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Machine gun
In 1718, James Puckle of London, England, demonstrated his new invention, the "Puckle Gun," a tripod-mounted, single-barreled flintlock gun fitted with a multishot revolving cylinder. -
Electric light bulb
The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist. He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. This is called an electric arc -
Gas Mask
The inventor of the gas mask was Phectic Haslett. the purpose of the gas mask was to prevent people from dying from poisions gas -
Tractor
The reason for the tractor was to help farmers with their crop. It was used for heavy equipment that people couldnt lift. The inventor was John Froelich. -
Zipper
Mr. Whitcomb Judson marketed a 'Clasp Locker' a device similar to the 1851 Howe patent. Being first to market gave Whitcomb the credit of being the 'Inventor of the Zipper', However, his 1893 patent did not use the word zipper. The Chicago inventor's 'Clasp Locker' -
Radio
James Clerk Maxwell developed the first radio-wave theorem in 1864. He proved, mathematically, that if an electrical interruption is of short distance from the point at which it occurred -
The Telephone
In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone) -
Barbed Wire
The invention of barbe wire was to prevent the frontier moving closer in the 19 century. the inventor of barbe wire is Joseph Farwell Glidden -
Automoblie
The earliest ancestor of the modern automobile is probably the Fardier, a three-wheeled, steam-powered, 2.3-mph vehicle built in 1771 by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot for the French minister of war. -
Diesel Engine
1894 Rudolf Diesel filed for a patent for his new invention, dubbed the diesel engine. Rudolf Diesel was almost killed by his engine when it exploded. However, his engine was the first that proved that fuel could be ignited without a spark. He operated his first successful engine in 1897. -
Swiss army knife
Carl Elsener, the company founder, wanted to create work in sparsely industrialized central Switzerland and counter the emigration spawned by unemployment. To go from hand-crafting to industrial production was at the time adventurous and required enormous determination -
Airplane
The inventors of the first airplane were Orville and Wilbur Wright. On December 17, 1903. The purpose of the airplane is to travel farther and in a faster amount of time.
