inventions of the 19th and 20th century

  • The Invention of the Camera

    The Invention of the Camera
    The first photo picture - as we know it - by a French inventor Joseph Niepce. It depicts a view from the window at Le Gras. There is little merit in this picture other than the fact that it is the first photograph taken and preserved.
  • invention of the telegraph

    invention of the telegraph
    An electrical telegraph was independently developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse. His assistant, Alfred Vail, developed the Morse code signalling alphabet with Morse.
  • Invention of the Fax

    Invention of the Fax
    click here, sometimes called telecopying or telefax is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device.
  • ivention of the electric stove

    George B. Simpson was awarded US patent for an 'electro-heater' surface heated by a platinum-wire coil powered by batteries. In his words, useful to "warm rooms, boil water, cook victuals..
  • Invention of the vaccum

    videoCarpet sweeper was invented by Daniel Hess of West Union, Iowa that gathered dust with a rotating brush and a bellows for generating suction.
  • Invention of the telephone

    Invention of the telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell is commonly credited as the inventor of the first practical telephone.
  • Invention of the Phonograph

    Invention of the Phonograph
    Thomas Edison created many inventions, but his favorite was the phonograph. While working on improvements to the telegraph and the telephone, Edison figured out a way to record sound on tinfoil-coated cylinders
  • invention of the car

    invention of the car
    In 1886 the first petrol or gasoline powered automobile the Benz Patent-Motorwagen was invented by Karl Benz.
  • Invention of the blow dryer

    Invention of the blow dryer
    by Alexander Godefroy by taking inspiration from the vacuum cleaner. Alexander invented it for usage in his hair salon in France and it was not portable or handheld, but instead could only be used by having the woman sit underneath it.
  • Escalator

    The first patent relating to an escalator-like machine was granted in 1859 to a Massachusetts man for a steam driven unit.
  • invention of the radio

    In 1895, a young Italian named Gugliemo Marconi invented what he called “the wireless telegraph” while experimenting in his parents' attic. He used radio waves to transmit Morse code and the instrument he used became known as the radio.
  • Wire Recording

    Magnetic Wire Recording is an analog type of audio stroage in which a magnetic recording is made on a thin stell or stainless steel wire
  • Invention of the Wahing machine

    click here a washing machine called the Thor, which was invented by Alva J. Fisher and manufactured by the Hurley Machine Company in 1908, is often cited as the first drum-based electric washing machine
  • invention of the headphones

    invention of the headphones
    The first truly successful set was developed in 1910 by Nathaniel Baldwin, who made them by hand in his kitchen and sold them to the United States Navy
  • Invention of the drying machine

    the electric clothes dryer was introduced but it was not until the Hamilton Manufacturing Company produced the first automatic dryer in 1938 that the use of the dryer started to become known.
  • Invention of the Blender

    Invention of the Blender
    Stephen Poplawski of Racine invents and patents a blender for use in mixing malted milk drink
  • Invention of the television

    Invention of the television
    Philo Farnsworth invented it at the age of 21 and presented it in the city of San Francisco
  • Invention of the computer

    Invention of the computer
    The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50
  • Invention of the compact cassette

    Compact cassettes featured magnetic tape for recording audio and playback. Cassettes could be purchased with prerecorded audio or could be purchased as blank cassettes for personal recording
  • Mini Disc

    The MiniDisc (MD) is a magneto-optical disc-based data storage device offering a capacity of 74 minutes and, later, 80 minutes, of digitized audio or 1 gigabyte of Hi-MD data. The Sony brand audio players were on the market from September 1992 until March 2013.[