1860s
  • 1860: Linoleum: Fredrick Walton
  • 1860: Repeating rifle: Oliver F. Winchester, Christopher Spencer
  • 1860: Self-propelled torpedo: Giovanni Luppis
  • 1861: Ironclad USS Monitor: John Ericsson
  • 1861: Siemens 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
  • 1865: Roller Coaster: LaMarcus Adna Thompson
  • 1865: Barbed wire: Louis Jannin
  • 1866: Dynamite: Alfred Nobel
  • 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
1870s
  • 1870: Magic Lanternprojector: Henry R. Heyl
  • 1870: Stock ticker: Thomas Alva Edison
  • 1870: Mobile Gasoline Engine, fitted to a cart precursor to 1888 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: Railway knuckle coupler: Eli H. Janney
  • 1873: Modern direct currentelectric motor: Zénobe Gramme
  • 1874: Electric street car: Stephen Dudle Field
  • 1875: Dynamo: William A. Anthony
  • 1875: Magazine (firearm): Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
  • 1876: Carpet sweeper: Melville Bissell
  • 1876: Gasoline carburettor: Daimler
  • 1876: Loudspeaker: Alexander Graham Bell
  • 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
  • 1877: Microphone: Emile Berliner
  • 1878: Cathode ray tube: William Crookes
  • 1878: Transparent film: Eastman Goodwin
  • 1878: Rebreather: Henry Fleuss
  • 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 automobile
1880s
  • 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, Charles Van Depoele
  • 1885: Automobile patent granted (internal combustion engine powered): Karl Benz first automobile put into production
  • 1885: Automobile, differential gear: Karl Benz
  • 1885: Maxim gun: Hiram Stevens Maxim
  • 1885: Motor cycle: Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach
  • 1885: Alternating currenttransformer: William Stanley
  • 1886: Dishwasher: Josephine Cochrane
  • 1886: Gasoline engine: Gottlieb Daimler
  • 1886: Improved phonograph cylinder: Tainter & Bell
  • 1887: Monotype machine: Tolbert Lanston
  • 1887: Contact lens: Adolf E. Fick, Eugène Kalt and August Muller
  • 1887: Gramophone record: Emile Berliner
  • 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
  • 1888: Automobile Mobile Gasoline Engine: Siegfried Marcus
  • 1889: Automobile, (steam): Sylvester Roper
  • 1889: Automobile, (gasoline): Gottlieb Daimler
1890s
  • 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: Carburetor: Donát Bánki and János Csonka
  • 1893: Half tone engraving: Frederick Ives
  • 1893: Wirelesscommunication: Nikola Tesla
  • 1894: Radio transmission: Jagdish Chandra Bose
  • 1895: Phatoptiken projector: Woodville Latham
  • 1895: Phantascope: C. Francis Jenkins
  • 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
  • 1897: Modern escalator: Jesse W. Reno
  • 1898: tapered roller bearing: Henry Timken
  • 1898: Remote control: Nikola Tesla
  • 1899: Iron-mercurycoherer with telephone detector: Jagdish Chandra Bose
  • 1899: Automobile self starter: Clyde J. Coleman
  • 1899: Magnetic tape recorder: Valdemar Poulsen
  • 1899: Gas turbine: Charles Curtis

20th century

1900s
  • 1900: Rigid dirigible airship: Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
  • 1900: Self-heating can
  • 1900s: Microwaveoptics: Jagdish Chandra Bose
  • 1901: Improved wireless transmitter: Reginald Fessenden
  • 1901: Instant coffee by Sartori Kato
  • 1901: Mercury vapor lamp: Peter C. Hewitt
  • 1901: Disposable razor blade: King C. Gillette
  • 1901: Vacuum cleaner: Hubert Booth
  • 1902: Ostwald process: Wilhelm Ostwald
  • 1902: Radio magnetic detector: Guglielmo Marconi
  • 1902: Air Conditioner: Willis Carrier
  • 1902: Neon lamp: Georges Claude
  • 1902: Radio telephone: PoulsenReginald 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
  • 1903: Windshield wiper: Mary Anderson
  • 1904: Thermionic valve: John Ambrose Fleming
  • 1904: Separable Attachment Plug: Harvey Hubbell
  • 1904: Tractor: Benjamin Holt
  • 1905: Radio tube diode: John Ambrose Fleming
  • 1906: Sonar (first device): Lewis Nixon
  • 1906: Triode amplifier: Lee DeForest
  • 1907: Color photography: Auguste and Louis Lumiere
  • 1907: Helicopter: Paul Cornu
  • 1907: Radio amplifier: Lee DeForest
  • 1907: Radio tube triode: Lee DeForest
  • 1907: Vacuum cleaner, (electric): James Spangler
  • 1907: Washing machine, (electric): Alva Fisher (Hurley Corporation)
  • 1908: Cellophane: Jacques E. Brandenberger
  • 1908: Geiger counter: Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford
  • 1908: Gyrocompass: Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe
  • 1908: Haber process: Fritz Haber
  • 1908: Tea bag: Thomas Sullivan
  • 1909: Monoplane: Henry W. Walden
  • 1909: Bakelite: Leo Baekeland
  • 1909: Gun silencer: Hiram Percy Maxim