NEW TECHNOLOGY: 1871-1890
A time of discoveries and inventions still used and influencing today.
- 1871 Disease-resistant Russet Burbank potato (Idaho potato) developed by Luther Burbank
- 1876 Gasoline carburetor invented by Daimler
- 1877 Phonograph invented by Thomas Alva Edison
- 1877 Microphone invented by Emile Berliner
- 1878 Cathode ray tube was invented by William Crookes
- 1878 Ramon Verea invents a fast calculator with an internal multiplication table
- 1879 First vaccine developed for cholera
- 1880 Photophone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell
- 1881 First vaccine developed for anthrax by Louis Pasteur
- 1882 First vaccine for rabies by Louis Pasteur; Koch discovers the TB bacillus; George Eastman creates the fixed-focus camera
- 1884 Comptometer: A key-driven mechanical calculator invented by Dorr E. Felt
- 1885 Motorcycle was invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach
- 1886 Coca-Cola invented by John Pemberton
- 1887 First contact lenses developed
- 1890 Herman Hollerith invents a counting machine which increment mechanical counters
- 1890 Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines
- 1890 Whitcomb L. Judson invents the zipper