Inventions Timeline

1906  light bulbs (tungsten)   

1906  the lightbulb is introduced.   

1907  color photography was invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere   

1907  Helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu   

1907  Radio amplifier was invented by Lee DeForest   

1907  Leo Baekeland develops Bakelite, the first popular synthetic plastic   

1907  alva Fisher invents the electric clothes washer.   

1907  Electric vacuum cleaner is introduced   

1908  American industrialist and engineer Henry Ford launches the Ford Model T, the world's first truly affordable car   

1909  bakelite was invented by Leo Baekeland   

1909  German chemists Fritz Haber and Zygmunt Klemensiewicz develop the glass electrode, enabling very precise measurements of acidity   

1909  Electric toaster is made   

1910  neon light   

1911  air conditioning is invented.   

1912  american chemist Gilbert Lewis describes the basic chemistry that leads to practical, lithium-ion rechargeable batteries (though they don't appear in a practical, commercial form until the 1990s).   

1912  hans Geiger develops the Geiger counter, a detector for radioactivity.   

1915  searchlight arc   

1919  Francis Aston pioneers the mass spectrometer and uses it to discover many isotopes   

1920  john Logie Baird develops mechanical television.   

1920  Philo T. Farnsworth invents modern electronic television   

1920  Robert H. Goddard develops the principle of the modern, liquid-fueled space rocket   

1920  german engineer Gustav Tauschek and American Paul Handel independently develop primitive optical character recognition (OCR) scanning systems.   

1920  albert W. Hull invents the magnetron, a device that can generate microwaves from electricity.   

1921  Karel Capek and his brother coin the word "robot" in a play about artificial humans   

1921  John Larson develops the polygraph ("lie detector") machine   

1923  Sound film was invented by Lee DeForest   

1923  television Electronic was invented by Philo Farnsworth   

1924  Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logie Baird   

1927  television   

1928  antibiotics were invented by Alexander Fleming   

1928  Thomas Midgley, Jr. invents coolant chemicals for air conditioners and refrigerators   

1928  the electric refrigerator is invented.   

1928  sliced bread is introduced.   

1930  Peter Goldmark pioneers color television   

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