Wireless — Non-Transport Machines
InventTable — WIRELESS ERA — Machines non-transport
Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
Ultra centrifuge | 1924 | Theodor Svedberg | Sweden | |
Garbage disposal | electric pig | 1927 | John W. Hammes | USA |
Chain saw | industrial | 1927 | Andreas Stihl | Switzerland/Germany |
Fathometer | measures water depth | 1928 | Herbert Grove Dorsey | USA |
Phase contrast microscope | 1930 | Frits Zernike | Netherlands | |
Electron microscope | 1931 | Ernst Ruska | Germany | |
Practical electrical washing machine | wash, rinse, extract water | 1933 | John W. Chamberlain | USA |
Trampoline | bouncer | 1934 | George Nissen | USA |
Baby monitor | radio monitor | 1937 | Eugene F. MacDonald | USA |
Night vision goggles | military | 1939 | Wiiam Spicer | Germany/USA |
Gas lawnmower | push | 1940 | Leonard Goodall | USA |
Portable chainsaw | homeowner | 1949 | Robert Paxton McCullough | USA |
Insulated picnic cooler | 1953 | Richard Laramy | USA | |
Leaf blower | 1958 | Dom Quinto | USA | |
Robot | practical called Unimate | 1959 | George Devol | USA (46) |
Cordless tools | rechargeable | 1960 | Black and Decker | USA |
Compound bow (pulley) | more powerful arrow | 1965 | Holles Wilbur Allen | USA |
Automated teller machine | ATM cash machine | 1968 | John Sheppard-Barron | USA |
Waterbed | warm and wavy | 1968 | Charles Prior Hall | USA |
Jacuzzi | hot tub with water jets | 1968 | Candido Jacuzzi | USA |
Myoelectric limb prosthesis | muscle activates electric motor | 1968 | Rorbert Weiner, Melvin Glimcher, Amar Bose, Robert Mann | USA |
Practical smoke detector | optical | 1969 | Duane Pearsall | USA |
Shakey robot, SRI international | artificial intelligence, first | 1970 | Nils John Nilsson, Charles Rosen, Bertram Raphael, Standford U. | USA |
Weed wacker | string trimmer | 1971 | George Ballas | USA |
Mr. Coffee | automatic drip coffee maker | 1972 | Melitta Bentz, Gottlob Widmann | USA |
Dyson bagless vacuum cleaner | easy maintenance | 1978 | James Dyson | UK |
Bipedal robot | humanoid | 1985 | Hitachi | Japan |
Hand held rolling luggage | wheels and lever | 1986 | Robert Plath | USA |
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