//The following ia a database of important inventions created between the years 1400 AD to 2001 AD. //It was prepared by Jennifer Santoyo, Section JE for CSE 143, AU02 // //It was created on 10/27/2002 //Sources: // http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~invent/history/ADtimeline.html // http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111100a.htm // http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl1700s.htm // http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl1600s.htm // http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl1500s.htm //Prepared: // editing web pages //Title: Interesting Inventions 1400 * Movable type is developed in Korea 1475 * First muzzle-loaded rifles developed in Italy and Germany 1485 * Da Vinci designs the first parachute, Italy 1495 * The first bomb is invented 1500 * The first flush toilets appeared. 1510 * Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein. 1513 * First known etching made by Urs Graf 1514 * First instance of stone bullets 1550 * Ambrose Pare, a Frenchman, begins building false limbs 1568 * Bottled beer invented in London. 1589 * Englishmen, William Lee invents the knitting machine. 1590 * Compound microscope is invented by Zacharias Janssen, the Netherlands 1593 * Galileo Galilei develops the first thermometer, Italy 1605 * Hans Lippershey of the Netherlands develops the telescope 1609 * Galileo Galilei creates the astronomical telescope, Italy 1614 * John Napier discovers logarithms 1620 * The earliest human-powered submarine invented. 1621 * First blast furnace, a coal-fired iron smelting furnace, is built by Dud Dudley, UK 1625 * Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion. 1629 * Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine. 1636 * W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer. 1641 * The first bayonet is created in Bayonne, France 1642 * Digital calculator, Blaise Pascal, France 1643 * Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer in Italy 1650 * First air pump is developed by Otto von Guericke 1653 * Britisher Peter Borel develops the first formula of invisible ink 1656 * Pendulum clock, Christian Huygens, Netherlands 1663 * James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope. 1668 * Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope. 1670 * The first reference to a candy cane is made. 1671 * Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine 1675 * Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch. 1676 * Robert Hooke builds the first universal joint 1677 * A gentleman named Lully improves on the transverse flute 1690 * Precursor of the bicycle, the "celerifere", invented by de Sivrac, 1698 * Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump. 1700 * J.C. Denner develops the first clarinet in Germany 1709 * Precursor to the piano, the Hammerklavier, invented by Bartolommeo Cristofori, Italy 1712 * Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine. 1718 * Machine gun invented by James Puckle, UK 1722 * French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher. 1724 * Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer. 1745 * E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor. 1752 * Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod. 1758 * Dolland invents a chromatic lens. 1760 * Benjamin Franklin invents the bifocal lens. 1762 * Harrison invents the chronometer. 1764 * James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny. 1765 * Steam engine invented by James Watt 1768 * Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame. 1769 * M. Garsault develops the first paper patterns of clothing 1771 * First system of factory farming, developed by farmer named Moody in Nottinghamshire, UK 1774 * Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph. 1775 * Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet. 1776 * David Bushnell invents a submarine. 1779 * Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule. 1780 * Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses. 1783 * Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute. 1984 * Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock 1785 * First design for airship by JBM Meusnier 1786 * John Fitch invents a steamboat. 1789 * The guillotine is invented. 1790 * First dental drill is built by John Greenwood 1791 * A Benedictine monk named Luzuel makes the first organ without bellows 1792 * The first ambulance. 1793 * Hot air balloon, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier, France 1794 * Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. 1795 * N.J. Conte introduces graphite pencils 1796 * Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination. 1797 * Wittemore patents a carding machine. 1798 * The first soft drink invented. 1799 * Alessandro Volta invents the battery. 1800 * Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery. 1801 * Anton Weidinger develops the first keyed trumpet 1804 Richard Trevithick works on the first steam-powered locomotive, UK 1810 * Peter Durand invents the tin can. 1814 * The first plastic surgery is performed in England. 1819 * Rene Laennec develops the first stethoscope 1822 * Either Buschmann or Damian of Vienna invent the first accordion in 1823 * Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland. 1824 * Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material. 1827 John Walker invents the modern matches. 1829 * Braille invented, Louis Braille, France 1830 * Lawn mower invented by Edwin Budding and John Farrabee, UK 1835 * Samuel Colt invents the revolver pistol, US 1837 The telegraph is invented by Samuel F. B. Morse, US 1838 Samual Morse invents Morse Code. 1839 * Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle. 1840 * First postage stamp created, UK 1841 * Samuel Slocum patents the stapler. 1845 * Adolphe Sax develops the saxhorn 1846 * Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction. 1847 * First transverse flute with modern key system designed by Theodore Boehm 1848 * Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair. 1849 * Walter Hunt invents the safety pin. 1850 * Alexander Twining, from the US, and James Harrison, from Australia, the modern refrigerator 1852 * Gyroscope invented by Leon Foucault, France 1856 * Aniline dye, William H. Perkin 1857 * First slot machine developed, Denham UK 1858 * Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine. 1859 * Edwin L. Drake is the first to make oil wells, US John Brown captures 1860 * Modern cigarette is developed by William and Henry Charlesworth 1867 * Dynamite created by Alfred Nobel, Sweden 1868 * First traffic signal is built by JP Knight, UK 1869 * Ives W. McGaffey develops the vacuum cleaner 1872 * A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog. 1873 * Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire. 1876 * Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone, US 1877 * Thomas A. Edison develops the gramophone and phonograph 1880 * The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper. 1881 * Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector. 1882 * Electric fan invented by Schuyler Wheeler, USA 1883 First man-made fiber invented by Sir Joseph Swann, UK 1884 * Edward Butler creates the motorcycle, UK 1885 * Electric transformer developed by William Stanley, US 1886 * Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher. 1888 George Eastman is father of the modern camera 1891 * Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator. 1895 * First lie-detector test developed by Cesare Lombroso 1896 * Electric stove invented by Hadaway, USA Plessy vs. Ferguson 1898 * Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster. 1899 * Valdermar Poulsen of Denmark develops the first tape recorder 1900 * Benjamin Holt develops the first tractor, US 1901 * King Gillette markets the first safety razor 1902 * Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner. 1903 * Airplane invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright, USA 1904 * Radar is developed by Christian Hulsmeyer 1905 * Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2. 1906 * William Kellogg invents Cornflakes. 1907 * Leo Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite. 1908 * Henry Ford develops the "conveyor belt" system in his factories 1909 * Instant coffee invented by G. Washington. 1910 * Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture. 1911 * Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system. 1912 * First patented tank, by Australian inventor de la Mole 1913 * Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra. 1914 * Garrett A. Morgan invents the gas mask. 1915 * Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City. 1916 * First successful use of sonar, Paul Langevin and M Chilowski 1917 * Gideon Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first zipper). 1918 * The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. 1919 * The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite. 1920 * The Band-Aid (pronounced 'ban-'dade) invented by Earle Dickson. 1921 * artificial life begins -- the first robot built. 1922 * The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released. 1923 * Garrett A. Morgan invents the traffic signal. 1924 * Clarence Birdeye invents method of "frozen food", US 1925 * The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television,invented by John Logie Baird. 1926 * Warner Brothers Pictures is the first to develop and use sound synch-ronization in their movies 1927 * Eduard Haas III invents PEZ candy. 1928 * Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. 1929 * Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad. 1930 * This decade will see the first development of jukeboxes in the United States 1931 * Harold Edgerton invents the electronic flash for cameras. 1932 * Vladimir Zworykin begins to develop the electron microscope 1939 * Carl C. Magee invents the first parking meter 1933 * Stereo records invented. 1934 * Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly 1935 * The first canned beer made. 1936 * Heinrich Focke invents the helicopter in Germany 1937 * Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier. 1938 * The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro. 1939 * Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter. 1940 * Peter Goldmark invents moderncolor television. 1941 * Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software. 1942 * Napalm developed at Harvard University, US 1943 * James Wright invent silly putty. 1944 * The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff. 1945 * Atomic bomb developed in Los Alamos US by J. Robert Oppenheimer 1946 * The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer. 1947 * Polaroid camera is invented by Edwin Land, US 1948 * The FrisbeeŽ invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni. 1949 * Cake mix invented. 1950 * The first credit card (Diners). 1951 * Oral contraceptive pill, Gregory Pincus, Min Church Chang, John Rock, Carl Djerassi, US 1952 * Mr. Potato Head patented. 1953 * First musical synthesizer is developed by RCA 1954 * The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson. 1955 * Fiber optics invented by Narinder Kapamy, UK 1956 * The first computer hard disk used. 1957 * Clarence Lillehie and Earl Bahk create the first internal pacemaker 1958 * The modem invented. 1959 * The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch 1960 * First laser, Theo Maiman, US 1961 * The nondairy creamer invented. 1962 * The audio cassette invented. 1963 * The first videodisc invented. 1964 * Acrylic paint invented. 1965 Ted Nelson develops Xanadu hypertext system 1966 * Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented. 1967 * The first handheld calculator invented. 1968 * The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart. 1969 * The artificial heart invented. 1970 * Computer-scanned binary signal code first used (aka "bar codes"),Plessey Telecommunications, UK 1971 * VCR or videocassette recorder invented. 1972 * Compact disc, RCA, US 1973 * The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox. 1974 * The post-it note invented by Arthur Fry. 1975 * Development of Beta VCR system by Sony, Japan; and the VHS system by Matsushita, Japan. 1976 * The ink-jet printer invented. 1977 * Apple II, the first home computer, by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 1978 * Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston invented the VisiCalc spreadsheet. 1979 * Cellular phones invented. 1980 * The hepatitis-B vaccine invented. 1981 * MS-DOS invented. 1982 * Human growth hormone genetically engineered. 1983 * Soft bifocal contact lens invented. 1984 * The Apple MacIntosh invented. 1985 * Windows program invented by Microsoft. 1986 * Synthetic skin invented by G. Gregory Gallico, III. 1987 * The first 3-D video game invented. 1988 * Digital cellular phones invented. 1989 * High-definition television invented. 1990 * The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee. 1991 * The digital answering machine invented. 1992 * The smart pill invented. 1993 * The pentium processor invented. 1994 * HIV protease inhibitor invented. 1995 * The Java computer language invented. 1996 * Web TV invented. 1997 * The gas-powered fuel cell invented. 1998 * ViagraŽ invented. 1999 * Tekno Bubbles patented. 2000 * Environmentally friendly transformer fluid from vegetable oils invented by T.V. Oommen. 2001 * AbioCor artificial heart invented by Abiomed