Invention.

Inventor.

Date.

Air Gun

Marin

........1595

Air Pump

Otto von Guericke

........ 654

Anastatic Printing. .

Baldermus

........1841

Anchor

Anacharsis

........ 594

Bc

Anemometer

Wolfius

........1709

Balloon

Montgolfier

........1783

Barometer

Evangelista Torricelli

1643

Bellows

Anacharsis the Scythian

....... 593

Bc

Camel machine

Meuvis Neindertzoon Bakker

........1688

Camera Lucida

Dr. Hooke

...1635-1703

Camera Obscura.....

Roger Bacon

........1297

Cannon

Chinese (Brass Cannon to John Owen)

.About 618

Bc

Chronoscope.......

Wheatstone.

........1840

Clock

First one erected in Padua

11th Century

Compass

Chinese

........1115

Bc

Cotton Gin

Eh Whitney.......................................

........1793

Dial..................

Anaximander

........ 550

Bc

Diving Bell

Unknown

........1509

Electric Clock........

Wheatstone

........1840

Electric Light........

Sir Humphrey Davy

.......1813

Electrotype

Spencer and Jacobi

1837

Engraving

Chinese

........1000

Bc

Fire Arms

Unknown

1364

Fire Engine..........

Hautsch.

........1657

Gas.................

VanHelmont

...1600-1625

Gas Meter

Clegg ............................................

........1815

Geographical Maps.

Anaximander

........ 550

Bc

Glass

Phoenicians

Gunpowder

Barthold Schwarz

.......1320

Hydraulic Press.....

Joseph Bramah

........1796

Hydraulic Ram

Montgolfier

........1797

Kaleidoscope

David Brewster

1814

Lightning Conductor

Benjamin Franklin

.......1752

Lithography.........

Alois Senefelder

........1798

Locomotive

Watt

.. ____1759

Matches

Walker.........................................

........1827

Microscope.

Zacharias Jansen

........1590

Organ.

Archimedes and Ctesibius

....220- 100

Bc

Phonograph.

Thomas A. Edison

1877

Photography

Thomas Wedgwood

........1802

Piano Forte

Bartolommeo Christofali

........1714

Pneumatic Railway..

Henry Pinkus

1835

Stocking Frame.....

William Lee

........1589

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Printing

Johann Gutenburg

........1438

Railroad

Beaumont

........1672

Ruling Machine

By a Hollander; subsequently improved by

Payne, Woodmason an£ Brown

........1782

Sewing Machine.....

Elias Howe

........1841

Steamboat

Robert Fulton

........1807

Steam Engine

James Watt

........1763

Telegraph

Samuel F. B. Morse

........1837

Torpedo

David Bushnell

........1777

Telephone

Elisha Gray, A. Graham Bell, A. C. Dolbear and Thomas A. Edison

........1877

Telescope............

Hans Lippersheim, Jacob Adriansz

.......1608

Thermometer

........1609

Watch...............

Said to have been first invented at Nurem-berg, 1477* . . . . . . .

.......1477