Modern Inventions 1900-1966
| 1900 | The zeppelin
invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator. |
1933 | Frequency modulation(FM radio)
invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Stereo records invented. Richard M. Hollingshead builds a prototype drive-in movie theater in his driveway. |
| 1901 | King
Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission. Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner. |
1934 | Englishmen, Percy Shaw invents cat eyes
or roads reflectors. Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly. |
| 1902 | Willis
Carrier invents the air conditioner. French physicist George Claude invents neon light. The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie. The birth of the Teddy Bear. |
1935 | Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon
( polymer 6.6.) The first canned beer made. Robert Watson-Watt patented radar. |
| 1903 | Edward
Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons. Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens. The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane. Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers. William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs. |
1936 | Bell Labs invents the voice recognition
machine. Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver. |
| 1904 | Teabags
invented by Thomas Suillivan. Benjamin Holt invents a tractor. John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve. |
1937 | Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
The first jet engine is built. |
| 1905 | Albert Einsteinpublished the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2. Mary Anderson receives a patent for windshield wipers. | 1938 | The ballpoint pen invented by
Ladislo Biro. Strobe lighting invented. Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon. Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented. The first working turboprop engine. |
| 1906 | William
Kellogg invents Cornflakes. Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device. Lee Deforest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode). |
1939 | Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter. The electron microscope invented. |
| 1907 | Leo
Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite.
Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere. The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu. |
1940 | Dr William Reich invents the orgone
accumulator. Peter Goldmark invents modern color
television system. |
| 1908 | The gyrocompass
invented by Elmer A. Sperry. Cellophaneinvented by Jacques E. Brandenberger. Model T first sold. J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter. Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates. |
1941 | Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer
controlled by software. Aerosol spray cans invented by American inventors, Lyle David Goodloe and W.N. Sullivan. Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor. |
| 1909 | Instant
coffee invented by G. Washington. |
1942 | John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the
first electronic digital computer. Max Mueller designs a turboprop engine. |
| 1910 | Thomas
Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture
Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris. |
1943 | Synthetic rubber invented. Richard James invents the slinky. James Wright invent silly putty. Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD. Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung. |
| 1911 | Charles
Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile
electrical ignition system. |
1944 | The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff. Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian |
| 1912 | Motorized
movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked
cameras. The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole. Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912. |
1945 | Vannevar Bush proposes hypertext. The atomic bomb invented. |
| 1913 | The crossword
puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne. The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy. Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra. (No laides, it wasn't invented by a man) Gideon Sundback invented the modern zipper. |
1946 | The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer. |
| 1914 | Garrett
A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask. |
1947 | British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor,
developed the theory of holography. Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor. Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal. |
| 1915 | Eugene
Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in
New York City. |
1948 | The Frisbee® invented by Walter
Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni. Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral. Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox. |
| 1916 | Radios tuners invented, that received different stations. Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly. | 1949 | Cake mix invented |
| 1917 | Gideon
Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first
zipper). |
1950 | The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider. |
| 1918 | The superheterodyne
radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
Today, every radio or television set uses this invention. Charles Jung invented fortune cookies. |
1951 | Super glue invented. Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis. Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR). |
| 1919 | The pop-up
toaster invented by Charles Strite. Short-wave radio invented. The flip-flop circuit invented. The arc welder invented. |
1952 | Mr. Potato Head patented. The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver. The first diet soft drink sold. Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb. |
| 1920 | The tommy
gun patented by John T Thompson. The Band-Aid (pronounced 'ban-'dade) invented by Earle Dickson. |
1953 | Radial tires invented. The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA. David Warren invented the black box - flight recorder. Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments. |
| 1921 | Artificial
life begins -- the first robot built. John Larson invented the lie detector. |
1954 | Oral contraceptives invented. The first nonstick pan produced. The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson. Ray Kroc started McDonalds. |
| 1922 | Insulin
invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting. The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released. |
1955 | Tetracycline invented. Optic fiber invented. |
| 1923 | Garrett
A. Morgan invents a traffic signal. The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin. John Harwood invented the self-winding watch in 1923. Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food. |
1956 | The first computer hard disk used. The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell. Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter. |
| 1924 | The dynamic
loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg. Notebooks with spiral bindings invented. |
1957 | Fortran (computer language) invented |
| 1925 | The mechanical
television a precursor to the modern television,
invented by John Logie Baird. |
1958 | The modem invented. Gordon Gould invents the laser. The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin. The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. |
| 1926 | Robert
H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets |
1959 | The internal pacemaker invented by
Wilson Greatbatch. Barbie Doll invented. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip. |
| 1927 | Eduard
Haas III invents PEZ candy. JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch. Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system. Technicolor invented. Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can. Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock. Philip Drinker invents the iron lung. |
1960 | The halogen lamp invented |
| 1928 | Scottish
biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer. Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver. |
1961 | Valium invented. The nondairy creamer invented. |
| 1929 | American,
Paul Galvin invents the car radio. Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad. |
1962 | The audio cassette invented. The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie. Spacewar, the first computer video game invented. Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants. |
| 1930 | Scotch
tape patented by 3M engineer, Richard G. Drew. The frozen food process patented by Clarence Birdseye. Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents neoprene. The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston. Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine. |
1963 | The first videodisc invented |
| 1931 | Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope. | 1964 | Acrylic paint invented. Permanent-press fabric invented. BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz. |
| 1932 | Polaroid
photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land. The zoom lens and the light meter invented. Carl C. Magee invents the first parking meter. Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope. |
1965 | Astroturf invented. Soft contact lenses invented. NutraSweet invented. The compact disk invented by James Russell. Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek. |
| 1966 | Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented. |
