Modern Ages

• Horizontal Water Wheel: Invented by Leonardo Da Vinci, in the year 1510, in Europe. A machine for converting the energy of free-flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill.
• Compound Microscope: Invented by Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek in the year 1590 in Middleburg, Holand. It helps researchers to describe the body at the microscopic level more consistently and with greater confidence in what they saw.
• Pascaline: Invented by Blaise Pascal in the year 1642 in France. He invented this machine because he wanted to help his father with his work in collecting taxes
• Marine Chronometer: Invented by John Harrison in 1730 in Yorkshire. Its purpose is to compute accurately navigators' longitude at sea.
• Artificial Refrigeration: Invented by William Cullen in the year of 1748 at University of Glasglow, Scotland. This provides an easier way of living for his community.
• Watt Steam Engines: Invented by James Watt in the year of 1775 at Birmingham, England. It is used for cotton looms, hammers, trains, ships, and any kind of heavy machinery in agriculture and factories.
• Morphine: It is invented by Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner during 1783-1841 in Germany. It began to gain popularity as a pain reliever and was used as an alternative to opium and also as a substitution therapy to help cure opium addiction.
• Battery: Invented by Allesandro Volta in the year of 1800 at Como, Italy. It is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.
• The Difference Engine: Invented by Charles Babbage in the year of 1822 at London. It compiles mathematical tables and perform any kind of calculation.
• Safety Elevator: Invented by Elisha Graves Otis at 1853. To lift and lower people and cargo safely.
• Escalator: Invented by Nathan Ames in 1859. It enables the smooth flow of pedestrian traffic. They have no waiting interval.
• Pasteurization: Invented by Louis Pasteuir in 1864. Pasteuir readily applied his knowledge of microbes and fermentation to the wine and beer industries, effectively saving the industries from collapse due to problems associated with production and with contamination that occurred during export.
• Telephone: Invented by Alexander Graham Bell in March 7, 1876. He invented this with the goal of creating a device that could transmit speech over long distances, as he believed it would have practical applications in business and personal communication
• Microphone: Invented by Emile Berliner in 1877. This was invented to address the limitations of sound transmission in the early telephone technolog
• Incandescent Light Bulb: Invented by Thomas Edison in January 1879. He was motivated by the challenge of creating a practical and long-lasting electric light source that could replace gas and oil lamps.
• Motorwagen: Invented by Karl Benz during 1885-1886. He wanted to create a self contained vehicle that would push the automotive industry forward.
• Jukebox: Invented by Louis Glass and William S. Dickson in 1891. It is made to provide entertainment in public places.
• Kinetoscope: Invented by Thomas A. Edison and William Dickson in 1891 to view films, breakthrough in technology and for profit.
• X-ray: Invented by Wilhelm Rontgen in 1895 to revolutionized the field of medicine by providing a non-invasive method to visualize the internal structures of the human body,
• Radio: Invented by Guglielmo Marconi & Nikola Tesla to serve as a social bonding tool, a place of news, education tool, and for emergency broadcasts, in short, providing an entirely new way for people to communicate and interact.
• Air Conditioning System: Invented by Willis Carrier in 1902 to address the humidity issue.
• Airplane: Invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903. It was the Wright brothers’ dream to invent a flying machine big enough to hold them both.
• Headphones: Invented by Nathaniel Baldwin in 1910 to help him hear the sermons at his local Mormon temple.
• Television: Invented by Philo T. Farnsworth, Kenjiro Takayanagi, John Logie Baird, and Charles Francis Jenkins on September 7, 1921 as a Prospective medium for education and interpersonal contact, offer news, and entertainment to people all over the world, convert sound into pictures and profit.
• Penicillin/Antibiotic: Invented by Alexander Fleming in 1928 to treat bacterial infections
• Radar: Invented by Sir Robert Watson-Watt to address the challenges of detecting incoming enemy aircraft and ships at a distance.
• Closed Circuit Television: Invented by Walter Bruch in 1942 to capture live video footage.
• Nuclear Reactor: Invented by Enrico Fermi on December 2, 1942 for the mass production of plutonium for nuclear weapons.