inventions that changed our world

By cole olinger
  • 1849 BCE

    telephone

    telephone
    Of course, Alexander Graham Bell is the father of the telephone. After all it was his design that was first patented, however, he was not the first inventor to come up with the idea of a telephone. Antonio Meucci, an Italian immigrant, began developing the design of a talking telegraph or telephone in 1849.

  • stove

    stove
    Benjamin Franklin invented the stove. The first manufactured cast-iron stove was produced at Lynn, Mass., in 1642.

  • Camera

    Camera
    Johann Zahn invented the camera in 1685, but the first photograph was clicked by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in the year 1814.

  • car

    car
    The first stationary gasoline engine developed by Carl Benz was a one-cylinder two-stroke unit which ran for the first time on New Year's Eve 1879.

  • notebook

    notebook
    Thomas W. Holley invented the notebook. invented the legal pad around the year 1888 when he innovated the idea to collect all the sortings, various

  • hearing aid

    hearing aid
    Miller Reese Hutchison invented the hearing aid. The first electric hearing aid, called the Akouphone, was created by Miller Reese Hutchison in 1898.

  • washing machine

    washing machine
    Alva J. Fisher invented the washing machine. The Thor was the first electric-powered washing machine. Introduced in 1908 by the Hurley Machine Company of Chicago, Illinois,

  • baby monitor

    baby monitor
    The first baby monitor was invented in 1937. If you ever got teased for having a state of the art baby monitor, you take ease knowing these gadgets actually date back to 1937.

  • computer

    computer
    Charles Babbage invented the computer. But the first computer resembling today's modern machines was the Analytical Engine

  • trash can

    trash can
    Harry Wasylyk invented the trash can. In 1950, Canadian inventors Harry Wasylyk and Larry Hansen invented the garbage bag. Wasylyk created the bag in his kitchen, made out of stretchy, waterproof polyethylene.

  • water bottle

    water bottle
    Nathaniel Wyeth invented the water bottle. PET plastic bottles were invented in the USA in 1973 by DuPont engineer

  • tablet

    tablet
    Microsoft Invented A Tablet A Decade Before Apple And Totally Blew It. Apple's iPad is a revolutionary product that is cratering the PC industry.