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


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