FAMOUS INVENTORS ~ 1800 - 1849
1. Inventors 1800 - 1849 (birth dates)Benoît Fourneyron
(1802-1867)
French
water turbine
Charles Wheatstone
(1802-1875)
British
concertina - stereoscope - microphone - Playfair cipher
Justus von Liebig
(1803-1873)
German
nitrogen-based fertilizer
John Ericsson
(1803-1889)
Swedish
the two screw-propeller
Charles Robert Darwin
(1809-1882)
British
theory of evolution
William George Armstrong
(1810-1900)
British
hydraulic crane
Elisha Otis
(1811-1861)
American
passenger elevator and concommitant safety device
William Robert Grove
(1811-1896)
Welsh
fuel cell
Giovanni Luppis
(1813-1875)
Austrian Empire (ethnical Italian)
self-propelled torpedo
Adolphe Sax
(1814-1894)
Belgium
saxophone
Werner von Siemens
(1816-1892)
German
" an electromechanical ""dynamic"""
János Irinyi
(1817-1895)
Hungarian
noiseless match
Heinrich Göbel
(1818-1893)
German
first functional incandescent lamp
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
(1819-1868)
French
Foucault pendulum (earth rotation) - gyroscope - eddy current
Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol
(1819-1885)
Spanish
steam powered submarine
Benjamin Chew Tilghman
(1821-1897)
American
sandblasting
Sir William Siemens
(1823-1883)
German
regenerative furnace
Sandford Fleming
(1827-xxxx)
Scottish
inventor of Standard Universal Time (1879)
Joseph Swan
(1828-1914)
British
Incandescent light bulb
Adolf Eugen Fick
(1829-1901)
German
contact lens
Levi Strauss
(1829-1902)
American
blue jeans
Eugene Poubelle
(1831-1907)
French
the dustbin
Alfred Nobel
(1833-1896)
Swedish
dynamite
Margaret Knight
(1838-1914)
American
machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags
Almon Strowger
(1839-1902)
American
automatic telephone exchange
Josephine Cochrane
(1839-1913)
American
dishwasher
John Boyd Dunlop
(1840-1921)
British
first practical pneumatic tyre
Helge Palmcrantz
(1842-1880)
Swedish
the multi-barrel lever-actuated machine gun
Sir James Dewar
(1842-1923)
British
Thermos flask
Henry Perky
(1843-1906)
American
Shredded wheat
Tivadar Puskas
(1844-1893)
Hungarian
telephone exchange
Elijah McCoy
(1844-1929)
American
automatic lubricator for oiling steam engines
Theophil Wilgodt Odhner
(1845-1903)
Swedish
the Odhner Arithmometer - a mechanical calculator
Gustav de Laval
(1845-1913)
Swedish
invented the milk separator and the milking machine
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
(1845-1923)
German
the X-ray machine
George Westinghouse
(1846-1914)
American
Air brake
Lars Magnus Ericsson
(1846-1926)
Swedish
the handheld micro telephone
Thomas Edison
(1847-1931)
American
phonograph - commercially practical light bulb - motion picture projector - stock ticker
Lewis Latimer
(1848-1928)
African/American
worked with Thomas Edison and patented an improved lightbulb manufacturing process
John Ambrose Fleming
(1848-1945)
British
vacuum diode
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