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The First Credit Card
The inventor of the first credit card was John Biggins of the Flatbush National Bank of Brooklyn in New York. Credit is a method of selling goods or services without the buyer having cash in hand. A credit card is only an automatic way of offering credit to a consumer. -
Measles Vaccine
The measles vaccine was invented by John F. Enders. -
Liquid Paper
Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter. -
Pacemaker
The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch. -
Cassete Tape
The Philips Company of the Netherlands invented and released the first compact audio-cassette in 1962 -
Compact Disk (CD)
A compact disk (cd) is a popular form of digital storage media used for computer files, pictures, and music.James Russell invented the compact disk in 1965 -
Computer Mouse
The computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart. -
Food Processor
The food processor was invented by Pierre Verdun. -
Post-It Notes
The post-it notes invented by Arthur Fry. -
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging invented by Raymond V. Damadian. -
Hepatitis B Vaccine
Baruch Blumberg was the American research physician whose discovery of an antigen that provokes antibody response against hepatitis B led to the development by other researchers of a successful vaccine against the disease. -
Cabbage Patch Kids
In 1976, Xavier Roberts invented 'Little Person' dolls, the first Cabbage Patch Kids. Roberts was a teenager when he started the Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia, where people could adopt a baby (the hand sewn dolls were never called dolls) complete with adoption papers. Roberts and five friends started the Original Appalachian Artworks company to produce the dolls. The Coleco toy company liked Roberts' ideas and began mass-marketing the dolls in 1983, under the new name of 'Cabba -
Disposable Camera
In 1976, Fuji introduced the first disposable camera. -
High Definition Television
High-definition television invented. -
Smart Pill
The name of smart pill now refers to any pill that can deliver or control its delivery of medicine without the patient having to take action beyond the initial swallow.
The phrase smart pill became popular after the computer controlled medical device was patented by Jerome Schentag and David D'Andrea, and named one of the top inventions of 1992 by Popular Science magazine. However, now the name has become generic and many companies are using the name smart pill -
DVD
DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented. -
Viagra
Peter Dunn and Albert Wood invented Viagra -
iPod
On October 23, 2001 Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player the iPod, created under project codename Dulcimer. -
SonoPrep
SonoPrep invented by bioengineer Robert Langer, is a device that will deliver medication by sound waves rather than injection. -
iPhone Touch
iPhone was created by Mac. -
iPad
iPad was created by Mac in 2010.
