Notable Inventions and Discoveries

Date Invention Or Discovery Inventor Or Discoverer Nationality

 Sir Francis William Aston British
1919 Mass spectrograph
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster American
1922-26 Sound motion pictures T.W. Case American
1922 Insulin Sir Frederick Grant Banting Canadian
1923 Autogiro Juan de la Cierva Spanish
1923 Television iconoscope Vladimir Kosma Zworykin American
1924 Quick-frozen food Clarence Birdseye American
1925 Television image dissector tube Philo Taylor Farnsworth American
1926 Aerosol can Erik Rotheim Norwegian
1926 Liquid-fuel rocket Robert Hutchings Goddard American
1928 Penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming British
1930 Bathysphere (Charles) William Beebe American
Thomas Midgley and
1930 Freon (low-boiling fluorine compounds) American
coworkers
1930 Modern gas-turbine engine Sir Frank Whittle British
Father Julius Arthur
1930 Neoprene (synthetic rubber) Nieuwland and Wallace American
Hume Carothers
1931 Cyclotron Ernest Orlando Lawrence American
Differential analyzer (analogue
1931 Vannevar Bush American
computer)
1932 Phase contrast microscope Frits Zernike Dutch
Robert Jemison Van de
1932 Van de Graaff generator American
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1933 Frequency modulation (FM) Edwin Howard Armstrong American
1935 Buna (synthetic rubber) German scientists German
1935 Radiolocator (radar) Sir Robert Watson-Watt British
Edward Calvin Kendall American
1935 Cortisone
Tadeus Reichstein Swiss
1935 Electron microscope German scientists German
1935 Sulfanllamide Gerhard Domagk German
1935 Nylon Wallace Hume Carothers American
1936 Twin-rotor helicopter3 Heinrich Focke German
1937 Snowmobile Armand Bombardier Canadian
1938 Ballpoint pen Georg and Ladislao Biro Hungarian
1939 DDT Paul Müller Swiss
1939 Helicopter4 Igor Sikorsky American
1940 Betatron Donald William Kerst American
1941 Turbojet aircraft engine Sir Frank Whittle British
1942 Guided missile Wernher von Braun German
1942 Nuclear reactor Enrico Fermi American
1942 Xerography Chester Carlson American

1944 V-2 (rocket-propelled bomb) German scientists German

1945 Atomic bomb U.S. government scientists American
1945 Streptomycin Selman A. Waksman American