Inventor that have modified our life
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| Invention | Date | Inventor | Nationality |
| Steam pump | 1698 | Thomas Savery | English |
| Steam engine, reciprocating | 1705 | Thomas Newcomen | English |
| Diving bell | 1717 | Edmund Halley | English |
| Steam Engine | 1765 | James Watt | Scottish |
| Motorized carriage | 1769 | Nicolas Cugnot | French |
| Balloon | 1783 | Montgolfier brothers | French |
| Steamboat | 1787 | John Fitch | American |
| Screw propeller | 1804 | John Stevens | American |
| Steam locomotive | 1804 | Richard Trevithick | English |
| Railway locomotive | 1814 | George Stephenson | English |
| Bicycle | 1816 | Karl D. Sauerbronn | German |
| Electric streetcar | 1834 | Thomas Davenport | American |
| Regenerative steam engine | 1847 | William Siemens | British |
| Hydraulic turbine | 1849 | James B. Francis | American |
| Elevator | 1852 | Elisha G. Otis | American |
| Nonrigid airship | 1852 | H. Giffard | French |
| Sleeping car | 1857 | George M. Pullman | American |
| Gas engine | 1860 | Etienne Lenoir | French |
| Streamlined train | 1865 | Samuel Calthrop | American |
| Railway air brakes | 1868 | G. Westinghouse | American |
| Car coupler | 1873 | Eli H. Janney | American |
| Internal combustion engine | 1875 | Siegfried Marcus | Austrian |
| Gas engine | 1876 | Nikolaus A. Otto | German |
| Glider | 1877 | Otto Lilienthal | German |
| Steam turbine | 1884 | C.A. Parsons | English |
| Gasoline-powered automobile * | 1885 | Karl Benz | German |
| Air-inflated rubber tire | 1887 | J.B. Dunlop | Scottish |
| "Robert
William Thomson (1822 - 1873) Invented the vulcanised rubber pneumatic
tyre. He patented his invention in 1845, which was successfully tested in London, however it was abandoned because it was thought too expensive for common use. The tyre was re-invented by John Dunlop in 1888. Thomson's invention is commemorated by a plaque in his native Stonehaven. He also patented the fountain pen (1849) and a steam traction engine (1867). Source: Great Scots! -- Recommended by Richard Stephen, Manchester UK (email communication, August 2, 1997) |
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| Steam turbine | 1889 | C.G. de Laval | Swedish |
| Tesla Coil * | 1891 | Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943) | Born: Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Naturalized American Citizen |
| Diesel engine * | 1892 | Rudolph Diesel | German |
| Self-powered model airplane | 1896 | S.P. Langley | American |
| Airplane * | 1903 | Wright brothers | American |
| Gyrocompass | 1911 | Elmer A. Sperry | American |
| Automobile self-starter | 1911 | C.F. Kettering | American |
| Hydroplane | 1911 | Glenn Curtis | American |
| Ethyl gasoline | 1922 | T. Midgley, Jr. | American |
| Traffic Signal | 1923 | Garrett A. Morgan | American |
| Jet propulsion | 1937 | Frank Whittle | English |
| Helicopter * | 1939 | Igor Sikorsky | Naturalized American citizen |
| Electricity-producing breeder reactor | 1951 | Atomic Energy Commission | American |
| Solar cell | 1954 | D.M.
Chaplin C.S. Fuller G.L. Pearson |
American American American |
| Wankel engine | 1956 | Felix Wankel | German |
| Hovercraft | 1956 | Christopher Cockerell | English |
