Inventions and Inventors
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Who invented what, and when: the breakthroughs that shaped the modern world.
- Who invented the light bulb?
- Thomas Edison
- Who invented the telephone?
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Who invented the airplane?
- Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur)
- Who invented the printing press?
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Who invented the steam engine?
- James Watt (improved version)
- Who invented the automobile?
- Karl Benz
- Who invented the radio?
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Who invented the computer?
- Charles Babbage (concept) / ENIAC team (first electronic)
- Who invented television?
- Multiple inventors (Baird Farnsworth Zworykin)
- Who invented the World Wide Web?
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Who invented penicillin?
- Alexander Fleming
- Who invented the telegraph?
- Samuel Morse
- Who invented the phonograph?
- Thomas Edison
- Who invented dynamite?
- Alfred Nobel
- Who invented the camera?
- Multiple inventors (Niépce Daguerre Eastman)
- Who invented the microscope?
- Zacharias Janssen (compound)
- Who invented the telescope?
- Hans Lippershey (patent) / Galileo (astronomical)
- Who invented the electric battery?
- Alessandro Volta
- Who invented the refrigerator?
- Multiple inventors (Perkins Evans Carrier)
- Who invented air conditioning?
- Willis Carrier
- Who invented the zipper?
- Whitcomb Judson (hookless fastener) / Gideon Sundback (modern)
- Who invented Velcro?
- George de Mestral
- Who invented the safety pin?
- Walter Hunt
- Who invented the ballpoint pen?
- László Bíró
- Who invented the pencil?
- Nicholas-Jacques Conté (modern graphite)
- Who invented the eraser?
- Edward Nairne
- Who invented Post-it Notes?
- Spencer Silver and Art Fry (3M)
- Who invented the paper clip?
- Johan Vaaler (disputed) / Gem Manufacturing
- Who invented Scotch tape?
- Richard Drew (3M)
- Who invented the stapler?
- Multiple inventors