Time Line (Inventions)
Date |
Invention |
c. 1900 |
Electrocardiogram |
1900 |
Brownie camera |
1900 |
Dirigible |
1901 |
Artificial insemination |
1901 |
Vat dye |
1901-1904 |
Silicones |
1902 |
Ultramicroscope |
1903 |
Airplane |
1903 |
Disposable razor |
1903-1909 |
Laminated glass |
1904 |
Alkaline storage battery |
1904 |
Photoelectric cell |
1904 |
Vacuum tube |
1905 |
Blood transfusion |
1905-1907 |
Plastic |
1906 |
Gyrocompass |
1906 |
Radio |
1906-1911 |
Tungsten filament |
1907 |
Autochrome plate |
1908 |
Ammonia |
1908 |
Geiger counter |
1908 |
Interchangeable parts |
1908 |
Oil-well drill bit |
1908 |
Vacuum cleaner |
1910 |
Radio crystal sets |
1910 |
Salvarsan |
1910 |
Washing machine |
1910-1939 |
Electric refrigerator |
1912 |
Color film |
1912 |
Diesel locomotive |
1912-1913 |
Solar thermal engine |
1912-1914 |
Artificial kidney |
1912-1915 |
X-ray crystallography |
Date |
Invention |
1913 |
Assembly line |
1913 |
Geothermal power |
1913 |
Mammography |
1913 |
Thermal cracking process |
1915 |
Long-distance telephone |
1915 |
Propeller-coordinated machine gun |
1915 |
Pyrex glass |
1915 |
Long-distance radiotelephony |
1916-1922 |
Internal combustion engine |
1917 |
Food freezing |
1917 |
Sonar |
1919 |
Mass spectrograph |
1921 |
Tuberculosis vaccine |
1923 |
Rotary dial telephone |
1923 |
Television |
1923 and 1951 |
Syphilis test |
1924 |
Ultracentrifuge |
1925-1930 |
Differential analyzer |
1926 |
Buna rubber |
1926 |
Rocket |
1926 |
Talking motion pictures |
1927 |
Heat pump |
1928 |
Pap test |
1929 |
Electric clock |
1929 |
Electroencephalogram |
1929 |
Iron lung |
1930′s |
Contact lenses |
1930′s |
Vending machine slug rejector |
1930 |
Refrigerant gas |
1930 |
Typhus vaccine |
1930-1935 |
FM Radio |
1931 |
Cyclotron |
1931 |
Electron microscope |
1931 |
Neoprene |
1932 |
Fuel cell |
1932-1935 |
Antibacterial drugs |
Date |
Invention |
1933-1954 |
Freeze-drying |
1934 |
Bathysphere |
1935 |
Nylon |
1935 |
Radar |
1935 |
Richter scale |
1936 |
Fluorescent lighting |
1937 |
Yellow fever vaccine |
1938 |
Polystyrene |
1938 |
Teflon |
1938 |
Xerography |
1940′s |
Carbon dating |
1940 |
Color television |
1940 |
Penicillin |
1940-1955 |
Microwave cooking |
1941 |
Polyester |
1941 |
Touch-tone telephone |
1941 |
Turbojet |
1942 |
Infrared photography |
1942-1950 |
Orlon |
1943 |
Aqualung |
1943 |
Colossus computer |
1943 |
Nuclear reactor |
1943-1946 |
ENIAC computer |
1944 |
Mark I calculator |
1944 |
V-2 rocket |
1945 |
Atomic bomb |
1945 |
Tupperware |
1946 |
Cloud seeding |
1946 |
Synchrocyclotron |
1947 |
Holography |
1948 |
Atomic clock |
1948 |
Broadcaster guitar |
1948 |
Instant photography |
1948-1960 |
Bathyscaphe |
1949 |
BINAC computer |
1949 |
Community antenna television |
Date |
Invention |
1950 |
Cyclamate |
1950-1964 |
In vitro plant culture |
1951 |
Breeder reactor |
1951 |
UNIVAC computer |
1951-1952 |
Hydrogen bomb |
1952 |
Amniocentesis |
1952 |
Hearing aid |
1952 |
Polio vaccine (Salk) |
1952 |
Reserpine |
1952 |
Steelmaking process |
1952-1956 |
Field ion microscope |
1953 |
Artificial hormone |
1953 |
Heart-lung machine |
1953 |
Polyethylene |
1953 |
Synthetic amino acid |
1953 |
Transistor |
1953-1959 |
Hovercraft |
mid-1950′s |
Synthetic RNA |
1954 |
Photovoltaic cell |
1955 |
Radio interferometer |
1955-1957 |
FORTRAN programming language |
1956 |
Birth control pill |
1957 |
Artificial satellite |
1957 |
Nuclear power plant |
1957 |
Polio vaccine (Sabin) |
1957 |
Transistor radio |
1957 |
Velcro |
1957-1972 |
Pacemaker |
1958 |
Ultrasound |
1959 |
Atomic-powered ship |
1959 |
COBOL computer language |
1959 |
IBM Model 1401 computer |
1959 |
X-ray image intensifier |
1960′s |
Rice and wheat strains |
1960′s |
Virtual machine |
1960 |
Laser |
Date |
Invention |
1960 |
Memory metal |
1960 |
Telephone switching |
1960 |
Weather satellite |
1961 |
SAINT |
1962 |
Communications satellite |
1962 |
Laser eye surgery |
1962 |
Robot (industrial) |
1963 |
Cassette recording |
1964 |
Bullet train |
1964 |
Electronic synthesizer |
1964-1965 |
BASIC programming language |
1966 |
Tidal power plant |
1967 |
Coronary artery bypass surgery |
1967 |
Dolby noise reduction |
1967 |
Neutrino detector |
1967 |
Synthetic DNA |
1969 |
Bubble memory |
1969 |
The Internet |
1969-1983 |
Optical disk |
1970 |
Floppy disk |
1970 |
Videocassette recorder |
1970-1980 |
Virtual reality |
1972 |
CAT scanner |
1972 |
Pocket calculator |
1975-1979 |
Laser-diode recording process |
1975-1990 |
Fax machine |
1976 |
Supercomputer |
1976 |
Supersonic passenger plane |
1976-1988 |
Stealth aircraft |
1977 |
Apple II computer |
1977 |
Fiber-optics |
1977-1985 |
Cruise missile |
1978 |
Cell phone |
1978 |
Compressed-air-accumulating power plant |
1978 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
1978-1981 |
Scanning tunneling microscope |
Date |
Invention |
1979 |
Artificial blood |
1979 |
Walkman cassette player |
1980′s |
CAD/CAM |
1981 |
Personal computer |
1982 |
Abortion pill |
1982 |
Artificial heart |
1982 |
Genetically engineered insulin |
1982 |
Robot (household) |
1983 |
Artificial chromosome |
1983 |
Aspartame |
1983 |
Compact disc |
1983 |
Hard disk |
1983 |
Laser vaporization |
1985 |
Genetic “fingerprinting” |
1985 |
Tevatron accelerator |
1997 |
Cloning |
2000 |
Gas-electric car |