inventions

By freethebush

  • Gas lighting

    Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.

  • First elctric light.

    Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
  • First use of anesthesia

    First use of anesthesia

    Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
  • First antisceptics

    First antisceptics

    Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
  • Man made plastic

    Man made plastic

    Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
  • Airbrakes

    Airbrakes

    George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
  • dishwasher

    dishwasher

    The first practical dishwasher was invented by a woman named Josephine Cochran in 1886.
  • First practical light bulb

    First practical light bulb

    Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electric light bulb.
  • The bicycle

    The bicycle

    I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
  • First Zipper

    First Zipper

    American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.