Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He is the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him (source: wikipedia.org)
Inventors 1800 - 1849 (birth dates)
Benoit 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'
Janos Irinyi
(1817-1895)
Hungarian
noiseless match
Heinrich Gobel
(1818-1893)
German
first functional incandescent lamp
Jean Bernard Leon 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 Rontgen
(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