Scientific Inventions
Scientific Invention, Medical Invention, Invention and Inventor
Invention
Inventor
Year
Country
Steel (Stainless)
Harry Brearley
1913
Britain
Tank
Sir Emest D. Swington
1914
Britain
Synthetic Antigens
Landsteiner
1917
U.S.A.
Automatic Rifle
John Browning
1918
U.S.A.
Proton
Rutherford
1919
N.Zealand
Thyroxin
Edward Calvin-Kendall
1919
U.S.A.
Vitamin C
Forelich Hoist
1919
Norway
Radar
A. H. Taylor & Leo C. Young
1922
U.S.A.
Film (Talking)
J. Engl, J. Mussolle & H. Vogt
1922
Germany
Film (Musical Sound)
Dr. Le de Forest
1923
U.S.A.
Helicopter
Etienne Oehmichen
1924
France
Vitamin D
Mc Collum
1925
U.S.A.
Television (Mechanical)
John Logie Baird
1926
Britain
Aerosol Spray
Erik Rotheim
1926
Norway
Pop-up toaster
Charles Strite
1927
U.S.A.
Television (Electronic)
P.T. Farnsworth
1927
U.S.A.
Television, Colour
John Logie Baird
1928
Britain
Penicillin
Alexander Fleming
1928
Britain
Rubber (Latex Foam)
Dunlop Rubber Co.
1928
Britain
Magnetic Recording Tape
Fritz Pfleumer
1928
Germany
Electro-Encephalogram
Hand Berger
1929
Germany
Adhesive Tape, Scotch
Richard Drew
1930
U.S.A.
Microscope, elect.
Ruska Knoll
1931
Germany
Razor (Electric)
Col. Jacob Schick
1931
U.S.A.
Neutron
Chadwick
1932
Britain
Cardiac Pacemaker
A.S. Hyman
1932
U.S.A.
Launderette
J.F. Cantrell
1934
U.S.A.
Vitamin B1
Minot & Murphy
1936
U.S.A.
Jet Engine
Sir Frank Whittle
1937
Britain
Nylon
Dr. wallace H. Carothers
1937
U.S.A.
Photocopier
Carlson
1938
U.S.A.
Vitamin K
Doisy Dam
1938
U.S.A.
Airplane, Jet Engine
Ohain
1939
Germany
Plutonium Fission
Kennedy, Whal, Seaborg, Segre
1940
U.S.A.
Rh-factor
Karl Landsteiner
1940
U.S.A.
Blood Plasma Storage (Blood Bank)
Drew
1940
U.S.A.
Uranium Fission, Atomic reactor
Szilard Femi
1942
U.S.A.
LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide)
Hoffman
1943
Switzerland
Kidney Machine
Kolf
1944
Netherlands
Streptomycin
Selman Waksman
1944
U.S.A.
Ballistic Missile
Wemher von Braun
1944
Germany
Atomic Bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer
1945
U.S.A.
Radiocarbon
Libby
1947
U.S.A.
Dating
Libby
1947
U.S.A.
Microwave Oven
Percy LeBaron Spencer
1947
U.S.A.
Holography
Denis Gason
1947
Britain
Chloromycetin
Burkholder
1947
U.S.A.
Telephone, Cellular
Bell Labs
1947
U.S.A.
Velcro (hook-and-Ioop-fastener)
Georges de Mestral
1948
Switzerland
Transistor
Bardeen, Shockley & Britain
1948
U.S.A.
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