Uppfinningar och dess skapare
| Invention/Uppfinning | År | Inventor/Uppfinnare | Nation. |
| Adding machine | 1642 | Pascal | French |
| Adding machine | 1885 | Burroughs | U.S. |
| Aerosol spray | 1926 | Rotheim | Norwegian |
| Air pump | 1654 | Guericke | German |
| Air brake | 1868 | Westinghouse | U.S. |
| Air conditioning | 1911 | Carrier | U.S. |
| Airplane, experimental | 1896 | Langley | U.S. |
| Airplane with motor | 1903 | Wright bros. | U.S. |
| Airplane, hydro | 1911 | Curtiss | U.S. |
| Airplane, automatic pilot | 1912 | Sperry | U.S. |
| Airplane jet engine | 1939 | Ohain | German |
| Airship | 1852 | Giffard | French |
| Airship, rigid dirigible | 1900 | Zeppelin | German |
| Arc welder | 1919 | Thomson | U.S. |
| Autogyro | 1920 | de la Cierva | Spanish |
| Automobile, exp'mtl | 1864 | Marcus | Austrian |
| Automobile, differential gear | 1885 | Benz | German |
| Automobile, gasoline | 1889 | Daimler | German |
| Automobile, gasoline | 1892 | Duryea | U.S. |
| Automobile, electric | 1892 | Morrison | U.S. |
| Automobile magneto | 1897 | Bosch | German |
| Automobile self-starter | 1911 | Kettering | U.S. |
| Automobile muffler | Maxim, H.P. | U.S. | |
| Babbitt metal | 1839 | Babbitt | U.S. |
| Bakelite | 1907 | Baekeland | Belg., U.S. |
| Balloon | 1783 | Montgolfier | French |
| Barometer | 1643 | Torricelli | Italian |
| Bicycle, modern | 1885 | Starley | English |
| Bifocal lens | 1780 | Franklin | U.S. |
| Block signals, railway | 1867 | Hall | U.S. |
| Bomb, depth | 1916 | Tait | U.S. |
| Bottle machine | 1895 | Owens | U.S. |
| Braille printing | 1829 | Braille | French |
| Burner, gas | 1855 | Bunsen | German |
| Calculating machine | 1833 | Babbage | English |
| Camera, Kodak | 1888 | Eastman, Walker | U.S. |
| Camera, Polaroid Land | 1948 | Land | U.S. |
| Car coupler | 1873 | Janney | U.S. |
| Carburetor, gasoline | 1893 | Maybach | German |
| Card time recorder | 1894 | Cooper | U.S. |
| Carding machine | 1797 | Whittemore | U.S. |
| Carpet sweeper | 1876 | Bissell | U.S. |
| Cash register | 1879 | Ritty | U.S. |
| Cassette, audio | 1963 | Philips Co. | Dutch |
| Cassette, videotape | 1969 | Sony | Japanese |
| CAT scan (computerized tomography) | 1973 | Hounsfield | English |
| Cathode ray tube | 1878 | Crookes | English |
| Cathode ray oscilloscope | 1897 | Braun | German |
| Cellophane | 1908 | Brandenberger | Swiss |
| Celluloid | 1870 | Hyatt | U.S. |
| Cement, Portland | 1824 | Aspdin | English |
| Chronometer | 1761 | Harrison | English |
| Circuit breaker | 1925 | Hilliard | U.S. |
| Circuit, integrated | 1959 | Kilby, Noyce, Texas Instr | U.S |
| Clock, pendulum | 1657 | Huygens | Dutch |
| Coaxial cable system | 1929 | Affel, Espensched | U.S. |
| Coke oven | 1893 | Hoffman | Austrian |
| Compressed air rock drill | 1871 | Ingersoll | U.S. |
| Comptometer | 1887 | Felt | U.S. |
| Computer, automatic sequence | 1944 | Aiken et al. | U.S. |
| Computer, mini | 1960 | Digital Corp | U.S. |
| Condenser microphone (telephone) | 1916 | Wente | U.S. |
| Contraceptive, oral | 1954 | Pincus, Rock | U.S. |
| Corn, hybrid | 1917 | Jones | U.S. |
| Cotton gin | 1793 | Whitney | U.S. |
| Cream separator | 1878 | DeLaval | Swedish |
| Cultivator, disc | 1878 | Mallon | U.S. |
| Cystoscope | 1878 | Nitze | German |
| Diesel engine | 1895 | Diesel | German |
| Disk, floppy | 1970 | IBM | U.S. |
| Disk, video | 1972 | Philips Co | Dutch |
| Disk, compact | 1972 | RCA | U.S. |
| Disk player, compact | 1979 | Sony, Philips Co | Japan., Dutch |
| Dynamite | 1866 | Nobel | Swedish |
| Dynamo, continuous current | 1871 | Gramme | Belgian |
| Dynamo, hydrogen >cooled | 1915 | Schuler | U.S. |
| Electric battery | 1800 | Volta | Italian |
| Electric fan | 1882 | Wheeler | U.S. |
| Electrocardiograph | 1903 | Einthoven | Dutch |
| Electroencephalograph | 1929 | Berger | German |
| Electromagnet | 1824 | Sturgeon | English |
| Electron tube multigrid | 1913 | Langmuir | U.S. |
| Electron spectrometer | 1944 | Deutsch, Elliott, Evans | U.S. |
| Electroplating | 1805 | Brugnatelli | Italian |
| Electrostatic generator | 1929 | Van de Graaff | U.S. |
| Elevator brake | 1852 | Otis | U.S. |
| Elevator, push button | 1922 | Larson | U.S. |
| Engine, steam, piston | 1705 | Newcomen | English |
| Engine, steam, piston | 1769 | Watt | Scottish |
| Engine, gasoline | 1872 | Brayton, Geo. | U.S. |
| Engine, coal-gas 4-cycle | 1876 | Otto | German |
| Engine, electric ignition | 1883 | Benz | German |
| Engine, compression ignition | 1883 | Daimler | German |
| Engine, gasoline | 1889 | Daimler | German |
| Engine, automatic transmission | 1910 | Fottinger | German |
| Engine, gas, compound | 1926 | Eickemeyer | U.S. |
| Engraving, half-tone | 1852 | Talbot | U.S. |
| Fiber optics | 1955 | Kapany | English |
| Fiberglass | 1938 | Owens-Corning | U.S. |
| Filament, tungsten | 1913 | Coolidge | U.S. |
| Flanged rail | 1831 | Stevens | U.S. |
| Flatiron, electric | 1882 | Seely | U.S. |
| Food, frozen | 1924 | Birdseye | U.S. |
| Furnace (for steel) | 1858 | Siemens | German |
| Galvanometer | 1820 | Sweigger | German |
| Gas lighting | 1792 | Murdoch | Scottish |
| Gas mantle | 1885 | Welsbach | Austrian |
| Gas discharge tube | 1922 | Hull | U.S. |
| Gasoline, cracked | 1913 | Burton | U.S. |
| Gasoline (lead ethyl) | 1922 | Midgley | U.S. |
| Gasoline, high octane | 1930 | Ipatieff | Russian |
| Geiger counter | 1913 | Geiger | German |
| Glass, laminated safety | 1909 | Benedictus | French |
| Glider | 1853 | Cayley | English |
| Gun, breechloader | 1811 | Thornton | U.S. |
| Gun, magazine | 1875 | Hotchkiss | U.S. |
| Gun, Browning | 1897 | Browning | U.S. |
| Gun, silencer | 1908 | Maxim, H.P. | U.S. |
| Guncotton | 1847 | Schoenbein | German |
| Gyrocompass | 1911 | Sperry | U.S. |
| Gyroscope | 1852 | Foucault | French |
| Harvester-thresher | 1818 | Lane | U.S. |
| Heart, artificial | 1982 | Jarvik | U.S. |
| Helicopter | 1939 | Sikorsky | U.S. |
| Hydrometer | 1768 | Baume | French |
| Ice-making machine | 1851 | Gorrie | U.S. |
| Iron lung | 1928 | Drinker, Slaw | U.S. |
| Kaleidoscope | 1817 | Brewster | Scottish |
| Kinetoscope | 1889 | Edison | U.S. |
| Lacquer, nitrocellulose | 1921 | Flaherty | U.S. |
| Lamp, miner's safety | 1816 | Davy | English |
| Lamp, arc | 1847 | Staite | English |
| Lamp, incandescent | 1879 | Edison | U.S. |
| Lamp, neon | 1909 | Claude | French |
| Lamp, Klieg | 1911 | Kliegl, A.&J. | U.S. |
| Lamp, mercury vapor | 1912 | Hewitt | U.S. |
| Lamp, incand., gas | 1913 | Langmuir | U.S. |
| Lamp, incand., frosted | 1924 | Pipkin | U.S. |
| Lamp, flourescent | 1938 | General Electric, Westinghouse | U.S. |
| Lathe, turret | 1845 | Fitch | U.S. |
| Launderette | 1934 | Cantrell | U.S. |
| Lens, achromatic | 1758 | Dollond | English |
| Lens, fused bifocal | 1908 | Borsch | U.S. |
| Leydenjar (condenser) | 1745 | von Kleist | German |
| Lightning rod | 1752 | Franklin | U.S. |
| Linoleum | 1860 | Walton | English |
| Linotype | 1884 | Mergenthaler | U.S. |
| Lock, cylinder | 1851 | Yale | U.S. |
| Locomotive, exp'mtl | 1802 | Trevithick | English |
| Locomotive, exp'mtl | 1812 | Fenton et al | English |
| Locomotive, exp'mtl | 1813 | Hedley | English |
| Locomotive, exp'mtl | 1814 | Stephenson | English |
| Locomotive practical | 1829 | Stephenson | English |
| Locomotive, 1st U.S. | 1830 | Cooper, P. | U.S. |
| Locomotive, electric | 1851 | Vail | U.S. |
| Loom, power | 1785 | Cartwright | English |
| Loudspeaker, dynamic | 1924 | Rice, Kellogg | U.S. |
| Machine gun | 1861 | Gatling | U.S. |
| Machine gun, improved | 1872 | Hotchkiss | U.S. |
| Machine gun (Maxim) | 1883 | Maxim, H.S. | U.S., Eng. |
| Magnet, electro | 1828 | Henry | U.S. |
| Mantle, gas | 1885 | Welsbach | Austrian |
| Mason jar | 1858 | Mason, J. | U.S. |
| Match, friction | 1827 | John Walker | English |
| Mercerized textiles | 1843 | Mercer, J. | English |
| Meter, induction | 1888 | Shallenberg | U.S. |
| Metronome | 1816 | Malezel | German |
| Micrometer | 1636 | Gascoigne | English |
| Microphone | 1877 | Berliner | U.S. |
| Microscope, compound | 1590 | Janssen | Dutch |
| Microscope, electronic | 1931 | Knoll, Ruska | German |
| Microscope, field ion | 1951 | Mueller | German |
| Monitor, warship | 1861 | Ericsson | U.S. |
| Monotype | 1887 | Lanston | U.S. |
| Motor, DC | 1837 | Davenport | U.S. |
| Motor, induction | 1887 | Tesla | U.S. |
| Motor, AC | 1892 | Tesla | U.S. |
| Motorcycle | 1885 | Daimler | German |
| Movie machine | 1894 | Jenkins | U.S. |
| Movie, talking | 1927 | Warner Bros. | U.S. |
| Movie, panoramic | 1952 | Waller | U.S. |
| Mower, lawn | 1831 | Budding, Ferrabee | English |
| Mowing machine | 1822 | Bailey | U.S. |
| Neoprene | 1930 | Carothers | U.S. |
| Nylon synthetic | 1930 | Carothers | U.S. |
| Nylon | 1937 | Du Pont lab | U.S. |
| Oil cracking furnace | 1891 | Gavrilov | Russian |
| Oil filled power cable | 1921 | Emanueli | Italian |
| Oleomargarine | 1869 | Mege-Mouries | French |
| Ophthalmoscope | 1851 | Helmholtz | German |
| Paper | 105 | Lun | Chinese |
| Paper machine | 1809 | Dickinson | U.S. |
| Parachute | 1785 | Blanchard | French |
| Pen, steel | 1780 | Harrison | English |
| Pen, ballpoint | 1838 | Biro | Hungarian |
| Pen, fountain | 1884 | Waterman | U.S. |
| Pendulum | 1583 | Galileo | Italian |
| Percussion cap | 1807 | Forsythe | Scottish |
| Phonograph | 1877 | Edison | U.S. |
| Photo film, transparent | 1884 | Eastman, Goodwin | U.S. |
| Photo, color | 1892 | Ives | U.S. |
| Photo film, celluloid | 1893 | Reichenbach | U.S. |
| Photoelectric cell | 1895 | Elster | German |
| Photographic paper | 1835 | Talbot | U.S. |
| Photography | 1816 | Niepce | French |
| Photography | 1835 | Daguerre | French |
| Photography | 1835 | Talbot | English |
| Photophone | 1880 | Bell | U.S.-Scot. |
| Phototelegraphy | 1925 | Bell Labs | U.S. |
| Piano | 1709 | Cristofori | Italian |
| Piano, player | 1863 | Fourneaux | French |
| Pin, safety | 1849 | Hunt | U.S. |
| Pistol (revolver) | 1836 | Colt | U.S. |
| Plow, cast iron | 1785 | Ransome | English |
| Plow, disc | 1896 | Hardy | U.S. |
| Pneumatic hammer | 1890 | King | U.S. |
| Powder, smokeless | 1884 | Vieille | French |
| Printing press, rotary | 1845 | Hoe | U.S. |
| Printing press, web | 1865 | Bullock | U.S. |
| Propeller, screw | 1804 | Stevens | U.S. |
| Propeller, screw | 1837 | Ericsson | Swedish |
| Pulsars | 1967 | Bell | English |
| Punch card accounting | 1889 | Hollerith | U.S. |
| Quasars | 1963 | Schmidt | U.S. |
| Radar | 1940 | Watson-Watt | Scottish |
| Radio, signals | 1895 | Marconi | Italian |
| Radio, magnetic detector | 1902 | Marconi | Italian |
| Radio tube-diode | 1905 | Fleming | English |
| Radio amplifier | 1906 | De Forest | U.S. |
| Radio tube triode | 1906 | De Forest | U.S. |
| Radio receiver, cascade tuning | 1913 | Alexanderson, | U.S. |
| Radio receiver, heterodyne | 1913 | Fessenden | U.S. |
| Radio transmitter triode modulation | 1914 | Alexanderson | U.S. |
| Radio tube oscillator | 1915 | De Forest | U.S. |
| Radio crystal oscillator | 1918 | Nicolson | U.S. |
| Radio beacon | 1928 | Donovan | U.S. |
| Radio FM 2-path | 1933 | Armstrong | U.S. |
| Rayon | 1883 | Swan | English |
| Razor, safety | 1895 | Gillette | U.S. |
| Razor, electric | 1917 | Schick | U.S. |
| Reaper | 1834 | McCormick | U.S. |
| Record, cylinder | 1887 | Bell, Tainter | U.S. |
| Record, disc | 1887 | Berliner | U.S. |
| Record, wax cylinder | 1888 | Edison | U.S. |
| Record, long playing | 1947 | Goldmark | U.S. |
| Refrigerants, low-boiling fluorine compound | 1930 | Midgely and co-workers | U.S. |
| Refrigerator car | 1868 | David | U.S. |
| Resin, synthetic | 1931 | Hill | English |
| Richter scale | 1935 | Richter | U.S. |
| Rifle, repeating | 1860 | Spencer | U.S. |
| Rocket engine | 1926 | Goddard | U.S. |
| Rubber, vulcanized | 1839 | Goodyear | U.S. |
| Saw, circular | 1777 | Miller | English |
| Saw, band | 1808 | Newberry | English |
| Sewing machine | 1846 | Howe | U.S. |
| Shoe-sewing machine | 1860 | McKay | U.S. |
| Shrapnel shell | 1784 | Shrapnel | English |
| Shuttle, flying | 1733 | Kay | English |
| Sleeping-car | 1865 | Pullman | U.S. |
| Slide rule | 1620 | Oughtred | English |
| Soap, hardwater | 1928 | Bertsch | German |
| Spectroscope | 1859 | Kirchoff, Bunsen | German |
| Spectroscope (mass) | 1918 | Dempster | U.S. |
| Spinning jenny | 1767 | Hargreaves | English |
| Spinning mule | 1779 | Crompton | English |
| Steam car | 1770 | Cugnot | French |
| Steam turbine | 1884 | Parsons | English |
| Steamboat, exp'mtl | 1778 | Jouffroy | French |
| Steamboat, exp'mtl | 1785 | Fitch | U.S. |
| Steamboat, exp'mtl | 1787 | Rumsey | U.S. |
| Steamboat, exp'mtl | 1788 | Miller | Scottish |
| Steamboat, practical | 1802 | Symington | Scottish |
| Steamboat, exp'mtl | 1803 | Fulton | U.S. |
| Steamboat, exp'mtl | 1804 | Stevens | U.S. |
| Steamboat, practical | 1807 | Fulton | U.S. |
| Steel (converter) | 1856 | Bessemer | English |
| Steel, manganese | 1884 | Hadfield | English |
| Steel alloy | 1891 | Harvey | U.S. |
| Steel, electric | 1900 | Heroult | French |
| Steel alloy, high-speed | 1901 | Taylor, White | U.S. |
| Steel, stainless | 1916 | Brearley | English |
| Stereoscope | 1838 | Wheatstone | English |
| Stethoscope | 1819 | Laennec | French |
| Stethoscope, binaural | 1840 | Cammann | U.S. |
| Stock ticker | 1870 | Edison | U.S. |
| Storage battery, rechargeable | 1859 | Plante | French |
| Stove, electric | 1896 | Hadaway | U.S. |
| Submarine, torpedo | 1776 | Bushnell | U.S. |
| Submarine | 1891 | Holland | U.S. |
| Submarine, even keel | 1894 | Lake | U.S. |
| Superconductivity (BCS theory) | 1957 | Bardeen, Cooper, Schreiffer | U.S. |
| Tank, military | 1914 | Swinton | English |
| Tape recorder, magnetic | 1899 | Poulsen | Danish |
| Teflon | 1938 | Du Pont | U.S. |
| Telegraph, magnetic | 1837 | Morse | U.S. |
| Telegraph, quadruplex | 1864 | Edison | U.S. |
| Telegraph, railroad | 1887 | Woods | U.S. |
| Telegraph, wireless high frequency | 1895 | Marconi | Italian |
| Telephone | 1876 | Bell | U.S.-Scot. |
| Telephone, automatic | 1891 | Stowger | U.S. |
| Telephone, recording | 1898 | Poulsen | Danish |
| Telephone, wireless | 1899 | Collins | U.S. |
| Telephone, radio | 1900 | Poulsen, Fessenden | Danish |
| Telephone, radio | 1906 | De Forest | U.S. |
| Telephone amplifier | 1912 | De Forest | U.S. |
| Telephone, radio, I. d | 1915 | AT&T | U.S. |
| Telescope | 1608 | Lippershey | Neth. |
| Telescope | 1609 | Galileo | Italian |
| Telescope, astronomical | 1611 | Kepler | German |
| Teletype | 1928 | Morkrum, Kleinschmidt | U.S. |
| Television, (mech. scanner) | 1923 | Baird | Scottish |
| Television, iconoscope | 1923 | Zworykin | U.S. |
| Television, electronic | 1927 | Farnsworth | U.S. |
| Thermometer | 1593 | Galileo | Italian |
| Thermometer, mercury | 1714 | Fahrenheit | German |
| Thermometer | 1730 | Reaumur | French |
| Time recorder | 1890 | Bundy | U.S. |
| Time, self-regulator | 1918 | Bryce | U.S. |
| Tire, double-tube | 1845 | Thomson | Scottish |
| Tire, pneumatic | 1888 | Dunlop | Scottish |
| Toaster, automatic | 1918 | Strite | U.S. |
| Tool, pneumatic | 1865 | Law | English |
| Torpedo, marine | 1804 | Fulton | U.S. |
| Tractor, crawler | 1904 | Holt | U.S. |
| Transformer A.C. | 1885 | Stanley | U.S. |
| Transistor | 1947 | Shockley, Brattain, Bardeen | U.S. |
| Trolley car, electric | 1884-87 | Van DePoele, Sprague | U.S. |
| Tungsten, ductile | 1912 | Coolidge | U.S. |
| Tupperware | 1945 | Tupper | U.S. |
| Turbine, gas | 1849 | Bourdin | French |
| Turbine, hydraulic | 1849 | Francis | U.S. |
| Turbine, steam | 1884 | Parsons | English |
| Type, movable | 1447 | Gutenberg | German |
| Typewriter | 1867 | Sholes, Soule, Glidden | U.S. |
| Vacuum cleaner, electric | 1907 | Spangler | U.S. |
| Velcro | 1948 | de Mestral | Swiss |
| Video game ("Pong") | 1972 | Buschnel | U.S. |
| Video home system (VHS) | 1975 | Matsushita, JVC | Japanese |
| Washer, electric | 1901 | Fisher | U.S. |
| Welding, electric | 1877 | Thomson | U.S. |
| Welding, atomic | 1924 | Langmuir, Palmer | U.S. |
| Wind tunnel | 1912 | Eiffel | French |
| Wire, barbed | 1874 | Glidden | U.S. |
| Wire, barbed | 1875 | Haisn | U.S. |
| Wrench, double-acting | 1913 | Owen | U.S. |
| X-ray tube | 1913 | Coolidge | U.S. |
| Zipper | 1891 | Judson | U.S. |