New Inventions From 1900 to 2000. Over the last hundred years(1900-2000), many new objects has been invented. the list of some inventions and their inventors from 1900-2000 are given below.
1900-1910
1901: Hubert Cecil booth of London invented the electric vacuum cleaner. the vacuum cleaner was first invented in 1860.
1903:The first manually controlled, fixed-wing, motorized aircraft was is invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright.
1907: The “About wagon” a vehicle to replace the farm wagon was made by International Harvester.
1910-1920
1915: The tank was invented by Ernest Swinton.
1920-1930
1920: John Froehlich invented the first successful tractor in 1892. these were big, heavy and not too reliable. the tractors that are in use today were built by Charles hart and Charles parr in 1920.
1928: Alexander Fleming was the first to notice the antibiotic properties of penicillin. many other medical and scientists developed penicillin for medical use.
1940-1950
1950: The first cotton harvester was invented in the U.S. in 1850, but it was not until the 1940s that the machinery was widely used in the US.
1941-1945: Frozen Foods was invented.
1946: The microwave oven was invented by Percy Spencer.
1947: The transistor, was invented by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain under the supervision of William Shockey. with time the transistor became smaller, faster, more reliable, and cheaper to manufacture. this led to a revolution in computers and communication.
1950-1960
1951: First use of nuclear power to produce electricity for households.
1957: The first personal computer used by one person and controlled by a keyboard was invented by IBM.
1957: The Soviet Union uses a liquid propelled rocket to send the sputnik satellite or space probe into orbit.
1958-1959: Co-creation of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1960-1970:
1960s: The first cell phone was made in the 1960s. but it was not until 1973 that Dr Martin copper of Motorola brought to the market the first heavy-duty cellular telephone. models for use by people were introduced in the 1980s.
1970-1980
In 1971 Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail. he created the ARAP net and used his send Msg feature to inform his colleagues on how to send e-mails.
1971: The Lunar Roving Vehicle(LRV) is a small dune-buggy car that permitted the Apollo astronauts to drive from the place of their landing site on the moon to collect rock/soil The Lunar Rover was first used during Apollo 15 which launched on July 26, 1971.19
1972: The first video game console, used for playing video games on a TV was invented.
1973-1975: The internet protocol suite was developed by Vinton Cerf and Robert E.Kahn. it creates the basis for the modern internet.
1980-1990
1980: The space shuttle Columbia was invented by National Space Administration (NASA). Unlike rocket that was not reusable, the space shuttle was made to house rockets in an aeroplane-type vehicle so that they cloud be reused for later flights.
1982: A CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read-only memory) is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable b, a computer for data storage and music playback.
1985: It was around 1985 due to the use of the global system for Mobile(GSM) system that the first message was sent.
1990-2000
1990: The World Wide Web was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in Switzerland.
1995: Digital Video Disk (DVD) is an optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs (CDs).
