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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.
1900: The first Zeppelin is designed by Theodor Kober. 1901: The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "vacuum cleaner", is patented independently by Hubert Cecil Booth and David T. Kenney. [455] 1903: The first successful gas turbine is invented by Ægidius Elling. 1903: Édouard Bénédictus invents laminated glass.
Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) invented the salt print and calotype photographic processes J.J. Thomson (1856–1940), mass spectrometer Jethro Tull (1674–1740), horse-drawn seed drill
The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including predecessor states in the history of the formation of the United Kingdom. This list covers, but is not limited to, innovation and invention in the mechanical, electronic, and industrial fields ...
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792). From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents [9] relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below.
George Frederick Armstrong (1842–1900), sanitation engineer and academic [2] William Armstrong (1810–1900), inventor of the hydraulic accumulator and breech-loading, rifled artillery [3] Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), pioneered the science of electric arcs and ripples in sand and water. [4]
In 1800, Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery (known as the voltaic pile) and thus improved the way electric currents could also be studied. [21] A year later, Thomas Young demonstrated the wave nature of light—which received strong experimental support from the work of Augustin-Jean Fresnel—and the principle of interference. [22]