Wired— Domestic Biotech
InventTable — WIRED ERA — Domestic Biotech
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Practical threshing machine | mechanized agriculture | 1837 | Hiram A. Pitts, John A. Pitts | USA |
Standard modern flush toilet | sanitation mechanized | 1837 | Thomas Crapper | UK |
Steel plow | modern | 1837 | John Deere | USA |
Super phosphate | first synthetic fertilizer | 1839 | Justus von Biebig, John Bennet Lawes | UK |
Ice cream maker | 1843 | Nancy Johnson | USA | |
Mowing machine | practical | 1844 | William Ketchum | USA |
Dry cleaning | 1849 | Jean-Baptiste Jolly | France | |
Pasteurization | 1864 | Louis Pasteur | France (49) | |
Scientific plant breeding | Mendelian | 1865 | Gregor Mendel | Czechoslovakia |
Margarine | butter substitute | 1869 | Hippolyte Mage-Mourias | France |
Hay bailing machine | automatic | 1872 | Charles Withington | USA |
Blue jeans | miners wear | 1873 | Levi Strauss, Jacob Davis | USA |
DDT pesticide | dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | 1874 | Othmar Zeidler | Germany |
Saccharin | artificial sweetner | 1879 | Ira Remsen, Constantin Fahlberg | USA/Germany |
Septic tank | sanitation | 1881 | Jean-Louis Mouras | France |
Peanut butter | 1884 | Marcellus Gilmore Edson | Canada | |
Coca cola | soft drink | 1886 | John Pemberton | USA |
Sewage treatment facility | sanitary engineering | 1890 | Worchester , Mass. | USA |
Gas tractor | mechanized agriculture | 1892 | John Froehlich | USA |
Zipper | fastening device | 1893 | Whitcomb Judson | USA |
Breakfast cereal flakes | 1894 | John Harvey Kellogg | USA | |
Hairbrush | hygiene | 1898 | Lyda D. Newman | USA |
Concrete dam | 1903 | Nils F. Ambursen | USA | |
Synthetic detergent | 1907 | Fritz Henkel | Germany | |
Hybrid corn | 1917 | Donald F. Jones | USA | |
Nitrogen fixation | Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production | 1918 | Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch | Germany (46) |