151 World’s Greatest Inventions

The invention of the flashlight was preceded by the invention of electric battery and light. In 1895, David Missel invented the flashlight. It was a paper tube structure with a light bulb and brass reflector at one end and ‘D’ batteries from front to back that helped power it. The initial flashlights used zinc-carbon batteries […]

The mechanism fan was discovered by Omar-Rajeen Jumala on 27 November, 1830. This was a fan with an air pump inside it. This fan was made up for coal mines, factories and the industries where the heat was more; it decreased the temperature of that area and made it cool. In the ancient time, up

Facebook is now a famous social networking website which was invented on 4 February, 2004 by Harvard university student Mark Zuckerberg in association with his college mates Eduuardo Saverin, Andrew Mc Collum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. This website was originally named as ‘Facemash’ but later it was named as ‘Facebook’. To use this website

The eyes of human beings are very sensitive and cannot bear extreme light. The retina of the human eye can get damaged because of immense light. Therefore, earlier people started inventing different eye-protectors. Eye-protectors were invented within the past 130 years. It is the result of modification done in traditional eyewear. After 4 BC, it

Louis Bernard Rabaut, in the year 1822, invented the first espresso machine, which used steam as a medium to allow hot water through ground coffee to make espresso. In the year 1833, Dr. Ernest Illy invented the first automatic espresso machine. In Italy, Angelo Moriondo from Turin, built an espresso machine in 1884 but his

The escalator, which made climbing stairs easier, is dated way back in 1859. On 9 March, 1859, Nathan Ames of Massachusetts got a patent issued for revolving escalators. It  provided a base for others to work on and developed it into the modern-day escalator. During 1890s, Jesse Reno made a practical model of the escalator.

Though the first ever elevator was created in the year 1793, the history of it dates back to as early as 236 BC, where there was a reference of a structure like elevator in the Roman empire. The invention of the screw driver was what led to the invention of the first kind of modern-day

The earliest accounts of using irons for smoothing out wrinkles in fabrics were from China in the 1st century BC. Flat irons came to be used in the 17th century. The invention of the electric iron is credited to an American inventor named Henry Seeley in 1882. An iron heated by a carbon arc was

The South Australian bathroom accessories company Caroma was known for being an innovative company. Its founder, Charles Rothauser, developed the first one-piece plastic toilet cistern (the water tank above the toilet bowl) in the late 1950s. In 1981, Caroma launched the first effective dual flush toilet. Two flush buttons operated the Caroma model–one for a

Doors were discovered by the black man named Hooch Turner in the year 1345 at Sydney in Australia. A door can be placed anywhere in the house; hence it is a movable object. Doors are mainly placed at the entrance of the house. We commonly use doors at the entrance of the house, toilet, bedrooms,

Mr. Osburn Dorsey was the first one who invented the first door-stop in the year 1878. He was an African American inventor. After that there were many door-stop inventors who came with different variations and ideas. Door-mounted door-stops, rotating door stops, the customary wedge door-stop, electronic and magnetic door-stops and floor mounted door-stops are some

The doorknob was a precursor to a general Egyptian security device for the time and a pin tumbler kind of locks. In this lock, a large wooden bolt was used to safeguard a door with an opening and numerous holes in its top. These holes at the upper part were packed with wood dowels to

Joel Houghton invented the first dishwasher in the year 1850, which was also when it got patented. It was a very simple and easy-to-use hand-turned splashing equipment which was fixed to a wooden tub. In 1865, an enhancement of this device was patented by L.A Alexander who added gears to the spinning rack that held

The diesel engine was invented by Dr. Rudolf Diesel in 1893. He was born in Paris. Initially, he was appreciated for designing many heat engines. He applied for many patents in the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Switzerland, and succeeded in getting the patents. The diesel engine uses a combination of oil and

A dictionary is a book that lists almost all known words with their meanings, pronun-ciations, usage information and other information in an alphabetical order. It can be any language depending upon the country. There is no specific person associated with the invention of a dictionary. However, the oldest known dictionary was invented in Syria, roughly