1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
1877: Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, the first device that can record and reproduce sound.
1879: Thomas Edison invents the first practical incandescent light bulb.
1885: Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach invent the first internal combustion engine-powered automobile.
1885: John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola.
1888: George Eastman invents the Kodak camera, making photography accessible to the general public.
1895: Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays.
1895: Auguste and Louis Lumière invent the cinematograph, the first motion picture camera.
1896: Guglielmo Marconi sends and receives the first wireless telegraph message.
1897: Charles Parsons invents the first steam turbine.
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium.
1899: Ferdinand von Zeppelin invents the first rigid airship.