Significant Inventions During the Old West Era 1847-1890
| Invention |
Year |
Inventor |
| Rotating Cylinder Revolver |
1836 |
Samuel Colt |
| Electric Telegraph & Morse Code |
1837 |
Samuel Morse |
| Cast-Steel Plow |
1837 |
John Deere |
| Safety Pin |
1849 |
Walter Hunt |
| Practical Sewing Machine |
1850 |
Isaac Singer |
| Refrigerated RR Car |
1851 |
Gustavos Swift |
| Umbrella |
1852 |
Samuel Fox |
| Condensed Milk |
1853 |
Gail Borden, Jr. |
| Potato Chips |
1853 |
George Crum |
| Kerosene |
1854 |
Abraham Gesner |
| Elevator |
1854 |
Elisha Otis |
| Bunsen Burner |
1855 |
Robert Bunsen |
| Safety Match |
1855 |
Johan Lundstrom |
| Toilet Paper |
1857 |
Joseph Gayetty |
| Typewriter |
1867 |
Christopher Sholes |
| Luxury Sleeping RR Car |
1867 |
George Pullman |
| Dynamite |
1867 |
Alfred Nobel |
| Blue Jeans |
1870 |
Levi Strauss |
| Barbed Wire |
1873 |
Joseph Glidden |
| Telephone |
1876 |
Alexander Graham Bell |
| Phonographic Records |
1877 |
Thomas A. Edison |
| Light Bulb |
1878 |
Joseph Swan/Thomas Edison |
| Cash Register |
1879 |
James Ritty |
| Electric Iron |
1882 |
Henry W. Seeley |
| Smokeless Gun Powder |
1884 |
Paul Vielle |
| Alternating Current (AC) |
1885 |
Nikola Tesla |
| Rabies Vaccine |
1885 |
Louis Pasteur |
| Multi-Voltage Power Transformer |
1886 |
George Westinghouse |
| Coca-Cola |
1886 |
John Pemberton |
| Induction Motor |
1887 |
Nikola Tesla |
| Ball Point Pen |
1888 |
John J. Loud |
| Adding (Calculating) Machine |
1888 |
William Seward Burroughs |
| Kodak Camera |
1888 |
George Eastman |
| Basketball |
1891 |
James Naismith |
| Zipper |
1893 |
Whitcomb Judson |
| X-Rays |
1895 |
Wilhelm Von Roentgen |
| Radio |
1895 |
Guglielmo Marconi |
| Cotton Candy |
1897 |
Morrison & Wharton |
| Aspirin |
1899 |
Felix Hoffman |
