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The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [ a ] The dates in this article make frequent use of the units mya and kya , which refer to millions and thousands of years ago, respectively.
Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions in the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.
The 100 known most prolific inventors based on worldwide utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office , it may include utility patents granted by other countries, as noted by the source references for an inventor.
[11] [12] [13] Considered by historians to be the world's first residential university [14] and among the greatest centres of learning in the ancient world, it was located near the city of Rajagriha (now Rajgir) and about 90 kilometres (56 mi) southeast of Pataliputra (now Patna) and operated from 427 until 1197 CE.
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the polygraph was on its 2003 list of the 325 greatest inventions. [172] 1921 Flowchart. A flowchart is common type of chart, representing an algorithm or process, showing the steps as boxes of various kinds, and their order by connecting these with arrows.
1907: Rosenthal puts in his image telegraph for the first time a photocell. 1911: First film studios are created in Hollywood and Potsdam- Babelsberg . 1912: The first radio receiver is created, in accordance with the Audion principle. 1913: The legal battle over the invention of the electron tube between Robert von Lieben and Lee de Forest is
The following articles cover the timeline of United States inventions: Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), before the turn of the century; Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945), before World War II; Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991), during the Cold War
The invention of the spinner is credited to James J.D. Gragg of Tulsa, Oklahoma who filed a patent on October 28, 1992 and was issued United States Patent #5,290,094 on March 4, 1994. [8] 1994 CMOS image sensor. Early prototype of a CMOS image sensor