Timeline of Inventions from 1909The history of the most significant technological inventions, starting when Bakelite

1909: Bakelite
Bakelite, is an early plastic. It is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a conden...

1914: Rockets
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, ph...

1915: Lipstick
By 1915, lipstick was sold in cylinder metal containers, which had been invented by Maurice Levy. ...

1923: Sound film
Lee de Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor, self-described "Father of ...

1924: Electro mechanical television
John Logie Baird FRSE (14 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the...

1926: Aerosol spray can
The first aerosol spray can patent was granted in Oslo in 1927 to Erik Rotheim, a Norwegian chemical...

1927: Electronic television
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television p...

1928: Penicillin
Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. People began using it to ...

1931: Iconoscope video camera
Vladimir Kosmich Zworykin (July 17 1888 – July 29, 1982) was a Russian inventor, engineer, and pione...

1937: Jet engine
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was an English Royal Air Force (RAF) e...

1937: Theoretical computing machine
Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English computer scientist, mathema...

1938: Ballpoint pen
László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor frustrated by the amount of time that he wasted filling up...

1943: Aqua-lung
The years of World War II were decisive for the history of diving. After the armistice of 1940, the ...

1945: Atomic bomb
Julius Robert Oppenheimer[note 1] (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical p...

1946: Bikini
The name for the bikini design was coined in 1946 by French engineer Louis Réard, the designer of th...

1946: Microwave oven
Percy Spencer is generally credited with inventing the modern microwave oven after World War II from...

1947: Lego
The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), a carpenter from Billund,...

1951: Nuclear power reactor
Walter Henry Zinn (December 10, 1906 – February 14, 2000) was a nuclear physicist who was the first ...

1956: Videocassette recorder
The history of the videocassette recorder follows the history of videotape recording in general. Amp...

1957: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by Soviet Union
Sputnik 2 was launched into space only 32 days after its predecessor Sputnik 1. Due to the huge succ...

1958: Silicon chip
Newly employed by Texas Instruments, Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circ...

1960: Laser
Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman (July 11, 1927 – May 5, 2007) was an American engineer and physicist cr...

1961: Optical disc - CD
Dr. David Paul Gregg (March 11, 1923 - November 8, 2001) was the inventor of the Optical disc (disk)...

1962: Cassette tape
In 1962, Philips invented the Compact Cassette medium for audio storage, introducing it in Europe on...

1963: Computer mouse
Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, and ...

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Timeline of Inventions from 1909