Wired — Metals
InventTable — WIRED ERA — Materials, metals
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Chicken wire fence | 1844 | Charles Barnard | UK | |
Safety pin | 1849 | Walter Hunt | USA | |
Bessimer steel process | high volume quality steel | 1855 | Henry Bessimer | UK (28) |
Modern whaling harpoon | 1864 | Svend Foyn | Norway | |
Paper clip | 1867 | Samuel Fay | USA | |
Stainless steel | chromium steel alloy | 1872 | J. E. T. Woods, J. Clark | UK (28) |
Barbed wire | practical | 1874 | Joseph Glidden | USA |
Blow torch | welding lower temperatures | 1881 | Carl Nyborg | Sweden |
Steel girder skyscraper | high rise buildings | 1884 | William Le Baron Jenney | USA |
Electric arc welding | advanced welding | 1885 | Nikolai Benardos, Stanislaus Olszewski | Russia/Poland |
Aluminum | commercial production | 1886 | Charles Martin Hall, and Julia Hall, Paul Heroult | USA/France (57) |
Bayer process | for aluminum | 1887 | Carl Josef Bayer | Austria |
Bottle cap | with cork seal | 1892 | William Painter | USA |
Vacuum flask | Thermos device | 1892 | James Dewar | UK |
Oxy-acetylene welding | torch welding | 1903 | Edmond Forche, Charles Picard | France (77) |
Crescent wrench | adjustable wrench | 1907 | Johan Petter Johansson | Sweden |
Aluminum foil | 1910 | J. G. Nehor and Sons | Switzerland | |
Stainless steel | commercial production | 1913 | Harry Brearley | UK (28) |
Rivot | metal | 1915 | Scotland, UK (90) |