Check out these inventions and discoveries. All of them the result of work done by humans. None of them designed by god - not one!
15th century
Printing press
Parachute (with frame)
Mariner's astrolabe
Double-entry bookkeeping
16th century
Floating dock in Venice
Mercator Projection map
17th century
World's first newspaper (The German Relation)
First mechanical calculator: the Pascaline.
18th century
First piano built
Alcohol thermometer invented
First steam engine invented by Harvey
Blood pressure measured for first time
Centigrade temperature scale.
Leyden jar, an early form of capacitor.
Spinning jenny.
James Watt improves the steam engine
19th century
Voltaic pile: an early form of battery Arc lamp
Morphine used to control pain
Railway steam locomotive
The pattern-tracing lathe
The friction match
Electromagnetic induction.
Mechanical calculator
Morse Code.Steam hammer.
Refrigeration: Using vapour compression
Crookes radiometerTelephone
Phonograph
First practical light bulb
DC electric motorFirst petrol powered car
Wind turbines for grid electricity
20th century
The zeppelin
Escalator
Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
First successfully received a radio transmission.
vacuum cleaner.
air conditioner.
The lie detector
neon light.
crayons.
Bottle-making machine
first airplane.
windshield wipers.
Teabags
Vacuum diode or Fleming valve.
Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity
Cornflakes.
Electronic amplifying tube (triode).
First synthetic plastic called Bakelite.
Helicopter
Gyrocompass
Cellophane
Geiger counter.
Instant coffee
Neon lights
Automobile electrical ignition system.
Motorized movie cameras
Life Savers candy
Zipper.
Stainless steel
Pop-up toaster
Short-wave radio
Arc welder
Tommy gun
Band-Aid
Insulin
3-D movie (spectacles with red and green lens)
Traffic signal.
Cathode-ray tube
Self-winding watch.
Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
Mechanical television invented by John Logie Baird.
Liquid-fueled rockets.
PEZ candy.
Quartz crystal watch.
Iron lung.
Penicillin.
Bubble gum
Electric shaver.
Car radio.
Scotch tape
Neoprene.
Jet engine.
Electron microscope
Polaroid photography
Zoom lens
Light meter
Parking meter.
Radio telescope.
FM radio
Stereo records
Road reflectors
Game of Monopoly.
Tape recorder
Nylon
Canned beer
Radar.
Photocopier
Strobe lighting
Teflon.
Nescafe (freeze-dried coffee)
Konrad Zuse builds first programmable computer
Color television
Jeep.
Synthetic rubber
Richard James invents the slinky.
Silly putty.
Aqualung.
Kidney dialysis machine
Synthetic cortisone
Atomic bomb
Microwave oven
Mobile phones
Transistor.
Tupperware
Frisbee
Velcro
Wurlitzer jukebox.
Cake mix
The first credit card (Diners Club)
Super glue
Power steering
Video tape recorder
Mr Potato Head
Barcodes
Edward Teller builds hydrogen bomb.
Radial tires
Musical synthesizer
Black box flight recorder.
Transistor radio
Oral contraceptives
Nonstick teflon frying pan
Solar cell
Optic fiber
Hovercraft
Lasers
Integrated circuits
Heart Pacemaker
Barbie Doll
Microchips
Halogen lamp
Valium
Audio cassette
Fiber-tip
Silicone breast implants.
Video disk
BASIC (an early computer language)
Astroturf
Soft contact lenses
KevlarElectronic Fuel injection
Handheld calculator
Computer mouse
RAM (random access memory).
The arpanet (first internet)
Artificial heart
ATM
Bar-code scanner
Daisy wheel printer
Floppy disk
Dot-matrix printer
Food processor
Liquid-crystal display (LCD)
Microprocessor
VCR
Word processor
Pong (first video game)
Ethernet (local computer network)
Disposable lighter.
Post-it notes
Liposuction.
Laser printer
Ink-jet printer
VisiCalc spreadsheet
Cell phones
Cray supercomputer
Walkman
Roller blades.
Hepatitis-B vaccine
MS-DOS
IBM-PC
Scanning tunneling microscope
Apple Lisa
Soft bifocal contact lens
Cabbage Patch Kids
The CD-ROM invented
Apple Macintosh
Windows invented by Microsoft.
Disposable camera.
Disposable contact lenses
Digital cellular phones invented
Doppler radar
Prozac
High-definition television
The World Wide Web (WWW)
Internet protocol (HTTP)
WWW language (HTML)
Digital answering machine
Pentium processor
HIV protease inhibitor
Java computer language
DVD
Web TV
Viagra
Artificial liver
Self-cleaning windows
i-Pod
Hybrid Car
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