Wired — Energy radiant
InventTable — WIRED ERA — Energy radiant
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Safety match | 1844 | Gustaf Erik Pasch | Sweden | |
| Nitroglycerin | more powerful than gunpowder | 1846 | Ascanio Sobrero | Italy |
| Metal cartridge bullet | percussion cap base | 1846 | Houiller | France |
| Repeating rifle | 1849 | Walter Hunt | USA | |
| Internal combustion engine | gas | 1859 | Etienne Lenoir | France |
| Henry rifle | 1860 | Benjamin Robert Henry | USA | |
| Machine gun | Gatling gun | 1862 | Richard Gatling | USA |
| Torpedo | 1864 | Giovanni Luppis, Robert Whitehead | Austria/UK | |
| Springfield rifle | breech loading | 1865 | Springfield Armory | USA |
| Dynamite | powerful explosive | 1867 | Alfred Nobel | Sweden |
| Winchester 73 | rifle | 1873 | Winchester Co. | USA |
| Cathode ray tube | predates television | 1878 | William Crooks | UK |
| 2 stroke engine | gasoline | 1879 | Karl Benz | Germany |
| Light bulb filament | carbonized bamboo | 1879 | Thomas Alva Edison | USA |
| Smokeless gunpowder | 3x more powerful than black gunpowder | 1884 | Paul Vielle | France (37) |
| Maxim machine gun | 1884 | Hiram Maxim | USA/UK | |
| Lever action rifle | Winchester | 1987 | John Moses Browning | USA |
| Electric toaster | 1893 | Crompton Co. | UK | |
| Diesel engine | compression ignition | 1893 | Rudolf Diesel | Germany |
| Pull chain light switch | 1986 | Harvey Hubbell | USA | |
| Flashlight | wireless lighting | 1896 | David Misell | UK |
| Air conditioner | commercial | 1902 | Willis Carrier | USA (50) |
| Flamethrower | 1915 | Richard Fiedler | Germany | |
| Tungsten light filament | longer lived lightbulb | 1916 | Irving Langmuir | USA |
| Submachine gun | 1918 | Theodor Bergmann | Germany | |
| Pop up toaster | 1919 | Charles Strite | USA |