Inventor Inventions Year Country
Johannes
Printing Press 1440 Germany
Gutenberg
Electromagnetic theory
of light and
Heinrich
electromagnetic waves. 1880s Germany
Rudolph Hertz
Radio and electrical
frequencies (Hz)
Wilhelm Conrad Electro Magnetic
1895 Germany
Röntgen Radiations or X-Ray
Alfred Nobel Dynamite 1867 Sweden
Milling machine and
Eli Whitney 1793 America
cotton gin
Mary Anderson Windshield wipers 1903 America
Wilber and
Orville Wright
Airplanes 1903 America
(Wright
Brothers)
Archimedes screw, a
device used to raise the
water level, explained the
3rd century
Archimedes principle behind levers, Greece
B.C.
Archimedes principle,
accurate value of the 'pi',
and many more
Richard G. Drew Adhesive tape 1923 America
Peter Henlein Pocket watch 1504-1508 Germany
Discovered gravity and
Sir Isaac
also invented the 1668 England
Newton
reflecting telescope
Logarithms, Napier
John Napier 1590s Scotland
Bones, and decimal point
Jacques Yves France (Emile was
Cousteau and Aqualungs 1943 a French
Emile Gagnan Canadian)
Thomas Atmospheric steam
1710 England
Newcomen engine
Bicycle, typewriter with
Karl Friedrich
keyboard, and wood 1820s Germany
von Drais
saving cooker
Alexander
Telephone 1875 Scotland
Graham Bell
Willis Carrier Air conditioner 1914 America
Jean Nollet
(Also known as Electroscope 1748 France
Abbe Nollet)
Ransome Eli
Assembly line 1901 America
Olds
Earle Dickson Band Aid 1920 America
James Naismith Basketball 1891 Canada
Levi Strauss Blue jeans 1873 Germany/USA
Louis Braille Braille for the blind 1829 France
Robert Wilhelm
Bunsen burner 1855 Germany
Bunsen
Alfred Mosher
Scrabble 1938 America
Butts
Sir Humphrey Miner's safety lamp or
1815 England
Davy the Davy lamp
Richter magnitude scale
Charles Richter for measuring 1935 America
earthquake
Heinrich Göbel Incandescent light bulb 1890s Germany/America
Jesse Langsdorf Neck tie 1920 America
1877 and
Phonograph and electric
Thomas Edison 1879 America
light bulb
(respectively)
Lighting rod, bifocals,
Franklin stove, glass
Benjamin
armonica, swim fins, 1750s America
Franklin
urinary catheter, and also
the carriage odometer
Rudolf Christian
Diesel engine 1890s Germany
Karl Diesel
Otto von Air pump or vacuum
1650 Germany
Guericke pump
Geometric compass,
better 30X magnification 1590s
Galileo Galilei Italy
telescope, 'invented' that onwards
the sun was the center of
the solar system and not
the earth
AC motor and
transformer, vacuum
Nikola Tesla 1880s Austria/America
tube amplifier, Tesla coil,
X-Ray technology
Xerography
Chester Carlson 1937-38 America
photocopying
Jacques Edwin
Cellophane 1908 Switzerland
Brandenberger
Chocolate chip and
Ruth Wakefield 1930 America
chocolate chip cookies
Lens grinding machine,
parachute, Strut bridge,
Leonardo da automatic bobbin winder,
1500s Italy
Vinci and also machine for
testing tensile strength of
wires
Abd al-Latif al
Ventilator 1162-1231 Iraq/Egypt
Baghdadi
Jagdish
Crescograph 1920s India
Chandra Bose
Paper and paper making
C ai Lun 105 AD China
process
Evgeniy
Pressure suit 1931 Russia
Chertovsky
Dr. John Stith
Coca Cola 1886 America
Pemberton
Zacharias
Compound microscope 1595 Holland
Janssen
Arthur Wynne Crossword puzzle 1913 England
Charles Richard
Blood bank - America
Drew
Thomas
Electric streetcar 1834 America
Davenport
Lala Balhumal Seamless globe, celestial
Late 1842 Mughal India
Lahuri globe
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar-Mathur
Bhatnagar and Magnetic Interference 1928 India
K.N. Mathur Balance
Jesse W. Reno Escalator 1891 America
Lewis E.
Fountain pen 1884 America
Waterman
Dr. Joseph-
Guillotin 1790s France
Ignace Guillotin
Elias Howe Sewing machine 1846 America
Ida Henrietta
Micro electrode 1930s America
Hyde
Charles Waterproof raincoat and
1820s Scotland
Mackintosh life vest
Edwin Beard
Lawn mower 1830 England
Budding
Garrett
Traffic signal, gas mask,
Augustus - African-American
and several other things
Morgan
Late 19th
Louis Pasteur Pasteurization France
century
