inventions timeline

  • Eli Whitney

    inventing the cotton gin, milling, interchangeable parts
  • Alessandro Volta

    invention of the electric battery
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    nvention of the telephone (1876) and the refinement of the phonograph
  • Thomas Edison

    invented incandescent light bulb and one of the earliest motion picture cameras
  • Gottlieb Daimier

    patented one of the first successful internal-combustion engines in 1885. He also helped develop the commercially feasible four-wheeled automobile.
  • Gugliemlo Marconi

    was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor credited with the groundbreaking work necessary for all future radio technology. Through his experiments in wireless telegraphy, Marconi developed the first effective system of radio communication
  • Orville Wright

    were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane
  • Henry Ford

    invention of the first automobile is generally credited to Karl Benz of Germany.