- Isaac Singer invents a sewingmachine.
- Jean Bernard Léon Foucault inventsa gyroscope.
- HenriGiffard builds an airshippowered by the first aircraft engine - unsuccessful design.
- GeorgeCayley invents a manned glider.
- John Tyndall demonstrates the principlesof fiberoptics.
- Isaac Singer patents the sewingmachine motor.
- Georges Audemars invents rayon.
- Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
- George Pullman invents the PullmanSleeping Car for train travel.
- Hamilton Smith patents the rotarywashingmachine.
- JeanLenoir invents an internal combustionengine.
- Elisha Otis patentselevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
- Pierre Michauxinvents a bicycle.
- Linus Yale inventsthe Yale lockor cylinder lock.
- Dr. Richard Gatling patents themachinegun.
- Alexander Parkes invents the first man-madeplastic.
- Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
- J. Osterhoudt patents the tincan with a key opener.
- Englishmen Robert Whitehead inventsa torpedo.
- Christopher Scholes invents the firstpractical and modern typewriter.
- George Westinghouse invents airbrakes.
- Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
- J P Knight invents trafficlights.
- J.S. Risdon patents the metalwindmill.
- A.M. Ward issues the first mail-ordercatalog.
- Joseph Glidden invents barbedwire.
- American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents theshoewelt stitcher.
- Alexander GrahamBell patents the telephone.
- NicolausAugust Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internalcombustion engine.
- Melville Bissellpatents the carpetsweeper.
- Thomas Edisoninvents the cylinderphonograph or tin foil phonograph.
- EadweardMuybridge invents the first movingpictures.
- Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the firstperson to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
- The British Perforated Paper Companyinvents a form of toilet paper.
- Englishmen, JohnMilne invents the modern seismograph.
- Alexander Graham Bell invents the firstcrude metaldetector.
- David Houston patents the roll filmfor cameras.
- Edward Leveaux patents the automaticplayer piano.
- George Eastman patents paper-stripphotographic film.
- Frenchmen, H. de Chardonnet inventsrayon.
- Lewis Edson Waterman invents the firstpracticalfountainpen.
- James Ritty invents the first working,mechanicalcashregister.
- Charles Parson patents the steamturbine.
- Harim Maxim invents the machinegun.
- KarlBenz invents the first practical automobileto be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
- GottliebDaimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
- Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
- GottliebDaimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motorvehicle.
- John Pemberton invents CocaCola.
- German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
- Rowell Hodge patents barbedwire.
- Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
- F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent thefirst wearable contactlenses.
- Marvin Stone patents the spiral windingprocess to manufacture the first paper drinkingstraws.
- John Boyd Dunlop patents a commerciallysuccessful pneumatictire.
- NikolaTesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
- Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
- Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abelco-invent Cordite- a type of smokeless gunpowder.
- Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
- Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueledinternal combustion engine.
- Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flaskor vacuumflask.
- American, W.L. Judson invents thezipper.
- Edward Goodrich Acheson inventscarborundum.
- Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe.
- Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
- American, H. O'Sullivan invents therubberheel.
- Edwin Prescott patents the rollercoaster.
- Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845for an "internal combustion engine" the Dieselengine.
- I.R. Johnson patents the bicycleframe.
- J.S. Thurman patents the motor-drivenvacuumcleaner.
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