Invention

An invention is a novel device or technique.

Famous inventions include:

Significant ancient inventions

• agriculture
• the aqueduct
• the arch
• central heating
• the clock
• the compass
• gunpowder
• the inclined plane
• the lever
• paper
• the plow
• Pottery
• the pulley
• the stirrup
• stone tools
• the wedge
• the wheel
• writing

Significant modern inventions, date as yet unknown or not noted

List in alphabetical order:

• Air conditioning
• Anaesthesia
• the Bunsen burner
• the Diesel engine
• the [[Hot air balloon]
• Heavier than air flight
• the Kinematograph
• the microscope
• Moveable type
• the optical telegraph
• the personal computer
• Photography
• the Refrigerator
• the superheterodyne receiver
• the telescope

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Significant modern inventions, arranged in chronological order

Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first widely fielded version of the invention should be used here.

• 1769: the steam engine
• 1798: Vaccination
• 1835: Morse code
• 1838: electric Telegraphy
• 1866: Dynamite
• 1867: the typewriter
• 1876: the Telephone
• 1877: the Phonograph
• 1879: Incandescent light bulb
• 1886: the automobile
• 1896: Radio
• 1904: the Thermionic valve
• 1919: the Theremin
• 1925: Television
• 1929: Antibiotics
• 1944: the digital computer
• 1947: the Transistor
• 1958: the Integrated circuit
• 1969: the Internet
• 1971: the Microprocessor
• 1989: the World Wide Web

See also:

• inventor
• technology
• Kranzberg's Laws of Technology