History of Creating

History of Creating
Oldest
Old
Medieval
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
21st Century

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