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Camera
The first camera capable of creating a photographic image was invented by Johann Zahn. Zahn was the seventeenth-century German author of Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium. This work contains many descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches of both the camera obscura and magic lantern, along with various other lanterns, slides, projection types, peepshow boxes, microscopes, telescopes, reflectors, and lenses. -
Stove
Benjamin Franklin invented the “Pennsylvania fireplace,” which incorporated the basic principles of the heating stove. The Franklin stove burned wood on a grate and had sliding doors that could be used to control the draft through it. Because the stove was relatively small, it could be installed in a large fireplace or used free-standing in the middle of a room by connecting it to a flue. -
Refrigerator
William Cullen of University of Glasgow developed a process for creating an artificial cooling medium. No one took interest in it for commercial or home consumption, it only attracted scientific attention. Cullen used a pump to create a partial vacuum over a container of diethyl ether, which then boiled, absorbing heat from the surrounding air. -
Light Bulb
Thomas Edison is usually credited with the invention of the light bulb. Many notable figures are also remembered for their work with electric batteries, lamps and the creation of the first incandescent bulbs. Many other people contributed to the invention of the light bulb. -
Television
Philo Taylor Farnsworth is the inventor of the first television. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera, which he produced commercially in the form of the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation. He was also the first person to demonstrate such a system to the public. -
Computer
The first computer, ENIAC, was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. -
IPhone
Over two hundred different patents were part of the design of the new iPhone, so pinpointing one inventor would be unfair.First, apple worker John Casey sent some concept art around via internal email, he called it the Telipod - a telephone and iPod combination. Steve Jobs is who directed Apple's engineers to develop a touch screen.
