Look around you. What do you see? A computer? A phone? Books? Clothing?
Once upon a time, none of those things existed. Someone invented each one of them. Someone saw a problem, and, through brainstorming and (usually lots of) trial and error, came up with a solution to it. Or they took someone else’s invention and saw a way to improve on it or use it for something other than for what it had been designed. Or they created a process for completing an action more simply.
People who discover new methods of doing things or technology which improve our lifestyle are called inventors. The new technologies which they develop are inventions. Many inventors worked on a number of inventions. Others made discoveries which later were developed into new or better inventions by other inventors or were part of a team that combined their inventing. Here is a list of them. You may use alphabetic index or search box to find an invention or inventor quickly.
There are currently 55 Inventions in this directory
Air Brake
George Westinghouse
Air conditioner
Willis Carrier
Airplane
Wright Brothers
Alternating Current (AC)
Nikola Tesla
Atomic bomb
Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller et al
Automobile
Karl Benz
Barometer
Evangelista Torricelli
Camera
Nicéphore Niépce
Carburetor
Luigi De Cristoforis & Enrico Bernardi
Centigrade scale
Anders Celsius
Cosmic Rays
Victor Hess (but the term ‘cosmic rays’ first used by Robert Millikan
Diesel Engine
Rudolf Diesel
Dishwasher
Josephine Cochrane
Dynamite
Alfred Nobel
Electric Generator
Michael Faraday
Electric Light Bulb
Thomas Edison
Electricity
Benjamin Franklin
Electromagnetic Induction
Michael Faraday
Fuel Cell
William Grove
Galvanometer
Johann Schweigger
Helicopter
Igor Sikorsky
Internet
Lawrence Roberts
Jet Engine
Frank Whittle
Laser
Theodore H. Maiman (first demonstrated)
Laser Printer
Gary Starkweather
Lift
Elisha Otis
Machine Gun
Sir Hiram Maxim
Magnetic Tape
Fritz Pfleumer
Mobile Phone
Martin Cooper
Neon lamp
Georges Claude
Nuclear Reactor
Enrico Fermi
Penicillin
Alexander Fleming.
Plastic
Alexander Parkes
Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg
Quantum mechanics
Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan
Radar
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
Radio
Guglielmo Marconi
Railway Engine
George Stephenson
Refrigerator
William Cullen (later Oliver Evans)
Rocket Engine
Robert Goddard
Seismograph
John Milne
Steam engine
Thomas Newcomen
Submarine
Cornelius Drebbel (later) David Bushnell
Submarine (Military)
Yefim Nikonov
Telegraph
Samuel Morse
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Telescope
Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen; later Galileo
Television
John Logie Baird
Thermometer
Galileo Galilei
Transformer
Michael Faraday (later Ottó Titusz Bláthy)
Transistor
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley
Typewriter
Christopher Latham Sholes
Video Games
Ralph Baer
Watch
Peter Henlein
Wave mechanics
Erwin Schrödinger
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