Inventions by decade patented: 1870 - 1879

  • 4000 BCE

    Waterwheel Lester Pelton

    Waterwheel Lester Pelton
    The waterwheel looks like a cool decoration in your front yard. They were used for crop irrigation, for grinding grains, and to supply drinking water to villages. The waterwheel was from 4000 B.C but didn't credit till the roman times
  • Telephone / Telegraphy Alexander Graham Bell

    Telephone / Telegraphy Alexander Graham Bell
    is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
  • Dynamite Alfred Nobel

    Dynamite Alfred Nobel
    Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents and stabilizers. It was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Geesthacht, and patented in 1867
  • Submarine John Phillip Holland

    Submarine John Phillip Holland
    The Irish inventor John Philip Holland built a model submarine in 1876 and a full scale one in 1878, followed by a number of unsuccessful ones.
  • Dissolvable Pills William Erastus Upjohn

    Dissolvable Pills William Erastus Upjohn
    The number of layers determined the strength of the pill.Up until 1884 medicine had to be taken in liquid form.
  • Electric street car Frank Sprague

    Electric street car Frank Sprague
    It was an easy way to get across the town and travel to near by city's or town
  • Radio Guglielmo Marconi

    Radio Guglielmo Marconi
    Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound and images
  • Sound recording instruments Charles Tainter

    Sound recording instruments Charles Tainter
    Phonograph: an early sound-reproducing machine that used cylinders to record as well as reproduce sound.