Inventors & Their Inventions


inventers

Invention - Year of InventionInventor
Air Conditioning 1902Willis Carrier
Apple Lisa Computer 1983Apple
Atomic Bomb 1945J. Robert Oppenheimer leading the Manhattan Project team.
Ball-Point Pen 1938Ladislo Biro
Bra 1913Mary Phelps Jacob
Mobile/Cellular Phones1947/1979Multi
Modern Computers 1936 - presentMulti
Computer Game 1962MIT 
Steve Russell
Computer Mouse 1964Douglas Engelbart
DRAM 1970Intel
Drive-In Movie Theater 1933Richard M. Hollingshead
Electric Chair 1888Thomas Edison
Ethernet 1973Xerox 
Robert Metcalfe
Fiber Optics 1854 - 1970Maurer, Keck, Schultz 
Multi - Tyndall, Bell, Wheeler
"Floppy" Disk 1971IBM 
Alan Shugart
Fortran 1954John Backus 
IBM
Fountain Pen 1884Lewis Edson Waterman 
Multi
Frisbee® 1948Walter Frederick Morrison 
Warren Franscioni
Geodesic Dome 1954Richard Buckminster Fuller
Hydrogen Fuel Cells 1839Sir William Robert Grove
Guillotine 1307 - 1789Multi
Integrated Circuit 1958Jack Kilby, Robert Noyce
Internet 1969Multi
Lava Lite® 1962Craven Walker
MacIntosh Computer 1984Apple
MDMA 1913Merck Chemical Company 
Alexander Shulgin
Microprocessor 1971Intel 
Faggin, Hoff, Mazor
Digital Cellular PCS 1988Multi
Monopoly 1904 - 1936Multi
MS-DOS 1981Microsoft
Neon 1902Georges Claude
Neoprene 1931Wallace Hume Carothers 
Dupont Research Team
Network Computing 1973Robert Metcalf 
Xerox
Nylon 1935Wallace Hume Carothers 
Dupont Research Team
Orgone Accumulator 1940Dr William Reich
Peanut Products Approx 1880George Washington Carver
Prozac® 1988Eli Lilly Company 
Ray Fuller 
Multi
RAM Chip 1970Intel 
Multi
Robots 1921 - 1956Multi
Roller Skates 1700 - 1993Multi
Seismograph 1880John Milne
Soft Drinks 1798 - presentMulti
Rubik's Cube 1974Enro Rubik
Tekno Bubbles 1999Byron and Melody Swetland
Transistor 1947Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley
VELCRO® 1948George de Mestral
Viagra® 1998Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
PC Windows 1985Microsoft
Word Processors 1960s to 79Multi
Writing Instruments 8500 BC -Multi
Yo-Yo 1929Multi
Zipper 1851 - 1917Gideon Sundback 
Whitcomb Judson

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