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This is a timeline of important inventions that have changed our world. Enjoy!
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The Egyptians used a water clock, but it was not accurate at all.
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Blaise Pascal invented the calculater.
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Nicholas Jacques Conte invented the pencil.
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Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse both invented it (together). IT is dots and dashes and these can be sound, blinking lights, or anything else.
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This was invented by Alfred Nobel. He invented it in 1866.
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The first traffic light was installed in Britain, but it exploded and either hurt or killed a police officer that was working it.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
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Karl Benz made the first car that was powered by an engine that had internal combustions. He wasnt the first one to make a self powered automobile that ran by itself. That was a french guy named Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, but it was powered by steam.
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This was invented by James Naismith. It was originally played with peach baskets instead of nets.
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The frisbee was invented byWalter Frederick.
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This was invented by William D. Middlebrook. Two guys named Cushman and Dension bought the patent and trademarked the name GEM for it.
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The first toaster was made by a man named Charles P. Strite. he made becasue he didn't like the burnt toast in the cafeteria in the place he worked.
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George Nisson and Larry Griswald invented the trampoline.
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The first computer that was completed was called the ABC which was "the first electronic digital computer." (see link for source of this quote.)
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Richard James invented the Slinky. His wife Betty came up with the name.
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This was invented by Percy Spenceer.
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Erno Rubik invented this and they are really hard to complete =). You have to get all of one color on the same side by twisting the face of the cube.
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David Klein invented the jelly bean. The picture isnt of the first jelly beans, I just couldnt find a picture of the first one.
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Larry Page and Sergery Brin invented google. It is named after a googol- the numer that is 1 with a hundred zeroes after it. September 21, 1999 is the day Google officially was no longer a prototype.
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Thsi was invented by Mark Zuckerberg. It was at first intended for only Harvard students.
