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Thomas Savery recived the first patent on an early steam engine.
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Invented by Eli Whitney the cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton.
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Invented by Charles Babbage who was also known as the father of the computer.
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Invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillian
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Invented by Thomas Edison although one of 22 credited inventors of the lightbulb his version was able to "outstrip the others because of a combination of three factors: an effective incandescent material, a higher vacuum than others were able to achieve (by use of the Sprengel pump) and a high resistance that made power distribution from a centralized source economically viable."
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Invented by Richard Gatling although invented during the civil war it wasn't really used.
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Robert Whithead developed the first torpedo used and produced during the First World War.
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Joseph Glidden invented one of six patents of Barbed Wire aimed at deterring animals
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Although the likes of Thomas Edison and Elisha Gray where working on a patent for a telecommunications device that would allow two users who are not in the same vicinity to hear each others voices, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to recieve a patent.
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Invented by Eadweard Muybridge
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The metal detector was invented by Graham Alexander Bell
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Invented by John Pemberton as a substitute to his morphine addiction, Coca Cola is now according to Forbes the third most valuable company in the world
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Thomas Young was the inventor of the contact lens which made it possible for people to see without glasses.
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Invented by Felix Hoffman it can " Treat pain, fever, arthritis, and inflammation. It may also be used to reduce the risk of heart attack."
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Invented by WIllis Carrier it first application was to de humidify and humidfy a room.
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The Wright Brothers succesfully completed the controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight.
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Theory of Relativity was published by Albert Einstein.
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Discovered by accident by the now famous pharmacologist Alexander Flemming, Penecillin saved 3,000 lives on D-Day alone. Estimations of lives saved by Penecillion that I have come across exceed 100million lives.
