Technological achievements of 1800-2017

The Battery

Jan 1, 1799

Alessandro Volta created the first battery known as Voltaic Pile. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

The electric arc lamp

Apr 1, 1807

Humphry Davy creates the first electric arc lamp http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

First Electric motors and generators

Feb 4, 1820

Michael Faraday created the first Electric generator and motor. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

The first practical electrical generator

Sep 10, 1830

William Sturgeon creates the first electrical generator. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

First electric telegraph

Feb 15, 1840

Charles Wheatstone, and William Cooke, and Samuel Morse, create the first electric telegraph. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

Fax machines

Apr 19, 1850

Giovanni Caselli created the first fax machine called the pantelegraph. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

Radio

Nov 14, 1860

James Clerk Maxwell figures out that radio waves exist and sets out the basic laws of electromagnetism. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

First Telephone

Sep 18, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell creates the first telephone. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

The CD player

Apr 17, 1877

Thomas Edison creates a sound recording machine called the Phonograph. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

incandescent electric lamp

Jul 8, 1880

Thomas Edison develops the modern incandescent electric lamp. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

First power plant

Mar 29, 1882

Thomas Edison open's the first power plant. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

The first photographic film

Feb 16, 1885

Charles Eastman creates plastic photographic film. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

First gasoline powered car

Jan 29, 1886

Karl Benz assembles a gasoline powered car. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

Electric motor

May 9, 1888

Nikola Tesla patents the alternating current (AC) electric induction motor and, in opposition to Thomas Edison, becomes a staunch advocate of AC power. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

Diesel engines

Feb 17, 1897

A German engineer Rudolph Diesel creates the first diesel engine. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

engine powered planes

May 3, 1903

Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright build the first engine powered planes. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

Photoelectric Affect

Jan 8, 1905

Albert Einstein explains the Photoelectric Affect. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

Air conditioner

Jun 6, 1906

Willis Carrier pioneers the air conditioner. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

Ford model T

Feb 16, 1908

Henry ford engineers the first ford car model T. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

The Geiger counter

Oct 11, 1908

"Hans Geiger develops the Geiger counter, a detector for radioactivity". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger_counter

Lithium-ion batteries

Mar 5, 1912

American chemist Gilbert Lewis describes the basic chemistry that leads to practical, lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html.

Mechanical TV

Feb 16, 1928

John Logie Baird creates the first mechanical TV. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

First Electronic Television

Jul 14, 1929

"Philo T. Farnsworth invents modern electronic television". http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

Radar

Feb 17, 1935

"Robert Watson Watt oversees the development of radar". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Watson-Watt

Colorful Television

Aug 29, 1940

"Peter Goldmark pioneers color television". http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

Nuclear power

Dec 2, 1942

"Enrico Fermi builds the first nuclear chain reactor at the University of Chicago". http://www.explainthatstuff.com/timeline.html

Xerography

Oct 22, 1948

"Chester Carlson invents the principle of photocopying".