gutta percha (Montgomery)
1844: carbon arc lamp (Poucault)
nitrous oxide application (Dr.
Wells)
practical wood-pulp paper (Keller)
cork-and-rubber linoleum
(Galloway)
1845: electric arc patented (Wright)
modern high speed sewing machine
(Howe)
pneumatic tire (Thompson)
mechanical boiler-stoker
1846: rotating cylinder press (Hoe)
ether (Warren and
Morton)
nitroglycerine (Sobrero)
gun-cotton (Schönbein)
1847: chloroform anaesthetics (Simpson)
electric locomotive
(Farmer)
iron building (Bogardus)
1848: modern safety match (Bottger)
rotary fan (Lloyd)
1849: electric locomotive (Page)
1850: rotary ventilator (Fabry)
opthalmoscope
1851: Crystal Palace Exhibition
electric motor car
(Page)
electro-magnetic clock (Shepherd)
reaper (McCormick)
1853: Great Eastern steamship
mechanical ship's
log
mass-production watches
multiple telegraph on single wire
1854: automatic telegraph message recorder
1855: commercial production of aluminum (Deville)
800 HP water turbine
at Paris
television (Caselle)
iron-plated gunboats
safety lock
(Yale)
1856: open hearth furnace (Siemens)
Bessemer converter
(Bessemer)
color photography (Zenker)
1858: phonautograph voice vibrations recorded on revolving cylinder (Scott de Martinville)
1859: oil mining by digging and drilling (Drake)
storage cell
(Planté)
1860: ammonia refrigeration (Carre)
asphalt paving
London
underground
1861: dynamo motor (Pacinnoti)
machine gun (Gatling)
1862: USS Monitor (Ericsson)
1863: gas engine (Lenoir)
ammonia soda process (Solvay)
1864: theory of light and electricity (Clerk-Maxwell)
motion picture
(Ducos)
gasoline engine motor car (Marcus)
1865: Pasteurization of wine (Pasteur)
1866: practical dynamo (Siemens)
1867: dynamite (Nobel)
reinforced concrete (Monier)
typewriter
(Scholes)
gas engine (Otto and Langen)
two-wheel bicycle
(Michaux)
1868: tungsten steel (Mushet)
1869: periodic table (Mendelejev and Meyer)
1870: artificial madder dye (Perkin)
1871: aniline dye for bacteria staining (Weigert)
1872: model airplane (Penaud)
automatic air brake (Westinghouse)
1873: ammonia compression refrigerator (Linde)
1874: streamlined locomotive
1875: electric car (Siemens)
standard time (American railroads)
1876: Bon Marché at Paris
discovery of toxins
four-cycle gas
engine (Otto)
electric telephone (Bell)
1877: microphone (Edison)
compressed air refrigerator
(Coleman)
phonograph (Edison)
model flying machine (Kress)
1878: centrifugal cream separator (De Laval)
1879: carbon glow lamp (Edison)
electric railroad
1880: cup-and-cone ball bearing in bicycle
electric elevator
(Siemens)
1882: first central power station (Edison)
motion picture camera
(Marly)
steam turbine (De Laval)
1883: dirigible balloon (Tissandier)
high speed gas engine
(Daimler)
1884: steel-frame skyscraper (Chicago)
cocaine (Singer)
linotype
(Morgenthaler)
turbine for high falls (Pelton)
smokeless powder
(Duttenhofer)
steam turbine (Parsons)
1885: international standard time
1886: aluminum by electrolytic process (Hall)
hand camera
(Eastman)
aseptic surgery (Bergmann)
glass-blowing machine
1887: polyphase alternator (Tesla)
automatic
telephone
electro-magnetic waves (Hertz)
monotype (Leviston)
1888: recording adding machine (Burroughs)
1889: artificial silk of cotton refuse (Chardonnet)
hard rubber
phonograph records
Eiffel Tower
modern motion picture camera
(Edison)
1890: detector for radio waves (Branly)
pneumatic tires on
bicycles
1892: calcium carbide (Willson and Moissan)
artificial silk of wood
pulp (Cross, Bevan and Beadle)
1893: Diesel motor
moving
picture (Edison)
by-product coke oven (Hoffman)
1894: "Phantoscope" moving picture
1895: motion picture projector (Edison)
x-ray (Roentgen)
1896: steam-driven aerodrome flight (Langley)
radio-telegraph
(Marconi)
radioactivity (Bequerel)
1898: osmium lamp (Welsbach)
radium (Curie)
1899: loading coil for long distance telegraphy and telephony
1900: high speed tool steel (Taylor & White)
Nernst
lamp
quantum theory (Planck)
1902: caterpillar tread
radial type airplane engine (Manley)
1903: first man-lifting airplane (Wrights)
electric fixation of
nitrogen
arc process nitrogen fixation (Birkelande and
Eyde)
radio
telephone
oil-burning steamer
tantalum lamp (von Bolton)
1904: Fleury tube
Moore tube light
1905: rotary mercury pump (Gaede)
cyanamide process for nitrogen
fixation (Rothe)
1906: synthetic resins (Baekeland)
audion (De Forest)
1907: automatic bottle machines (Owen)
tungsten lamp
television
photograph (Korn)
1909: duralumin (Wilm)
1910: gyro-compass (Sperry)
synthetic ammonia process for nitrogen
fixation (Haber)
1912: vitamins (Hopkins)
1913: tungsten filament light (Coolidge)
1920: radio broadcasting
1922: perfected color organ (Wilfred)
1927: radio television
1933: aerodynamic motor car (Fuller)