Inventions

Inventions Report - Timeline: Description

Book: The Book of Inventions (National Geographic)

Timeline: Description - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mechanical - STEM

300 BC - Abacus

1483 - Leonardo’s invention - Armored Vehicle, Parachute, Ornithopter, Glider, Helicopter, Aeroplane

1614, 1616 - Logarithms - John Napier

1783-1815 - Macadamized roads - John McAdams

1801-1083 - Railway Locomotive - Steam Road Carriage

1830 - Thermostat - Andrew Ure

1831 - electric motor, transformer, and generator - Michael Faraday

1834 - Refrigerator - Jacob Perkins

1843 - Fax Machine - Alexander Bain, Giovanni Caselli

1845 - Pneumatic Tire - Robert Thomson, John Dunlop

1846 - Sewing Machine - Elias Howe Jr

1849 - Safety Pin - Walter Hunt

1849 - Glider - George Cayley

1849 - Buoying Vessels - Abraham Lincoln

1854 - Cyrus West Field and the Atlantic Telegraph Company were behind the construction of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The project began in 1854 and was completed in 1858

1860 - Light Bulb - Joseph Wilson Swan

1867 - Typewriter - Carlos Glidden

1868 - Life Signals, Frank Vester

1868-73 - (QWERTY keyboard) - James Denmore

1872 - Grocery Bag - Luther Crowell

1873 - Barbed wire - Joseph Glidden

1875 - Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell

1876 - Air brake - George Westinghouse

1876 - Centennial (100 years)

1876 -AT&T - Following Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876, he and his financial backers,

1877 - Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, formed the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.

1877 - Phonograph - Thomas Edison

1879 - Light Bulb - Thomas Edison

1879 - Cash Register - James Ritty

1882 - Electric Iron - Henry Steely

1855 - Can Opener - Robert Yeates

1885 - Dishwasher - Josephine Garis

1885 - AT&T was incorporated in 1885 as a subsidiary of Bell, to build and operate the first long-distance telephone

1888 - National Geographic - 130 years - Society 1889 - Wall Street Journal - DOW, SP500, New York Exchange, Baltimore Exchang, Philadelphia Exchange

1888 - Roll Film Camera - George Eastman (Kodak)

1889 - Herman Hollerith patented electromechanical punch card tabulating system

1889 - William Gray is credited with inventing the coin payphone in the United States in 1889, and George A. Long was its developer

1895 - Breakfast Cereal - John Kellogg, Will Kellogg

1891 - Bottle Cap - William Painter

1900 - Radio - Guglielmo Marconi

1900-38 - Mouse Trap - James Atkinson

1901 - Paper Clip - John Vaaler

1902 - Wake up Devices - Frank Clarke

1902 - Submarine - Cornelius Drebbel, John Holland

1904 - Tea Bag - Thomas Sullivan

1904 - Air Conditioning - Willis Carrier

1907 - Cutlery - Elmer Walter

1912 - Ovenproof Glass - Eugene Sullivan, Corning Glass

1913 - Zipper / Velcro - Gideon Sunback, Whitcomb Judson

1918 - Tea Bag - Benjamin Hirschorn

1919 - Tea Bag - Joseph Krieger

1920 - Handheld computer - Hamilton Beach

1920 - Jubilee Cup - hose clip - Lumley Robinson

1922 - Food Processor - Stephen Poplawki - blender

1923-1924 - Television - John Baird, Vladimir Zworykin

1926 - Aerosol Can - Erik Rotheim

1928 - Geiger Counter - Hans Geiger, Walther Muller

1928-35 - Sliced Bread - Otto Frederick Rohwedder

1929 - Licorice - George Bassett

1930 - Jet Engine - Frank Wittle

1930-1958 - Rolodex - Arnold Neustadter

1932 - Anglepoise Lamp - George Carwardine

1933 - Polythene - Eric Fawcett, Reginald Gibson

1934 - Catseyes - reflecting road studs - Percy Shaw

1935 - Radar - Robert Watson-Watt

1935 - Parking meter - Carlton Magee

1937 - Instant Coffee - Max Mortgenthaler

1938 - Instant Coffee - Nestle

1938 - Photocopier - Chester Carlson

1939 - Nonstick Pan - Roy Plunkett, Marc Gregoire

1944 - Tetra Pak - Ruben Rausing

1945 - Microwave Oven - Percy Spencer

1946 - Disposable Diaper - Marion Donovan

1947 - Tupperware - Earl Tupper

1947 - Ovenproof Glass - S.D. Stookey, Corning Glass

1947 - Transistor - Willam Shockely, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain

1948 - Polaroid Camera - Edwin Land

1948 - Computer and Mouse - Freddie Williams and Thomas Kilburn

1949 - Bar code - Barndard Silver and Norman Woodland

1950 - Food Processor - Ken Wood - Food Processor

1951 - Correction Fluid - Bette Nesmith

1955 - Hovercraft - Christopher Cockerell

1958 - Flight data recorder - David Warren

1959 - Microchip - Jack Kilby, Robert Noyce

1963 - Kevlar - Stephanie Kwolek, Paul Morgan

1964 - Lava Lamp - Craven Walker

1965 - Ring Pull - Ermal Fraze

1965 - Wine Box - Thomas Angove

1967 - Computer and Mouse - Douglas Engelbart

1971 - Food Processor - Pierre Verdun - Food Processor

1973 - IBM (bar code scanner)

1978-93 - Dual Cyclone Cleaner - James Dyson

1985 - Widget - Alan Forage and William Byrne

1985 — AOL founded .

1986 - National Science Foundation - launches NAFNET, first large scale network

1987 - IBM - OS 2 Warp Operating System

1987 - Druid - sundial - John Singleton

1988 - Widget - Guinness

1989 - Tim Berners Lee - World Wide Web

1989 - Commercial ISP - Internet Service provider - dial up service

1991 - Tim Berners Lee - First Web browser

1991 - Linux operating system - Linux Torvalds (Finland)

1993 - Mosaic - First web browser

1994 - Netscape Navigator

1995 - Windows 95

1995 - Internet explorer

1995 -Yahoo - Jerry Yang and David Filo in January (1994)

1996 - Palm Pilot - handheld computer and personal information manager - touch screens1991 - Clockwork radio - Trevor Baylis

1992 - Anywayup Cup - Mandy Haberman

1997 - Land Shark - amphibious vehicles , David Baker

1997 - Hong Kong and China integration

1997 - IBM Deep Blue Beats Garry Kasparov

1997 - Red Hat Linux 5.2

1997 - IPv4

1998 - Windows 98

2000 - Windows NT - new technologies

2000 - Microsoft splits into 5 departments

2000 - Windows 2000

2001 - Apple introduced Unix like system for Mac OS X

2002 - The total number of personal computers, both desktop and laptop reach 1 billion

2003 - Windows XP

2003 - Microsoft Office / Microsoft Works

2003 - Google - Gmail

2004 - Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg (Harvard University)

2005 - Windows Vista

2005 - Apple used IBM Power PC chips

2006 - Apple began using Intel chips

2007 - Apple introduced the iPhone

2007 - Amazon releases kindle

2008 - Google Releases mobile operating system - Google - Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Stanford University)

2010 - Apple sells 3 million iPad

2010 - Windows 7

2012 - Windows 8 operating system

2015 - IPv6

2016 - Windows 10