“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Dan 12:4).
4000 BC
Canal in Mesopotamia
3500 BC
Plywood in Egypt
Writing in Sumer
Carts in Sumer
3000 BC
Drainage in the Indus Valley (India/Pakistan)
Bronze: Susa
Silk in China
Cement in Egypt
2800 BC
Soap in Mesopotamia
Button in the Indus Valley
2600 BC
Artificial sewage systems in the Indus Valley
2000 BC
Currency
Candles in Egypt
600s BC
Coins in Lydia
500s BC
Sugar in India
Dental bridge in Etruria
Trebuchet in China
400s BC
Plastic surgery: Sushruta
300s BC
Compass in China
Screw: Archytas
200s BC
Crossbow in China
Compound pulley: Archimedes
Odometer: Archimedes?
150s BC
Clockwork (the Antikythera mechanism)
Astrolabe: Hipparchus
100s BC
Parchment in Pergamon
50 AD
Mouldboard plough in Gaul
100s
Aeolipile : Egypt by Hero of Alexandria
Stern mounted rudder in China
Paper
200s
Wheelbarrow: Zhuge Liang
Horseshoes in Germany
300s
Wootz steel in India
Stirrup in China
Toothpaste in Egypt
600s
Windmill in Persia
670
Greek fire
700s
Quill pen
800s
Gunpowder in China
900s
Horse collar in Europe
Solid rocket in China
1041
Movable type printing press: Bi Sheng
1100s
Framed Bead Abacus in China
1128
Cannon in China
1200s
Eyeglasses in Northern Italy
Mechanical clocks in Northern Italy
Sandpaper in China
1350
Suspension bridges in Peru
1441
Rain gauge: Jang Yeong-sil
1450
Alphabetic, movable type printing press
1451
Concave lens for eyeglasses
1498
Toothbrush in China
1510
Pocket watch
1540
Ether
1576
Ironclad warship
1581
Pendulum
1582
Gregorian calendar
1589
Stocking frame
1593
Thermometer
1600
Musket in Europe
Pencil in England
1608
Telescope: Hans Lippershey
1609
Microscope: Galileo Galilei
1620
Slide rule: William Oughtred
1623
Automatic calculator
1642
Adding machine
1643
Barometer
1645
Vacuum pump
1657
Pendulum clock
1672
Steam car
1679
Pressure cooker
1698
Steam engine
1700
Piano
1701
Seed drill
1709
Iron smelting using coke
1710
Thermometer
1711
Tuning fork
1712
Steam piston engine
1714
Mercury thermometer
1730
Mariner’s quadrant
1731
Sextant: John Hadley
1742
Franklin stove
1752
Lightning rod
1764
Spinning jenny
1767
Carbonated water
1769
Steam engine
Steam car
1776
Steamboat
1777
Circular saw
1783
Parachute
Hot air balloon
1784
Bifocals
Argand lamp
Shrapnel shell
1785
Power loom
Automatic flour mill
1786
Threshing machine
1793
Cotton gin
Optical telegraph
1797
Cast iron plow
1798
Vaccination
Lithography
1799
Seeding machine
1800
Electric battery
1802
Gas stove
1804
Locomotive
1808
Band saw
1809
Arc lamp
1811
Gun Breechloader
1814
Steam Locomotive
1816
Miner’s safety lamp
Stethoscope
1817
Kaleidoscope
1819
Breech loading flintlock
1821
Electric motor
1823
Electromagnet
1826
Photography
Internal combustion engine
1827
Insulated wire
Screw propeller
Friction match
1830
Lawn mower
1831
Reaper
Electrical generator
1834
The Hansom cab
Braille system
Refrigerator
Combine harvester
1835
Photogenic Drawing
Revolver
Morse code
Incandescent light bulb
1837
First US electric printing
Steel plow
Camera Zoom Lens
Magnetic telegraph
1838
Electric telegraph
1839
Vulcanization of rubber
1840
Artificial fertilizer
1842
Anesthesia
1843
Typewriter
Ice cream maker
1845
Portland cement
Double tube tire
1846
Sewing machine
Rotary printing press
1849
Safety pin
Francis turbine
1852
Airship
Passenger elevator
Gyroscope
1855
Bunsen burner
Bessemer process
1856
First celluloids
1858
Undersea telegraph cable
Shoe sole sewing machine
Mason jar
1859
Oil drill
1859
Rechargeable storage battery
1860
Linoleum
Repeating rifle
Self-propelled torpedo
1862
Revolving machine gun
Mechanical submarine
Pasteurization
1863
Player piano
1865
Roller Coaster
Barbed wire: Louis Jannin
1866
Dynamite
1868
First practical typewriter
Air brake (rail)
Oleomargarine
1869
Vacuum cleaner
1870
Magic Lantern projector
Stock ticker
1871
Cable car (railway)
Compressed air rock drill
1872
Adding machine
1873
Railway knuckle coupler
Modern direct current electric motor
1874
Electric street car
1875
Dynamo
1876
Carpet sweeper
Loudspeaker
1877
Stapler
1877
Induction motor
Phonograph
Electric welding
Twine Knotter
Microphone
1878
Cathode ray tube
Transparent film
1879
Pelton turbine: Lester Pelton
Automobile engine
Cash register
Automobile (Patent)
1880
Roll film
Safety razor
Seismograph
1881
Metal detector
1882
Electric fan
Electric flat iron
1883
Auto engine – compression ignition
Two-phase (alternating current) induction motor
1884
Linotype machine
Fountain pen
Punched card accounting
Trolley car, (electric)
1885:
Automobile – internal combustion engine powered
Automobile, differential gear
Motor cycle
Alternating current transformer
1886
Dishwasher
1887
Monotype machine
Contact lens
Gramophone record
1888
Kodak hand camera
Ballpoint pen
Pneumatic tube tire
1891
Automobile Storage Battery
Zipper
Carborundum
1893
Carburetor
Wireless communication
Radio: Nikola Tesla
1894
Radio transmission
1895
Diesel engine
Radio signals
Shredded Wheat
1896
Steam turbine
Electric stove
1897
Automobile, magneto
Modern escalator
1898
Tapered roller bearing
Remote control
1899
Iron-Mercury coherer with telephone detector
Automobile self starter
Magnetic tape recorder
Gas turbine
1900
Rigid dirigible airship
Self-heating can
1901
Improved wireless transmitter
Instant coffee
Mercury vapor lamp
Disposable razor blade
Vacuum cleaner
1902
Radio magnetic detector
Air Conditioner
Neon lamp
Radio telephone
Rayon
1903
Electrocardiograph (EKG)
Powered airplane
Windshield wiper
1904
Tractor
1907
Color photography
Helicopter
Radio amplifier
Vacuum cleaner, (electric)
Washing machine, (electric)
1908
Cellophane
Geiger counter
Gyrocompass
Tea bag: Thomas Sullivan
1909
Monoplane: Henry W. Walden
Bakelite
Gun silencer
1911
Air conditioner
Cellophane
Hydroplane
1913
Cracking process for Gasoline
Double acting wrench
Radio receiver, cascade tuning
Stainless steel
X-Ray
1914
Radio transmitter
Liquid fuel rocket
Tank, military
1915
Tungsten Filament
Searchlight arc
Radio tube oscillator
Pyrex
1916
Browning Gun
Thompson submachine gun
Incandescent gas lamp
1917
Sonar echolocation
Cruise missile
1918
Superheterodyne receiver
Interrupter gear
Radio crystal oscillator
Pop-up toaster
1921
Polygraph
1922
Radar
Technicolor
Water skiing
1923
Sound film
Television Electronic
Wind tunnel
1924
Frozen food
1926
Aerosol spray
1927
Mechanical cotton picker
PEZ Candy
1928
Sliced bread
Electric dry shaver
Antibiotics
Preselector gearbox
1929
Kinescope
X-Ray motion picture camera
1930
Neoprene
Nylon
Underwater Motion Picture Camera
1931
Radio telescope
Iconoscope
1935
Microwave radar
Trampoline
Spectrophotometer
1936
Pinsetter (bowling)
1937
Turboprop engine
Jet engine
O-ring
1938
Ballpoint pen
Fiberglass
1939
FM radio
Helicopter
View-master
Automated teller machine
1942
Bazooka Rocket Gun
Undersea oil pipeline
1943
Aqua-Lung
1944
Electron spectrometer
1945
Slinky
Nuclear weapons
1946
Microwave oven
Mobile Telephone Service
Computer
1947
Transistor
Polaroid camera
1948
Long Playing Record
Holography
1949
Atomic clocks
1951
Liquid Paper
Nuclear power reactor
1952
Optical fiber
Fusion bomb
Hovercraft
1953
Medical ultrasonography
1954
Transistor radio
Geodesic dome
1955
Velcro
Hair spray
Hard Drive
1956
Digital clock
Videocassette recorder
1957
Bubble Wrap
1958
Integrated circuit
Communications satellite
1959
Snowmobile
1960
Laser
1961
Optical disc
Cochlear implant
1962
Light-emitting diode
Space observatory
1963
Computer mouse
1967
Automatic Teller Machine
Hypertext
1968
Video game console
1969
ARPANET (first wide-area packet switching network)
1971
E-mail
Liquid Crystal Display
Microprocessor 1971: Pocket calculator
Magnetic resonance imaging
Floppy Disk
1972
Computed tomograph
1973
Ethernet
Genetically modified organism
Personal computer
1974
Rubik’s Cube
1974
Hybrid vehicle
1975
Digital camera
1976
Gore-Tex fabric
1977
Personal stereo
Cellular mobile phone
1978
Spreadsheet
1981
Scanning tunneling microscope
1983
Camcorder
Internet: first TCP/IP network
1984
Lithotripsy
1985
Polymerase chain reaction
DNA fingerprinting
1986
Breadmaker
1987
Statin
Digital Light Processing
1990
World Wide Web
1993
Global Positioning System
Blue LED
1997
Non-mechanical Digital Audio Player
DVD
Wi-Fi
1998
Viagra
2001
Digital satellite radio
Self-contained Artificial heart
2002
Scramjet
2003
Apple-s iTunes Music Store
FluMist, an alternative flu vaccine administered as a nasal spray
Camera phones
Self-parking cars
2004
The SWORD, an armed, unmanned ground vehicle with night and thermal vision, four cameras and a 7.62-mm machine gun.
Mr. Clean-s Magic Eraser
2005
Inexpensive, hand-cranked laptop computer ideal for distribution to impoverished schoolchildren in developing countries
iPod player with a 2.5-inch screen that can play visual files
Snuffy,- an Afghan hound that is the first fully cloned dog.
LifeStraw,- a $3 drinking-straw-type device that uses 7 types of filters and can make up to 185 gallons of water safe to drink.
2006
Nintendo Wii game system
YouTube online video sharing and viewing community
Skystream 3.7, a wind turbine designed especially for home use that can provide up to 80% of the average household’s electricity and shave $600 or more off annual utility costs. Gardasil vaccine to immunize adolescents against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, a major risk factor for cervical cancer.
2007
iPhone
Notebook computers
2008
Retail DNA test that estimates one-s predisposition for more than 90 traits and conditions ranging from baldness to blindness
Hulu.com, an online hub for television shows and movies
2009
AIDS vaccine
Retinal implant for the blind
2010
Apple’s iPad
Kinect, the first bull-body gaming system that doesn’t require a remote.
Lab-created rat lungs that function at 95 percent capacity.
2011
Animal meat created in a laboratory using stem cells from leftover animal parts
PrintBrush – a combination camera and printer, that can print on anything
The Bed Bug Detective uses an organic compound sensor that detects bedbugs by sensing two pheromones that they produce.
2012
“Super Wi-Fi” networks greatly expands the bandwidth of wireless networks.
Light-field cameras lets you adjust a picture after it’s been snapped.
2013
Inflatable Tourniquet – The device is able to compress the torso much better than conventional tourniquets, buying more time for people who suffer what are called junctional hemorrhages — intense bleeding from the neck, pelvis, groin or shoulder.
3D Camera To Help NASA Rovers Become Self-Starters – One of NASA’s new inventions this year was the TextureCam, which takes 3D pictures of rocks and can automatically tell the difference between rocks, sand and sky by detecting textures.
2014
AbioCor Artificial Heart – A group of surgeons from Louisville, Kentucky managed to implant a new-generation artificial heart in a patien. Dubbed AbioCor, the device was implanted in a man who suffered from heart failure. (http://recent-inventions.lv2lvu.com/top-inventions-of-2014/#.VEAzZU3n8ic)
Smart Glass – A company Vuzix from Rochester, New York, is bringing a new type of smart glass.This smart glasses are Internet-enabled and they allow do things such as reading email, using favorite apps, and receiving updates from sources like Facebook or other social sites (http://recent-inventions.lv2lvu.com/top-inventions-of-2014/#.VEAzZU3n8ic)
2015
3D Computer Chips Could Be 1,000 Times Faster Than Existing Ones. A new method of designing and building computer chips could lead to blisteringly quick processing at least 1,000 times faster than the best existing chips are capable of, researchers say. The 3 Ddesign enables scientists to interweave memory, which stores data, and the number-crunching processors in the same tiny space, according to Max Shulaker, one of the designers of the chip, and a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford University in California.
2016
ONO the smartphone’s 3D printer
Imagine transforming your old useless mobile phone to a brand new portable 3D printer. It’s under the Kickstarter campaign now. ONO converts your smartphone into a portable 3D printer. With this simple portable device ONO, you can convert your Android or iPhone or Windows phone into a 3D printer and print objects right from your device.
All you need is a flat screen smartphone with a touch screen and the installed app. ONO uses the smartphone’s screen as a light source and hardens the resins thereby creating 3D objects layer by layer. in addition, ONO is portable due to the usage of AA batteries.
Kobi – the lawnmower robot
Lawn mowing would no longer be a concern. Especially, for the people with a huge backyard. Kobi is a lawn mowing robot with a speed of 2 miles per hour that comes with three different capabilities – mowing your lawn, removing leaves and blowing away the snow.
2017
AI Robots are in the news like never before. But even people like Stephen Hawking (Atheist) warns about the destruction these “human-like” robots can bring.
Hawkins said: “Artificial intelligence is quite likely to ‘replace humans altogether’, Stephen Hawking has warned (again).”