Timelines of inventions 1800 - 1899

* 1868: Air brake (rail): George Westinghouse

* 1868: Oleomargarine: Mege Mouries

* 1869: Vacuum cleaner: I.W. McGaffers

[edit] 1870s

* 1870: Magic Lantern projector: 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 current electric 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

[edit] 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

* 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 current transformer: 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

[edit] 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: Wireless communication: Nikola Tesla

* 1893: Radio: 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-mercury coherer with telephone detector: Jagdish Chandra Bose

* 1899: Automobile self starter: Clyde J. Coleman

* 1899: Magnetic tape recorder: Valdemar Poulsen

* 1899: Gas turbine: Charles Curtis