[edit] 1900s
* 1900: Rigid dirigible airship: Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
* 1900: Self-heating can
* 1900s: Microwave optics: 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: 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
* 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
[edit] 1910s
* 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: Ecstasy: Merck
