30000 BC
|
Stone Tools
- |
 |
18000 BC
|
Hand Ax
- |
|
14000 BC
|
Use of Fire
- |
|
40000 BC
|
Mining
- |
|
35000 BC
|
Drill
- |
|
35000 BC
|
Engraving Tool
- |
|
35000 BC
|
Fish Hook
- |
|
35000 BC
|
Handles for Tools
- |
|
35000 BC
|
Spear Thrower
- |
|
30000 BC
|
Bow and Arrow
- |
|
30000 BC
|
Cave Painting
- |
|
30000 BC
|
Paint Brush
- |
|
30000 BC
|
Rope
- |
|
28000 BC
|
House
- |
|
19000 BC
|
Boomerang
- |
|
13000 BC
|
Pottery
- |
|
11000 BC
|
Domesticated Dog
- |
|
10000 BC
|
Cutting Holes in the Skull
- |
|
10000 BC
|
Whistle
- |
|
9000 BC
|
Agriculture
- |
|
9000 BC
|
Oven
- |
|
8000 BC
|
Flint Mining
- |
|
8000 BC
|
Sheep
- |
|
7500 BC
|
Wheat and Barley
- |
|
7000 BC
|
Chisel
- |
|
7000 BC
|
Making Fire
- |
|
7000 BC
|
Flax
- |
|
7000 BC
|
Mortise and Tenon Joint
- |
|
7000 BC
|
Sickle
- |
|
6500 BC
|
Copper
- |
|
6500 BC
|
Lead
- |
|
6500 BC
|
Painted Pottery
- |
|
6500 BC
|
Trading
- |
|
6000 BC
|
Ax
- |
|
6000 BC
|
Drum
- |
|
6000 BC
|
Boat
- |
|
5500 BC
|
Basket Weaving
- |
|
5000 BC
|
Grindstone
- |
|
5000 BC
|
Leather
- |
|
5000 BC
|
Irrigation
- |
|
5000 BC
|
Loom
- |
|
5000 BC
|
Plow
- |
|
4500 BC
|
Seal (String & Clay Mark)
- |
|
4000 BC
|
Acoholic Drinks
- |
|
4000 BC
|
Scales
- |
|
4000 BC
|
Silver
- |
|
3500 BC
|
Brick
- |
|
3500 BC
|
City
- |
|
3500 BC
|
Metal Casting
- |
|
3500 BC
|
Olive
- |
|
3500 BC
|
Opium
- |
|
3500 BC
|
Donkey
- |
|
3500 BC
|
Potter's Wheel
- |
|
3500 BC
|
Fire Kiln Pottery
- |
|
3500 BC
|
Road
- |
|
3500 BC
|
Sail
- |
|
3500 BC
|
Wheel
- |
|
3500 BC
|
Wheeled Vehicle
- |
|
3400 BC
|
Writing numbers in tens
- |
|
3300 BC
|
Bronze
- |
|
3100 BC
|
Writing
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Candle
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Lubricants
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Boat built from planks
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Calendar
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Cosmetics
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Cotton
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Ramp
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Lathe
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Harp
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Lever
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Lyre
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Papyrus
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Painting with wax
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Stone Buildings
- |
|
3000 BC
|
Venus studied
- |
|
2900 BC
|
Dam
- |
|
2800 BC
|
Clay tablet book
- |
|
2800 BC
|
Lost wax casting
- |
|
2700 BC
|
Tea
- |
|
2700 BC
|
Acupuncture
- |
|
2600 BC
|
Chair
- |
|
2600 BC
|
Leavened Bread
- |
|
2600 BC
|
Silk
- |
|
2500 BC
|
Arch
- |
|
2500 BC
|
Carpet
- |
|
2500 BC
|
Glass
- |
|
2500 BC
|
Ink
- |
|
2500 BC
|
Mirror
- |
|
2500 BC
|
Potato
- |
|
2500 BC
|
Skiis
- |
|
2500 BC
|
Welding
- |
|
2400 BC
|
Parchment
- |
|
2300 BC
|
Horse
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Barrel Vault
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Bathroom
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Bell Chime
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Chariot
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Iron
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Paved Road
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Dice
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Lock
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Saw
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Sexigesimal number system
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Male and female plants
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Ship
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Tongs
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Sling
- |
|
2000 BC
|
Spoked Wheel
- |
|
1900 BC
|
Corset
- |
|
1700 BC
|
Running Water
- |
|
1600 BC
|
child's swing
- |
|
1500 BC
|
Brass
- |
|
1500 BC
|
Flag
- |
|
1500 BC
|
Gloves
- |
|
1500 BC
|
Secret Writing
- |
|
1500 BC
|
Shoes
- |
|
1500 BC
|
Clepsydra
- |
|
1500 BC
|
Trumpet
- |
|
1100 BC
|
Armor
- |
|
1100 BC
|
Oars
- |
|
1000 BC
|
Camel
- |
|
1000 BC
|
Ice Skates
- |
|
1000 BC
|
Knitting
- |
|
1000 BC
|
Magnet
- |
|
900
|
Iron Tipped plowshare
- |
|
900
|
Alphabet
- |
|
800
|
Socks
- |
|
700
|
Oil Lamp
- |
|
700
|
Shadow clock
- |
|
650
|
Cobalt Blue
- |
|
600
|
Archimedean Screw
- |
|
600
|
Rotary Quern
- |
|
600
|
Metal Coins
- |
|
600
|
Stores
- |
|
600
|
Attraction of objects to amber
- |
|
520
|
Musical Ratios
- |
|
520
|
Pythagoras' theorem
- |
|
500
|
Magnetic Compass
- |
|
500
|
Writing Brush
- |
|
470
|
Iron in building
- |
|
458
|
Theater scenery
- |
|
450
|
Cause of solar eclipses
- |
|
450
|
Central heating
- |
|
450
|
Earth, Air, Fire, Water (Empedocles)
- |
|
450
|
Signs of the Zodiac
- |
|
450
|
Flying actor (Sophocles)
- |
|
450
|
Planned city
- |
|
450
|
Knitted socks
- |
|
450
|
Mule
- |
|
450
|
University (Nalanda)
- |
|
450
|
Zeno's Paradoxes
- |
|
410
|
Coded corresponded
- |
|
400
|
Catapult
- |
|
400
|
Crossbow
- |
|
380
|
Improved Babylonian calendar
- |
|
380
|
Pen Tip
- |
|
370
|
Automation (Archytas)
- |
|
360
|
Celestial Spheres (Eudoxus)
- |
|
350
|
Atomic Theory (Democritus)
- |
|
350
|
Cookbook (Archestratus)
- |
|
350
|
Coal
- |
|
350
|
Iced Dessert
- |
|
350
|
Mercury
- |
|
350
|
Formal Logic (Aristotle)
- |
|
300
|
Euclidean Geometry
- |
|
300
|
Lead Pipe
- |
|
300
|
Mosaic
- |
|
300
|
Scientific Botany (Theophrastus)
- |
|
300
|
Saddle
- |
|
280
|
Lighthouse (Sostratus)
- |
|
270
|
Compressed Air (Ctesibius)
- |
|
260
|
Bridge for boarding ships (gaius Duilius)
- |
|
250
|
Archimedes principle
- |
|
250
|
Size of earth (Eratosthenes of Cyrene)
- |
|
250
|
Compound Pulley (Archimedes)
- |
|
250
|
Heart Valves (Erasistratus of Ceos)
- |
|
250
|
Human Anatomy based on dissection (Herophilus of Chalcedon)
- |
|
250
|
Pipe Organ (Ctesibius)
- |
|
250
|
Safety Pin
- |
|
250
|
Surface area and volume of a sphere (Archimedes)
- |
|
220
|
Standardized Chinese writing (Shi Huangdi)
- |
|
220
|
Streetcar (Shi Huangdi)
- |
|
211
|
Natural Gas
- |
|
200
|
Chain store
- |
|
200
|
Flute
- |
|
200
|
Punctuation (Aristophanes of Byzantium)
- |
|
200
|
Chain mail
- |
|
200
|
Sari
- |
|
200
|
Steel
- |
|
150
|
Piston
- |
|
150
|
Astronomical observatory (Hipparchus)
- |
|
150
|
Horseshoes
- |
|
150
|
Precession of the equinoxes (Hipparchus)
- |
|
150
|
Trigonometry (Hipparchus)
- |
|
150
|
Stirrups
- |
|
130
|
Star magnitudes (Hipparchus)
- |
|
100
|
Groin vault
- |
|
100
|
Iron plowshare
- |
|
100
|
Woodworking plane
- |
|
100
|
Screw press
- |
|
100
|
Waterwheel
- |
|
100
|
Tin can
- |
|
63
|
Shorthand
- |
|
59
|
News Bulletin
- |
|
50
|
Paper
- |
|
45
|
Julian Calendar
- |
|
10
|
Glassblowing
- |
|
50
|
D Dome
- |
|
50
|
Bolt
- |
|
50
|
Street lamp
- |
|
50
|
Topiary (Shrub cutting)
- |
|
50
|
Wheelbarrow
- |
|
60
|
Vending machine (Hero of Alexandria)
- |
|
60
|
Formula for the area of a triangle (Hero of Alexandria)
- |
|
60
|
Steam aeolipyle
- |
|
100
|
Scissors
- |
|
100
|
Truss bridge
- |
|
130
|
Earthquake detector (Chang Heng)
- |
|
140
|
Epicyclic Universe (Ptolemy)
- |
|
150
|
Crank
- |
|
150
|
Soap
- |
|
170
|
Sympathetic nervous system (Galen)
- |
|
200
|
Cataract operation
- |
|
250
|
Algebra (Diophantus of Alexandria)
- |
|
350
|
Book with pages
- |
|
350
|
Jointed fishing rod
- |
|
397
|
Public hospital (St. Fabiola)
- |
|
500
|
Plow with wheels
- |
|
500
|
Horse collar
- |
|
500
|
Quill pen
- |
|
525
|
BC and AD dates (Dionysius Exiguus)
- |
|
550
|
Astrolabe
- |
|
600
|
Block printed book
- |
|
600
|
Tapestry
- |
|
600
|
Windmill
- |
|
650
|
Folding fan
- |
|
650
|
Zero to represent nothing (Brahmagupta)
- |
|
670
|
Flame thrower (Callinicus of Heliopolis)
- |
|
700
|
Kimono
- |
|
780
|
Paddlewheel
- |
|
800
|
Porcelain
- |
|
800
|
Stained glass window
- |
|
820
|
Systematic use of zero (Muhammad al-Khwarizmi)
- |
|
900
|
Diagnosing smallpox
- |
|
900
|
Cyrillic alphabet
- |
|
900
|
Gunpowder
- |
|
900
|
Paper money
- |
|
918
|
Mental hospital
- |
|
965
|
Andromeda galaxy (as-Sufi)
- |
|
1000
|
Theory of vision (Alhazen)
- |
|
1000
|
Fireworks
- |
|
1045
|
Movable type (Bi Sheng)
- |
|
1050
|
Muisical notation (Guido of Arezzo)
- |
|
1088
|
Mechanical clock (Su Sung, Henry de Vick)
- |
|
1100
|
Three field system
- |
|
1140
|
Gothic arch
- |
|
1150
|
Fireplace
- |
|
1200
|
Rudder
- |
|
1202
|
Modern numerals (Leonardo Pisano)
- |
|
1232
|
Propaganda dropped from the air
- |
|
1250
|
Buttonhole
- |
|
1269
|
Magnetic poles (Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt)
- |
|
1280
|
Spectacles
- |
|
1280
|
Mathematics of the Rainbow (Qutb ash-Shirazi, Kamal Farisi)
- |
|
1300
|
Rocket
- |
|
1305
|
Shoe sizes
- |
|
1311
|
Navigation chart (Petrus Vesconte)
- |
|
1313
|
Printer's type case (Wang Chen)
- |
|
1316
|
Practical manual of anatomy (Mondino de' Luzzi)
- |
|
1320
|
Cannon
- |
|
1320
|
Alchemy textbook (Geber)
- |
|
1335
|
Striking clock
- |
|
1350
|
Chromatic keyboard
- |
|
1350
|
Firearms
- |
|
1360
|
Clavichord
- |
|
1373
|
Canal lock
- |
|
1400
|
Woodcut
- |
|
1400
|
Tennis
- |
|
1400
|
Carpenter's brace
- |
|
1403
|
Metal movable type (Htai Tjong)
- |
|
1408
|
Water-powered iron works (Walter Skirlaw)
- |
|
1412
|
Code breaking (al-Kalka-shandi)
- |
|
1412
|
Perspective (Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Alberti)
- |
|
1420
|
Tower windmill
- |
|
1430
|
Flywheel
- |
|
1430
|
Oil Painting (Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck)
- |
|
1437
|
Peep show (Leon Alberti)
- |
|
1450
|
Harpsichord
- |
|
1450
|
Candle snuffer
- |
|
1450
|
Anemometer (Leon Alberti)
- |
|
1450
|
Trombone
- |
|
1455
|
Metal printing plate
- |
|
1455
|
Letterpress printing (Johann Gutenberg)
- |
|
1460
|
Dance notation
- |
|
1464
|
Roman type (Adolf Rusch)
- |
|
1465
|
Cryptographic frequency table (Leon Alberti)
- |
|
1480
|
Carillon
- |
|
1490
|
Stove
- |
|
1492
|
America (Christopher Columbus)
- |
|
1500
|
Automatic keyboard instrument
- |
|
1500
|
Watch (Peter Henlein)
- |
|
1500
|
Pineapple
- |
|
1510
|
Halftone woodblock print (Lucas Cranach, Hans Burgkmair)
- |
|
1516
|
Bookplate
- |
|
1520
|
Laudanum (Paracelcus)
- |
|
1525
|
Music type (Pierre Attaignant)
- |
|
1529
|
Fluorspar (Georgius Bauer)
- |
|
1543
|
Scientific study of human anatomy (Andreas Vesalius)
- |
|
1543
|
Solar System (Nicolaus Copernicus)
- |
|
1543
|
Botanical garden
- |
|
1545
|
Complex numbers (Gerolamo Cardano)
- |
|
1545
|
Stage Lighting (Sebastiano Serlio)
- |
|
1550
|
Railroads in mines
- |
|
1556
|
Occupational disease (Georgius Bauer)
- |
|
1558
|
Camera obscura (Giambattista della Porta)
- |
|
1559
|
Pulmonary circulation (Mattero Colombo)
- |
|
1565
|
Pencil (Conrad Gesner)
- |
|
1568
|
Mercator map projection (Gerhard Mercator)
- |
|
1572
|
Supernova (Tycho Brahe)
- |
|
1580
|
Bottle cork
- |
|
1582
|
Gregorian calendar (Pope Gregory XIII)
- |
|
1583
|
Constant swing of a pendulum (Galileo Galilei)
- |
|
1584
|
Infinity of the universe (Giordano Bruno)
- |
|
1585
|
Decimals (Simon Stevin)
- |
|
1586
|
Triangle of forces (Simon Stevin)
- |
|
1588
|
Book carousel (Agostino Ramelli)
- |
|
1589
|
Knitting machine (William Lee)
- |
|
1591
|
Flush lavatory (John Harington)
- |
|
1591
|
Modern algebraic notation (Francois Viete)
- |
|
1592
|
Thermoscope (Galileo Galilei)
- |
|
1592
|
Wind-driven sawmill (Cornelis Cornelisz)
- |
|
1595
|
Souther star constellations (Pieter Keyser)
- |
|
1600
|
Compound microscope (Hans Janssen)
- |
|
1600
|
Magnetism of Earth (William Gilbert)
- |
|
1600
|
Thermostat (Cornelis Drebbel)
- |
|
1603
|
Naming of stars (Johann Bayer)
- |
|
1603
|
Valves in the veins (Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente)
- |
|
1604
|
Theory of shadows (Johannes Kepler)
- |
|
1608
|
Telescope (Hans Lippershey)
- |
|
1609
|
Newspaper (Johann Carolus)
- |
|
1609
|
Moon craters (Galileo Galilei)
- |
|
1610
|
Moons of Jupiter (Galileo Galilei, Simon Marius)
- |
|
1610
|
Orion Nebula (Nicolas de Peiresc)
- |
|
1612
|
Maths for fun (Claude-Gaspar de Meziriac)
- |
|
1612
|
Flintlock musket
- |
|
1614
|
Systematic study of metabolism (Santorio Santorio)
- |
|
1614
|
Logarithms (John Napier, Joost Burgi)
- |
|
1614
|
Index to a book (Antonio Zara)
- |
|
1619
|
Laws of planetary motion (Johannes Kepler)
- |
|
1620
|
Structure of a candle flame (Francis Bacon)
- |
|
1620
|
Submarine (Cornelis Drebbel)
- |
|
1621
|
Law of refraction (Willebrord Snell)
- |
|
1621
|
Smelting iron with coke (Dud Dudley)
- |
|
1623
|
Dictionary (Henry Cockeram)
- |
|
1624
|
Convection heating (Louis Savot)
- |
|
1628
|
Circulation of the blood (William Harvey)
- |
|
1631
|
Venier scale (Pierre Vernier)
- |
|
1633
|
Slide rule (William Oughtred)
- |
|
1637
|
X-Y Coordinates (Rene Descartes)
- |
|
1637
|
Umbrella
- |
|
1638
|
Parabolic path of a projectile (Galileo Galilei)
- |
|
1639
|
Transit of Venus (Jeremiah Horrocks)
- |
|
1642
|
Mezzotint engraving (Ludwig von Siegen)
- |
|
1643
|
Barometer (Evangelista Torricelli)
- |
|
1645
|
Revolving stage (Giacomo Torelli)
- |
|
1648
|
Recognition of gases as distinct from air (Jan Baptista van Helmont)
- |
|
1654
|
Strenght of a vacuum (Otto von Guericke)
- |
|
1657
|
Pendulum clock (Christiaan Huygens)
- |
|
1658
|
Red blood cells (Jan Swammerdam)
- |
|
1659
|
Rotation of Mars (Christiaan Huygens)
- |
|
1661
|
Capillaries (Marcello Malpighi)
- |
|
1661
|
Level
- |
|
1662
|
Boyle's Law (Robert Boyle, Edme Mariotte)
- |
|
1662
|
Life table (John Graunt)
- |
|
1663
|
Reflecting telescope (James Gregory)
- |
|
1666
|
Polar caps of Mars (Gian Cassini)
- |
|
1669
|
Phosphorus (Hennig Brand, Robert Boyle)
- |
|
1669
|
Shop scales (Gilles de Roberval)
- |
|
1670
|
Champagne (Dom Perignon)
- |
|
1672
|
Diffraction of Light (Robert Hooke)
- |
|
1674
|
Flint glass (George Ravenscroft)
- |
|
1674
|
Protozoa (Antoni van Leeuwenhoek)
- |
|
1676
|
Speed of light (Ole Romer)
- |
|
1676
|
Bacteria (Antoni van Leeuwenhoek)
- |
|
1676
|
Lemonade
- |
|
1679
|
Binary system (Gottfried Leibniz, Shao Yung)
- |
|
1679
|
Pressure cooker (Denis Papin)
- |
|
1680
|
Repeating watch (Daniel Quare)
- |
|
1681
|
Tunneling with explosives (Pierre Riquet)
- |
|
1682
|
Halley's comet (Edmond Halley)
- |
|
1684
|
Calculus (Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton)
- |
|
1687
|
Laws of motion (Isaac Newton)
- |
|
1687
|
Gravity (Isaac Newton)
- |
|
1690
|
Wave theory of light (Christiaan Huygens)
- |
|
1700
|
Clarinet (Johann Denner)
- |
|
1700
|
Phlogiston theory of combustion (Georg Stahl)
- |
|
1701
|
Seed drill (Jethro Tull)
- |
|
1703
|
Two separate plant groups (John Ray)
- |
|
1704
|
Composition of white light (Isaac Newton)
- |
|
1709
|
Piano (Bartolomeo Cristofori)
- |
|
1710
|
Steam Engine (Thomas Newcomen, John Calley)
- |
|
1713
|
Laws of chance (Jakob Bernoulli, Abrham de Moivre)
- |
|
1714
|
Mercury Thermometer (Daniel Fahrenheit)
- |
|
1717
|
Diving Bell (Edmond Halley)
- |
|
1727
|
Stereotype (William Ged)
- |
|
1728
|
Aberration of light (James Bradley)
- |
|
1729
|
Achromatic lens (Chester Hall)
- |
|
1730
|
Cobalt (Georg Brandt)
- |
|
1730
|
Sextant (John Hadley, Thomas Godfrey)
- |
|
1733
|
Flying Shuttle (John Kay)
- |
|
1733
|
Measurement of blood pressure (Stephen Hales)
- |
|
1736
|
Rubber (Charles-Marie de la Condamine)
- |
|
1738
|
Bernoulli effect (Daniel Bernoulli)
- |
|
1740
|
Frnaklin stove (Benjamin Franklin)
- |
|
1740
|
High-quality steel (Benjamin Huntsman)
- |
|
1742
|
Celsius scale of temperature (Anders Celsius)
- |
|
1743
|
Silver-plated tableware (Thomas Boulsover)
- |
|
1745
|
Slip casting (Ralph Daniel)
- |
|
1745
|
Leyden jar (Ewald von Kleist, Pieter van Musschenbroek)
- |
|
1752
|
Electrical nature of lightning (Benjamin Franklin)
- |
|
1753
|
Scientific names for plants (Carolus Linnaeus)
- |
|
1756
|
Carbon Dioxide (Joseph Black)
- |
|
1757
|
Prevention of scurvy (James Lind)
- |
|
1759
|
Indestructible lighthouse (John Smeaton)
- |
|
1760
|
Improved blast furnace (John Smeaton)
- |
|
1761
|
Latent heat (Joseph Black)
- |
|
1761
|
Finding longitude at sea (John Harrison)
- |
|
1764
|
Spinning Jenny (James Hargreaves)
- |
|
1766
|
Hydrogen (Henry Cavendish)
- |
|
1769
|
Improved steam engine (James Watt)
- |
|
1769
|
Steam tractor (Nicolas Cugnot)
- |
|
1769
|
Water frame (Richard Arkwright)
- |
|
1770
|
Factory (Richard Arkwright)
- |
|
1772
|
Oxygen (Carl Scheele, Joseph Priestley)
- |
|
1772
|
Bode's Law (Johann Titius , Johann Bode)
- |
|
1772
|
Carbonated drinks (Joseph Priestley)
- |
|
1775
|
Precision boring machine (John Wilkinson)
- |
|
1776
|
Division of labor (Adam Smith)
- |
|
1779
|
Photosynthesis (Jan Ingenhousz)
- |
|
1779
|
Iron bridge (Abraham Darby, Thomas Pritchard)
- |
|
1779
|
Mule spinning machine (Samuel Crompton)
- |
|
1781
|
Uranus (William Herschel)
- |
|
1783
|
Hot-air balloon (Joseph Montgolfier, Etienne Montgolfier)
- |
|
1783
|
Hydrogen balloon (Jacques Charles)
- |
|
1783
|
Parachute (Louis Lenormand)
- |
|
1783
|
Tungsten (Juan D'Elhuyar, Fausto D'Elhuyar)
- |
|
1784
|
Bifocal spectacles (Benjamin Franklin)
- |
|
1784
|
Pick-proof lock (Joseph Bramah)
- |
|
1784
|
Puddling process for wrought iron (Henry Cort)
- |
|
1785
|
Power loom (Edmud Cartwright)
- |
|
1786
|
Stability of the solar system (Pierre-Simon Laplace)
- |
|
1787
|
Centrifugal governor (James Watt)
- |
|
1787
|
Iron-hulled ship (John Wilkinson)
- |
|
1787
|
Steamship (John Fitch, William Symington, Robert Fulton)
- |
|
1788
|
Threshing machine (Andrew Meikle)
- |
|
1789
|
Modern chemistry (Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton)
- |
|
1789
|
"Platinum (P.F. Chabaneau)
- |
|
1789
|
Uranium (Martin Klaproth)
- |
|
1789
|
Printing ink roller (William Nicholson)
- |
|
1791
|
Speech synthesizer (Wolfgang von Kempelen)
- |
|
1791
|
Titanium (William Gregor, Martin Klaproth)
- |
|
1792
|
Ambulance (Dominique Larrey)
- |
|
1792
|
Gas lighting (William Murdock)
- |
|
1793
|
Cotton gin (Eli Whitney)
- |
|
1794
|
Semaphore telegraph (Claude Chappe)
- |
|
1797
|
Screw-cutting lathe (Henry Maudslay, David Wilkinson)
- |
|
1797
|
Chromium (Nicolas Vauquelin)
- |
|
1798
|
Lithography (Aloys Senefelder)
- |
|
1798
|
Beryllium (Nicolas Vauquelin)
- |
|
1798
|
Smallpox vaccine (Edward Jenner)
- |
|
1799
|
Laughing gas (Humphry Davy)
- |
|
1799
|
Stratigraphy (William Smith)
- |
|
1800
|
Battery (Alessandro Volta)
- |
|
1800
|
Electrolysis of water (William Nicholson, Anthony Carlisle)
- |
|
1800
|
Iron-framed printing press (Charles Stanhope)
- |
|
1801
|
Asteroid (Giuseppe Piazzi)
- |
|
1801
|
Chromatic harp (Sebastien Erard)
- |
|
1801
|
Jacquard Loom (Jacques de Vaucanson, Joseph-Marie Jacquard)
- |
|
1801
|
Ultraviolet light (Johann Ritter)
- |
|
1802
|
High pressure steam engine (Richard Trevithick, Oliver Evans)
- |
|
1802
|
Mass production (Marc Brunel, Henry Maudslay)
- |
|
1803
|
Names for clouds (Luke Howard)
- |
|
1804
|
Railroad Locomotive (Richard Trevithick)
- |
|
1807
|
Arc Light (Humphry Davy)
- |
|
1807
|
Sodium and Potassium (Humphry Davy)
- |
|
1808
|
Atomic weights (John Dalton)
- |
|
1809
|
Lace-making machine (John Heathcoat)
- |
|
1810
|
Canning (Nicolas Appert, Peter Durand)
- |
|
1811
|
Compound steam engine (Arthur Woolf)
- |
|
1811
|
Cylinder printing press (Friedrich Konig, Andreas Bauer)
- |
|
1811
|
Sensory and motor nerve fibers (Charles Bell)
- |
|
1816
|
Miner's safety lamp (Humphrey Davy, George Stephenson)
- |
|
1816
|
Kaleidoscope (David Brewster)
- |
|
1816
|
Stirling engine (Robert Stirling)
- |
|
1817
|
Superphosphate fertilizer (James Murray)
- |
|
1818
|
Tunneling shield (Marc Brunel, Peter Barlow, James Greathead)
- |
|
1819
|
Diving suit (Augustus Siebe)
- |
|
1819
|
Stethoscope (Rene Laennec)
- |
|
1820
|
Adding machine (Thomas de Colmar)
- |
|
1820
|
Quinine (Pierre Pelletier, Joseph Caventou)
- |
|
1822
|
Fourier analysis (Joseph Fourier)
- |
|
1823
|
Non-Euclidean geometry (Janos Bolyai, Nikolay Lobachevsky)
- |
|
1823
|
Waterproof cloth (Charles Macintosh)
- |
|
1824
|
Maximum efficiency of a heat engine (Sadi Carnot)
- |
|
1824
|
Portland cement (Joseph Aspdin)
- |
|
1824
|
Self-trimming candle wick (JJ Cambaceres)
- |
|
1825
|
Aluminum (Hans Christian Orsted)
- |
|
1825
|
Public steam railroad (George Stephenson)
- |
|
1826
|
Amalgam filling (August Taveau, Thomas Bell)
- |
|
1826
|
Interchangeable parts (John Hall)
- |
|
1826
|
Reaping machine (Patrick Bell, Cyrus McCormick)
- |
|
1827
|
Mammals from eggs (Karl von Baer)
- |
|
1827
|
Greenhouse effect (Joseph Fourier)
- |
|
1827
|
Match (John Walker)
- |
|
1827
|
Macadamized road (John McAdam)
- |
|
1827
|
Multiple fire tube boiler (Marc Seguin, George Stephenson)
- |
|
1827
|
Ohm's law (Georg Ohm)
- |
|
1827
|
Water turbine (Claude Burdin, Benoit Fourneyron)
- |
|
1827
|
Differential gear (Onesiphore Pecqueur)
- |
|
1829
|
Braille (Louis Braille)
- |
|
1830
|
Lawnmower (Edwin Budding)
- |
|
1831
|
Electromagnetic induction (Michael Faraday, Joseph Henry)
- |
|
1831
|
Cell nucleus (Robert Brown)
- |
|
1831
|
Safety fuse (William Bickford)
- |
|
1831
|
Steam bus (Goldsworthy Gurney, Walter Hancock)
- |
|
1832
|
Magneto (Hippolyte Pixii)
- |
|
1832
|
Electric motor (William Sturgeon, Thomas Davenport)
- |
|
1832
|
Inductance (Joseph Henry)
- |
|
1832
|
Stereoscope (Charles Wheatstone)
- |
|
1832
|
Horse-drawn tram service (John Stephenson, GF Train)
- |
|
1837
|
Reflex (Marshall Hall)
- |
|
1837
|
Telegraph (William Cooke, Charles Wheatstone)
- |
|
1837
|
Morse code (Samuel More, Alfred Vail)
- |
|
1839
|
Ship's Propeller (John Ericsson, Francis Smith)
- |
|
1839
|
Photography (Louis Daguerre, William Fox Talbot)
- |
|
1839
|
Cell as the basic unit of living things (Matthias Schleiden, Theodor Schwann)
- |
|
1839
|
Vulcanized rubber (Charles Goodyear)
- |
|
1839
|
Fuel Cell (William Grove)
- |
|
1839
|
Polystyrene (Eduard Simon)
- |
|
1839
|
Babbit metal (Isaac Babbitt)
- |
|
1840
|
Electroplating (George Eklington, Auguste de La Rive)
- |
|
1840
|
Ozone (Christian Schonbein)
- |
|
1840
|
Postage stamp (Rowland Hill)
- |
|
1840
|
Steam hammer (James Nasmyth)
- |
|
1841
|
Dinosaurs (Richard Owen)
- |
|
1841
|
Package tour (Thomas Cook)
- |
|
1842
|
Doppler Effect (Christian Doppler)
- |
|
1842
|
Conservation of energy (Julius von Mayer)
- |
|
1843
|
Christmas card (John Horsley)
- |
|
1843
|
Fax principle (Alexander Bain)
- |
|
1843
|
River tunnel (Marc Brunel, Isambard Brunel)
- |
|
1843
|
Sunspot cycle (Samuel Schwabe)
- |
|
1845
|
Type-rotating printing press (Richard Hoe)
- |
|
1846
|
Anaesthetic (William Morton)
- |
|
1846
|
Lock-stitch sewing machine (Walter Hunt, Elias Howe, Isaac Singer)
- |
|
1846
|
Neptune (Urbain Le Verrier, Johann Galle)
- |
|
1846
|
Nitroglycerine (Ascanio Sobrero)
- |
|
1849
|
Electrical nature of nerve impulses (Emil Du Bois-Reymond)
- |
|
1849
|
Laws of thermodynamics (William Thomson, Rudolf Clausius)
- |
|
1849
|
Mechanical equivalent of heat (James Joule)
- |
|
1850
|
Albumen print (Louis Blanquart-Evrard)
- |
|
1850
|
Speed of nerve impulses (Hermann von Helmholtz)
- |
|
1851
|
Mechanism of the inner ear (Alfonso Corti)
- |
|
1851
|
Prefabricated building (Joseph Paxton)
- |
|
1851
|
Foucault's Pendulum (Jean Foucault)
- |
|
1851
|
Refrigerator (John Gorrie, Ferdinand Carre)
- |
|
1851
|
Wet-plate photography (Frederick Archder)
- |
|
1852
|
Airship (Henri Giffard)
- |
|
1852
|
Gyroscope (Jean Foucault)
- |
|
1853
|
Bloomers (Amelia Bloomer)
- |
|
1853
|
Glider (George cayley, Otto Lillienthal)
- |
|
1853
|
Hypodermic syringe (Charles Pravaz, Alexander Wood)
- |
|
1853
|
Safety Elevator (Elisha Otis)
- |
|
1854
|
Boolean Algebra (George Boole)
- |
|
1855
|
Can opener (Robert Yeates)
- |
|
1855
|
Printing telegraph (David Hughes)
- |
|
1856
|
Condensed Milk (Gail Borden)
- |
|
1856
|
Aniline Dye (William Perkin)
- |
|
1858
|
Transatlantic telegraph (Cyrus Field, Charles Bright, William Thomson)
- |
|
1859
|
Evolution by natural selection (Charles Darwin)
- |
|
1859
|
Gas engine (Etienne Lenoir)
- |
|
1859
|
Lead-acid battery (Gaston Plante)
- |
|
1859
|
Oil Well (Edwin Drake, George Bissell)
- |
|
1859
|
Spectroscope (Robert Bunsen, Gustav Kirchhoff)
- |
|
1860
|
Milking machine (LO Colvin)
- |
|
1861
|
Open-hearth process for making steel (William Siemens, Pierre Martin)
- |
|
1861
|
Linoleum (Frederick Walton)
- |
|
1861
|
Speech center in the brain (Paul Broca)
- |
|
1861
|
Yale lock (Linus Yale)
- |
|
1862
|
Parkesine (Alexander Parkes)
- |
|
1862
|
Solar hydrogen (Ander Angstrom)
- |
|
1863
|
Roller skates (Joseph Merlin, James Plimpton)
- |
|
1863
|
Underground Railroad (John Fowler)
- |
|
1865
|
Antiseptics (Ignaz Semmelweis, Joseph Lister)
- |
|
1865
|
Mercury vacuum pump (Hermann Sprengel)
- |
|
1865
|
Pullman sleeping car (George Pullman, Ben Field)
- |
|
1865
|
Pasteurization (Louis Pasteur)
- |
|
1866
|
Clinical thermometer (Thomas Allbutt)
- |
|
1866
|
Laws of heredity (Gregor Mendel)
- |
|
1866
|
Leclanche Cell (Georges Leclanche)
- |
|
1867
|
Germs (Jouis Pasteur)
- |
|
1867
|
Paper boat (Elisha Waters, George WaterS)
- |
|
1868
|
Helium in the Sun (Pierre Janssen, Norman Lockyer)
- |
|
1868
|
Mobius strip (August Mobius)
- |
|
1869
|
Margarine (Hippolyte Mege-Mouries)
- |
|
1869
|
Air brake (George Westinghouse)
- |
|
1869
|
Chewing gum (Thomas Adams)
- |
|
1869
|
Synthetic Alizarin (Heinrich Caro, William Perkin)
- |
|
1869
|
Periodic Table (Dmitry Mendeleyev)
- |
|
1870
|
Dynamo (Zenobe Gramme)
- |
|
1870
|
Celluloid (John Hyatt)
- |
|
1870
|
Penny-farthing bicycle (James Starley, William Hillman)
- |
|
1871
|
Dry photographic plate (Richard Maddox)
- |
|
1873
|
Cable car (Andreww Hallidie)
- |
|
1873
|
Jeans (Jacob Davis, Levi Strauss)
- |
|
1874
|
Barbed wire (Joseph Glidden)
- |
|
1874
|
DNA (Johann Miescher)
- |
|
1874
|
Typewriter (Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, Samuel Soule)
- |
|
1874
|
Four-stroke engine (Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Nikolaus Otto)
- |
|
1875
|
Telephone (Alexander Graham Bell)
- |
|
1877
|
Sound recording (Thomas Edison)
- |
|
1877
|
Photographic motion capture (Eadweard Muybridge)
- |
|
1878
|
Cream separator (Gustav de Laval)
- |
|
1878
|
Light bulb (Thomas Edison, Joseph Swan)
- |
|
1878
|
Microphone (David Hughes)
- |
|
1879
|
Two-stroke engine (Dugald Clerk)
- |
|
1879
|
Cash register (James Ritty, John Patterson)
- |
|
1879
|
Electric train (Werner von Siemens)
- |
|
1879
|
Saccharin (Ira Remsen, Constantin Fahlberg)
- |
|
1880
|
Venn Diagram (John Venn)
- |
|
1882
|
Public electricity supply (Thomas Edison)
- |
|
1882
|
Trolley car (Werner von Siemens, Leo Daft)
- |
|
1883
|
Function of thyroid gland (Victor Horsley)
- |
|
1883
|
Electric streetcar (Magnus Volk)
- |
|
1883
|
Induction motor (Mikola Tesla)
- |
|
1883
|
Three-phase electricity supply (Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse)
- |
|
1884
|
Artificial silk (Hilaire Chardonnet, Joseph Swan)
- |
|
1884
|
Motorcycle (Edward Butler, Gottlieb Daimler)
- |
|
1884
|
Multistage steam turbine (Charles Parsons)
- |
|
1885
|
Adder-lister (William Burroughs)
- |
|
1885
|
Bicycle (John Starley)
- |
|
1885
|
Bicycle hub gear (WT Shaw)
- |
|
1885
|
Car (Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler, Emile Levassor)
- |
|
1885
|
Monotype typesetting system (Tolbert Lanston)
- |
|
1885
|
Gasoline Engine (Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach)
- |
|
1885
|
Rabies vaccine (Louis Pasteur)
- |
|
1885
|
Skyscraper (William Jenney)
- |
|
1886
|
Coca-Cola (John Pemberton)
- |
|
1886
|
Inexpensive aluminum (Charles Hall, Paul Heroult)
- |
|
1886
|
Recording on wax (Chichester Bell, Charles Tainter)
- |
|
1886
|
Function of the ear's semicircular canals (Marie Flourens, Yves Delage)
- |
|
1886
|
Linotype typesetting machine (Ottmas Mergenthaler)
- |
|
1886
|
Steam sterilization of surgical instruments (Ernst von Bergmann)
- |
|
1887
|
Comptometer (Dorr E. Felt)
- |
|
1887
|
Esperanto (Ludwik Zamenhof)
- |
|
1887
|
Fractal Curve (Giuseppe Peano)
- |
|
1887
|
Gramophone (Emile Berliner)
- |
|
1887
|
Mila order (Richard Sears, Alvah Roebuck)
- |
|
1887
|
High-voltage power transmission (Sebastian de Ferranti)
- |
|
1887
|
Steam tricycle (Leon Serpollet)
- |
|
1888
|
Pneumatic tire (Robert Thomson, John Dunlop)
- |
|
1888
|
Kodak Camera (George Eastman)
- |
|
1888
|
Radio Waves (James Clerk Maxwell, Heinrich Hertz)
- |
|
1889
|
Automatic telephone exchange (Almon B. Strowger)
- |
|
1889
|
Tabulating machine (Herman Hollerith)
- |
|
1890
|
Halftone screen (Max Levy, Louis Levy)
- |
|
1890
|
Tetanus Immunization (Emil Behring, Kitasato Shibasaburo)
- |
|
1890
|
Steam-powered airplane (Clement Ader)
- |
|
1890
|
Surgical Gloves (William Halsted)
- |
|
1891
|
Gaslight photographic paper (Leo Baekeland)
- |
|
1892
|
Long distance telephone cable (Oliver Heaviside, Michael Pupin)
- |
|
1892
|
Vacuum Bottle (James Dewar)
- |
|
1892
|
Viscose rayon (Charles Cross, Edward Bevan, Clayton Beadle)
- |
|
1892
|
Viruses (Dmitry Ivanovsky, Martinus Beijerinck)
- |
|
1893
|
Moving Picture (William Dickson, Thomas Edison)
- |
|
1893
|
Zipper (Whitcomb Judson, Gideon Sundback)
- |
|
1894
|
Bubonic plague agent (Kitasato Shibasaburo, Alexandre Yersin)
- |
|
1894
|
Phototypesetting (Eugene Porzolt)
- |
|
1894
|
Radio communication (Guglielmo Marconi)
- |
|
1894
|
Argon (Lord Rayleigh, William Ramsay)
- |
|
1895
|
Movies (Auguste Lumiere, Louis Lumiere)
- |
|
1895
|
Helium on Earth (William Ramsay)
- |
|
1895
|
Liquid air (Carl von Linde)
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1895
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X-rays (Wilhelm Rontgen)
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1896
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Radiotion from uranium (Heri Becquerel)
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1896
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Surgical Mask (Johannes von Mikulicz-Radecki)
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1896
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Toothpaste in a tube (William Colgate)
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1896
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Sphygmomanometer (Scipione Riva-Rocci)
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1897
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Cathode ray oscilloscope (Ferdinand Braun)
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1897
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Diesel engine (Rudolf Diesel)
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1897
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Electron (JJ Thomson)
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1897
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Multiple-unit electric train (Frank Sprague)
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1897
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Transmission of malaria by mosquito (Ronald Ross)
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1897
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Turbine ship (Charles Parsons)
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1898
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Conditioned reflex (Ivan Pavlov)
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1898
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Magnetic recording (Valdemar Poulsen)
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1898
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Polonium (Marie Curie, Pierre Curie)
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1898
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Radium (Marie Curie, Pierre Curie)
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1899
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Paper clip (William Middlebrook)
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1899
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Aspirin (Felix Hoffman)
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1900
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Escalator (George Wheeler, Charles Seeberger)
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1900
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Fingerprinting (Francis Galton, Edward Henry)
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1900
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Quantum Theory (Max Planck)
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1900
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Rigid Airship (Ferdinand von Zeppelin)
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1901
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Blood groups (Karl Landsteiner)
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1901
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Monorail (Eugen Langen)
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1901
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Safety Razor (King C. Gillette)
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1902
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Disc Brake (Frederick Lanchester)
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1902
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Air-conditioning (Willis Carrier)
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1902
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Hormones (William Bayliss, Ernest Starling)
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1902
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Tea-making alarm clock (Frank Clarke)
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1902
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Spark plug (Robert Bosch, G. Honold)
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1902
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Teddy Bear (Morris Mitchtom, Margarete Steiff)
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1902
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Vacuum cleaner (Hubert Booth)
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1903
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Electrocardiogram (Willem Einthoven)
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1903
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Airplane (Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright)
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1903
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Multistage Rocket (Konstantin Tsiolkovsky)
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1904
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Lie detector (Max Wertheimer, John Larson)
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1904
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Thermos flask (Rheinhold Burger)
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1905
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Theory of Relativity (Albert Einstein)
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1905
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Function of chromosomes (Nettie Stevens, Edmund Wilson)
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1905
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Laminated glass (Edouard Benedictus)
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1906
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Cat's whisker (Greenleaf Pickard)
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|
1906
|
Triode Valve (Lee De Forest)
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1906
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sound Radio (Reginald Fessenden)
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|
1907
|
Color Photography (Auguste Lumiere, Louis Lumiere)
- |
|
1907
|
Vitamins (Frederick Hopkins, Casimir Funk)
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|
1907
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Electric washing machine (Alva Fisher)
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|
1908
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Paper cup (Hugh Moore)
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|
1908
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Tea bag (Thomas Sullivan)
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|
1909
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Fertilizer from the air (Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch)
- |
|
1910
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Neon sign (Georges Claude)
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1912
|
Continental drift (Alfred Wegener)
- |
|
1912
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Electric starter (Charles Kettering)
- |
|
1913
|
Cosmic rays (Victor Hess)
- |
|
1913
|
Stainless steel (Harry Brearley)
- |
|
1913
|
Assembly line (Henry Ford)
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|
1913
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Structure of the atom (Niels Bohr)
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1914
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Brassiere (Mary Jacob)
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1915
|
Cannister Lipstick (Maurice Levy)
- |
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1916
|
Black Hole (Karl Schwarzschild)
- |
|
1916
|
Intelligence test (Lewis Terman)
- |
|
1919
|
Domestic food mixer (Herbert Johnson)
- |
|
1919
|
Wall anchor (John Rawlings)
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|
1920
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Public broadcasting service (David Sarnoff, Guglielmo MArconi)
- |
|
1920
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Self-adhesive bandgae (Earle Dickson)
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1920
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Theremin (Leon Theremin)
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|
1921
|
Insulin (Frederick Banting, Charles Best)
- |
|
1921
|
Leaded Gasoline (Thomas Midgley Jr.)
- |
|
1923
|
Ice pop (Frank Epperson)
- |
|
1923
|
Traffic Signal (Garrett Morgan)
- |
|
1924
|
Frozen food (Clarence Birdseye)
- |
|
1924
|
35-mm camera (Oskar Barnack)
- |
|
1925
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Cotton swab (Leo Gerstenzang)
- |
|
1926
|
Aerosol (Erik Rothheim, Lyle Goodhue)
- |
|
1926
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Film soundtrack (Lee De Forest)
- |
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1926
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Liquid-fueled rocket (Robert Goddard)
- |
|
1926
|
Plant growth hormones (Friedrich Went)
- |
|
1926
|
Pop-up toaster (Charles Strite)
- |
|
1927
|
Expanding universe (Edwin Hubble)
- |
|
1927
|
Internal clock (Curt Richter)
- |
|
1927
|
Chainsaw (Emil Lerp, Andreas Stihl)
- |
|
1927
|
Big Bang theory (Georges Lemaitre, George Gamow)
- |
|
1927
|
Uncertainty principle (Werner Heisenberg)
- |
|
1928
|
Chlorofluorocarbons (Thomas Midgley Jr., Albert Henne)
- |
|
1928
|
Bubble gum (Walter Diemer)
- |
|
1928
|
Penicillin (Alexander Fleming, Ernst Chain, Howard Florey)
- |
|
1928
|
Electric razor (Jacob Schick)
- |
|
1928
|
Cinemascope (Henri Chretien, Claude Autant-Lara)
- |
|
1928
|
Sliced bread (Otto Rohwedder)
- |
|
1928
|
Prestressed concrete (Eugene Freyssinet)
- |
|
1929
|
Electroencephalograph (Hans Berger)
- |
|
1929
|
Polaroid (Edwin Land)
- |
|
1929
|
Synthetic rubber tires (Walter Bock, Eduard Tschunkur)
- |
|
1930
|
Supermarket (Michael Cullen)
- |
|
1930
|
Jet engine (Frank Whittle, Hans von Ohain)
- |
|
1930
|
Clear adhesive tape (Richard Drew)
- |
|
1931
|
Radio astronomy (Karl Jansky, Grote Reber)
- |
|
1931
|
Electronic flash (Harold Edgerton)
- |
|
1931
|
Scrabble (Alfred Butts)
- |
|
1932
|
Heavy Water (Harold Urey, Edward Washburn)
- |
|
1932
|
Buttom-up shirt (Cecil Gee)
- |
|
1932
|
Full-color movie (Herbert Kalmus)
- |
|
1932
|
Mars bar (Forrest Mars)
- |
|
1932
|
Particle accelerator (John Cockcroft, Ernest Walton)
- |
|
1932
|
Sulfonamide drugs (Gerhard Domagk)
- |
|
1933
|
Electron Microscope (Ernst Ruska)
- |
|
1933
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Stereophonic sound (Alan Blumlein, Harvey Fletcher)
- |
|
1934
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FM radio (Edwin Armstrong)
- |
|
1934
|
Front-wheel drive car (Andre Citroen, Andre Lefebvre)
- |
|
1934
|
Perspex (Rowland Hill, John Crawford)
- |
|
1934
|
Hammond organ (Laurens Hammond)
- |
|
1935
|
Cat's eyes (Percy Shaw)
- |
|
1935
|
Polyethylene (Eric Fawcett, Reginald Gibson)
- |
|
1935
|
Color film (Leopold Mannes, Leopold Godowsky)
- |
|
1935
|
Monopoly (Charles Darrow)
- |
|
1935
|
Radar (Robert Watson-Watt)
- |
|
1935
|
Parking meter (Carlton Magee)
- |
|
1935
|
Richter scale (Charles Richter, Beno Gutenberg)
- |
|
1936
|
Snorkel (Jan Wichers)
- |
|
1936
|
Helicopter (Heinrich Focke)
- |
|
1936
|
Suntan lotion (Eugene Schueller)
- |
|
1936
|
Television (Vladimir Zworykin, Isaac Shoenberg)
- |
|
1937
|
Pulse code modulation (Alec Reeves)
- |
|
1937
|
Trampoline (George Nissen)
- |
|
1937
|
Epoxy resin (Henry Moss)
- |
|
1937
|
Superfluidity (Peter Kapitsa, John Allen)
- |
|
1937
|
Grocery cart (Sylvan Goldman)
- |
|
1937
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Pressurized aircraft cabin (Lockheed Corporation)
- |
|
1938
|
Espresso coffee (Achille Gaggia)
- |
|
1938
|
Nylon (Wallace Carothers)
- |
|
1938
|
Ballpoint Pen (Ladislao Biro, Georg Biro)
- |
|
1938
|
Teflon (Roy Plunkett)
- |
|
1938
|
Xerography (Chester Carlson)
- |
|
1939
|
DDT (Paul Muller)
- |
|
1939
|
Nuclear fission (Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch)
- |
|
1940
|
Single-roto helicopter (Igor Sikorsky)
- |
|
1940
|
Digital logic design (Claude Shannon)
- |
|
1940
|
Plutonium (Glenn Seaborg)
- |
|
1940
|
Binary electronic computing (John Atanasoff, Clifford Berry)
- |
|
1941
|
Anti-g flying suit (Frederick Banting, Wilbur Franks)
- |
|
1941
|
Electro-mechanical computer (Konrad Zuse)
- |
|
1941
|
Printed circuit board (Paul Eisler)
- |
|
1941
|
Polyethylene terephthalate (Rex Whinfield, James Dickson)
- |
|
1941
|
Silicon solar cell (Russell Ohl)
- |
|
1942
|
Ballistic missile (Wernher von Braun0
- |
|
1942
|
Scanning electron miscroscope (Vladimir Zworykin, Dennis McMullan)
- |
|
1942
|
Nuclear reactor (Enrico Fermi)
- |
|
1943
|
Aqua-Lung (Jacques Cousteau, Emile Gagnan)
- |
|
1943
|
Silicones (Frederic Kipping, Eugene Rochow)
- |
|
1944
|
Function of DNA (Oswald Avery)
- |
|
1944
|
Artificial kidney (Willem Kolff)
- |
|
1945
|
Electronic computer (John Mauchly, John Presper Eckert)
- |
|
1945
|
Modern computer architecture (John von Neumann)
- |
|
1945
|
Atomic bomb (Robert Oppenheimer)
- |
|
1946
|
Bikini (Jacques Heim, Louis Reard)
- |
|
1946
|
Motor scooter (Corradino d'Ascanio)
- |
|
1946
|
Microwave oven (Percy spencer)
- |
|
1946
|
Tupperware (Earl Tupper)
- |
|
1947
|
Carbon dating (Willard Libby)
- |
|
1947
|
Subbuteo (Peter Adolph)
- |
|
1947
|
False eyelashes (David Aylott, Eric Aylott)
- |
|
1947
|
Transistor (John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley)
- |
|
1948
|
Holography (Dennis Gabor)
- |
|
1948
|
Long-playing record (Peter Goldmark)
- |
|
1948
|
Polaroid camera (Edwin Land)
- |
|
1949
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Tennis shoes (Adolf Dassler)
- |
|
1949
|
Plastic wrap (Dow Chemical Company)
- |
|
1950
|
Error-correcting code (Richard Hamming)
- |
|
1952
|
Airbag (John Hetrick)
- |
|
1952
|
Cinerama (Fred Waller)
- |
|
1952
|
Polio Vaccine (Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin)
- |
|
1953
|
Color television (National Television Systems Committee)
- |
|
1953
|
Use of heart-lunch machine (John Gibbon, Jr.)
- |
|
1953
|
Structure of DNA (Francis Crick, James Watson)
- |
|
1953
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Turboprop airliner (Vickers Armstrong Aircraft)
- |
|
1954
|
Breathalyzer (Robert Borkenstein)
- |
|
1954
|
Pleasure center in the brain (James Olds, Peter Milner)
- |
|
1954
|
Kidney transplant (Joseph Murray)
- |
|
1954
|
Nuclear power station (Institute of Physics and Power Engineering)
- |
|
1954
|
Polypropylene (Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta)
- |
|
1955
|
Atomic clock (Louis Essen, Jack Parry)
- |
|
1955
|
Synthetic diamonds (Percy Bridgman, General Electric Company)
- |
|
1955
|
Hovercraft (Christopher Cockerell)
- |
|
1956
|
Field ion microscope (Erwin Muller)
- |
|
1956
|
Video recorder (Charles Ginsburg, Ray Dolby)
- |
|
1956
|
Velcro (George de Mestral)
- |
|
1957
|
Artificial satellite (Valentin Glushko, Sergey Korolyov)
- |
|
1957
|
Chemical mechanism of nerves (John Eccles, Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley)
- |
|
1957
|
Rotary internal combustion engine (Felix Wankel)
- |
|
1957
|
FORTRAN (John Backus)
- |
|
1958
|
Penrose triangle (Lionel Penrose, Roger Penrose)
- |
|
1958
|
Wearable pacemaker (Earl Bakken)
- |
|
1958
|
Superglue (Harry Coover, Fred Joyner)
- |
|
1958
|
Laser concept (Charles Townes, Arthur Schawlow)
- |
|
1958
|
Lego (Godtfred Christiansen)
- |
|
1958
|
Semiconductor integrated circuit (Jack Kilby, Robert Noyce)
- |
|
1958
|
Van Allen radiation belt (James Van Allen)
- |
|
1959
|
Float glass (Alastair Pilkington)
- |
|
1959
|
Seat belt (Nils Bohlin)
- |
|
1959
|
Cause of Down's syndrome (Jerome Lejeune)
- |
|
1960
|
Bubblewrap (Alfred Fielding, Marc Chavannes)
- |
|
1960
|
Communications satellite (John Pierce)
- |
|
1960
|
Artificial neural network (Frank Rosenblatt)
- |
|
1960
|
SI units (11th General Conference on Weights and Measures)
- |
|
1960
|
Quasar (Allan Sandage, Maarten Schmidt)
- |
|
1960
|
Ruby laser (Theodore Maiman)
- |
|
1961
|
Disposable diaper (Vic Mills)
- |
|
1961
|
Shape memory alloys (William Buehler, David Muzzey)
- |
|
1961
|
Industrial robot (George Devol, Joseph Engelburger)
- |
|
1961
|
Space flight (Yuri Gagarin)
- |
|
1962
|
Hip replacement (John Charnley)
- |
|
1962
|
Resealable plastic bag (Steven Ausnit, Kakuji Naito)
- |
|
1963
|
Carbon fiber (Leslie Phillips)
- |
|
1963
|
Push-button phone (AT&T)
- |
|
1963
|
Polaroid color photograph (Edwin Land)
- |
|
1964
|
Electronic music synthesizer (Robert Moog)
- |
|
1964
|
Miniskirt (Andre Courreges)
- |
|
1964
|
Quarks (Murray Gell-Mann)
- |
|
1965
|
Electronic telephone exchange (AT&T)
- |
|
1965
|
Computer mouse (Doug Engelbart)
- |
|
1965
|
Minicomputer (Kenneth Olsen)
- |
|
1965
|
Hypertext (Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson)
- |
|
1966
|
Pull tab can (Ermal Fraze)
- |
|
1966
|
Dolby noise reduction systme (Ray Dolby)
- |
|
1966
|
Jump jet (Hawker Siddeley Aviation)
- |
|
1967
|
Heart transplant (Christiaan Barnard)
- |
|
1967
|
Pulsar (Jocelyn Bell, Antony Hewish)
- |
|
1967
|
Smoke alarm (BRK Electronics)
- |
|
1968
|
Whirlpool bathtub (Roy Jacuzzi)
- |
|
1968
|
Graphical user interface (Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay)
- |
|
1968
|
Sailboard (Newman Darby, Jim Drake, Hoyle Schweitzer)
- |
|
1968
|
Workmate (Ron Hickman)
- |
|
1969
|
Structure of insulin (Fred Sanger, Dorothy Hodgkin)
- |
|
1970
|
Floppy disk (IBM)
- |
|
1971
|
Microprocessor (Ted Hoff)
- |
|
1971
|
Kevlar (Stephanie Kwolek, Herbert Blades, Paul Morgna)
- |
|
1971
|
Food processor (Pierre Verdon)
- |
|
1972
|
Video game (Nolan Bushnell)
- |
|
1972
|
CAT scanner (Godfrey Hounsfield, Allan Cormack)
- |
|
1972
|
Pocket calculator (Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman, James van Tassel, Clive Sinclair)
- |
|
1972
|
Genetic engineering (Stanley Cohen, Herbert Boyer)
- |
|
1973
|
Plastic soft drink bottle (Nathaniel Wyeth)
- |
|
1973
|
Space station (NASA)
- |
|
1974
|
Binary pulsar (Joseph Taylor, Jr., Russell Hulse)
- |
|
1974
|
Ozone layer damage (Mario Molina, Sherwood Rowland)
- |
|
1974
|
PET scanner (Michael Phelps, Edward Hoffman)
- |
|
1976
|
Supercomputer (Seymour Cray)
- |
|
1977
|
Conductive plastics (Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa)
- |
|
1977
|
Magnetic resonance imaging (Paul Lauterbur, Raymond Damadian)
- |
|
1977
|
Public-key cryptography (Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard Adleman)
- |
|
1977
|
Human-powered aircraft (Paul MacCready, Bryan Allen)
- |
|
1977
|
Gene exons and introns (Phillip Sharp, Richard Roberts)
- |
|
1977
|
Personal computer (Steve Jobs, Stephen Wozniak)
- |
|
1978
|
Global positioning system (US Air Force)
- |
|
1978
|
Test-tube baby (Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards)
- |
|
1979
|
Mobile phone (Bell Labs)
- |
|
1979
|
Word processing software (Seymour Rubinstein)
- |
|
1979
|
Spreadsheet software (Daniel Bricklin, Bob Frankson)
- |
|
1979
|
Walkman (Akio Morita)
- |
|
1980
|
Cellular address code (Gunter Blobel)
- |
|
1980
|
Genetic control of embryonic development (Edward Lewis, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Eric Weischaus)
- |
|
1980
|
G proteins (Martin Rodbell, Alfred Gilman)
- |
|
1980
|
Post-it note (Spencer Silver, Art Fry)
- |
|
1981
|
Scanning Tenneling microscope (Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer)
- |
|
1981
|
IBM PC (William Lowe, Don Estridge)
- |
|
1981
|
Space shuttle (NASA)
- |
|
1982
|
Compact disc (Philips Electronics, Sony Corporation)
- |
|
1982
|
Prions (Stanley Prusiner)
- |
|
1983
|
Polymerase chain reaction (Kary Mullis)
- |
|
1983
|
Stealth aircraft (Lockheed Martin Corporation)
- |
|
1983
|
Cyclonic vacuum cleaner (James Dyson)
- |
|
1983
|
Internet (JCR Licklider, Larry Roberts)
- |
|
1984
|
Dust-free builder's chute (GH Vlutters, AJ Vlutters)
- |
|
1984
|
3D graphics computer (James Clark)
- |
|
1984
|
DNA fingerprinting (Alec Jeffreys)
- |
|
1984
|
Postscript page description language (John Warnock, Charles Geschke)
- |
|
1985
|
Fullerenes (Harry Kroto, Richard Smalley, Robert Curl)
- |
|
1985
|
Windows operating system (Microsoft Corporation)
- |
|
1986
|
High-temperature superconductors (Georg Bednorz, Alex MulleR)
- |
|
1987
|
Prozac (Arvid Carlsson, Ray Fuller)
- |
|
1987
|
Virtual reality data glove (Tom Zimmerman, Jaron Lanier)
- |
|
1987
|
Supermassive black hole (John Kormendy, Alan Dressler, Douglass Richstone)
- |
|
1989
|
Gene that causes cystic fibrosis (Lap-Chee Tsui, Francis Collins)
- |
|
1990
|
World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee)
- |
|
1990
|
Gene therapy (French Anderson)
- |
|
1991
|
Digital mobile phone (Groupe Special Mobile)
- |
|
1991
|
Expressed sequence tags (Craig Venter)
- |
|
1992
|
Disposable TV camera (Smith & Nephew Dyonics)
- |
|
1992
|
MiniDisc (Sony Corporation)
- |
|
1993
|
Graphical Web browser (Marc Andreessen)
- |
|
1994
|
Genetically modified food (Calgene Inc.)
- |
|
1995
|
Comet Hale-Bopp (Alan Hale, Thomas Bopp)
- |
|
1995
|
Complete bacterial DNA sequence (Robert Fleischmann)
- |
|
1995
|
Internet retailing (Jeff Bezos)
- |
|
1995
|
Full-length computer-generated movie (The Walt Disney Company)
- |
|
1995
|
Proof of Fermat's last theorem (Andrew Wiles, Richard Taylor)
- |
|
1996
|
Life on Mars? (David McKay)
- |
|
1996
|
Genetically modified flower (Florigene Limited)
- |
|
1997
|
Dolly the sheep (Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell)
- |
|
1997
|
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP Forum)
- |
|
1998
|
Growth of new brain cells (Fred Gage, Peter Eriksson)
- |
|
1998
|
MicroStar air reconnaissance vehicle (Lockheed Martin Corporation)
- |
|
1998
|
MP3 compression standard (Fraunhofer Institut, Moving Picture Experts Group)
- |
|
1998
|
Satellite mobile phone (Iridium Satellite LLC)
- |
|
1999
|
Carbon nanotube muscle (Ray Baughman)
- |
|
1999
|
Biological molecular motor (Carlo Montemagno)
- |
|
1999
|
Home-grown replacement organ (Anthony Atala)
- |
|
1999
|
Leech neuron computer (Bill Ditto)
- |
|
2000
|
Gene targeted sheep (Kenneth McCreath)
- |
|
2000
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Growing bone outside the body (Julia Polak)
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2000
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Human Genome (Francis Collins, Craig VenteR)
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2001
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Cloned endangered animal (Philip Damiani)
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2001
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Self-cleaning glass (Kevin Sanderson)
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2001
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iPod (Steve Jobs, Lee Black)
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2002
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More moons on Jupiter (Scott S. Sheppard, David Jewitt)
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2002
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Single-atom transistor (Paul McEuen, Dan Ralph)
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2002
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Synthetic virus (Jeronimo Cello, Aniko V. Paul, Eckard Wimmer)
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2003
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Life beneath the deep (Stephen Giovannoni, Michael Rappe)
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2003
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Super-tough fiber (Ray Baughman)
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2003
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Oldest planet (Donald Backer, Stephen Thorsett, Steinn Sigurdsson)
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2004
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Newest Planet (Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo, David Rabinowitz)
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2004
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Water on Mars (NASA)
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2005
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Low-cost mine clearance (Paul Richards)
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2005
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Robot floor mop (iRobot)
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