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Inventions from the ALPHABET ERA Era

InventionDescriptionYearInventorCountry
Water wheel water powered wheel mill/device 50 BCE Vitruvius Rome

Invention from the NUMBERS ERA Era

InventionDescriptionYearInventorCountry
Windmill milling function powered by wind 650 AD Persia

Inventions from the PRINT ERA Era

InventionDescriptionYearInventorCountry
Lightning rod electrical conductor 1749 AD Benjamin Franklin USA
Gas turbine for electricity 1791 AD John Barber UK
Battery voltaic pile zinc-silver 1800 AD Alessandro Volta Italy (27)
Electromagnet magnet from electric current 1820 AD Hans Oerstoed UK
Electric DC motor first electric motor 1821 AD Michael Faraday UK

Inventions from the WIRED ERA Era

InventionDescriptionYearInventorCountry
Hydrogen fuel cell 1838 William Robert Grove UK
Solar cell photovoltaic cell 1839 Edmond Becquerel France. (66)
Francis water turbine 1849 James Francis UK/USA (69)
Lead acid battery rechargeable 1859 Gaston Plante France
Dry cell battery alkaline battery 1866 Georges Leclanche France
Free jet water turbine 90% efficiency(Pelton wheel) 1880 Lester Pelton USA
AC induction motor 1881 Nikola Tesla USA (60)
Electric fan 1882 Schuyler Skaats Wheeler USA
Electric iron 1882 Henry W. Seely USA
Steam turbine 89% world electricity 1884 Charles Parsons USA (44)
AC transformer 1884 Karoly Zipernowsky, Otto Blathy, Miksa Deri Austria/Hungary
Wind turbine electricity 1888 Charles Brush, James Blyth USA
AC electric power 1888 Nikola Tesla USA (12)
Fuse 1890 Thomas Alva Edison USA
Tesla coil transformer 1891 Nikola Tesla USA

Inventions from the WIRELESS ERA Era

InventionDescriptionYearInventorCountry
Blow dryer heated air 1920 Racine Universal Motor Co. USA
Blender high speed food mixer 1922 Stephen Poplawski USA
Electric shaver men's shaver 1923 Jacob Schick USA
Fluorescent lamp 1926 Edmund Germer Germany
Quartz clock more accurate timekeeping 1927 Warren Marrison, J.W. Horton, Bell labs USA
Electric pH meter acidity measure 1930 Arnold Beckman USA
Electric can opener powered daisy wheel 1931 Preston West USA
Electric bug zapper electrocution of mosquitoes and flies 1932 William M. Frost, William Broderick Herms USA
Electric steam iron thermostat 1934 Max Skolnik USA
Electric clothes dryer heated tumbling 1935 J. Ross Moore USA
Electric air conditioner household 1939 Willis Carrier USA
Electric toothbrush 1954 Phillipe Guy Woog Switzerland
Gel electrophoresis separation 1955 Oliver Smithies Canada
Modern alkaline battery long lasting 1957 Lewis Urry Canada
MOS transistor, MOSFET world's most produced device 1959 Mohammed Atalla, Dawon Kahnb, Bell labs USA
Integrated circuit silicon monolithic 1959 Jack Kilby, Robert Noyce, Masatoshi Shima USA
Invisible fence pet containment 1973 Richard Peck USA
Southern blot gel electrophoresis DNA analysis 1975 Edwin Mellor Southern USA
Wind farm air current creates electric current 1980 Fausto Veranzio USA
Electronic tolls, E-Z pass for vehicles 1986 Mario Cardullo USA

Inventions from the INTERNET ERA Era

InventionDescriptionYearInventorCountry
Practical economical lithium ion battery rechargeable 1991 Asahi Kasei, SONY Japan
Universal serial bus USB 1999 Ajay Bhatt India/USA
E cigarette electronic nicotine delivery system 2004 Ruyan Co. China
PowerBuoy ocean wave energy electrical generator 2007 Ocean Power Technologies USA

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