Top Ten Inventions

Locomotive

Jun 30, 1817

Stephenson

Telegraph

Jan 6, 1838

Samuel Morse invented a code for telegraph messages

Dynamite

May 7, 1867

Nobel obtained patents for his invention: in England on 7 May 1867 and in Sweden on 19 October 1867

Telephone

Jun 30, 1876

Bell

Electric light bulb

Oct 14, 1878

Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights" on 14 October 1878

Automobile

Jun 30, 1885

Karl Benz's 1885 Motorwagen, powered by an internal combustion engine of his own design, is widely considered the first automobile

Cinema

Dec 28, 1895

Luimiere Brothers held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1895.Their first public screening of films at which admission was charged was held on December 28, 1895, at Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris.

Radio

Jun 30, 1897

Marconi invented the radio in 1897.

Television

Oct 2, 1925

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird succeeded in demonstrating the transmission of moving silhouette images in London in 1925,

Internet

Oct 28, 1969

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the research and development arm of the U.S. military, created ARPANET in the late 1960s