Technology

Inventions Report - Timeline: Description

Book: The Book of Inventions (National Geographic)

Timeline: Description - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mechanical - STEM

300 BC - Abacus

1300 - Spinning yarn wheel

1400 - Mechanical clocks

1483 - Leonardo’s invention - Armored Vehicle, Parachute, Ornithopter, Glider, Helicopter, Aeroplane

1577 - Jost Burgi invented the minute hand. Burgi's invention was part of a clock made for Tycho Brahe

1600 - Robert Hooke invents microscope

1600 - Galileo Galilei and telescopes

1614, 1616 - Logarithms - John Napier

1623 - Blaise Pascal - wore wrist watch

1642 - Mechanical calculator - Blaise Pascal

1656 - Pendulum clocks

1700 - Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal spectacles

1778 - Flush toilet - Joseph Bramah

1783-1815 - Macadamized roads - John McAdams

1796 - Arkwright spinning machine

1800 - Making steel

1801-1083 - Railway Locomotive - Steam Road Carriage

1830 - Thermostat - Andrew Ure

1831 - Magnetic Field produces electricity - Electric motor, transformer, and generator - Michael Faraday

1832 - Rainhill Bridge spanned Liverpool and Manchester

1834 - Refrigerator - Jacob Perkins

1843 - Fax Machine - Alexander Bain, Giovanni Caselli

1845 - Pneumatic Tire - Robert Thomson, John Dunlop

1846 - Sewing Machine - Elias Howe Jr

1849 - Safety Pin - Walter Hunt

1849 - Glider - George Cayley

1849 - Buoying Vessels - Abraham Lincoln

1850 - Ceramic toilet

1854 - Cyrus West Field and the Atlantic Telegraph Company were behind the construction of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The project began in 1854 and was completed in 1858

1860 - Light Bulb - Joseph Wilson Swan

1860 - Records

1867 - Typewriter - Carlos Glidden

1868 - Life Signals, Frank Vester

1868-73 - (QWERTY keyboard) - James Denmore

1872 - Grocery Bag - Luther Crowell

1873 - Barbed wire - Joseph Glidden

1875 - Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell

1876 - Air brake - George Westinghouse

1876 - Centennial (100 years)

1876 - AT&T - Following Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876

1877 - Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, formed the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.

1877 - Phonograph - Thomas Edison

1879 - Light Bulb - Thomas Edison

1879 - Cash Register - James Ritty

1880 - Electric lamp

1882 - Electric Iron - Henry Steely

1855 - Can Opener - Robert Yeates

1885 - Dishwasher - Josephine Garis

1885 - AT&T was incorporated in 1885 as a subsidiary of Bell, to build and operate the first long-distance telephone

1886 - William Seward Burroughs - adding machine

1888 - National Geographic - 130 years - Society 1889 - Wall Street Journal - DOW, SP500, New York Exchange, Baltimore Exchang, Philadelphia Exchange

1888 - Roll Film Camera - George Eastman (Kodak)

1889 - Herman Hollerith patented electromechanical punch card tabulating system

1889 - William Gray is credited with inventing the coin payphone in the United States in 1889, and George A. Long was its developer

1890 - Inventor Herman Hollerith would eventually go on to establish a company that would become IBM

1890 - Washing machine - William Sellers

1893 - J. Frank and Charles had designed the first successful American gasoline automobile in

1894 - Calculator invented - Otto Steiger

1895 - Breakfast Cereal - John Kellogg, Will Kellogg

1891 - Bottle Cap - William Painter

1897 - Cathode Ray Tube TV

1900 - Radio - Guglielmo Marconi

1901 - Paper Clip - John Vaaler

1901 - Transatlantic radio message - Guglielmo Marconi

1902 - Wake up Devices - Frank Clarke

1902 - Submarine - Cornelius Drebbel, John Holland

1903 - Metal pen nib

1903 - Phonograph

1904 - Tea Bag - Thomas Sullivan

1904 - Air Conditioning - Willis Carrier

1904 - Fax machine - Arthur Korn

1907 - Cutlery - Elmer Walter

1908 - Henry Ford introduced the Model T

1908 - William Durant founded General Motors

1910 - Vacuum cleaner - Daisy

1910 - Neon lights

1912 - Ovenproof Glass - Eugene Sullivan, Corning Glass

1912 - Warren clock company and battery clocks

1913 - Zipper / Velcro - Gideon Sunback, Whitcomb Judson

1918 - Tea Bag - Benjamin Hirschorn

1919 - Tea Bag - Joseph Krieger

1920 - Handheld computer - Hamilton Beach

1920 - Jubilee Cup - hose clip - Lumley Robinson

1920 - Radios for home use

1921 - Electric tea kettle

1922 - Cathode Ray Tube TV commercialized

1922 - Food Processor - Stephen Poplawki - blender

1923 - First self-winding watch - John Harwood

1923-1924 - Television - John Baird, Vladimir Zworykin

1926 - Aerosol Can - Erik Rotheim

1927 - First quartz clock - Warren Marrison

1928 - Geiger Counter - Hans Geiger, Walther Muller

1928-35 - Sliced Bread - Otto Frederick Rohwedder

1929 - Licorice - George Bassett

1930 - Radio entertaining medium NBC and BBC

1930 - Jet Engine - Frank Wittle

1930-1958 - Rolodex - Arnold Neustadter

1932 - Anglepoise Lamp - George Carwardine

1933 - Polythene - Eric Fawcett, Reginald Gibson

1934 - Electric Refrigerator

1934 - Catseyes - reflecting road studs - Percy Shaw

1935 - Radar - Robert Watson-Watt

1935 - Parking meter - Carlton Magee

1936 - Alan Turing - universal machine

1937 - Instant Coffee - Max Mortgenthaler

1938 - Instant Coffee - Nestle

1938 - Photocopier - Chester Carlson

1939 - Nonstick Pan - Roy Plunkett, Marc Gregoire

1939 - Hewlett-Packard

1943 - ENIAC computer

1944 - Tetra Pak - Ruben Rausing

1945 - Microwave Oven - Percy Spencer

1946 - Disposable Diaper - Marion Donovan

1947 - Tupperware - Earl Tupper

1947 - Ovenproof Glass - S.D. Stookey, Corning Glass

1947 - Transistor - Willam Shockely, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain

1948 - Polaroid Camera - Edwin Land

1948 - Computer and Mouse - Freddie Williams and Thomas Kilburn

1949 - Bar code - Barndard Silver and Norman Woodland

1950 - Food Processor - Ken Wood - Food Processor

1950 - Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) was created

1951 - Correction Fluid - Bette Nesmith

1953 - COBOL

1954 - FORTRAN

1955 - Hovercraft - Christopher Cockerell

1955 - TV Remote Control - Eugene Polley

1958 - Flight data recorder - David Warren

1958 - Integrated Circuit - Jack Kirby and Robert Noyce

1959 - Microchip - Jack Kilby, Robert Noyce

1960 - Color television had begun to replace black and white technology

1960 - Atomic clock - Willard Libby

1962 - Modem - AT&T

1062 - LED - Nick Holonyak

1963 - Kevlar - Stephanie Kwolek, Paul Morgan

1963 - Cassette tapes

1964 - Lava Lamp - Craven Walker

1964 - Flat Screen TV - University of Illinois

1964 - Douglas Engelbart introduces a prototype for the modern computer that includes a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI)

1965 - Ring Pull - Ermal Fraze

1965 - Wine Box - Thomas Angove

1967 - Computer and Mouse - Douglas Engelbart

1969 - Developers at Bell Labs unveil UNIX

1969 - C programming language

1969 - Laser Printer - Gary Starkweather

1970 - Intel DRAM

1971 - Video Game Arcades

1971 - Food Processor - Pierre Verdun - Food Processor

1973 - Ethernet - Robert Metcalfe

1973 - IBM (bar code scanner)

1976 - Apple I computer

1977 - VHS

1977 - Atari

1978-93 - Dual Cyclone Cleaner - James Dyson

1978 - Laserdisc

1980 - Jaron Lanier - Virtual reality google and gloves

1981 - IBM Acorn

1982 - CD - Compact Discs

1983 - Nintendo

1984 - IBM Point Stick, TrackPoint

1984 - Apple introduced Macintosh

1984 - Handheld television

1985 - Microsoft Windows

1985 - C++

1985 - Widget - Alan Forage and William Byrne

1985 - AOL founded

1986 - National Science Foundation - launches NAFNET, first large scale network

1986 - 3D printing, Chuck Hull

1987 - IBM - OS 2 Warp Operating System

1988 - Widget - Guinness

1989 - Tim Berners Lee - World Wide Web

1989 - Commercial ISP - Internet Service provider - dial up service

1990 - HTML - Tim Berners Lee

1990 - Hubble Telescope

1991 - Tim Berners Lee - First Web browser

1991 - Linux operating system - Linux Torvalds (Finland)

1991 - Clockwork radio - Trevor Baylis

1991 - Garmin GPS

1993 - Apple Newton

1993 - Mosaic - First web browser

1994 - Netscape Navigator

1994 - Amazon, Yahoo

1994 - Sony PlayStation

1995 - eBay

1995 - Windows 95

1995 - Internet explorer

1995 - Yahoo - Jerry Yang and David Filo in January (1994)

1995 - USB 1.0

1995 - Java Programming Language

1996 - Hotmail

1996 - Palm Pilot - handheld computer and personal information manager - touch screens

1997 - Land Shark - amphibious vehicles , David Baker

1997 - Sharp and Sony introduced the first large flat screen TV PALC Technology

1997 - DVD

1997 - IBM Deep Blue Beats Garry Kasparov

1997 - Red Hat Linux 5.2

1997 - IPv4

1997 - Netflix, Palm Pilot

1997 - Toyota Prius Hybrid electric vehicle

1998 - Windows 98

1998 - Google

1998 - Smart homes

1999 - WiFi, Bluetooth

2000 - Windows NT - new technologies

2000 - Microsoft splits into 5 departments

2000 - Windows 2000

2000 - USB 2.0

2001 - Apple introduced Unix like system for Mac OS X, Apple introduced iPod

2001 - Wikipedia

2001 - Microsoft Xbox

2002 - The total number of personal computers, both desktop and laptop reach 1 billion

2002 - 3G Network, Roku

2003 - Windows XP

2003 - Microsoft Office / Microsoft Works

2003 - Google - Gmail

2003 - Apple iTunes

2004 - Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg (Harvard University)

2005 - Windows Vista

2005 - Apple used IBM Power PC chips

2005 - YouTube

2006 - Tesla Motors

2006 - Twitter, Blu Ray

2006 - The transistors used to create LCD flat screens

2006 - Apple began using Intel chips

2007 - Apple introduced the iPhone

2007 - Amazon releases kindle

2007 - Apple iPhone, Amazon Prime

2007 - Smart Thermostats - Ecobee

2008 - Google Android Phones, Google Releases mobile operating system - Google - Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Stanford University)

2008 - Sirius XM Radio

2009 - Bing, Bitcoin

2009 - 4G Networks

2009 - LCD flat screens dominated the TV market

2009 - Samsung Galaxy

2009 - Fitbit

2010 - Chevy Volt

2010 - Nissan Leaf

2010 - Analog to Digital TV Transition

2010 - Instagram

2010 - Apple sells 3 million iPad

2010 - Windows 7

2011 - Google chrome book

2012 - Windows 8 operating system

2013 - Smartwatches

2014 - Amazon Echo

2014 - Apple Pay

2015 - IPv6

2016 - Windows 10

2016 - TikTok

2018 - 2019 - 5G Networks