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This category is the top-level index for the atlas's Invention entities: the specific devices, machines and technical innovations this atlas documents, each covering its own working principle, development history and the problem it was built to solve. Each entry covers a specific invention rather than the engineer who created it, the material it is built from or the method used to make it, which are filed under their own respective types elsewhere in the atlas.

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Warehouse Management System

Industrial Engineering

Warp Knitting Machine

Textile Engineering

Warping Machine

Textile Engineering

Waru Waru

Agricultural Engineering

Washing Machine

Electrical Engineering

Water Clock

Mechanical Engineering

Water Frame

Textile Engineering

Water fuel cell

Chemical Engineering

Water organ

Mechanical Engineering

Water Purification

Environmental Engineering

Water Tower

Civil Engineering

Water Turbine

Mechanical Engineering

Water Wheel

Mechanical Engineering

Water-Jet Loom

Textile Engineering

Waterjet Propulsion

Marine Engineering

Watermill

Mechanical Engineering

Watertight Compartment

Marine Engineering

Waterwheel

Mechanical Engineering

Wave Transmitter

Electrical Engineering

Weather Vane

Mechanical Engineering

Web Browser

Software Engineering

Webcam

Computer Engineering

Weighbridge

Industrial Engineering

Weighing Scale

Mechanical Engineering

Weir

Civil Engineering

Weitzer Railmotor

Mechanical Engineering

Wetsuit

Materials Engineering

Wheel

Mechanical Engineering

Wheelbarrow

Mechanical Engineering

Wheelchair

Biomedical Engineering

Wi-Fi

Computer Engineering

Wiki

Software Engineering

Winch

Mechanical Engineering

Wind Tunnel

Aerospace Engineering

Wind Turbine

Electrical Engineering

Windmill

Mechanical Engineering

Windscreen Wiper

Mechanical Engineering

Windshield Wiper

Mechanical Engineering

Winglet

Aerospace Engineering

Wire Drawing Machine

Materials Engineering

Wire Rope

Materials Engineering

Wool Combing Machine

Textile Engineering

Wootz Steel

Metallurgical Engineering

Wright brothers patent war

Aerospace Engineering

Wrinkle-resistant cotton

Textile Engineering

Wristwatch

Mechanical Engineering

X-Ray Machine

Biomedical Engineering

Ziegler-Natta Catalyst

Chemical Engineering

Zinc Distillation

Metallurgical Engineering

Zipper

Mechanical Engineering

ZMAN Switch

Electrical Engineering

Zone Refining

Metallurgical Engineering
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Sources
Technology: A World History
Daniel R. Headrick, Oxford University Press, 2009
  • Contains: The Telephone
  • Contains: The Laser
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A History of Technology
Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954Contains: The Jet EngineView the Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
  • Contains: Radio
  • Contains: Television
  • Contains: The Automobile
  • Contains: The Internal Combustion Engine
  • Contains: The Computer
  • Contains: The Analytical Engine
  • Contains: The World Wide Web
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Bi Sheng (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationContains: Movable Type PrintingView the Source
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