Wired — Non-Metals
InventTable — WIRED ERA — Materials, non-Metals
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Standard diving suit | 1837 | Augustus Siebe | Germany | |
| Vulcanized rubber | with sulfur | 1839 | Charles Goodyear | USA |
| Modern Portland cement | 1845 | Joseph and William Aspdin, Isaac Charles Johnson | UK | |
| Rubber band | 1845 | Stephen Perry | UK | |
| Kerosene | petroleum distillate | 1848 | Abraham Gesner | Canada |
| Chemical vapor deposition | 1852 | Robert Bunsen | Germany | |
| Rubber boots | Wellington | 1852 | Hiram Hutchinson | USA/France |
| Reinforced concrete | steel in cement/concrete | 1853 | Francois Coignet | France |
| Celluloid plastic | Parkesine first plastic | 1856 | Alexander Parkes, John Wesley Hyatt | UK/USA. (43) |
| Oil refinery | 1856 | James Miller Williams, Ignancy Lukasiewicz, James Young | Poland/UK/Canada. (79) | |
| Gasoline | petroleum distillate | 1859 | Thomas Midgley | USA |
| Linoleum | flooring | 1860 | Frederick Walton | UK |
| Indigo dye | first synthetic dye | 1865 | Adolf von Baeyer | Germany |
| Paper bag | flat bottom | 1870 | Margaret Knight | USA |
| Vaseline | petroleum jelly | 1870 | Robert Chesebrough | USA |
| Modern chewing gum | 1870 | Thomas Adams | USA | |
| Cardboard | corrugated | 1871 | Albert L. Jones | USA |
| Asphalt | petroleum pavement | 1872 | Edward de Smed | Belgium/USA |
| PVC poly vinylchloride | hard plastic | 1872 | Eugen Bauman | Germany |
| Rayon | synthetic fiber | 1884 | Louis-Marie-Hilaire Bernigaud, Count of Chardonnet | France |
| Contact lenses | lenses directly on the eye | 1887 | Adolf Fick | Germany |
| Pneumatic rubber tire | air cushion | 1887 | John Boyd Dunlop | UK |
| Thermal cracking of oil | improved refining of oil | 1891 | Vladimir Shukhov | Russia |
| Glass blowing machine | 1895 | Michael Owens | USA | |
| Polyethylene | most common plastic | 1898 | Hans von Pechmann | Germany |
| Wax crayon | colored writing/drawing | 1903 | Edwin Binney, C. Harold Smith | USA |
| Laminated glass | safety glass | 1903 | Edouard Benedictus | France |
| Glass bottle making machine | automatic | 1903 | Michael Joseph Owens | USA |
| Silicone | rubbery material | 1904 | Frederic Stanley Kippinig | UK |
| Bakelite plastic | synthetic shellac | 1907 | Leo Hendrik Baekeland | Belgium/USA |
| Formica | laminate | 1912 | Daniel O'Conor, Herbert Faber | USA |
| Pyrex | boron glass | 1915 | William C. Taylor, Eugene Sullivan | USA |