ALPHABETICAL LIST OF INVENTIONS 
AND INVENTORS. 
Invention. Inventor. Date. 
Air Gun .Morin.1595 
Anaesthetics.Morton .1846 
Air Brake .Westinghouse.1869 
Air Pump.Otto von Guencke. 654 
Aluminium.Oersted.1817 
Anchor .Anacharsis, the Scythian. 594 B.C. 
Artificial Ice.Vallance .1824 
Balloon.Montgolfier.1783 
Bicycle.Lallemont .1866 
Barometer .Evangelista Torricelli .1643 
Blast Furnace .Siemens.1833 
Bessemer Steel .Bessemer .1855 
Bellows .Anacharsis, the Scythian. 593 B.C. 
Breech-loading Firearms. 1811 
Clock.(Unknown, first one erected in Padua 
in the nth century) 
Concrete Pavement.Straub .1863 
Color Photography.Lippmann.1890 
Dial .Anaximander . 550 B.C. 
Diving Bell .Unknown .1509 
Electric Motor.Jacobi.1834 
Electric Clock.Wheatstone .1840 
Elevated Railway .Palmer .1821 
Electric Light.Sir Humphrey Davy .1813 
Electro Magnet.Sturgeon.1825 
Electrotype.Spencer and Jacobi.1837 
Engraving.Chinese.1000 B.C. 
Firearms .Unknown.1364 
Fire Engines .Hantsch .1657 
Fresnel Lens.Fresnel.1823 
Gas .Van Helmont .1600-1625 
Gasmeter.Robinson .1831 
Geographical Maps.Anaximander . 550 
Glass .Phoenicians .date unknown 
Gun Cotton.Schoenbein .1816 
Gun Powder .Barthold Schwarz .1320 
India Rubber goods.Chaffee .1836 
Illuminating Gas.Eustis and Zigler.1815 
Ironclad Ships.Thos. Gregg .1814 
Lightning Conductors .... Benj. Franklin.1752 
Lime Light .Drummond .,...1826 
Locomotive.James Watt.1759 
Matches... Walker .1827 
Miners’ Safety Lamp.Davy .1815 
Postage Stamp .Norton.1859 
Phonograph.Edison.1877 
Parrott Gun .Parrott .1862 
Platform Scales .Fairbanks.1831 
Photography .Wedgewood.1802 
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