Some inventions and Inventors

Inventor	Inventions	Year	Country
Johannes Gutenberg	Printing Press	1440	Germany
Heinrich Rudolph Hertz	Electromagnetic theory of light and electromagnetic waves. Radio and electrical frequencies (Hz)	1880s	Germany
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen	Electro Magnetic Radiations or X-Ray	1895	Germany
Alfred Nobel	Dynamite	1867	Sweden
Eli Whitney	Milling machine and cotton gin	1793	America
Mary Anderson	Windshield wipers	1903	America
Wilber and Orville Wright (Wright Brothers)	Airplanes	1903	America
Archimedes	Archimedes screw, a device used to raise the water level, explained the principle behind levers, Archimedes principle, accurate value of the 'pi' and many more	3rd century B.C.	Greece
Richard G. Drew	Adhesive tape	1923	America
Peter Henlein	Pocket watch	1504-1508	Germany
Sir Isaac Newton	Discovered gravity and also invented the reflecting telescope	1668	England
John Napier	Logarithms, Napier Bones and decimal point	1590s	Scotland
Jacques Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan	Aqualungs	1943	France (Emile was a French Canadian)
Thomas Newcomen	Atmospheric steam engine	1710	England
Karl Friedrich von Drais	Bicycle, typewriter with keyboard and wood saving cooker	1820s	Germany
Alexander Graham Bell	Telephone	1875	Scotland
Willis Carrier	Air conditioner	1914	America
Jean Nollet (Also known as Abbe Nollet)	Electroscope	1748	France
Ransome Eli Olds	Assembly line	1901	America
Earle Dickson	Band Aid	1920	America
James Naismith	Basketball	1891	Canada
Levi Strauss	Blue jeans	1873	Germany/USA
Louis Braille	Braille for the blind	1829	France
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen	Bunsen burner	1855	Germany
Alfred Mosher Butts	Scrabble	1938	America
Sir Humphrey Davy	Miner's safety lamp or the Davy lamp	1815	England
Charles Richter	Richter magnitude scale for measuring earthquake	1935	America
Heinrich Göbel	Incandescent light bulb	1890s	Germany/America
Jesse Langsdorf	Neck tie	1920	America
Thomas Edison	Phonograph and electric light bulb	1877 and 1879 (respectively)	America
Benjamin Franklin	Lighting rod, bifocals, Franklin stove, glass armonica, swim fins, urinary catheter and also the carriage odometer	1950s	America
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel	Diesel engine	1890s	Germany
Otto von Guericke	Air pump or vacuum pump	1650	Germany
Galileo Galilei	Geometric compass, better 30X magnification telescope, 'invented' that the su nwas the center of the solar system and not the earth	1590s onwards	Italy
Nikola Tesla	AC motor and transformer, vacuum tube amplifier, Tesla coil, X-Ray technology	1880s	Austria/America
Chester Carlson	Xerography photocopying	1937-38	America
Jacques Edwin Brandenberger	Cellophane	1908	Switzerland
Ruth Wakefield	Chocolate chips and chocolate chip cookies	1930	America
Leonardo da Vinci	Lens grinding machine, parachute, Strut bridge, automatic bobbin winder, and also machine for testing tensile strength of wires	1500s	Italy
Abd al-Latif al Baghadadi	Ventilator	1162-1231	Iraq/Egypt
Jagdish Chandra Bose	Crescograph	1920s	India
C ai Lun	Paper and paper making process	105 AD	China
Evgeniy Chertovsky	Pressure suit	1931	Russia
Dr. John Stith Pemberton	Coca Cola	1886	America
Zacharias Janssen	Compound microscope	1595	Holland
Arthur Wynne	Crossword puzzle	1913	England
Charles Richard Drew	Blood bank	-	America
Thomas Davenport	Electric streetcar	1834	America
Lala Balhumal Lahuri	Seamless globe, celestial globe	Late 1842	Mughal India
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar and K.N. Mathur	Bhatnagar-Mathur Magnetic Interference Balance	1928	India
Jesse W. Reno	Escalator	1891	America
Lewis E. Waterman	Fountain pen	1884	America
Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin	Guillotin	1790s	France
Elias Howe	Sewing machine	1846	America
Ida Henrietta Hyde	Micro electrode	1930s	America
Charles Mackintosh	Waterproof raincoat and life vest	1820s	Scotland
Edwin Beard Budding	Lawn mower	1830	England
Garrett Augustus Morgan	Traffic signal, gas mask and several other things	-	African-American
Louis Pasteur	Pasteurization	Late 19th century	France