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Inventions · 1650
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nitroglycerine explosive
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- 1400s · 9
golf ball
Inventions · 1400
harpsichord
Inventions · 1450
golf
Inventions · 1450
pocket watch
Inventions · 1462
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (Italy)
Inventions · 1472
modern day chess
Inventions · 1475
the minus (-) sign, credited to Johannes Widmann
Inventions · 1489
sound navigation and ranging first used
Inventions · 1490
Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the "New World"
Inventions · 1492
- 1500s · 22
amber
Inventions · 1500
Galician navigator João da Nova discovered Ascension Island
Inventions · 1501
clavichord
Inventions · 1502
Galician navigator João da Nova, first person to sight Saint Helena
Inventions · 1502
Gough Island likely discovered by the Portuguese explorer Gonçalo Álvares
Inventions · 1505
Laocoön and His Sons unearthed in the vineyard of Felice De Fredis in Rome
Inventions · 1506
Tristão da Cunha first recorded sighted by Portuguese explorer namesake
Inventions · 1506
Ponce de León identifies the Gulf Stream
Inventions · 1513
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca records the existence of Iguazu Falls [S America]
Inventions · 1541
Copernicus propose Sun is universe center
Inventions · 1543
imaginary numbers, credited to Girolamo Cardano
Inventions · 1545
zaffre
Inventions · 1550
standard 52-card, French-suited playing cards
Inventions · 1550
Nazca Lines first mentioned/recorded by Pedro Cieza de León in his book
Inventions · 1553
the equal (=) sign, credited to Robert Recorde
Inventions · 1557
graphite pencil
Inventions · 1565
turquoise
Inventions · 1573
Gregorian
Inventions · 1582
the decimal, credited to Simon Stevin
Inventions · 1585
microscope
Inventions · 1590
Berenberg Bank (Germany)
Inventions · 1590
thermometer
Inventions · 1593
- 1600s · 25
Oxygen, Atomic Number 8
Inventions · 1604
Frenchman Samuel de Champlain first eyewitnessed Niagara Falls [N America]
Inventions · 1604
telescope
Inventions · 1608
rings of Saturn observed by Galileo
Inventions · 1610
Sunspots first observed telescopically
Inventions · 1610
logarithms, credited to John Napier
Inventions · 1614
bandore (banjo)
Inventions · 1621
cuckoo clock
Inventions · 1629
slide rule
Inventions · 1630
the multiplication (×) sign, credited to William Oughtred
Inventions · 1631
Blaise Pascal and Wilhelm Schickard invent the mechanical calculator
Inventions · 1642
barometer
Inventions · 1643
badminton/shuttlecock
Inventions · 1650
pendulum clock
Inventions · 1656
pendulum clock (by Christiaan Huygens)
Inventions · 1656
balance wheel with balance spring by Robert Hooke and Christiaan Huygens
Inventions · 1657
the division (÷) sign, credited to Johann Rahn
Inventions · 1659
Robert Hooke discovers cells using microscope
Inventions · 1665
Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden)
Inventions · 1668
Phosphorus (Hennig Brand)
Inventions · 1669
grandfather clock
Inventions · 1670
1st Stradivarius violins
Inventions · 1680
ketchup
Inventions · 1682
Barclay's (UK)
Inventions · 1690
amaranth
Inventions · 1690
- 1700s · 91
piano
Inventions · 1700
English agriculturist Jethro Tull invents the seed drill
Inventions · 1701
Herculaneum rediscovered during the drilling of a well
Inventions · 1709
Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano
Inventions · 1709
Englishmen John Shore invents the tuning fork
Inventions · 1711
Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine
Inventions · 1712
mercury thermometer
Inventions · 1714
Fahrenheit's mercury thermometer
Inventions · 1714
Edmond Halley invents the diving bell
Inventions · 1717
Brit John Harrison invents the grasshopper escapement for pendulum clocks
Inventions · 1722
French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher
Inventions · 1722
Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer
Inventions · 1724
sextant (credited to John Hadley/Thomas Godfrey)
Inventions · 1730
Cobalt, Atomic Number 27
Inventions · 1732
John Kay invents the flying shuttle
Inventions · 1733
Platinum, Atomic Number 78, discovered by Antonio de Ulloa
Inventions · 1735
E.G. von Kleist invents the Leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor
Inventions · 1745
artificial refrigeration demonstrated - William Cullen
Inventions · 1748
remains of a city not yet identified as Pompeii found
Inventions · 1748
lighting rod (non-grounded), called lightning attractor or Franklin rod, by Benjamin Franklin
Inventions · 1749
Chippendale furniture
Inventions · 1750
Nickel, Atomic Number 28
Inventions · 1751
American Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod
Inventions · 1752
lightning rod (grounded), attributed to Father Prokop Diviš, a Czech priest
Inventions · 1754
Magnesium (Joseph Black)
Inventions · 1755
Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary
Inventions · 1755
mayonnaise
Inventions · 1756
John Campbell invents the sextant
Inventions · 1757
Johnn Dolland patents achromatic lens
Inventions · 1758
John Harrison creates working/accurate marine chronometer
Inventions · 1761
the city of Pompeii rediscovered & identified
Inventions · 1763
spinning jenny
Inventions · 1764
Englishman James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
Inventions · 1764
steam engine
Inventions · 1765
Hydrogen (Henry Cavendish)
Inventions · 1766
Joseph Priestley invents carbonated (soda) water
Inventions · 1767
Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame
Inventions · 1768
James Watt invents an improved steam engine
Inventions · 1769
Mint julep
Inventions · 1770
Oxygen (Carl Scheele)
Inventions · 1771
Nitrogen, Atomic Number 7
Inventions · 1772
Nitrogen (Daniel Rutherford)
Inventions · 1772
Chlorine, Atomic Number 17
Inventions · 1774
Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph
Inventions · 1774
Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet
Inventions · 1775
Jacques Perrier invents a steamship
Inventions · 1775
David Bushnell invents a submarine
Inventions · 1776
puce
Inventions · 1778
Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
Inventions · 1779
bifocal lens
Inventions · 1780
Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal eyeglasses
Inventions · 1780
Gervinus of Germany invents the circular saw
Inventions · 1780
planet Uranus
Inventions · 1781
Tungsten, Atomic Number 74
Inventions · 1781
planet Uranus is discovered by William Herschel
Inventions · 1781
Englishmen Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production
Inventions · 1783
Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute
Inventions · 1783
Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine
Inventions · 1784
Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock
Inventions · 1784
Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
Inventions · 1785
Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching
Inventions · 1785
Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance
Inventions · 1785
Jean Pierre Blanchard invents a working parachute
Inventions · 1785
John Fitch invents the steamboat
Inventions · 1786
steamboat
Inventions · 1787
the guillotine is invented
Inventions · 1789
sewing machine by Thomas Saint
Inventions · 1790
William Pollard invents a machine that roves and spins cotton
Inventions · 1790
Titanium, Atomic Number 22, discovered by William Gregor
Inventions · 1791
John Barber invents the gas turbine
Inventions · 1791
guillotine
Inventions · 1792
guillotine (French)
Inventions · 1792
William Murdoch invents gas lighting
Inventions · 1792
Dominique Jean Larrey's ambulance volante
Inventions · 1792
cotton gin
Inventions · 1793
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
Inventions · 1794
Welshmen Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings
Inventions · 1794
hydraulic press
Inventions · 1795
Francois Appert invents the preserving jar of food
Inventions · 1795
lithography
Inventions · 1796
Edward Jenner develops the vaccination for smallpox
Inventions · 1796
stationary bicycle (gymnasticon), by Francis Lowndes
Inventions · 1796
Chromium, Atomic Number 24, discovered by Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
Inventions · 1797
Amos Whittemore patents a carding machine
Inventions · 1797
British Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe
Inventions · 1797
Beryllium (Louis Vauquelin)
Inventions · 1798
the first soft drink is invented
Inventions · 1798
Aloys Senefelder invents lithography
Inventions · 1798
Reed's Gold Mine (North Carolina)
Inventions · 1799
Alessandro Volta invents the battery
Inventions · 1799
Rosetta Stone discovered by French officer Pierre-François Bouchard
Inventions · 1799
- 1800s · 127
New York Post
Inventions · 1801
Potassium, Atomic Number 19
Inventions · 1807
Sodium (Sir Humphry Davy)
Inventions · 1807
Boron, Atomic Number 5
Inventions · 1808
Boron (Gay-Lussac & Thénard)
Inventions · 1808
Calcium, Atomic Number 20. isolated by Humphry Davy
Inventions · 1808
electric light (Humphry Davy's arc lamp)
Inventions · 1809
Fluorine (André-Marie Ampère)
Inventions · 1810
wristwatch
Inventions · 1810
Petra, rock cut architecture (Jordan)
Inventions · 1812
Richard Trevithick's rotary drill (powered by steam)
Inventions · 1813
Davy lamp
Inventions · 1815
triquetrum (astronomy)
Inventions · 1816
kaleidoscope (by David Brewster)
Inventions · 1816
Lithium (Johan Arfwedson)
Inventions · 1817
Johann Bohnenberger's "Machine" or gyroscope
Inventions · 1817
first successful transfusion of human blood
Inventions · 1818
dental floss by Levi Spear Parmly (New Orleans)
Inventions · 1819
arithmometer
Inventions · 1820
Piña Colada (based on Puerto Rican pirate Roberto Cofresí story)
Inventions · 1820
first photograph by Nicéphore Niépce
Inventions · 1822
Mackintosh raincoat
Inventions · 1823
Silicon (Jöns Jacob Berzelius)
Inventions · 1823
Silicon, Atomic Number 14
Inventions · 1824
Louis Braille developed his code
Inventions · 1824
Cadbury
Inventions · 1824
Aluminum (Hans Christian Ørsted)
Inventions · 1824
Portland cement - Joseph Aspdin
Inventions · 1824
Aluminum, Atomic Number 13
Inventions · 1825
quill ink reservoir fountain pen patented by Petrache Poenaru
Inventions · 1827
Georgia Gold Rush
Inventions · 1829
Wire rope invented by Wilhelm Albert
Inventions · 1830
lawn mower (by Edwin Beard Budding)
Inventions · 1830
waterbed - Neil Arnott
Inventions · 1833
waterbed by the Scottish physician Neil Arnott, but did not patent it
Inventions · 1833
Charles Babbage developes the analytic engine
Inventions · 1834
Colt revolver
Inventions · 1835
1st Steinway piano
Inventions · 1835
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
Inventions · 1835
The Baltimore Sun
Inventions · 1837
American Nancy Maria Johnson awarded the first US patent for a hand-cranked ice cream maker
Inventions · 1843
self-filling fountain pen patented by John Jacob Parker
Inventions · 1844
Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar, discovers Codex Sinaiticus
Inventions · 1844
baseball (Alexander Cartwright)
Inventions · 1845
sewing machine
Inventions · 1845
Scientific American
Inventions · 1845
Johann Galle, planet Neptune
Inventions · 1846
First public demonstration of ether as anesthetic
Inventions · 1846
nitroglycerine explosive
Inventions · 1847
Chicago Tribune
Inventions · 1847
California Gold Rush
Inventions · 1848
torpedo
Inventions · 1850
Bessemer (Fe) process discovered by William Kelly
Inventions · 1851
theory underlying the heat pump - Lord Kelvin
Inventions · 1852
Linoleum
Inventions · 1855
Bunsen burner
Inventions · 1855
Chevreul classifies colors with chromatic diagram
Inventions · 1855
Scottish physician David Livingstone first saw Victoria Falls [Africia]
Inventions · 1855
spark plug - Étienne Lenoir
Inventions · 1860
Martini
Inventions · 1860
Richard Jordan Gatling's Gatlin Gun
Inventions · 1861
Gatling Gun
Inventions · 1862
Winged Victory of Samothrace discovered by Charles Champoiseau
Inventions · 1863
Statue of Hercules in Bronzen found under a courtyard near Campo de’ Fiori
Inventions · 1864
dynamite
Inventions · 1866
barbed wire first patented in US by Lucien B. Smith
Inventions · 1867
barbed wire
Inventions · 1867
Traffic lights first installed in London
Inventions · 1868
Helium (Janssen & Lockyer)
Inventions · 1868
Manhatton
Inventions · 1870
Whiskey sour
Inventions · 1870
Charles Feltman opens the first hot dog stand on Coney Island
Inventions · 1871
The Boston Globe
Inventions · 1872
Bakelite - Adolf von Baeyer
Inventions · 1872
Mesa Verde, cliff dwelling (Colorado, US)
Inventions · 1873
Winchester rifle
Inventions · 1873
Mariana Trench first sounded
Inventions · 1875
Bell's telephone
Inventions · 1876
Edison's phonograph
Inventions · 1877
The Washington Post
Inventions · 1877
electric light
Inventions · 1879
cash register
Inventions · 1879
cathode ray tube - William Crookes
Inventions · 1879
incandescent lamp
Inventions · 1879
Cyrus Cylinder discovered
Inventions · 1879
Listerine
Inventions · 1879
bobsled
Inventions · 1880
Scottish settler Donald Sutherland first saw Sutherland Falls [Oceania]
Inventions · 1880
Los Angeles Times
Inventions · 1881
burgundy
Inventions · 1881
football (Walter Camp)
Inventions · 1882
1st Fabergé egg
Inventions · 1885
roller coaster
Inventions · 1885
straw (by Marvin Chester)
Inventions · 1886
The Sporting New
Inventions · 1886
Cosmopolotian
Inventions · 1886
wax cylinder dictation machine
Inventions · 1886
Bayer process (AL separation) invented
Inventions · 1887
mass marketed camera (Kodak)
Inventions · 1888
first Kodak camera
Inventions · 1888
National Geographic
Inventions · 1888
vending machines (Tutti-Fruiti gum), Thomas Adams Gum Co.
Inventions · 1888
Aspirin (Bayer)
Inventions · 1889
The Wall Street Journal
Inventions · 1889
Lysol Disinfectant
Inventions · 1889
basketball (James Naismith)
Inventions · 1891
Chinese checkers, originally called Stern-Halma
Inventions · 1892
Ferris wheel
Inventions · 1893
Argon, Atomic Number 18
Inventions · 1894
The Hershey Company
Inventions · 1894
Rob Roy
Inventions · 1894
Billboard
Inventions · 1894
Thousand Island dressing
Inventions · 1894
Schwinn Bicycle Company
Inventions · 1895
free throw line placed at 15'
Inventions · 1895
German physics professor Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays
Inventions · 1895
Alaska Gold Rush
Inventions · 1896
wireless telegraphy
Inventions · 1896
Saturday Evening Post
Inventions · 1897
Xenon, Atomic Number 54
Inventions · 1898
Neon, Atomic Number 10
Inventions · 1898
electric headlamps for cars
Inventions · 1898
Neon (Ramsey & Travers)
Inventions · 1898
wound golf ball developed by Coburn Haskell
Inventions · 1898
tubular hand-held "electric device" (flashlight)
Inventions · 1899
Aspirin®
Inventions · 1899
George F. Grant patents the modern golf tee
Inventions · 1899
- 1900s · 177
Bull-Leaping Fresco of Minoan palace at Knossos discovered
Inventions · 1900
the monumental Palace of Minos in Knossos discovered
Inventions · 1900
Bismosal (Pepto-Bismol)
Inventions · 1901
dribbling required
Inventions · 1901
electric air conditioner - Willis Carrier
Inventions · 1902
Cushman Motor Works
Inventions · 1902
Popular Mechanics
Inventions · 1902
Binney & Smith Co. developed wax crayons
Inventions · 1903
Wright Brothers first powered flight
Inventions · 1903
windshield wiper blade - Mary Anderson
Inventions · 1903
Nestlé S.A.
Inventions · 1905
portable, domestic use vacuum-cleaner by Englishman Walter Griffiths
Inventions · 1905
Garrett Morgan discovers a liquid that straightens hair
Inventions · 1905
gyrocompass - Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe
Inventions · 1906
"Bakelite" developed by Leo Baekeland
Inventions · 1907
gumball machines
Inventions · 1907
Dictaphone®
Inventions · 1907
Thermos®
Inventions · 1907
United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS)
Inventions · 1907
Briggs and Stratton
Inventions · 1908
Model T
Inventions · 1908
discovery of Venus of Willebdorf
Inventions · 1908
Howard R. Hughes Sr.'s two-cone roller bit
Inventions · 1909
synthetic rubber - team lead by Fritz Hofmann
Inventions · 1909
steel shaft golf clubs patented
Inventions · 1910
Machu Picchu, mountain city (Peru)
Inventions · 1911
Mars, Incorporated
Inventions · 1911
electric ignition starters (Cadillac)
Inventions · 1912
American Garrett Morgan invents safety hood smoke protection device
Inventions · 1912
refrigerators for home use invented - Fred W. Wolf
Inventions · 1913
Tesla turbine
Inventions · 1913
electric refrigerator for home use by Fred W. Wolf (Fort Wayne, IN)
Inventions · 1913
woman's corselet
Inventions · 1914
Series 490
Inventions · 1915
Einstein's theory of general relativity
Inventions · 1916
Clorox bleach
Inventions · 1916
Forbes
Inventions · 1917
portable chainsaw by Canadian millwright James Shand
Inventions · 1918
1st Master Lock padlock
Inventions · 1919
Thompson submachine gun
Inventions · 1919
Daily News (New York)
Inventions · 1919
electrically amplified violins - Stuff Smith
Inventions · 1920
bumper cars
Inventions · 1920
Sidecar
Inventions · 1920
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Inventions · 1920
Russian immigrant Adolph Levitt is credited with inventing the first doughnut machine
Inventions · 1920
Brandy Alexander
Inventions · 1922
Better Homes & Gardens
Inventions · 1922
Reader's Digest
Inventions · 1922
Edy's Pie (formerly known as Eskimo Pie)
Inventions · 1922
blender by Polish-American chemist Stephen Poplawski
Inventions · 1922
periwinkle
Inventions · 1922
El Niño-Southern Oscillation discovered
Inventions · 1923
Superior
Inventions · 1923
TIME
Inventions · 1923
Marvel Mystery Oil
Inventions · 1923
American Garrett Morgan invents the traffic signal
Inventions · 1923
Kleenex®
Inventions · 1924
Klondike® Bar
Inventions · 1924
steel shaft golf club ban lifted by USGA
Inventions · 1924
Champs-Élysées
Inventions · 1925
Band-Aid®
Inventions · 1925
cigarette vending machine (by Thomas Rowe)
Inventions · 1926
electric overhead garage door opener by C.G. Johnson (Hartford City, IN)
Inventions · 1926
Canadian Brandon Lewis patented an automatic soft-serve ice cream maker
Inventions · 1926
Model A (2nd generation)
Inventions · 1927
Charles Lindbergh completes solo transatlantic flight
Inventions · 1927
Penicillin discovered
Inventions · 1928
Penicillin
Inventions · 1928
steel shaft golf club ban lifted by R&A
Inventions · 1929
the dwarf planet Pluto
Inventions · 1930
Nazca Lines, geoglyphs (Peru)
Inventions · 1930
installed at 10 Downing St (British PM's residence)
Inventions · 1930
modern day recliner by Edwin Shoemaker & Edward Knabush (Monroe, MI)
Inventions · 1930
Twinkies are invented by Canadian James Alexander Dewar for the Continental Baking Co.
Inventions · 1930
electrically amplified guitar - Beauchamp
Inventions · 1931
Max Himmelheber invents Particleboar
Inventions · 1932
Model B
Inventions · 1932
Volksempfänger developed by engineer Otto Griessing
Inventions · 1933
Dymaxion car designed by American Buckminster Fuller
Inventions · 1933
eight nations develop radar independently, and in great secrecy
Inventions · 1934
electric string bass - Paul Tutmarc
Inventions · 1935
Owens Corning patented "Fiberglas"
Inventions · 1935
Nylon
Inventions · 1935
stimpmeter designed by golfer Edward S. Stimpson, Sr.
Inventions · 1935
Summer Olympics broadcast
Inventions · 1936
Flying Pigeon Bicycle Co., LTD.
Inventions · 1936
LIFE
Inventions · 1936
first Oscar Mayer "Wienermobile"
Inventions · 1936
Rusty nail
Inventions · 1937
coin-operate soda bottle dispenser (by the Vendolator Co.)
Inventions · 1937
Creamsicle®
Inventions · 1937
Scrabble by Alfred Mosher Butts
Inventions · 1938
Novachord (synthesizer)
Inventions · 1938
term RADAR (radio detection and ranging) coined
Inventions · 1940
advertisements aired
Inventions · 1941
Fleetline
Inventions · 1941
Velcro
Inventions · 1941
Turtle Wax
Inventions · 1941
Willys MB/Ford GPW (G-503) vehicle
Inventions · 1941
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
Inventions · 1942
Coleman/G.I. pocket stove (Model 520 or M1941)
Inventions · 1942
Screwdriver
Inventions · 1943
The Slinky, invented by Richard T. James
Inventions · 1943
defensive goaltending
Inventions · 1944
Coke®
Inventions · 1945
Tupperware
Inventions · 1946
Fudgsicle®
Inventions · 1946
holography - Dennis Gabon
Inventions · 1947
newspaper box dispenser (by George Thiemeyer Hemmeter)
Inventions · 1947
microwave oven by American Percy Spencer
Inventions · 1947
Polaroid creates the first instant camera
Inventions · 1948
LP record - Peter Carl Goldmark
Inventions · 1948
Candy Land (Candyland) by Eleanor Abbott
Inventions · 1948
Puma SE
Inventions · 1948
Xerox®
Inventions · 1948
Nutty Putty becomes Silly Putty
Inventions · 1949
Masters green jacket
Inventions · 1949
car keys (Chrysler)
Inventions · 1949
crash test dummy - Samuel W. Alderson
Inventions · 1949
wire connected remote developed by Zenith Radio Corporation called Lazy Bones
Inventions · 1950
Dumpster®
Inventions · 1951
Einsteinium, Atomic Number 99
Inventions · 1952
1st Gibson Les Paul guitar
Inventions · 1952
Country Sedan
Inventions · 1952
Timberland LLC
Inventions · 1952
Gibson Les Paul guitar
Inventions · 1952
CinemaScope widescreen film created
Inventions · 1953
Acetaminophen (Tylenol)
Inventions · 1953
Corvette
Inventions · 1953
air conditioning (Chrysler)
Inventions · 1953
Playboy
Inventions · 1953
TV Guide
Inventions · 1953
molecular structure of DNA
Inventions · 1953
WD-40 (Water Displacement, 40th formula)
Inventions · 1953
1st Fender Stratocaster electric guitar
Inventions · 1954
24 s shot clock
Inventions · 1954
Sports Illustrated
Inventions · 1954
riding lawn tractor by Cecil Elwood Pond (South Bend, IN)
Inventions · 1954
STP ( Scientifically Treated Petroleum)
Inventions · 1954
Eugene Polley developed the Flash-Matic photoelectric cell wireless remote
Inventions · 1955
Play-Doh
Inventions · 1956
Rolodex by Danish engineer Hildaur Neilsen
Inventions · 1956
Cessna 172 Skyhawk
Inventions · 1956
Robert Adler developed Zenith Space Command ultrasound wireless remote
Inventions · 1956
flying disc renamed Frisbee by Wham-O
Inventions · 1957
acrylic nails, patented by Fred Slack Jr. and brother Tom
Inventions · 1957
Reebok International Limited
Inventions · 1958
Wham-O introudced the HULA HOOP®
Inventions · 1958
Van Allen' radiation belt
Inventions · 1958
seat belts (Volvo)
Inventions · 1959
Birth-control pill approved by the FDA
Inventions · 1960
Ibuprofen (Advil)
Inventions · 1961
log flume water ride
Inventions · 1963
Mellotron Mk I
Inventions · 1963
modular synthesizers - Robert Moog
Inventions · 1964
Bermuda Triangle gains fame/infamy
Inventions · 1964
1st Moog synthesizer
Inventions · 1964
Superball, chemist Norman Stingley
Inventions · 1964
"Kevlar" developed by DuPont
Inventions · 1965
glow stick
Inventions · 1965
Lockheed C-141 Starlifter
Inventions · 1965
Scope mouthwash
Inventions · 1966
Verne E. Weiss developes and introduces the Bugles corn snack
Inventions · 1966
"ChemGrass", later AstroTurf, patented
Inventions · 1967
broadcast of 60 Minutes
Inventions · 1968
Clackers
Inventions · 1968
graphite shaft golf clubs by Frank Thomas, Shakespeare Sporting Goods Co.
Inventions · 1968
treadmill, by William Staub, called the PaceMaster 600
Inventions · 1968
DHL (initials of founders Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn)
Inventions · 1969
Smithsonian
Inventions · 1970
string trimmer (weed eater) - George Ballas
Inventions · 1970
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23
Inventions · 1970
RCA introduced all-electronic remote control that used digital signals & MOSFET memory
Inventions · 1970
Nautilus "Blue Monster" bicep machine, by Arthur Jones
Inventions · 1970
Rockport
Inventions · 1971
FedEx (originally Federal Express Corporation)
Inventions · 1971
