Originally posted by: Bateluer
Really puts things in perspective. When she was born, powered flight was just a fantasy. In her 90s(?), she witness man landing on the moon.
You inspired me! From wikipedia, I present the list of things invented in her lifetime.
* 1885: Automobile patent granted (internal combustion engine powered): Karl Benz first automobile put into production
* 1885: Automobile, differential gear: Karl Benz
* 1885: Maxim (machine) gun: Hiram Stevens Maxim
* 1885: Motor cycle: Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach
* 1885: Alternating current transformer: William Stanley
* 1886: Dishwasher: Josephine Cochrane
* 1886: Gasoline engine: Gottlieb Daimler
* 1886: Improved phonograph cylinder: Tainter & Bell
* 1887: Monotype machine: Tolbert Lanston
* 1887: Contact lens: Adolf E. Fick, Eugène Kalt and August Muller
* 1887: Gramophone record: Emile Berliner
* 1888: Polyphase AC Electric power system: Nikola Tesla (30 related patents.)
* 1888: Kodak hand camera: George Eastman
* 1888: Ballpoint pen: John Loud
* 1888: Pneumatic tube tire: John Boyd Dunlop
* 1888: Harvester-thresher: Matteson (?)
* 1888: Kinematograph: Augustin Le Prince
* 1888: Automobile Mobile Gasoline Engine: Siegfried Marcus
* 1889: Automobile, (steam): Sylvester Roper
* 1889: Automobile, (gasoline): Gottlieb Daimler
* 1890: Pneumatic Hammer: Charles B. King
* 1891: Automobile Storage Battery: William Morrison
* 1891: Zipper: Whitcomb L. Judson
* 1891: Carborundum: Edward G. Acheson
* 1892: Color photography: Frederic E. Ives
* 1892: Automatic telephone exchange (electromechanical): Almon Strowger - First in commercial service.
* 1893: Photographic gun: E.J. Marcy
* 1893: Carburetor: Donát Bánki and János Csonka
* 1893: Half tone engraving: Frederick Ives
* 1893: Wireless communication: Nikola Tesla
* 1894: Radio transmission: Jagdish Chandra Bose
* 1895: Phatoptiken projector: Woodville Latham
* 1895: Phantascope: C. Francis Jenkins
* 1895: Disposable blades: King C. Gillette
* 1895: Diesel engine: Rudolf Diesel
* 1895: Radio signals: Guglielmo Marconi
* 1895: Shredded Wheat: Henry Perky
* 1896: Vitascope: Thomas Armat
* 1896: Steam turbine: Charles Curtis
* 1896: Electric stove: William S. Hadaway
* 1897: Automobile, magneto: Robert Bosch
* 1897: Modern escalator: Jesse W. Reno
* 1898: tapered roller bearing: Henry Timken
* 1898: Remote control: Nikola Tesla
* 1899: Iron-mercury coherer with telephone detector: Jagdish Chandra Bose
* 1899: Automobile self starter: Clyde J. Coleman
* 1899: Magnetic tape recorder: Valdemar Poulsen
* 1899: Gas turbine: Charles Curtis
* 1900: Rigid dirigible airship: Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
* 1900: Self-heating can
* 1900s: Microwave optics: Jagdish Chandra Bose
* 1901: Improved wireless transmitter: Reginald Fessenden
* 1901: Instant coffee by Sartori Kato
* 1901: Mercury vapor lamp: Peter C. Hewitt
* 1901: Razor: King Camp Gillette
* 1901: Vacuum cleaner: Hubert Booth
* 1902: Ostwald process: Wilhelm Ostwald
* 1902: Radio magnetic detector: Guglielmo Marconi
* 1902: Air Conditioner: Willis Carrier
* 1902: Neon lamp: Georges Claude
* 1902: Radio telephone: Poulsen Reginald Fessenden
* 1902: Rayon cellulose ester: Arthur D. Little
* 1903: Electrocardiograph (EKG): Willem Einthoven
* 1903: Powered Monoplane: Richard Pearse
* 1903: Powered airplane: Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright
* 1903: Bottle machine: Michael Owens
* 1903: Windshield wiper: Mary Anderson
* 1904: Thermionic valve: John Ambrose Fleming
* 1904: Separable Attachment Plug: Harvey Hubbell
* 1904: Tractor: Benjamin Holt
* 1905: Radio tube diode: John Ambrose Fleming
* 1906: Sonar (first device): Lewis Nixon
* 1906: Triode amplifier: Lee DeForest
* 1907: Color photography: Auguste and Louis Lumiere
* 1907: Helicopter: Paul Cornu
* 1907: Radio amplifier: Lee DeForest
* 1907: Radio tube triode: Lee DeForest
* 1907: Vacuum cleaner, (electric): James Spangler
* 1907: Washing machine, (electric): Alva Fisher (Hurley Corporation)
* 1908: Cellophane: Jacques E. Brandenberger
* 1908: Geiger counter: Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford
* 1908: Gyrocompass: Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe
* 1908: Haber process: Fritz Haber
* 1908: Tea bag: Thomas Sullivan
* 1909: Monoplane: Henry W. Walden
* 1909: Bakelite: Leo Baekeland
* 1909: Gun silencer: Hiram Percy Maxim
* 1910: Thermojet engine: Henri Coanda
* 1911: Gyrocompass: Elmer A. Sperry
* 1911: Automobile self starter (perfected): Charles F. Kettering
* 1911: Air conditioner: Willis Haviland Carrier
* 1911: Cellophane: Jacques Brandenburger
* 1911: Hydroplane: Glenn Curtiss
* 1912: Ecstacy: Merck
* 1912: Photography ;Lapse-time camera for use with plants:Arthur C. Pillsbury
* 1912: Regenerative radio circuit: Edwin H. Armstrong
* 1913: Cracking process for Gasoline: William M. Burten
* 1913: Crossword: Arthur Wynne
* 1913: Double acting wrench: Robert Owen
* 1913: Gyroscope stabilizer: Elmer A. Sperry
* 1913: Radio receiver, cascade tuning: Ernst Alexanderson
* 1913: Radio receiver, heterodyne: Reginald Fessenden
* 1913: Stainless steel: Harry Brearley
* 1913: X-Ray (improved): William D. Coolidge
* 1914: Radio transmitter triode mod.: Ernst Alexanderson
* 1914: Liquid fuel rocket: Robert Goddard
* 1914: Tank, military: Ernest Dunlop Swinton
* 1915: Tungsten Filament: Irving Langmuir
* 1915: Searchlight arc: Elmer A. Sperry
* 1915: Radio tube oscillator: Lee DeForest
* 1915: Pyrex: Corning Inc.
* 1916: Browning Gun: John Browning
* 1916: Thompson submachine gun: John T. Thompson
* 1916: Incandescent gas lamp: Irving Langmuir
* 1917: Sonar echolocation: Paul Langevin
* 1917: Cruise missile: Charles Kettering
* 1918: Superheterodyne receiver: Edwin H. Armstrong
* 1918: Interrupter gear: Anton Fokker
* 1918: Radio crystal oscillator: A.M. Nicolson
* 1918: Pop-up toaster: Charles Strite
* 1919: Flip-flop circuit: William Eccles and F. W. Jordan
* 1919: Theremin: Leon Theremin
* 1922: Radar: Robert Watson-Watt, A. H. Taylor, L. C. Young, Gregory Breit, Merle Antony Tuve
* 1922: Technicolor: Herbert T. Kalmus
* 1922: Water skiing: Ralph Samuelson
* 1922: Photography : First mass production photo machine:Arthur C. Pillsbury
* 1923: Arc tube: Ernst Alexanderson
* 1923: Sound film: Lee DeForest
* 1923: Television Electronic: Philo Farnsworth
* 1923: Wind tunnel: Max Munk
* 1923: Autogyro: Juan de la Cierva
* 1923: Xenon flash lamp: Harold Edgerton
* 1925: Ultra-centrifuge: Theodor Svedberg - used to determine molecular weights
* 1925: Television Nipkow System: C. Francis Jenkins
* 1925: Telephoto: C. Francis Jenkins
* 1926: Television Mechanical Scanner: John Logie Baird
* 1926: Aerosol spray: Rotheim
* 1927: Mechanical cotton picker: John Rust
* 1927: PEZ Candy: Eduard Haas III
* 1927: Photography:First microscopic motion picture camera: Arthur C. Pillsbury
* 1928: Sliced bread: Otto Frederick Rohwedder
* 1928: Electric dry shaver: Jacob Schick
* 1928: Antibiotics: Alexander Fleming
* 1928: Preselector gearbox: Walter Gordon Wilson
* 1929: Electroencephelograph (EEG): Hans Berger
* 1929: Kinescope:Vladimir Zworykin
* 1929: Photography:First X-Ray motion picture camera:Arthur C. Pillsbury
* 1920s: Band aid: Earle Dickson
* 1920s: Insulin
* 1920s: Mechanical potato peeler: Herman Lay
* 1930: Neoprene: Wallace Carothers
* 1930: Nylon: Wallace Carothers
* 1930: Photography: Underwater Motion Picture Camera: Arthur C. Pillsbury
* 1931: the Radio telescope: Karl Jansky Grote Reber
* 1931: Iconoscope: Vladimir Zworykin
* 1932: Polaroid glass: Edwin H. Land
* 1935: microwave radar: Robert Watson-Watt
* 1935: Trampoline: George Nissen and Larry Griswold
* 1935: Spectrophotometer: Arthur C. Hardy
* 1935: Casein fiber: Earl Whittier Stephen
* 1935: Hammond Organ: Laurens Hammond
* 1936: Pinsetter (bowling): Gottfried Schmidt
* 1937: Turboprop engine: György Jendrassik
* 1937: Jet engine: Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain
* 1938: Ballpoint pen: Laszlo Biro
* 1938: Fiberglass: Russell Games Slayter John H. Thomas
* 1939: FM radio: Edwin H. Armstrong
* 1939: Helicopter: Igor Sikorsky
* 1939: View-master: William Gruber
* 1939: Automated teller machine: Luther George Simjian
* 1942: Bazooka Rocket Gun: Leslie A. Skinner C. N. Hickman
* 1942: Undersea oil pipeline: Hartley, Anglo-Iranian, Siemens in Operation Pluto
* 1942: frequency hopping: Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil
* 1943: Aqua-Lung: Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan
* 1944: Electron spectrometer: Deutsch Elliot Evans
* 1945: Nuclear weapons (but note: chain reaction theory: 1933)
* 1946: Microwave oven: Percy Spencer
* 1946: Mobile Telephone Service: AT&T and Southwestern Bell
* 1946: Computer: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
* 1947: Transistor: William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen
* 1947: Polaroid camera: Edwin Land
* 1948: Long Playing Record: Peter Carl Goldmark
* 1948: Holography: Dennis Gabor
* 1949: Atomic clocks
* 1951: Liquid Paper: Bette Nesmith Graham
* 1951: Nuclear power reactor: Walter Zinn
* 1952: Fusion bomb: Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam
* 1952: Hovercraft: Christopher Cockerell
* 1953: Maser: Charles Townes
* 1953: Medical ultrasonography
* 1954: Transistor radio (dated from the from Regency TR1) (USA)
* 1954: Geodesic dome: Buckminster Fuller
* 1955: Velcro: George de Mestral
* 1955: Hair spray Helene Curtis
* 1955: Hard Drive: Reynold Johnson with IBM
* 1956: Digital clock
* 1956: Optical fiber: Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss
* 1956: Videocassette recorder: Ampex
* 1957: Jet Boat: William Hamilton
* 1957: Bubble Wrap: Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes
* 1958: Integrated circuit: Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, Robert Noyce at Fairchild
* 1958: Communications satellite: Kenneth Masterman-Smith
* 1959: Snowmobile: Joseph-Armand Bombardier
* 1960: Laser: Theodore Harold Maiman
* 1961: Optical disc: David Paul Gregg
* 1961: Cochlear implant: William House
* 1962: Light-emitting diode: Nick Holonyak
* 1962: Space observatory: Ball Brothers Aerospace Corporation [8]
* 1963: Computer mouse: Douglas Engelbart
* 1967: Automatic Teller Machine: John Shepherd-Barron
* 1967: Hypertext: Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson
* 1968: Video game console: Ralph H. Baer
* 1969: ARPANET (first packet switching network): United States Department of
* 1971: E-mail: Ray Tomlinson
* 1971: Liquid Crystal Display: James Fergason
* 1971: Microprocessor
* 1971: Pocket calculator: Sharp Corporation
* 1971: Magnetic resonance imaging: Raymond V. Damadian
* 1971: Floppy Disk: David Noble with IBM
* 1972: Computed Tomography: Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
* 1973: Ethernet: Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs
* 1973: Genetically modified organism: Stanley Norman Cohen and Herbert Boyer
* 1973: Personal computer: Xerox PARC
* 1974: Rubik's Cube: Erno Rubik
* 1974: Hybrid vehicle: Victor Wouk [9]
* 1975: Digital camera: Steven Sasson
* 1976: Gore-Tex fabric: W. L. Gore
* 1977: Personal stereo: Andreas Pavel
* 1977: Cellular mobile phone: Bell Labs [10]
* 1978: Spring loaded camming device: Ray Jardine
* 1981: Scanning tunneling microscope: Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer
* 1983: Camcorder: Sony
* 1985: Polymerase chain reaction: Kary Mullis
* 1986: Breadmaker
* 1990: World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee
* 1993: Global Positioning System: United States Department of Defense
* 1997: Non-mechanical Digital Audio Player: SaeHan Information Systems
* 2001: Digital satellite radio
* 2001: Self-contained Artificial heart
* 2002: Scramjet: University of Queensland
