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.