Wired — Medical Biotech
InventTable — WIRED ERA — Medical Biotech
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Hypodermic syringe | medicine delivery not by mouth | 1844, 1853 | Francis Rynd, Charles Gabriel Pravaz, Alexander Wood | France/UK (23) |
| Ether general anesthesia | first true general anesthesia | 1842 | Crawford W. Long, William Morton | USA |
| Ophthalmoscope | eye inspection | 1851 | Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmhotz | Germany |
| Aspirin synthesized | acetylsalicyclic acid | 1853 | Charles Fredic Gerhardt | Germany |
| Snellen eye test | visual acuity | 1862 | Hermann Snellen | Netherlands |
| Modern thermometer clinical | fever test | 1866 | Thomas Albutt | UK |
| Vaccine for cholera | first successful bacterial vaccine | 1879 | Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, Pasteur Instittute | France |
| Autoclave | sterilization instruments | 1879 | Charles Chamberlain | |
| Modern otoscope | ear examination | 1881 | A. Hartman | Germany |
| Rabies vaccine | previously fatal | 1882 | Louis Pasteur | France |
| Tetanus and diphtheria vaccines | 1890 | Emil von Behring | Germany | |
| Modern toothpaste and toothpaste tube | oral hygiene | 1892 | Washington Wentworth Sheffield | USA |
| X-ray imaging | first medical imaging | 1895 | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen | Germany (59) |
| Sphygmomanometer | practical | 1896 | Scipione Riva-Rocci | Italy |
| Rotator cuff tendon repair | shoulder surgery | 1898 | Wilhelm Muller | Germany |
| ABO blood groups | compatibility for transfusions | 1900 | Karl Landskiner | Austria (51) |
| EKG | electrocardiogram machine | 1903 | Willem Einthoven | Netherlands |
| Barium sulfate contrast | x-ray imaging, complex | 1905 | USA/Germany | |
| Arsphenamine chemotherapy | for syphilis and African sleeping sickness | 1907 | Alfred Bertheim, Paul Erlich | Germany |
| IUD intrauterine device | contraception drug free | 1909 | Richard Richter | Germany |
| Latex condom | contraception | 1912 | Julius Fromm | Poland/Germany |
| Isoniazid | for tuberculosis | 1912 | Meyer and Malley | Czechoslovakia |
| Heparin | anticoagulant, blood thinner | 1916 | Jay McClean, William Henry Howell | USA |
| Knee arthroscopy | minimal surgery | 1919 | Kenji Takagi | Japan |