| Event Date: | Event Title: | Event Description: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/01/1800 | Battery | Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery. | |
| 01/01/1809 | Electric Lamp | Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp. Makes home life easier for people with the money to buy one. | |
| 01/01/1814 | Locomotive | George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive. Eventually makes travel over long distances much easier. Also alows massive amounts of goods to be transported across land easily. | |
| 01/01/1814 | First Photograph | Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture. | |
| 01/01/1825 | Electromagnet | William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet. | |
| 01/01/1829 | Typewriter | American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter. Alows papers and books to be written more efficiently | |
| 01/01/1831 | McCormick Reaper | American, Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper. Reduces the amount of work needed to harvest crops. Production increases. | |
| 01/01/1834 | Corn Planter | Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent. Makes it far easier to plant one of the main staple crops of the North and Midwest | |
| 01/01/1835 | Photography | Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotype photography. | |
| 01/01/1835 | Wrench | Solymon Merrick patents the wrench. | |
| 01/01/1835 | Propeller | Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller. | |
| 01/01/1835 | Calculator | Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator | |
| 01/01/1836 | Revolver | Samuel Colt invented the first revolver. makes life on the frontier more and less dangerous. this invention is widely used in the Civil War | |
| 01/01/1837 | Telegraph | Samuel Morse invents the telegraph. Begins a time of lightning fast communication | |
| 01/01/1838 | Morse code | Samual Morse invents Morse Code. This system of tones is used to turn the telegraph into an effective mode of comunication | |
| 01/01/1839 | Photography | Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography. | |
| 01/01/1839 | Bicycle | Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle. | |
| 01/01/1839 | Hydrogen Fuel Cell | Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell. | |
| 01/01/1842 | Grain Elevator | Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator. Makes daily life easier. | |
| 01/01/1844 | Mercerized Cotton | Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton. gives cotton a glossy glow. Improves the quality and astethitic apeal of cotton clothes. | |
| 01/01/1846 | Anesthesia for Desntistry | Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction. Allows dentistry work to be done far less painfully making dentist appointments more pleasurable. | |
| 01/01/1847 | Antisceptics | Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics. A ground breaking invention in the medical industry still used today. | |
| 01/01/1850 | Dishwasher | Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher. Makes home life easier for those who can afford it. | |
| 01/01/1852 | Gyroscope. | Jean Bernard Léon Foucault invents gyroscope. First used as a teaching aid. Now, it is what makes the screen "flip" on your iphone. | |
| 06/05/1854 | Fiber Optics | John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics. First used as a teaching aid. Now it is the main cable in use for internet and phone cables. | |
| 06/05/1855 | Bessemer Process | Bessemer Process invented by Henry Bessemer, a new and easier way to convert iron into steel. This makes steel far easier to get and is used to make many things from sky-skrapers to knives. | |
| 01/01/1857 | Sleeping Train Car | George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel. Makes long travel on trains more bearable. | |
| 01/01/1858 | Washing Machine | Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine. Makes home life far easier for those fortunate enough to have one. | |
| 01/01/1858 | Internal Combustion Engine | Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine. leads to the firts automobiles, motorcycles and many other motor driven vehicles. | |
| 01/01/1861 | Elevator Safety Brakes | Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator. | |
| 01/01/1861 | Cylinder Lock | Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock. Makes door locks easier and cheaper to manufacture. Similar locks are still used today. | |
| 01/01/1862 | Machine Gun | Richard Gatling patents his machine gun. Revolutionalizes war. | |
| 01/01/1862 | Plastic | Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic. Makes a lighter, cheaper solid to use in industry. Very widely used today. | |
| 01/01/1866 | Dynamite | Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. An explosive that makes excavation easier and more dangerous. Still widely used today. | |
| 01/01/1866 | Torpedo | Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo. A new weapon used to deystroy ships. Newer versions are still used today. | |
| 01/01/1867 | Modern Typewriter | Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter. Typewriters are easily available. This revolutionalizes the business and writing worlds. | |
| 01/01/1868 | Air Brakes | George Westinghouse invents air brakes. | |
| 01/01/1868 | Tungsten Steel | Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel. | |
| 01/01/1868 | Traffic Lights | J P Knight invents traffic lights. | |
| 06/05/1873 | Mail-Order Catalog | A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog. Makes products easily available for people in the back country. | |
| 06/05/1873 | Barbed Wire | Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire. | |
| 01/01/1876 | Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. Makes long distance instant comunication posible for the everyday person. | |
| 01/01/1876 | Internal Combustion Engine | Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine. | |
| 01/01/1877 | Phonograph | Thomas Edison invents the ylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph. Makes home life more enjoyable to those who can afford it. | |
| 01/01/1877 | Movies | Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures or movies | |
| 01/01/1878 | Electric Lightbulb | Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb. Begins the electric revolution. | |
| 01/01/1879 | First Practical Light Bulb | Thomas Edison invents the first practical and commercially available light bulb. Electric light soon becomes widely abailable making home life far easier. | |
| 01/01/1880 | Toilet Paper | The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper. | |
| 01/01/1881 | Metal Detector | Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector. | |
| 01/01/1881 | Roll Film | David Houston patents the roll film for cameras. Will allow for millions of Americans to posses cameras and use them easily. | |
| 01/01/1881 | Player Piano | Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano. A great entertainment peace for homes or resturaunts for those who could afford it. | |
| 01/01/1884 | Fountain Pen | Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.. | |
| 01/01/1884 | Cash Register | James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register. Changes business life drastically. | |
| 01/01/1884 | Steam Trubine | Charles Parson patents the steam turbine | |
| 01/01/1885 | Machine Gun | Harim Maxim invents his machine gun. | |
| 01/01/1885 | Automobile | Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. | |
| 01/01/1885 | Motorcycle | Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle. | |
| 01/01/1886 | Motor Vehicle | Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle. | |
| 01/01/1886 | Coca Cola | John Pemberton invents Coca Cola. A drink we all still drink today, minus the cocain of course. | |
| 01/01/1887 | Radar | German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar. Still used today to detect airplanes, read the speed of moving objects, and many other things. | |
| 01/01/1887 | Gramaphone | Emile Berliner invents the gramophone. | |
| 01/01/1887 | Contact Lenses | F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses. These are the begining to the vast contact industry of today. They were not very practicle at the time though. | |
| 01/01/1888 | AC motor | Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer. | |
| 01/01/1889 | Cordite | Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder. | |
| 01/01/1891 | Escalator | Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator. newer versions are still in use today. | |
| 01/01/1892 | Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine. | |
| 01/01/1893 | Zipper | American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper. Revolutionalized the clothing industry. | |
| 01/01/1895 | Movie Camera | Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person. | |
| 01/01/1898 | Roller Coaster | Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster. Provides fun for the Whole Family! Begins amusement parks. | |
| 01/01/1899 | Vacum Cleaner | John Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner. Cheaper and more modern looking vaccumm cleaner. Made life easier for the wealthy | |
| 01/01/1900 | Zeppelin | The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Made Air travel possible, even across the Atlantic Ocean. | |
| 01/01/1901 | Safety Razor | King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor. | |
| 01/01/1901 | Radio Reciver | The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission. The very begnings of radio brodcast that we all enjoy today. | |
| 01/01/1901 | Vacuum cleaner | Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner. | |
| 01/01/1902 | Air Conditioner | Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner. | |
| 01/01/1902 | Polygraph Machine | The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie. | |
| 01/01/1902 | Neon ligt | George Claude invented neon light. | |
| 01/01/1903 | Crayons | Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons. | |
| 01/01/1903 | Bottle-making Machinery | Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens. | |
| 01/01/1903 | Airplane | The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane. This new invention eventualy evolves the transportation world. | |
| 01/01/1904 | Tractor | Benjamin Holt invents a tractor. Makes the farming industry farm more streamlined. removes some of the back breaking labor. | |
| 01/01/1905 | Theory of Relativity | Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2. A break through in the areas of science and mathematics. | |
| 01/01/1906 | Corn Flakes | William Kellogg invents Cornflakes. | |
| 01/01/1906 | Sonar | Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device. | |
| 01/01/1907 | Color Photography | Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere. | |
| 01/01/1907 | Helicopter | The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu. Another revolution in the newly begining flight industry. | |
| 01/01/1908 | Model T | Model T first sold by Ford Motor Company. Ford's automobile made the automobile easy to buy for many families. | |
| 01/01/1908 | Geiger Counter | J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter which measures radiaton. Used widely throughout the Nuclear industry today. | |
| 01/01/1908 | Artificial Nitrates | Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates which are used in fertalizer. | |
| 01/01/1909 | Instant coffe | Instant coffee invented by G. Washington. Makes coffe easier to make and far more enjoyable for the everyday person. | |
| 01/01/1910 | Movies With Sound | Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture. | |
| 01/01/1911 | Electric Ignition for Cars | Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system. Makes starting your car far easier, before you had to hand crank the car to start it. | |
| 01/01/1912 | Motorized Movie Cameras | Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras. | |
| 01/01/1912 | Military Tanks | The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole. | |
| 01/01/1912 | Life Savers Candy | Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912. | |
| 01/01/1913 | Crossword Puzzle | The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne. A new form of puzzle for newspapers to publish and for people to enjoy. | |
| 01/01/1913 | Ecstasy | The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy. | |
| 01/01/1913 | Bra | Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra. | |
| 01/01/1914 | Gas Mask | Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask. Used widely in WWI and 2. | |
| 01/01/1915 | Pyrex | Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex a less breakable glasswere | |
| 01/01/1916 | Radio Tuners | Radio tuners invented, that received different stations. | |
| 01/01/1916 | Stainless Steel | Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly. Reformed the steel industry, used widely today from drill bits to sailboat parts. | |
| 01/01/1918 | Superheterodyne Radio Circuit | The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Today, every radio or television set uses this invention. | |
| 01/01/1918 | Fourtune cookies | Charles Jung invented fortune cookies. | |
| 01/01/1919 | Pop-up Toaster | The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite. Made home life easier for the everyday person. | |
| 01/01/1919 | Short-Wave Radio | Short-wave radio invented. | |
| 01/01/1919 | Flip Flop Circuit | The flip flop circuit invented by William Eccles and F. W. Jordan. | |
| 01/01/1919 | Arc Welding | Arc Welding Invented | |
| 01/01/1920 | Thompson Machine Gun | The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson. | |
| 01/01/1920 | Band-Aid | The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson. |
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