History of Creating

Oldest

• Stone Tools
• Bone and Antler Tools
• Fire
• Clay Tools
• Bricks
• Wood Works
• Agriculture
• Copper
• Bronze
• Metal Tools
• Molten Iron Tools
• Glass
• Ceramic
• Starch Paste
• Paper (Papyrus)
• Natural Gum
• Animal Glue
• Pigments
• Rubber

Old

• Static Electricity (Rubbing amber, a tree resin)
• Early Balloons
• Kites
• Lighthouses
• Screw Pump
• Water Wheel
• Force Pump (by Cteisbo, Father of Pneumatics)
• Steam Power (Hero of Alexandria)
• Vending Machine (Hero of Alexandria)
• Heron's Formula (Hero of Alexandria)
• Heron's Fountain (Hero of Alexandria)
• Limestone
• Cement
• Concrete (Roman Pozzolana)
• Paper (Ts'ai Lun)
• Clockwork Automata
• Gear (Antikythera Mechanism)

Medieval

• Windmills
• Gunpowder and Fireworks
• Eyeglasses
• Flushing Handwash (al Jazari)
• Rockets

15th Century

• Printing Press
• Parachute Sketch

16th Century

• Cartography
• Compound Microscope
• Flush Toilets
• Thermometer

17th Century

• Thermometer (Galileo)
• Geomagnetism (William Gilbert)
• Telescope (Galileo)
• Microscope (by Hooke and Leeuwenhoek)
• Barometer (Mercury) (Toricelli, Galileo's Student)
• Pendulum Clock (Huygens, based on Galileo's teachings)
• Laws of Motion and Gravitation (Newton)
• Piano (by Cristofori)

18th Century

• Horse Drawn Seed Drill (Jethro Tull)
• Binary Number System (Leibniz)
• Steam Engine (Newcomen)
• Internal Combusion Engine Theory (Huygens)
• Zinc Extraction Process (William Champion)
• Sextant (Campbell)
• Chronometers / Seafaring Clocks (Harrison)
• Discovery of Zeolites (Cronstedt)
• Speech Synthesizer (Kempelen)
• Iron Bridge (Darby III)
• Pyrometer (Wedgewood)
• Hot Air Balloon (Michel and Montgolfier)
• Discovery of Titanium (Gregor)

19th Century

• Battery (Volta)
• Punched Cards (Jacquard)
• Automated Cloth-Weaving Loom (Jacquard)
• Paper Making Machine (Henry and Sealy)
• Electrolysis (Davy)
• Long Range Military Rockets (Congreve)
• Electric Arc Lamp (Davy)
• Steam Locomotive (Stephenson)
• Stirling Engine
• Electric Generators (Faraday)
• Primitive Electric Motors (Faraday)
• Carnot Engine Theory (Carnot)
• Photographs (Niepce)
• Electric Motor (Sturgeon)
• Daguerrotype Photographs (Daguerre)
• Negatives (Talbot)
• Telegraph (Wheatstone and Cooke)
• Ship Propellers (Smith and Ericsson)
• Vulcanized Rubber (Goodyear)
• Conservation of Energy (Joule)
• Chemical Fax Machine (Bain)
• Hydropower Water Turbine (Francis)
• Steel Manufacturing Process (Bessemer)
• Pasteurization (Pasteur)
• Mechanical Fax Machine / Pantelegraph (Caselli)
• Internal Combustion Engine (Lenoir and Otto)
• Laws of Electromagnetism (Maxwell)
• Fire Extinguishers
• Chewing Gum (Anna and Adams)
• Elevator with Safety Brake (Otis)
• Reinforced Concrete (Monier)
• Modern Typewriter (Sholes)
• QWERTY Keyboard (Sholes)
• Wind Tunnel (Wenham)
• Telephone (Bell)
• Phonograph (Edison)
• Pelton Wheel Turbine (Pelton)
• Flare Gun / Very Piston (Very)
• Incandescent Electric Lamp (Edison)
• Piezoelectric Effect (Pierre and Curie)
• Power Plants (Edison)
• Autoclave / Steam Fertilizing Machine (Chamberland)
• Aluminium Manufacturing Process (Hall and Heroult)
• Silver, Gold and Copper Mining Process (Everson)
• Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (d'Arsonval)
• Plastic Photographic Filem (Eastman)
• Steam Turbine (Parsons)
• Gasoline Engine Car (Benz)
• Dishwasher (Cochran)
• Liquid Crystals (Reinitzer)
• Pneumatic Tires (Dunlop)
• AC Electric Induction Motor (Tesla)
• Optical Pyrometer (Morse)
• Movie Projectors (Joseph and Lumiere)
• Diesel Engine (Diesel)
• Space Rocket Theory (Tsiolkovsky)
• Radio Wave Message (Lodge)
• X-Rays (Rontgen)
• Electric Bicycle (Bolton)
• Impulse Steam Turbine (Curtis)
• Remote Control (Tesla)

20th Century

• Cross Atlantic Radio (Marconi)
• Vacuum Cleaner
• Airplane (Wright Brothers)
• Photoelectric Effect (Einstein)
• Chainsaw (Bens)
• Air Conditioner (Carrier)
• Chromatography (Tswett)
• Bakelite (Synethic Plastic) (Baekeland)
• Electric Clothes Washer (Fisher)
• Electrostatic Smoke Precipitator / Smokestack Pollution Scrubber (Cottrell)
• Affordable Car (Ford)
• Glass Electrode (Haber and Klemensiewicz)
• Primitive Jet Plane (Coanda)
• Lithium Ion Rechargeable Battery Theory (Lewis)
• Geiger Counter / Radioactivity Detector (Geiger)
• Space Rocket Construction Theories (Goddard)
• Mass Spectrometer (Aston)
• Mechanical Television (Baird)
• Electronic Television (Farnsworth)
• Liquid Fueled Space Rocket Theory (Goddard)
• Optical Character Recognition Scanners (Tauschek and Handel)
• Magnetron (Hull)
• Robot Theory (Novel) (Capek and his brother)
• Polygraph / Lie Detector (Larson)
• Coolant Chemicals (Midgley)
• Electric Refrigerator
• Bubble Gum (Deimer)
• Jet Engines (Whittle and Ohain)
• Colour Television (Goldmark)
• Ballpoint Pen (Laszlo and Georg)
• Solar Powered House (Telkes)
• Neoprene Synthetic Rubber (Carothers)
• Nylon (Carothers)
• Radar (Watt)
• Electronic pH meter (Beckman)
• Xenon Flash Lamp (for high speed photography) (Edgerton)
• Discovery of Shape Memory Effect in a Gold-Cadmium Alloy (Olander)
• Magnetic Reed Switch (Laptop Lid State Detector) (Elwood)
• Xerography / Photocopying (Carlson)
• Teflon Nonstick Plastic Coating (Plunkett)
• Helicopter (Sikorsky)
• Comapct Magnetron (For airplane radar navigation) (Randall and Boot)
• Nuclear Chain Reactor (Fermi)
• Memex Document Store Concept (pioneer of electronic books and Internet)
• Communications Satellite Concept (Clarke)
• Transistor (Brattain and SHockley)
• Barcodes (Silver and Woodland)
• Maser / Microwave Laser (Townes and Arthur)
• Practical Renewable Energy (Ovshinksy)
• Flywheels as Regernative Breaks
• Microwave Oven (Spencer)
• Imitation Game / Turing Test (Alan Turing)
• Automobile Airbag (Hetrick and Linderer)
• Fiber Optics (Kapany)
• TV Remote Control (Polley)
• Commercial Nuclear Power
• AI Concept (McCarthy)
• Sputnik Space Satellite
• Fiber Optic Gastroscope (Crutiss, Hirschowitz and Peters)
• IC (Kilby and Noyce)
• DAC-1 CAD system (IBM and General Motors)
• Ski-Doo Snowmobile (Bombardier)
• Ruby Laser (Maiman)
• Light Sensitive Glass / Photochromic Glass (Corning Glass)
• LED (Holonyak)
• Sketchpad CAD (Sutherland)
• SABRE Airline Ticker Reservation System (IBM)
• Portable Defibrillator (Pantridge)
• Kevlar (Kwolek)
• DRAM (IBM)
• Vacuum Fluorescent Display (VFD)
• Molecular Beam Epitaxy (Cho, Arthur)
• Solar Power Station
• GORE-TEXT Waterproof Material (by stretching Teflon) (Gore)
• Electronic Book Concept (Kay)
• CCD chips (Boyle, Smith)
• Moon Landing
• Computer Mouse (Enegelbart)
• Compact Discs (Russell)
• E-Ink (Xerox PARC)
• Microprocessor (Ted Hoff)
• Mobile phone (Cooper)
• Ethernet (Metcalfe)
• Public Key Cryptography (Diffie and Hellman)
• X-10 Smart Home (Pico Electronics)
• Apple I (Wozniak and Jobs)
• Bagless, Cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner (Dyson)
• Quantum Computer Theory (Bennet, Beioff, Feynman, Deutsch)
• Portable Music Player (Morita)
• IBM PC
• Space Shuttle
• Laser Eye Surgery for Cataracts (Bath)
• Flash Memory (Masuoka)
• Quantum Dots (Ekimov, Brus)
• Commercial CDs (Sony and Philips)
• DLP Projection (Texas Instruments)
• WWW (Berners-Lee)
• MEGA-1 Radio Controlled Wristwatch (Junghans)
• Linux (Torvalds)
• Mathematics for iris scanning (Daugman)
• QR Codes (Hara)
• VoIP (Cohen, Haramaty)
• Online Radio (Broadcast.com)
• Online Auction (eBay)
• HDTV (WRAL-HD)
• Wi-Fi (IEEE)

21st Century

• Apple iPod
• Energy Absorbing D3O Plastic (Palmer)
• Online Encyclopedia (Wikipedia)
• BitTorrent File Sharing
• Self-Healing Materials (White, Sottos)
• Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robot (iRobot Corporation)
• Electronic Voting
• Graphene (Geim, Novoselov)
• OLPC Program (MIT)
• e-Reader (Amazon Kindle)
• Touchscreen cellphone (Apple iPhone)
• Touchscreen Tablet Computer (Apple iPad)
• 3D TV
• Hyprloop Tube Transport System (Elon Musk)
• Supercomputers 30 times less powerful than brains
• Molecular Machine Construction (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016)
• Quantum Computer (Google)
• Solution to Protein Folding (Google DeepMind AI)
• SLS Rocket (NASA)
• AI Integrated Search Engines