Inventions and Inventors
Inventions and Inventors
AC motor Nikola Testa
electric telegraph Samuel F B adding machine Blaise Pascal
cement Joseph Aspdin
Morse and William Burroughs
chronometer John Harrison
cigarette-rolling machine
electric washing machine
addressograph J S Duncan
Alva Fisher air brake George Westing-
James A Bonsack
electric welder Elihu Thomp- house
coal stove Jordan Mott
son air conditioning Willis H Car-
color photography G a b r i e l
electrocardiograph Wi l l e m rier
Lippmann
Einthoven airline passenger ticket Rich-
compound microscope H a n s
electroencephalograph H a n s ard Roselle
and Zacharias Janssen
Berger airplane Orville and Wilbur
computer chip Jack Kilby and
electromagnet Joseph Henry, Wright
Robert Noyce (according to
William Sturgeon AK-17 (automatic rifle) M i k -
US Patent Office)
electronic television Vladimir hail Kalashnikov
computer cookies L o u M o n -
Zworykin Alexander Technique m a s -
tulli
electron microscope E r n s t sage and physical-manipula-
computer mouse Douglas En-
Ruska tion therapy developed by F
gelbart
electroplating G e o rg e a n d Mathias Alexander
condenser steam engine
Henry Elkington analog computer Va n n eva r
James Watt
Esperanto Lazarus Ludwig Bush
cotton gin Eli Whitney
Zamenhof autogyro Juan de la Cierva
craniosacral therapy William
Feldenkrais Technique p o s - automatic rifle J o h n M o s e s
Sutherland
ture therapy developed by Browning
cream separator Gustf de La-
Moshe Feldenkrais automobile Karl Benz
val
field ion microscope Erwin W bakelite Leo H Baekeland
cyclotron Ernest O Lawrence
Mueller ballpoint pen John Loud
cylinder lock Linus Yale
fluorescent light E d m u n d barbed wire Joseph Glidden
cylinder phonograph T h o -
Germer barometer Evangelista Torri-
flush toilet Joseph Brahmah celli
mas A Edison
detective story Edgar Allan
Poe
foot-operated sewing machine
Ben Day Process photoengrav-
Isaac Singer ing process; Benjamin Day
fountain pen Lewis Waterman Bessemer steel H e n r y B e s -
Diesel engine Rudolf Diesel
fractal geometry Benoit Man- semer
digital computer H owa r d
delbrot bicycle Karl Drais von Sauer-
Aiken
Franklin stove B e n j a m i n bronn
diode-tube radio John Flem-
ing
bifocals Benjamin Franklin
disk brake Frederick Lanches-
Franklin frequency modulation Edwin
Bowen Therapy musculoskele-
H Armstrong tal-release therapy developed
ter disk phonograph Emile Ber-
frozen food Clarence Birdseye by Tom Bowen of Australia
gas lighting William Murdock Braille printing Louis Braille
liner
dynamite Alfred Nobel
gasoline-powered automobile
bubble gum Walter Deemer
Karl Benz (for Fleers in 1928)
electric battery A l e s s a n d r o
gas stove Robert Wilhelm von Bunsen burner Robert Wil-
Volta
Bunsen helm von Bunsen
electric bulb Thomas Alva Edi-
Geiger counter Hans Geiger calculus Wilhelm von Leibniz
son
gramophone Emile Berliner and Isaac Newton
electric fan Schuyler Wheeler
electric flat iron H W Seeley
gyrocompass Elmer A Sperry
carbon-filament electric lamp
gyroscope Jean Bernard Léon Thomas A Edison
electric generators M i c h a e l
Foucault carburetor Gottlieb Daimler
Faraday (disk), Hippolyte
half-tone engraving F r e d e r- carpet sweeper M R Bissell
Pixii (coil)
ick Ives cash register James Ritty
electric locomotive We r n e r
heart pacemaker Wi l s o n cathode-ray tube Sir William
von Siemens
Greatbach Crookes
electric motors Z e n o b e
Heimlich maneuver u p wa r d cellophane Jacques E Bran-
Gramme (DC), Nikola Testa
thrust on abdomen, per- denberger
(AC)
formed on choking victims celluloid Alexander Parkes
electric power plant Thomas
A Edison
(developed by Dr Henry He-
celluloid-film photography
imlich) Hannibal Goodwin
electric razor Jacob Schick
electric stove W S Hadaway
helicopter Igor Sikorsky
Inventions and Inventors
holography Dennis Gabor
Rolfing physical therapy devel- homeopathy Samuel Hahne-
multiplex theaters Stan Dur-
oped by Ida Rolf mann
wood
rotary printing Richard Hoe hot-air balloon Jacques and
music synthesizer R o b e r t A
safety elevator Elisha G Otis Joseph Montgolfier
Moog
safety pin Walter Hunt jet aircraft engine Sir Frank
neon lamp Georges Claude
safety razor King C Gillette Whittle
newspaper vending machine
science fiction M a r y Wo l l - kiss-proof lipstick movie di-
George Thiemeyer Hemmeter
stonecraft Shelley, author of rector Preston Sturges
nylon Wallace Carothers
Frankenstein Kodak camera George Eastman
offset printing Ira Rubel
science of flight S i r G e o rg e laser Gordon Gould
oil pipeline Samuel van Syckel
Cayley La-Z-Boy reclining chair E d -
osteopathy Andrew Taylor Still
Scoville Test measure of chil- win Shoemaker
outboard engine Ole Evinrude
ies’ hotness by how much lever-fill fountain pen W A
parallel computer processor
sugar water is required to neu- Shaeffer
Gene Amdahl
tralize heat; invented by Wil- lightning rod Benjamin Frank-
parking meter Carlton Magee
bur Scoville lin
pendulum clock C h r i s t i a a n
Scrabble (board game) Alfred linoleum Frederick Walton
Huygens
Butts linotype typesetting O t t m a r
photoelectric cell G R Carey
screw propeller John Ericsson Mergenthaler
photoengraving William Fox
self-propelled torpedo Robert Linux computer operating sys-
Talbot
Whitehead tem developed by Linus Tor-
photographic camera Joseph
self-starter Charles F Kettering valds
Niepce
semaphore telegraph Claude liquid-crystal display James L
photography on metal J o -
Chappe Fergason
seph Niepce
sewing machine Elias Howe, liquid-fuel rockets R o b e r t
photography on paper Wi l l -
Barthélemy Thimonnier Goddard, Herman Oberth,
iam Fox Talbot
sextant John Hadley, Thomas Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
piston steam engine T h o m a s
Godfrey lithography Alois Senefelder
Newcomen
shopping cart Sylvan Goldman long-playing records P e t e r
pneumatic tires John B Dun-
spectroscope J o s e p h vo n Goldmark Elihu
lop
Fraunhofer machine gun Richard J Gat-
Polaroid camera Edwin Land
spinning frame Richard Ark- ling
polymeric chain reaction
Kary Banks Mullis
wright
magazine-insert advertising
spinning jenny J a m e s H a r- cards Lester Wunderman
polyurethane W E Hanford and
greaves magnetic tape recording J A
Donald F Holmes
stainless steel Harry Brearley O’Neill
power loom E d m u n d C a r t -
wright
steam locomotive R i c h a r d
manual washing machine
Trevithick Hamilton Smith
projected motion pictures
steam railway G e o rg e mechanical television John L
Auguste and Louis Lumière
Stephenson Baird
propeller John Ericsson
steamship Robert Fulton metronome Dietrich Nikolaus
punched cards Herman Hol-
steam shovel William Otis Winkel
lerith
steam tractor Nicholas Cugnot microchip Robert Noyce and
radar A l b e r t Ta y l o r, L e o
steam turbine Charles Parsons Jack Kilby
Young
steel plow John Deere microphone Emile Berliner
radio Guglielmo Marconi
stethoscope René Théophile- microwave oven P e r cy L
radio telescope Karl Jansky
Hyacinthe Laennec Spencer
railway car couplings Eli Jan-
submarine David Bushnell milking machine Anna Bald-
nery
suburbs William Levitt, who win
railway sleeping cars George
designed Levittown, Pennsyl- miner’s safety lamp Humphry
Pullman
vania Davy
rayon Hilaire Chardonnet
supercomputer Seymour Cray modern oilwell Edwin Drake
reaping machine Cyrus H Mc-
swim fins Benjamin Franklin monotype typesetting Tolbert
Cormick
telegraph signals S a m u e l B Lanston
reflecting telescope I s a a c
Morse motion picture camera T h o -
Newton
telegraphy Alexander Graham mas A Edison
refracting telescope G a l i l e o
Bell motorcycle Gottlieb Daimler
Galilei
telephone Alexander Graham motor scooter Greville Brad-
repeating rifle O F Winchester
Bell shaw
respirator Forrest Bird
telephone dial tone Almon movable-type printing J o -
revolver Samuel Colt
Strowger (1891), an undertaker hann Gutenberg
rigid dirigible airship F e r d i -
nand von Zeppelin
telescope Hans Lippershey
Inventions and Inventors
thermometer Galileo Galilei
vulcanized rubber C h a r l e s thermos bottle James Dewar
triode vacuum tube L e e D e
Goodyear Trager Work soft-touch ma-
Forest
waterproof raincoat C h a r l e s nipulation combined with ex-
tungsten filament I r v i n g
Macintosh ercises to release tension, de-
Langmuir
tungsten-filament electric
wire-cable suspension bridge
John A Roebling transformer Otto Blathy
veloped by Milton Trager
lamp William Coolidge
wireless telegraphy Guglielmo transistor J o h n B a r d e e n ,
typewriter Carlos Glidden,
Marconi Walter Brattain, William
Christopher Sholes
xerography Chester Carlson Shockley
vacuum cleaner I W McGaffey
videotape recorder Charles P
X-ray Wilhelm Roentgen
transparent paper-film pho-
zipper Whitcomb Judson tography George Eastman
Ginsburg
vocal radio Valdemer Poulsen
Irish Counties Abbreviated