Notable Inventions of the 1890s
Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first working version of the invention is used here.
1890: Pneumatic Hammer: Charles B. King
1891: Thermal cracking process: Vladimir Shukhov
1891: Automobile Storage Battery: William Morrison
1891: Zipper: Whitcomb L. Judson
1891: Carborundum: Edward G. Acheson
1892: Color photography: Frederic E. Ives
1892: Automatic telephone exchange (electromechanical): Almon Strowger - First in commercial service.
1893: Photographic gun: E.J. Marcy
1893: Carburetor: Don?t B?nki and J?nos Csonka
1893: Half tone engraving: Frederic E. Ives
1893: Wireless communication: Nikola Tesla
1893: Radio: Nikola Tesla
1894: Radio transmission: Jagdish Chandra Bose
1895: Phatoptiken projector: Woodville Latham
1895: Phantascope: C. Francis Jenkins
1895: Diesel engine: Rudolf Diesel
1895: Radio signals: Guglielmo Marconi
1895: Shredded Wheat: Henry Perky
1896: Vitascope: Thomas Armat
1896: Steam turbine: Charles Curtis
1896: Electric stove: William S. Hadaway
1897: Automobile, magneto: Robert Bosch
1897: Modern escalator: Jesse W. Reno
1898: tapered roller bearing: Henry Timken
1898: Remote control: Nikola Tesla
1899: Iron-Mercury coherer with telephone detector: Jagdish Chandra Bose
1899: Automobile self starter: Clyde J. Coleman
1899: Magnetic tape recorder: Valdemar Poulsen
1899: Gas turbine: Charles Curtis