20th century: # 1900: Rigid dirigible airship: Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin # 1901: Improved wireless transmitter: Reginald Fessenden # 1901: Mercury vapor lamp: Peter C. Hewitt # 1901: paperclip: Johan Vaaler # 1902: Radio magnetic detector: Guglielmo Marconi # 1902: Radio telephone: Poulsen Reginald Fessenden # 1902: Rayon cellulose ester: Arthur D. Little # 1903: Electrocardiograph (EKG): Willem Einthoven # 1903: Powered Monoplane: Richard Pearse # 1903: Powered Airplane: Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright # 1903: Bottle machine: Michael Owens # 1904: Thermionic valve: John Ambrose Fleming # 1904: Separable Attachment Plug: Harvey Hubbell # 1905: Radio tube diode: John Ambrose Fleming # 1906: Triode amplifier: Lee DeForest # 1907: Radio amplifier: Lee DeForest # 1907: Radio tube triode: Lee DeForest # 1907: Vacuum cleaner, (electric): James Spangler # 1909: Monoplane: Henry W. Walden # 1909: Bakelite: Leo Baekeland # 1909: Gun silencer: Hiram Percy Maxim # 1910: Thermojet engine: Henri Coandă # 1911: Gyrocompass: Elmer A. Sperry # 1911: Automobile self starter (perfected): Charles F. Kettering # 1911: Air conditioner: Willis Haviland Carrier # 1911: Cellophane: Jacques Brandenburger # 1911: Hydroplane: Glenn Curtiss # 1912: photography ;Lapse-time camera for use with plants:Arthur C. Pillsbury # 1912: Regenerative radio circuit: Edwin H. Armstrong # 1913: Crossword puzzle: Arthur Wynne # 1913: Improved X-Ray: William D. Coolidge # 1913: Double acting wrench: Robert Owen # 1913: Cracking process for Gasoline: William M. Burten # 1913: Gyroscope stabilizer: Elmer A. Sperry # 1913: Geiger counter: Hans Geiger # 1913: Radio receiver, cascade tuning: Ernst Alexanderson # 1913: Radio receiver, heterodyne: Reginald Fessenden # 1913: Stainless steel: Harry Brearley # 1914: Radio transmitter triode mod.: Ernst Alexanderson # 1914: Liquid fuel rocket: Robert Goddard # 1914: Tank, military: Ernest Dunlop Swinton # 1915: Tungsten Filament: Irving Langmuir # 1915: Searchlight arc: Elmer A. Sperry # 1915: Radio tube oscillator: Lee DeForest # 1916: Browning Gun: John Browning # 1916: Thompson submachine gun: John T. Thompson # 1916: Incandescent gas lamp: Irving Langmuir # 1917: Sonar echolocation: Paul Langevin # 1918: Super heterodyne: Edwin H. Armstrong # 1918: Interrupter gear: Anton Fokker # 1918: Radio crystal oscillator: A.M. Nicolson # 1918: Pop-up toaster: Charles Strite # 1919: the Theremin: Leon Theremin # 1922: Radar: Robert Watson-Watt, A. H. Taylor, L. C. Young, Gregory Breit, Merle Antony Tuve # 1922: Technicolor: Herbert T. Kalmus # 1922: Water skiing: Ralph Samuelson # 1922: Photography : First mass production photo machine:Arthur C. Pillsbury # 1923: Arc tube: Ernst Alexanderson # 1923: Sound film: Lee DeForest # 1923: Television Electronic: Philo Farnsworth # 1923: Wind tunnel: Max Munk # 1923: Autogyro: Juan de la Cierva # 1923: Xenon flash lamp: Harold Edgerton # 1925: ultra-centrifuge: Theodor Svedberg - used to determine molecular weights # 1925: Television Iconoscope: Vladimir Zworykin # 1925: Television Nipkow System: C. Francis Jenkins # 1925: Telephoto: C. Francis Jenkins # 1926: Television Mechanical Scanner: John Logie Baird # 1926: Aerosol spray: Rotheim # 1927: Mechanical cotton picker: John Rust # 1927: Photography:First microscopic motion picture camera: Arthur C. Pillsbury # 1928: sliced bread: Otto Frederick Rohwedder # 1928: Electric dry shaver: Jacob Schick # 1928: Antibiotics: Alexander Fleming # 1929: Electroencephelograph (EEG): Hans Berger # 1929: Photography:First X-Ray motion picture camera:Arthur C. Pillsbury # 1920s: Mechanical potato peeler: Herman Lay # 1930: Neoprene: Wallace Carothers # 1930: Nylon: Wallace Carothers # 1930: Photography: Underwater Motion Picture Camera: Arthur C. Pillsbury # 1931: the Radio telescope: Karl Jansky Grote Reber # 1932: Polaroid glass: Edwin H. Land # 1935: microwave radar: Robert Watson-Watt # 1935: Trampoline: George Nissen and Larry Griswold # 1935: Spectrophotometer: Arthur C. Hardy # 1935: Casein fiber: Earl Whittier Stephen # 1935: Hammond Organ: Laurens Hammond # 1936: Pinsetter (bowling): Gottfried Schmidt # 1937: Jet engine: Frank Whittle Hans von Ohain # 1938: Fiberglass: Russell Games Slayter John H. Thomas # 1938: Computer: Konrad Zuse (Germany) simultaneously as Atanasoff (United States) # 1939: FM radio: Edwin H. Armstrong # 1939: Helicopter: Igor Sikorsky # 1939: View-master: William Gruber # 1942: Bazooka Rocket Gun: Leslie A. Skinner C. N. Hickman # 1942: Undersea oil pipeline: Hartley, Anglo-Iranian, Siemens in Operation Pluto # 1942: frequency hopping: Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil # 1943: Aqua-Lung: Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan # 1943: electronic programmable digital computer: Tommy Flowers [1] # 1944: Electron spectrometer: Deutsch Elliot Evans # 1945: Nuclear weapons (but note: chain reaction theory: 1933) # 1946: microwave oven: Percy Spencer # 1947: Transistor: William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen # 1947: Polaroid camera: Edwin Land # 1948: Long Playing Record: Peter Carl Goldmark # 1949: Atomic clocks # 1952: fusion bomb: Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam # 1952: hovercraft: Christopher Cockerell # 1953: maser: Charles Townes # 1953: medical ultrasonography # 1954: transistor radio (dated from the from Regency TR1) (USA) # 1954: first nuclear power reactor # 1954: geodesic dome: Buckminster Fuller # 1955: Velcro: George de Mestral # 1957: Jet Boat: William Hamilton # 1957: EEG topography: Walter Grey Walter # 1957: Bubble Wrap - Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes of Sealed Air # 1958: the Integrated circuit: Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor # 1959: snowmobile: Joseph-Armand Bombardier # 1960s: Packet switching: Donald Davies and Paul Baran, video games # 1960: lasers: Theodore Maiman, at Hughes Aircraft # 1962: Communications satellites: Arthur C. Clarke # 1962: Light-emitting diode: Nick Holonyak # 1963: Hypertext: Ted Nelson # 1963: Computer mouse: Douglas Engelbart # 1965: 8-track tapes: William Powell Lear # 1968: Video game console: Ralph Baer # 1970: Fiber optics # 1971: E-mail: Ray Tomlinson # 1971: the Microprocessor # 1971: the Pocket calculator # 1971: Magnetic resonance imaging: Raymond V. Damadian # 1972: Computed Tomography: Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield # 1973: Ethernet: Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs # 1973: Monash University scientists report the world's first IVF pregnancy. # 1974: Scramjet: NASA and United States Navy -- first operational prototype flown in 2002 # 1974: Heimlich Maneuever: Henry Heimlich # 1975: digital camera: Steven Sasson # 1977: the personal computer (dated from Commodore PET) # 1978: Philips releases the laserdisc player # 1978: Spring loaded camming device: Ray Jardine # 1979: the Walkman: Akio Morita, Masaru Ibuka, Kozo Ohsone # 1979: the cellular telephone (first commercially fielded version, NTT) # 1970s: Tomahawk Cruise Missile (first computerized cruise missile) # 1983: Domain Name System: Paul Mockapetris # 1985: polymerase chain reaction: Kary Mullis # 1985: DNA fingerprinting: Alec Jeffreys # 1989: the World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee 19th century # 1800: Electric battery: Alessandro Volta # 1801: Jacquard loom: Joseph Marie Jacquard # 1802: Screw propeller steamboat Phoenix: John Stevens # 1802: gas stove: Zachäus Andreas Winzler # 1805: Submarine Nautilus: Robert Fulton # 1805: Refrigerator: Oliver Evans # 1807: Steamboat Clermont: Robert Fulton # 1808: Band saw: William Newberry # 1811: Gun- Breechloader: Thornton (?) # 1812: Metronome: Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel # 1813: Hand printing press: George Clymer # 1814: Steam Locomotive (Blucher): George Stephenson # 1816: Miner's safety lamp: Humphry Davy # 1816: Metronome: Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (reputed) # 1816: Stirling engine: Robert Stirling # 1816: Stethoscope: Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec # 1817: Kaleidoscope: David Brewster # 1819: Breech loading flintlock: John Hall # 1821: Electric motor: Michael Faraday # 1823: Electromagnet: William Sturgeon # 1826: Photography: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce # 1826: internal combustion engine: Samuel Morey # 1827: Insulated wire: Joseph Henry # 1827: Screw propeller: Josef Ressel # 1827: Friction match: John Walker # 1830: Lawn mower: Edwin Beard Budding # 1831: Multiple coil magnet: Joseph Henry # 1831: Magnetic acoustic telegraph: Joseph Henry (patented 1837) # 1831: Reaper: Cyrus McCormick # 1831: Electrical generator: Michael Faraday, Stefan Jedlik # 1834: June 14 - Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper # 1834: The Hansom cab is patented # 1834: Louis Braille perfects his Braille system # 1835: Photogenic Drawing: William Henry Fox Talbot # 1835: Revolver: Samuel Colt # 1835: Morse code: Samuel Morse # 1835: Electromechanical Relay: Joseph Henry # 1836: Samuel Colt receives a patent for the Colt revolver (February 24) # 1836: Improved screw propeller: John Ericsson # 1836: Sewing machine: Josef Madersberger # 1837: Photography: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre # 1837: First US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport (February 25) # 1837: Steel plow: John Deere # 1837: Standard diving dress: Augustus Siebe # 1837: Camera Zoom Lens: Jozef Maximilián Petzval # 1838: Electric telegraph: Charles Wheatstone # 1838: Forerunner of Morse code: Alfred Vail # 1838: closed diving suit with a helmet: Augustus Siebe # 1839: Vulcanization of rubber: Charles Goodyear # 1840: Frigate with submarine machinery SS Princeton: John Ericsson # 1840: artificial fertilizer: Justus von Liebig # 1842: Anaesthesia: Crawford Long # 1843: Typewriter: Charles Thurber # 1843: Fax machine: Alexander Bain # # 1844: Telegraph: Samuel Morse # 1845: Portland cement: William Aspdin # 1845: Double tube tire: Robert Thomson (inventor) # 1846: Sewing machine: Elias Howe # 1846: Rotary printing press: Richard M. Hoe # 1849: Safety pin: Walter Hunt # 1849: Francis turbine: James B. Francis # 1852: Airship: Henri Giffard # 1852: Passenger elevator: Elisha Otis # 1852: Gyroscope: Léon Foucault # 1853: Glider: Sir George Cayley # 1855: Bunsen burner: Robert Bunsen # 1855: Bessemer process: Henry Bessemer # 1856: First celluloids: Alexander Parkes # 1858: Undersea telegraph cable: Fredrick Newton Gisborne # 1858: Shoe sole sewing machine: Lyman R. Blake # 1858: Mason jar: John L. Mason # 1859: Oil drill: Edwin L. Drake # 1860: Linoleum: Fredrick Walton # 1860: Repeating rifle: Oliver F. Winchester, Christopher Spencer # 1860: Self-propelled torpedo: Ivan Lupis-Vukić # 1861: Ironclad USS Monitor: John Ericsson # 1861: Regenerative Furnace: Carl Wilhelm Siemens # 1862: Revolving machine gun: Richard J. Gatling # 1862: Mechanical submarine: Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol # 1862: Pasteurization: Louis Pasteur, Claude Bernard # 1863: Player piano: Henri Fourneaux # 1864: First concept typewriter: Peter Mitterhofer # 1865: Compression ice machine: Thaddeus Lowe # 1866: Dynamite: Alfred Nobel # 1867: # 1868: First practical typewriter: Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule, with assistance from James Densmore # 1868: Air brake (rail): George Westinghouse # 1868: Oleomargarine: Mege Mouries # 1869: Vacuum cleaner: I.W. McGaffers # 1870: Magic Lantern projector: Henry R. Heyl # 1870: Stock ticker: Thomas Alva Edison # 1870: Mobile Gasoline Engine, Automobile: Siegfried Marcus # 1871: Cable car (railway): Andrew S. Hallidie # 1871: Compressed air rock drill: Simon Ingersoll # 1872: Celluloid (later development): John W. Hyatt # 1872: Adding machine: Edmund D. Barbour # 1873: Barbed wire: Joseph F. Glidden # 1873: Railway knuckle coupler: Eli H. Janney # 1873: Modern direct current electric motor: Zénobe Gramme # 1874: Electric street car: Stephen Dudle Field # 1875: Dynamo: William A. Anthony # 1875: Gun- (magazine): Benjamin B. Hotchkiss # 1876: Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell # 1876: Telephone: Elisha Gray # 1876: Carpet sweeper: Melville Bissell # 1876: Gasoline carburettor: Daimler # 1877: Stapler: Henry R. Heyl # 1877: Induction motor: Nikola Tesla # 1877: Phonograph: Thomas Alva Edison # 1877: Electric welding: Elihu Thomson # 1877: Twine Knotter: John Appleby # 1878: Cathode ray tube: William Crookes # 1878: Transparent film: Eastman Goodwin # 1878: Rebreather: Henry Fleuss # 1878: Incandescent Light bulb: Joseph Swan # 1879: Pelton turbine: Lester Pelton # 1879: Automobile engine: Karl Benz # 1879: Cash register: James Ritty # 1879: Automobile (Patent): George B. Seldon ... note did NOT invent auto # 1880: Photophone: Alexander Graham Bell # 1880: Roll film: George Eastman # 1880: Safety razor: Kampfe Brothers # 1880: Seismograph: John Milne # 1881: Electric welding machine: Elihu Thomson # 1881: Metal detector: Alexander Graham Bell # 1882: Electric fan: Schuyler Skatts Wheeler # 1882: Electric flat iron: Henry W. Seely # 1883: Auto engine - compression ignition: Gottlieb Daimler # 1883: two-phase (alternating current) induction motor: Nikola Tesla # 1884: Linotype machine: Ottmar Mergenthaler # 1884: Fountain pen: Lewis Waterman NB: Did not invent fountain pen, nor even "first practical fountain pen". Started manufacture in 1883, too. # 1884: Punched card accounting: Herman Hollerith # 1884: Trolley car, (electric): Frank Sprague, Karel Van de Poele # 1885: Automobile, differential gear: Karl Benz # 1885: Maxim gun: Hiram Stevens Maxim # 1885: Motor cycle: Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach # 1885: Alternating current transformer: William Stanley # 1886: Gasoline engine: Gottlieb Daimler # 1886: Improved phonograph cylinder: Tainter & Bell # 1887: Monotype machine: Tolbert Lanston # 1887: Contact lens: Adolf E. Fick, Eugene Kalt and August Muller # 1887: Gramophone record: Emile Berliner # 1887: Automobile, (gasoline): Gottlieb Daimler # 1888: Polyphase AC Electric power system: Nikola Tesla (30 related patents.) # 1888: Kodak hand camera: George Eastman # 1888: Ballpoint pen: John Loud # 1888: Pneumatic tube tire: John Boyd Dunlop # 1888: Harvester-thresher: Matteson (?) # 1888: Kinematograph: Augustin Le Prince # 1889: Automobile, (steam): Sylvester Roper # 1890: Pneumatic Hammer: Charles B. King # 1891: Automobile Storage Battery: William Morrison # 1891: Zipper: Whitcomb L. Judson # 1891: Carborundum: Edward G. Acheson # 1892: Color photography: Frederic E. Ives # 1892: Automatic telephone exchange (electromechanical): Almon Strowger - First in commercial service. # 1893: Photographic gun: E.J. Marcy # 1893: Half tone engraving: Frederick Ives # 1893: Wireless communication: Nikola Tesla # 1895: Phatoptiken projector: Woodville Latham # 1895: Phantascope: C. Francis Jenkins # 1895: Disposable blades: King C. Gillette # 1895: Diesel engine: Rudolf Diesel # 1895: Radio signals: Guglielmo Marconi # 1895: Shredded Wheat: Henry Perky # 1896: Vitascope: Thomas Armat # 1896: Steam turbine: Charles Curtis # 1896: Electric stove: William S. Hadaway # 1897: Automobile, magneto: Robert Bosch # 1898: Remote control: Nikola Tesla # 1899: Automobile self starter: Clyde J. Coleman # 1899: Magnetic tape recorder: Valdemar Poulsen # 1899: Gas turbine: Charles Curtis 18th cent. # 1701: Seed drill: Jethro Tull # 1705: Steam piston engine: Thomas Newcomen # 1709: Piano: Bartolomeo Cristofori # 1710: Thermometer: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur # 1711: Tuning fork: John Shore # 1714: Mercury thermometer: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit # 1730: Mariner's quadrant: Thomas Godfrey # 1731: Sextant: John Hadley # 1733: Flying shuttle: John Kay (Flying Shuttle) # 1742: Franklin stove: Benjamin Franklin # 1750: Flatboat: Jacob Yoder # 1752: Lightning rod: Benjamin Franklin # 1762: Iron smelting process: Jared Eliot # 1767: Spinning jenny: James Hargreaves # 1767: Carbonated water: Joseph Priestley # 1769: Steam engine: James Watt # 1769: Water Frame: Richard Arkwright # 1775: Submarine Turtle: David Bushnell # 1777: Card teeth making machine: Oliver Evans # 1777: Circular saw: Samuel Miller # 1779: Spinning mule: Samuel Crompton # 1783: Multitubular boiler engine: John Stevens # 1783: Parachute: Jean Pierre Blanchard # 1783: Hot air balloon: Montgolfier brothers # 1784: Bifocals: Benjamin Franklin # 1784: Shrapnel shell: Henry Shrapnel # 1785: Power loom: Edmund Cartwright # 1785: Automatic flour mill: Oliver Evans # 1787: Non-condensing high pressure Engine: Oliver Evans # 1790: Cut and head nail machine: Jacob Perkins # 1791: Steamboat: John Fitch # 1791: Artificial teeth: Nicholas Dubois De Chemant # 1793: Optical telegraph: Claude Chappe # 1797: Cast iron plow: Charles Newbold # 1798: Vaccination: Edward Jenner # 1798: Lithography: Alois Senefelder # 1799: Seeding machine: Eliakim Spooner 17th century * 1608: Telescope: Hans Lippershey * 1609: Microscope: Galileo Galilei * 1620: Slide rule: William Oughtred * 1623: Automatic calculator: Wilhelm Schickard * 1642: Adding machine: Blaise Pascal * 1643: Barometer: Evangelista Torricelli * 1645: Vacuum pump: Otto von Guericke * 1657: Pendulum clock: Christiaan Huygens * 1698: Steam engine: Thomas Savery 16th century * 1510: Pocket watch: Peter Henlein * 1540: Ether: Valerius Cordus * 1581: Pendulum: Galileo Galilei * 1589: Stocking frame: William Lee * 1593: Thermometer: Galileo Galilei * Musket in Europe * Pencil in England
Nevertheless, many white Americans don’t particularly like white people either.