[edit] 1800s
* 1800: Electric battery: Alessandro Volta
* 1801: Jacquard loom: Joseph Marie Jacquard
* 1802: Screw propeller steamboat Phoenix: John Stevens
* 1802: Gas stove: Zachäus Andreas Winzler
* 1804: Locomotive: Richard Trevithick
* 1805: Submarine Nautilus: Robert Fulton
* 1807: Steamboat Clermont: Robert Fulton
* 1808: Band saw: William Newberry
* 1809: Arc lamp: Humphry Davy
[edit] 1810s
* 1811: Gun Breechloader: Thornton
* 1812: Metronome: Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel
* 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: Draisine or velocipede (two-wheeled): Karl Drais
* 1817: Kaleidoscope: David Brewster
* 1819: Breech loading flintlock: John Hall
[edit] 1820s
* 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
[edit] 1830s
* 1830: Lawn mower: Edwin Beard Budding
* 1830: Stenotype on punched paper strip: Karl Drais
* 1831: Multiple coil magnet: Joseph Henry
* 1831: Magnetic acoustic telegraph: Joseph Henry (patented 1837)
* 1831: Reaper: Cyrus McCormick
* 1831: Electrical generator: Michael Faraday, Ányos Jedlik
* 1834: The Hansom cab is patented
* 1834: Louis Braille perfects his Braille system
* 1834: Refrigerator: Jacob Perkins
* 1834: Combine harvester: Hiram Moore
* 1835: Photogenic Drawing: William Henry Fox Talbot
* 1835: Revolver: Samuel Colt
* 1835: Morse code: Samuel Morse
* 1835: Electromechanical Relay: Joseph Henry
* 1835: Incandescent light bulb: James Bowman Lindsay
* 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 (also Samuel Morse)
* 1838: Forerunner of Morse code: Alfred Vail
* 1838: closed diving suit with a helmet: Augustus Siebe
* 1839: Vulcanization of rubber: Charles Goodyear
[edit] 1840s
* 1840: Screw-propelled frigate, USS Princeton: John Ericsson
* 1840: artificial fertilizer: Justus von Liebig
* 1842: Anaesthesia: Crawford Long
* 1843: Typewriter: Charles Thurber
* 1843: Fax machine: Alexander Bain
* 1843: Ice cream maker: Nancy Johnson
* 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
* 1849: Telephone: Antonio Meucci
[edit] 1850s
* 1852: Airship: Henri Giffard
* 1852: Passenger elevator: Elisha Otis
* 1852: Gyroscope: Léon Foucault
* 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
[edit] 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
[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