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Galileo Galilei designs a basic thermometer.
Thermometer -
Isaac Newton formulates his three laws of motion.
Motion -
English farmer Jethro Tull begins the mechanization of agriculture by inventing the horse-drawn seed drill.
Tractors -
Thomas Newcomen builds the first practical (but stationary) steam engine.
Steam Engines -
Wolfgang von Kempelen develops a mechanical speaking machine: the world's first speech synthesizer.
Speech Synthesizers -
Italian Alessandro Volta makes the first battery.
Electricity Batteries -
Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier develop the papermaking machine.
Paper -
Humphry Davy develops the electric arc lamp.
Xenon Lamps -
Robert Stirling invents the efficient Stirling engine.
Stirling Engines -
Joseph Niepce makes the first modern photograph.
Photography Digital Cameras -
Thomas Midgley, Jr. invents coolant chemicals for air conditioners and refrigerators.
Air Conditioners and Refrigerators -
Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke, in England, and Samuel Morse, in the United States, develop the electric telegraph
Telephones -
Louis Daguerre invents a practical method of taking pin-sharp photographs called Daguerreotypes.
Digital Cameras Photography -
Fire extinguishers are invented.
Fire Extinguishers -
Christopher Latham Sholes invents the modern typewriter and QWERTY keyboard.
Typewriters -
Edward Very invents the flare gun for sending distress flares at sea.
Flares -
Josephine Cochran invents the dishwasher.
Dishwashers -
Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.
Internet World Wide Web -
Physicist Sir Oliver Lodge sends the first ever message by radio wave in Oxford, England.
Radio -
The first electric vacuum cleaner is developed.
Vaccum -
Igor Sikorsky builds the first truly practical helicopter.
Helicopters -
Percy Spencer accidentally discovers how to cook with microwaves, inadvertently inventing the microwave oven.
Microwave and Ovens -
Martin Cooper develops the first handheld cellphone (mobile phone).
Cellphones -
First grocery-store purchase of an item coded with a barcode.
Barcodes -
Apple introduces a touchscreen cellphone called the iPhone.
Touchscreen Iphones -
Apple releases its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad.
Touchscreen computers known as Ipads -
Supercomputers (the world's fastest computers) are now 30 times less powerful than human brains.
Supercomputers -
Quantum computing shows signs of becoming a practical technology
Quantum Computers
