Inventions Database
Description Adding machine Adding machine Addressograph Aerosol spray Air brake Air conditioning Air pump Airplane with motor Airplane, automatic pilot Airplane, experimental Airplane, hydro Airplane, jet engine Airship Airship, rigid dirigible Aqua-lung Arc welder Aspirin Autogyro Automobile, differential gear Inventor Burroughs Pascal Rotheim Goodhue Westinghouse Carrier Guericke Wright Bros. Sperry Langley Curtiss Ohain Giffard Zeppelin Cousteau, Gagnan Thomson Leroux de la Cerva Benz Year 1885 1642 1892 1926 1868 1911 1654 1903 1912 1896 1911 1939 1852 1900 1942 1919 1828 1920 1885 Nationality American French Norwegian American American American German American American American American German French German French American French Spanish German
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Automobile, electric Automobile, experimental Automobile, gasoline Automobile, gasoline Automobile, magneto Automobile, self-starter Balloon Barometer Bicycle, modern Braille printing Burner, gas Calculating machine Camera, Kodak Camera, Polaroid Land Carburetor, gasoline Carpet sweeper Cash register Cathode ray tube Cellophane Celluloid Cement, Portland Cereal (wheat flakes) Clock, pendulum
Morrison Marcus Daimler Duryea Bosch Kettering Montgolfier Torricelli Starley Braille Bunsen Babbage Eastman, Walker Land Maybach Bissell Ritty Crookes Brandenberger Hyatt Aspdin Kellogg brothers Huygens
1892 1864 1889 1892 1897 1911 1783 1643 1885 1829 1855 1833 1888 1948 1893 1876 1879 1878 1908 1870 1824 1894 1657
American Austrian German American German American French Italian English French German English American American German American American English Swiss American English American Dutch
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Computer, automatic sequence Corn, hybrid Cotton gin
Aiken et al Jones Whitney
1944 1917 1793 Stone 1866 1873 1800 1922 1852 1883 1872 1889 1769 1858 1792 1930 1922 1913 1853 1852 1818 1902 1939
American American American 1888 American Swedish American Italian American American German American German Scottish German Scottish Russian American German English French American American American
Drinking Straw (wax coated paper) Dynamite Earmuffs Electric battery Elevator, push button Elevator, w/braking device Engine, electric ignition Engine, gasoline Engine, gasoline Engine, steam, piston Furnace (for steel) Gas lighting Gasoline, high octane Gasoline, lead ethyl Geiger counter Glider Gyroscope Harvester-thresher Hearing aid, battery powered Helicopter Nobel Greenwood Volta Larson Otis Benz Brayton, Geo Daimier Watt Siemens Murdoch Ipatieff Midgley Geiger Cayley Foucault Lane Hutchison Sikorsky
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Hydrometer Ice-making machine Incubator (eggs) Iron lung Ironing board Jeans Jigsaw puzzle Kaleidoscope Kinetoscope Lamp, incandescent Lamp, mercury vapor Lamp, neon Laser Launderette Lens, fused bifocal Lightning rod Linoleum Lock, cylinder Loom, power Loudspeaker, dynamic Magnet, electro Maser Mason jar
Baume Gorrie Reaumur Drinker, Slaw Boone Strauss Spilsbury Brewster Edison Edison Hewitt Claude Maiman Cantrell Borsch Franklin Walton Yale Cartwright Rice, Kellogg Henry Townes Mason
1768 1851 1750 1928 1892 1847 1760 1817 1889 1879 1912 1909 1960 1934 1908 1752 1860 1851 1785 1924 1828 1951 1858
French American French American American German English Scottish American American American French American American American American English American English American American American American
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Match, friction Metronome Microphone Microscope, compound Microscope, electronic Microscope, field ion Motor, AC Motor, DC Motorcycle Movie machine Movie, panoramic Movie, talking Mower, lawn Mowing machine Neoprene Nylon Nylon synthetic Oleomargarine Ophthalmoscope Outboard motor Packaged frozen foods Parachute Pen, ballpoint
Walker Malezel Berliner Janssen Knoll, Ruska Mueller Telsa Davenport Daimier Jenkins Waller Warner Bros. Budding, Ferrabee Bailey Carothers Du Pont lab Carothers Mege-Mouries Helmholtz Evinrude Birdseye Blanchard Loud
1827 1816 1877 1590 1931 1951 1892 1837 1885 1894 1952 1927 1831 1831 1930 1937 1930 1869 1851 1907 1930 1785 1888
English German American Dutch German German American American German American American American English American American American American French German American American French American
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Pen, fountain Pendulum Phonograph Photo film, celluloid Photo film, transparent Photo, color Photoelectric cell Photography Piano Pin, safety Plastic (Bakelite) Plow, cast iron Plow, disc Potato chips Radar Radio amplifier Radio beacon Radio crystal oscillator Radio FM 2-path Radio receiver, cascade tuning Radio receiver, heterodyne Radio signals Radio tube oscillator
Walterman Galileo Edison Reichenbach Eastman, Goodwin Ives Elster Daguerre Cristofori Hunt Baekeland Ransome Hardy Crum Watson-Watt De Forest Donovan Nicolson Armstrong Alexanderson Fessenden Marconi De Forest
1884 1583 1877 1893 1884 1892 1895 1835 1709 1849 1909 1785 1896 1853 1940 1906 1928 1918 1933 1913 1913 1895 1915
American Italian American American American American German French Italian American American English American American Scottish American American American American American American Italian American
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Radio tube triode Radio tubediode Radio, magnetic detector Rayon Razor, electric Razor, safety Reaper Record, disc Record, long playing Record, wax cylinder
De Forest Fleming Marconi Swan Schick Gillette McCormick Bell, Tainter Goldmark Edison
1906 1905 1902 1883 1928 1895 1834 1887 1947 1888 1930 1868 1931 1926 1760 1863 1839 1808 1777 1846 1851 1860 1865
American English Italian English American American American American American American American American English American Belgian American American English English American American American American
Refrigerants, fluorine compound Midgely Refrigerator car Resin, synthetic Rocket engine Roller skates Roller skates (steerable) Rubber, vulcanized Saw, band Saw, circular Sewing machine Sewing machine Shoe-sewing machine Sleeping car David Hill Goddard Merlin Plimpton Goodyear Newberry Miller Howe Singer McKay Pullman
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Slide rule Spectroscope Spectroscope (mass) Spinning jenny Spinning mule Steam car Steam turbine Steamboat, experimental Steamboat, practical Steamboat, practical Steel alloy Steel alloy, high-speed Steel, electric Steel, manganese Steel, stainless Stethoscope Stethoscope, binaural Stock ticker Storage battery, rechargeable Stove, electric Submarine Tape measure Tape recorder, magnetic
Oughtred Kirchoff, Bunsen Dempster Hargreaves Crompton Cugnot Parsons Hargreaves Fulton Symington Harvey Taylor, White Heroult Hadfield Brearley Laennec Cammann Edison Plante Hadaway Holland Fellows Poulsen
1620 1859 1918 1767 1779 1770 1884 1767 1807 1802 1891 1901 1900 1884 1916 1819 1840 1870 1859 1896 1891 1868 1899
English German American English English French English English American Scottish American American French English English French American American French American American American Danish
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Telegraph, magnetic Telegraph, quadruplex Telegraph, railroad
Morse Edison Woods
1837 1864 1887 Marconi 1876 1609 1608 1611 1927 1923 1593 1730 1714 1888 1918 1841 1885 1947 1912 1849 1884 1447 1867
American American American 1895 Italian American Italian Netherlands German American American Italian French German Scottish American American American American American French English German American
Telegraph, wireless high frequency Telephone Telescope Telescope Telescope, astronomical Television, electronic Television, iconoscope Thermometer Thermometer Thermometer, mercury Tire, pneumatic Toaster, automatic Toothpaste tube Transformer A.C. Transistor Tungsten, ductile Turbine, gas Turbine, steam Type, movable Typewriter Bell Galileo Lippershey Kepler Farnsworth Zworykin Galileo Reaumur Fahrenheit Dunlop Srite Rand Stanley Shockley, Brattain, Bardeen Coolidge Bourdin Parsons Gutenberg Sholes, Soule, Glidden
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Vacuum cleaner, electric Vaseline Velcro fastener Videotape recorder Washer, electric Welding, electric Wind tunnel Wire, barbed X-ray tube Zipper
Spangler Chesebrough de Mestral Ginsberg, Anderson, Dolby Fisher Thomson Eiffel Glidden Coolidge Judson
1908 1872 1948 1960 1901 1877 1912 1873 1913 1891
American American Swiss American American American French American American American
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