Home›Invention›Year›By Decade›1870sBrowse By1870sYear places an invention in the year it was actually patented or first demonstrated. Wikipedia records that "in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent" for the telephone. Browsing by year sets an invention in the wider timeline of technology history.1870sConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)1870sFilter Results26 entriesFieldAllChemical Separation and Purification Techniques (1)Circuit Components And Semiconductors (1)Communication Devices (3)Engines And Power Transmission (3)Foundation, Excavation and Tunnelling Methods (1)Grain Storage Structures (1)Household And Domestic Devices (2)Industrial Machinery And Power (3)Laboratory and Process Apparatus (1)Lighting And Detection Devices (1)Marine Propulsion System (1)Other Mechanical Inventions (1)Plastics and Composites Moulding (1)Printing And Media Devices (1)Synthetic Polymers and Polymerization Processes (1)Underwater Diving Technology (1)Wind Tunnels and Aerodynamic Test Facilities (1)Wire Products (1)Workplace Safety Equipment (1)InventorAllAlexander Graham Bell (3)Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1)Antonio Meucci (1)Benjamin Chew Tilghman (1)Charles Chamberland (1)Charles Kettering (1)Elisha Gray (1)Francis Herbert Wenham (1)Franz von Soxhlet (1)Joseph F. Glidden (1)Nicolaus Otto (1)Nikolaus Otto (1)Ole Evinrude (1)Thomas Edison (2)Associated WithAllAxial fan design (1)Common battery system (1)The Optical Fiber (1)In FieldAllAerospace Engineering (1)Chemical Engineering (3)Civil Engineering (2)Electrical Engineering (5)Industrial Engineering (3)Marine Engineering (2)Materials Engineering (3)Mechanical Engineering (7)In GroupAllChemical Separation and Purification Techniques (1)Circuit Components And Semiconductors (1)Communication Devices (3)Engines And Power Transmission (3)Foundation, Excavation and Tunnelling Methods (1)Grain Storage Structures (1)Household And Domestic Devices (2)Laboratory and Process Apparatus (1)Lighting And Detection Devices (1)Marine Propulsion System (1)Other Mechanical Inventions (1)Plastics and Composites Moulding (1)Printing And Media Devices (1)Synthetic Polymers and Polymerization Processes (1)Underwater Diving Technology (1)Wind Tunnels and Aerodynamic Test Facilities (1)Wire Products (1)Workplace Safety Equipment (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 26Autoclave1870sBarbed Wire1870sCaisson1870sCan Opener1870sCash Register1870sCircuit Breaker1870sCorrugated Cardboard1870sIncandescent Light Bulb1870sInjection Molding Machine1870sInternal Combustion Engine1870sLoudspeaker1870sMachine Guard1870sOutboard Motor1870sPhonograph1870sPolyvinyl Chloride1870sRebreather1870sSandblasting Machine1870sSilo1870sSoxhlet Extractor1870sStapler1870sSupercharger1870sTelephone1870sThe Internal Combustion Engine1870sThe Telephone1870sTurnstile1870sWind Tunnel1870sConnectionsShowing the first 400 of 1,051 connections.SourcesTechnology: A World Historytier 1Daniel R. Headrick, Oxford University Press, 2009Contains: The TelephoneContains: The LaserView the SourceA History of Technologytier 1Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954Contains: The Jet EngineView the SourceEncyclopaedia Britannicatier 1Encyclopaedia Britannica editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Contains: RadioContains: TelevisionContains: The AutomobileContains: The Internal Combustion EngineContains: The ComputerContains: The Analytical EngineContains: The World Wide WebView the SourceBi Sheng (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationContains: Movable Type PrintingView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.