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The Wheel
Of course, the wheel has been around for nearly as long as humanity. It is credited with being one of mankind’s first inventions, and a tremendous number of other innovations have incorporated the wheel in their designs. Everything from cars to airplanes, to conveyor belts, to factory machines to children’s toys makes use of the wheel in one form or another. -
The Steam Engine
James Watt invented what is considered the first modern steam engine in 1765 -
The Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin on March 14, 1794. The cottn gin is a machine that seperates seeds, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked. -
The Sewing Machine
The first functional sewing machine was invented by the French tailor, Barthelemy Thimonnier, in 1830 . -
Bicycle
The renowned 19th-century US feminist Susan B Anthony said in an interview in 1896: "I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." First devised as a gentleman's play thing in the 1820s, the push-powered hobby-horse quickly evolved to become the most classless form of transport, trundling by the millions along highways and byways all over the world. The French vélocipède, invented in 1861 by Pierre Marchaux, is widely considered to be the first true bi -
The Telephone
In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell built the first telephone that transmitted electrically the human voice. -
The Light Bulb
Contrary to popular belief, Thomas Edison didnt "invent" the light bulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year old idea. -
Compass
The dry compass used in China was a dry suspension compass, a wooden frame crafted in the shape of a turtle hung upside down by a board, with the lodestone sealed in by wax, and if rotated, the needle at the tail would always point in the northern cardinal direction.[19] Although the 14th-century European compass-card in box frame and dry pivot needle was adopted in China after its use was taken by Japanese pirates in the 16th century (who had in turn learned of it from Europeans), the Chinese d -
Television
In 1884, Paul Nipkow sent images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology with 18 lines of resoulution. Television then envolved along two paths, mechanical based Nipkow's rotating disks, and electronic based on the catcode ray tube. -
Gunpowder
Gunpowder was discovered in the 9th century by Chinese alchemists searching for an elixir of immortality.[20] By the time the Song Dynasty treatise, Wujing Zongyao (武经总要), was written by Zeng Gongliang and Yang Weide in AD 1044, the various Chinese formulas for gunpowder held levels of nitrate in the range of 27% to 50%.[21] By the end of the 12th century, Chinese formulas of gunpowder had a level of nitrate capable of bursting through cast iron metal containers, in the form of the earliest holl -
Penicillin
Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. Andrew Moyer patented the first method of industrial production of Penicillin in 1948 -
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3", or simply "Web") is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet, but the Web is actually a service that operates over the Internet.
