Year | Invention / Discovery | Inventor / Discoverer | Author Name | Country |
1850 | Mercerized Cotton | | John Mercer | UK |
1850 | Photosensitive Colloid (Photomechanical Engraving) | | Alphonse Poitevin | France |
1851 | Ophthalmoscope | Eye Examination Lamp | Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz | Germany |
1852 | Flexible Dirigible | | Henri Giffard | France |
1852 |
Gyroscope
|
|
Léon Foucault
|
France
|
1853
|
Elevator
|
Otis Elevator
|
USA
|
1854
|
Elevator (with brake)
|
|
Elisha Graves Otis
|
USA
|
1855
|
Hypodermic syringe
|
|
Alexander Wood
|
UK
|
1855
|
Safety matches
|
Safe matchstick
|
Johan Edvard Lundström
|
Sweden
|
1855
|
Gas burner
| Gas Stove | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen | Germany |
1856 | Bessemer Converter (Steel Production) | | Henry Bessemer | UK |
1858 | Washing Machine | Washing Machine | Hamilton Smith | USA |
1858 | Refrigerator | Refrigerator | Ferdinand Carré | France |
1859 | Internal Combustion Engine | Explosion Engine | Etienne Lenoir | France |
1859 | Spectroscope | Spectrometer
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen |
Germany |
1859 |
Accumulator |
Battery |
Gaston Planté |
1860 |
Gas Engine |
Gas-Powered Machine |
Étienne Lenoir |
France |
1861 |
Electric Oven |
Electric Furnace |
Wilhelm Siemens |
UK |
1861 |
Machine Gun |
Gatling Gun |
Richard Jordan Gatling |
USA |
1866 |
Paper from Wood Pulp |
Paper Manufacturing |
Benjamin Chew Tilghman |
USA |
1866 | Dynamite | Explosive | Alfred Bernhard Nobel | Sweden | 1867 | Typewriter | Writing Machine | Christopher Sholes | 1868 | Antiseptic | Disinfection | Joseph Lister | UK | 1868 | Dry Cell | Dry Battery | Georges Leclanché | 1868 | Compressed Air Brake | Air Brake | George Westinghouse | USA | 1869 | Trichrome Process for Color Photography | |
Charles Cros
|
France
|
1870
|
Celluloid
|
|
John Wesley and Isaiah Hyatt
|
USA
|
1871
|
Continuous Rotary Press
|
|
Richard March Hoe
|
USA
|
1874
|
Quadruplex Telegraph
|
|
Thomas Alva Edison
|
USA
|
1876
|
Telephone
|
Telephone
|
Alexander Graham Bell
|
USA
|
1876
|
Praxinoscope
|
Optical Lantern
|
Émile Reynaud
|
1877 | Internal Combustion Engine (Four-Stroke) | Nikolaus August Otto | Germany | 1877 | Gramophone (Cylinder Recording) | Phonograph | Thomas Alva Edison | USA | 1877 | Microphone | Micro | Emil Berliner | 1877 | Electric Welding | Arc Welding | Elihu Thomson | Refrigerated Truck | | G. F. Swift | 1878 | Cathode Ray Tube | William Crookes | 1879 | Incandescent Lamp | Electric Light |
Thomas Alva Edison and Joseph Wilson Swan
|
USA, UK
|
1879
|
Automobile Engine (two-stroke)
|
Car Engine (2-stroke)
|
Karl Benz
|
Germany
|
1879
|
Arc Lamp
|
|
Charles Francis Brush
|
USA
|
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