Inventions Timeline

1881  jacques d'Arsonval suggests heat energy could be extracted from the oceans.   

1883  Charles Eastman invents plastic photographic film   

1884  charles Parsons develops the steam turbine.   

1885  Motor cycle was invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach   

1885  karl Benz builds a gasoline-engined car.   

1886  Josephine Cochran invents the dishwasher   

1888  friedrich Reinitzer discovers liquid crystals.   

1888  Nikola Tesla patents the alternating current (AC) electric induction motor and, in opposition to Thomas Edison, becomes a staunch advocate of AC power   

1888  Ball-point pen   

1890  French brothers Joseph and Louis Lumiere invent movie projectors and open the first movie theater   

1890  German engineer Rudolf Diesel develops his diesel engine—a more efficient internal combustion engine without a sparking plug   

1891  Zipper was invented by Whitcomb L. Judson   

1893  Wireless communication was invented by Nikola Tesla   

1893  motion pictures (movies)   

1895  Diesel engine was invented by Rudolf Diesel   

1895  Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi   

1895  german physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X rays.   

1895  american Ogden Bolton, Jr. invents the electric bicycle.   

1898  remote control was invented by Nikola   

1899  Everett F. Morse invents the optical pyrometer for measuring temperatures at a safe distance   

1899  Tape recorder   

1900  photocopying (camera takes a photo of an original)   

1900  paper clips   

1901  vacuum cleaner was invented by Hubert Booth   

1901  guglielmo Marconi sends radio-wave signals across the Atlantic Ocean from England to Canada   

1901  The first electric vacuum cleaner is developed   

1901  Electric washing machine is invented   

1903  powered airplane was invented by Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright   

1903  brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright build the first engine-powered airplane.   

1905  albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect.   

1905  Samuel J. Bens invents the chainsaw   

1906  Willis Carrier pioneers the air conditioner   

1906  Mikhail Tswett discovers chromatography   

1906  photostats (copies made on light-sensitive paper instead of film)   

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