<p> Important Inventions</p><p>YEAR INVENTION 1800 -Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery 1814 -George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive -Joseph Nicephore Niepce was the first person to take a photograph 1827 -John Walker invents the modern matches -Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone 1829 -American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter 1830 -Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine 1835 -Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator 1836 -Samuel Colt invents the revolver 1837 -Samuel Morse invents the telegraph 1841 -Samuel Slocum patents the stapler 1845 -American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine 1851 -Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine 1857 -George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel 1861 -Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle 1867 -Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter 1868 -J P Knight invents traffic lights 1876 -Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone 1880 -The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper 1884 -James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register 1885 -Harim Maxim invents the machine gun 1886 -John Pemberton invents Coca Cola 1893 -American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper 1900 -The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1901 -The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission 1903 -The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane 1907 -The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu 1908 -Model T first sold 1916 -Radios tuners invented, that received different stations 1919 -The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite 1920 -The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson 1921 -Artificial life begins – the first robot built 1923 -Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal 1925 -The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird 1936 -About 200 television sets are in use world-wide 1950 -FCC approves first color television -Dishwashers appearing in homes 1952 -The first diet soft drink sold 1953 -Radial tires invented 1954 -Ray Kroc started McDonalds 1958 -The modem invented 1959 -Barbie Doll invented 1962 -The audio cassette invented 1966 -Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented 1967 -The first handheld calculator invented -Most television broadcasts are in color 1969 -The ATM invented 1971 -VCR or videocassette recorder invented 1972 -The word processor invented -Pong (first video game) invented by Nolan Bushnell -Half of the televisions in homes are color sets 1976 -The ink-jet printer invented 1979 -Cellular phones invented -Walkman invented 1981 -MS-DOS invented -The first IBM-PC invented 1983 -First laptop introduced 1984 -The Apple Macintosh invented 1984 -Caller ID introduced 1985 -Windows program invented by Microsoft 1988 -Digital cellular phones invented 1990 -The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee 1995 -DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented 1995 -Debit cards introduced 1999 -Blackberry introduced 2001 -I-pod introduced</p>