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  • Frenchman Etienne Lenoir and German Nikolaus Otto pioneered the internal combustion engine.
  • Who pioneered the internal combustion engine?
    Frenchman Etienne Lenoir and German Nikolaus Otto
  • James Clerk Maxwell figured out that radio waves must exist and sets out basic laws of electromagnetism.
  • Elisha Graves Otis invents the elevator with built in safety brake.
  • Joseph Monier invents reinforced concrete.
  • Christopher Latham Sholes invents the modern typewriter and Qwerty keyboard.
  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone even with issues concerned.
  • Thomas Edison develops the phonograph, the first practical method of recording sound and playing it back on a metal foil.
  • Thomas Edison invents his sound-recording machine or phonograph.
  • Edward Very invents the flare gun to send distress signal at sea.
  • Thomas Edison patents the modern incandescent electric lamp.
  • Thomas Edison opens the world forst power plants.
  • Charles Chambarland invents the autoclave a steam sterilizing machine.
  • Carrie Everson invents a new way of mining.
  • George Eastman invents plastic photographic film.
  • Charles Parsons develops the steam
    turbinez
  • Karl Benz builds a gasoline engined car.
  • Friedrich Reinitzer discovers liquid crystala.
  • John Boyd Dunlop patents air filled pneumatic tires.
  • Nikola Tesla patents the alternating current (AC) induction motor and in opposition to Thomas Edison becomes a staunch advocate of AC.
  • Everett F. Morse invents the optical pyrometer for measuring temperatures at a safe diatance.
  • French brothers Joseph and Louis Lumiere invent movie prjectors and open the first cinema.
  • German Engineer Rudolf Diesel develops his diesel engine a more efficient internal combustion engine.
  • physicist Sir Oliver Lodge sends the first ever message bu radio wave in Oxford, England.
  • German Physicist Wilhelm Rontgen discovers xrays
  • Nikola Tesla invents remote radio control.
  • 1901- the first electric vacuum cleaner is developed.
  • Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first engined power airplane.
  • Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect.
  • Willis Carrier pioneers the air conditioner.
  • Mikhail Tswett discovers chromatography.
  • Leo Baekeland develops Bakelite, the first popular synthetic plastic.
  • Alva Fisher invents the electric clothes washer.
  • Frederick Gardner Cottrell develops the electrostatic smoke precipitator.
  • American industrialist and engineer Henry Ford launches the Ford T model, the world’s first truly affordable car.
  • German chemists Fritz Haber and Zygmunt Klemensiewicz develop the glass electrode enabling very precise measurement of acidity.
  • American chemist Gilbert Lewis describes the basic chemistry that leads to practical lithium ion rechargeable batteries.
  • Hans Geiger develops the Geiger counter, a detector for radioactivity.
  • Robert Hutchings Goddard, an American physicist publishes influential ideas on building space rockets.
  • Francis Aston pioneers the mass spectrometer and uses it to discover many isotopes.