Inventions

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

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