Timeline / 1800 to 1920 / GERMANY / GREAT INVENTIONS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Date Country Theme

1833 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

First communication by telegram.

1843 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Friedrich Gottlob commodifies paper production (the mass production of cheap paper).

1854 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Heinrich Göbel invents the light bulb.

1859 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Johann Phillipp Reis invents the telephone.

1864 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

The chemist Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–95) develops the first periodic table of chemical elements.

1866 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Werner von Siemens invents the dynamo.

1876 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Robert Koch discovers bacteriology.

1881 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Werner von Siemens develops the tram.

1884 - 1890 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Gottlieb Daimler develops the petrol engine and Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel engine.

1886 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler invent the modern automobile.

1887 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Emil Berliner invents the phonograph.

1894 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century Date Country Theme

Otto Lilienthal invents the glider.

1895 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

The Roentgen ray (X-Ray) is discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen.

1900 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Planck’s Law, which describes electromagnetic radiation.

1900 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

The establishment of the beneficence “Nobel Prize” by Alfred Nobel.

1900 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin invents the zeppelin, a steerable airship.

1905 - 1916 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Physician Albert Einstein formulates his Theory and publishes Relativity: The Special and General Theory.

1911 Germany Great Inventions Of The 19th Century

Foundation of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft (later Max-Planck-Gesellschaft).