ͻ Adrenaline: (isolation of) John Jacob Abel, U.S., 1897 . ͻ Aerosol can: Erik Rotheim, Norway , 1926. ͻ Air brake: George Westinghouse, U.S., 1868. ͻ Air conditioning: Willis Carrier, U.S., 1911. ͻ Airship: (non-rigid) Henri Giffard, France, 1852; (rigid) Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany, 1900. ͻ Aluminum manufacture: (by electrolytic action) Charles M. Hall, U.S., 1866. ͻ Anatomy, human: (De fabrica corporis humani, an illustrated sy stematic study of the human body) Andreas Vesalius, Belgium, 1543; (comparative: parts of an organism are correlated to the functioning whole) Georges Cuvier, France, 17 99ʹ1805. ͻ Anesthetic: (first use of anestheticͶetherͶon humans) Crawford W. Long, U.S., 1842. ͻ Antibiotics: (first demonstration of antibiotic effect) Louis Pasteur, Jules-François Joubert, France, 1887 ; (discovery of penicillin, first modern antibiotic) Alexander Fleming, England, 1928; (penicillin's infectionfighting properties) Howard Florey, Ernst Chain, England, 1940. ͻ Antiseptic: (surgery) Joseph Lister, England, 1867 . ͻ Antitoxin, diphtheria: Emil von Behring, Germany, 1890. ͻ Appliances, electric: (fan) Schuyler Wheeler, U.S., 1882; (flatiron) Henry W. Seely, U.S., 1882; (stove) Hadaway, U.S., 1896; (washing machine) Alva Fisher, U.S., 1906. ͻ Aqualung: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Emile Gagnan, France, 1943. ͻ Aspirin: Dr. Felix Hoffman, Germany , 1899. ͻ Astronomical calculator: The Antikythera device, first century B.C., Greece. Found off island of Antikythera in 1900. ͻ Atom: (nuclear model of) Ernest Rutherford, England, 1911. ͻ Atomic theory: (ancient) Leucippus, Democritus, Greece, c. 500 B.C.; Lucretius, Rome c.100 B.C.; (modern) John Dalton, England, 1808. ͻ Atomic structure: (formulated nuclear model of atom, Rutherford model) Ernest Rutherford, England, 1911; (proposed current concept of atomic structure, the Bohr model) Niels Bohr, Denmark, 1913. ͻ Automobile: (first with internal combustion engine, 250 rpm) Karl Benz, Germany, 1885; (first with practical high-speed internal combustion engine, 900 rpm) Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, 1885; (first true automobile, not carriage with motor) René Panhard, Emile Lavassor, France, 1891; (carburetor, spray) Charles E. Duryea, U.S., 1892. ͻ Autopilot: (for aircraft) Elmer A. Sperry , U.S., c.1910, first successful test, 1912, in a Curtiss fly ing boat. ͻ Avogadro's law: (equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal number of molecules) Amedeo Avogadro, Italy, 1811. ͻ Bacteria: Anton van Leeuwenhoek, The Netherlands, 1683. DISCOVERY DISCOVERED An Open Book ~ Discoveries and Inventions Ads by Google Inventions England Discoveries Sw eden A New Inventions Recommend Do You Have an Idea? Find Companies that Can Turn Your Idea Into A Real Product. Start Now www.Idea4Invention.͙ Free eDiscovery casestudy Leading law firm slashes case costs with predictive coding technology predictivecoding.com High Quality Prototypes Bringing Ideas to Reality-Prototype to Production - Free Quotes! 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Glidden, U.S., 187 3. ͻ Bar codes: (computer-scanned binary signal code): ͻ (retail trade use) Monarch Marking, U.S. 197 0; (industrial use) Plessey Telecommunications, England, 197 0. ͻ Barometer: Evangelista Torricelli, Italy, 1643. ͻ Bicycle: Karl D. von Sauerbronn, Germany, 1816; (first modern model) James Starley, England, 1884. ͻ Big Bang theory: (the universe originated with a huge explosion) George LeMaitre, Belgium, 1927 ; (modified LeMaitre theory labeled ͞Big Bang͟) George A. Gamow, U.S., 1948; (cosmic microwave background radiation discovered, confirms theory) Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson, U.S., 1965. ͻ Blood, circulation of: William Harvey, England, 1628. ͻ Boyle's law: (relation between pressure and volume in gases) Robert Boyle, Ireland, 1662. ͻ Braille: Louis Braille, France, 1829. ͻ Bridges: (suspension, iron chains) James Finley, Pa., 1800; (wire suspension) Marc Seguin, Lyons, 1825; (truss) Ithiel Town, U.S., 1820. ͻ Bullet: (conical) Claude Minié, France, 1849. ͻ Calculating machine: (logarithms: made multiplying easier and thus calculators practical) John Napier, Scotland, 1614; (slide rule) William Oughtred, England, 1632; (digital calculator) Blaise Pascal, 1642; (multiplication machine) Gottfried Leibniz, Germany, 167 1; (important 19th-century contributors to modern machine) Frank S. Baldwin, Jay R. Monroe, Dorr E. Felt, W. T. Ohdner, William Burroughs, all U.S.; (͞analytical engine͟ design, included concepts of programming, taping) Charles Babbage, England, 1835. ͻ Calculus: Isaac Newton, England, 1669; (differential calculus) Gottfried Leibniz, Germany, 1684. ͻ Camera: (hand-held) George Eastman, U.S., 1888; (Polaroid Land) Edwin Land, U.S., 1948. ͻ ͞Canals͟ of Mars: Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, 187 7 . ͻ Carpet sweeper: Melville R. Bissell, U.S., 187 6. ͻ Car radio: William Lear, Elmer Wavering, U.S., 1929, manufactured by Galvin Manufacturing Co., ͞Motorola.͟ ͻ Cells: (word used to describe microscopic examination of cork) Robert Hooke, England, 1665; (theory: cells are common structural and functional unit of all living organisms) Theodor Schwann, Matthias Schleiden, 1838ʹ1839. ͻ Cement, Portland: Joseph Aspdin, England, 1824. ͻ Chewing gum: (spruce-based) John Curtis, U.S., 1848; (chicle-based) Thomas Adams, U.S., 187 0. ͻ Cholera bacterium: Robert Koch, Germany, 1883. ͻ Circuit, integrated: (theoretical) G.W.A. Dummer, England, 1952; (phase-shift oscillator) Jack S. Kilby, Texas Instruments, U.S., 1959. ͻ Classification of plants: (first modern, based on comparative study of forms) Andrea Cesalpino, Italy, 1583; (classification of plants and animals by genera and species) Carolus Linnaeus, Sweden, 17 37 ʹ17 53. ͻ Clock, pendulum: Christian Huygens, The Netherlands, 1656. ͻ Coca-Cola: John Pemberton, U.S., 1886. ͻ Combustion: (nature of) Antoine Lavoisier, France, 17 7 7 . ͻ Compact disk: RCA, U.S., 197 2. ͻ Computers: (first design of analytical engine) Charles Babbage, 1830s; (ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator, first all-electronic, completed) 1945; (dedicated at University of Pennsylvania) 1946; (UNIVAC, Universal Automatic Computer, handled both numeric and alphabetic data) 1951. ͻ Concrete: (reinforced) Joseph Monier, France, 187 7 . ͻ Condensed milk: Gail Borden, U.S., 1853. ͻ Conditioned reflex: Ivan Pavlov, Russia, c.1910. ͻ Conservation of electric charge: (the total electric charge of the universe or any closed system is constant) Benjamin Franklin, U.S., 17 51ʹ17 54. ͻ Contagion theory: (infectious diseases caused by living agent transmitted from person to person) Girolamo Fracastoro, Italy, 1546. ͻ Continental drift theory: (geographer who pieced together continents into a single landmass on maps) Antonio Snider-Pellegrini, France, 1858; (first proposed in lecture) Frank Taylor, U.S.; (first comprehensive detailed theory) Alfred Wegener, Germany, 1912. ͻ Contraceptiv e, oral: Gregory Pincus, Min Chuch Chang, John Rock, Carl Djerassi, U.S., 1951 . ͻ Converter, Bessemer: William Kelly, U.S., 1851. ͻ Cosmetics: Egypt, c. 4000 B.C. ͻ Cosamic string theory : (first postulated) Thomas Kibble, 197 6. ͻ Cotton gin: Eli Whitney, U.S., 17 93. ͻ Crossbow: China, c. 300 B.C. ͻ Cyclotron: Ernest O. 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