Home›Invention›Year›By Decade›1940sBrowse By1940sYear 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.1940sConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)1940sFilter Results26 entriesFieldAllAdhesives and Fastening Products (1)Circuit Components And Semiconductors (2)Communication Devices (1)Computer Data Storage Devices and Media (1)Computer Pointing and Input Peripheral Devices (1)Crew Escape and Descent Systems (1)Early and Historical Computing Machines (1)Gas Turbine Aircraft Engines (2)Household Appliances (1)Industrial Machinery And Power (1)Iron and Steel Making Processes (1)Life Support and Resuscitation Equipment (1)Manufacturing, Construction And Material Handling Machinery (1)Nuclear and Radiation Devices (1)Other Mechanical Inventions (1)Plastics and Composites Moulding (1)Printing And Media Devices (1)Spinning and Fibre-Preparation Machinery (1)Transportation And Locomotives (1)Underwater Diving Technology (3)Warehouse and Material Handling Systems (1)InventorAllAl Gross (1)Auguste Piccard (1)Clifford Berry (1)Edwin Herbert Land (1)Enrico Fermi (1)Frank Zamboni (1)George de Mestral (1)J. Presper Eckert (1)Jacques Cousteau (2)Jay Forrester (1)John Atanasoff (1)John Bardeen (2)John Mauchly (1)Konrad Zuse (1)Percy Spencer (1)Richard T. James (1)Robert Durrer (1)Samuel Alderson (1)Walter Brattain (2)Willem Kolff (2)William Shockley (2)Émile Gagnan (2)Associated WithAllCamera (1)In FieldAllAerospace Engineering (3)Biomedical Engineering (2)Computer Engineering (3)Electrical Engineering (4)Industrial Engineering (1)Marine Engineering (3)Materials Engineering (1)Mechanical Engineering (3)Metallurgical Engineering (1)Nuclear Engineering (1)Textile Engineering (1)In GroupAllAdhesives and Fastening Products (1)Circuit Components And Semiconductors (2)Communication Devices (1)Computer Data Storage Devices and Media (1)Computer Pointing and Input Peripheral Devices (1)Crew Escape and Descent Systems (1)Early and Historical Computing Machines (1)Gas Turbine Aircraft Engines (2)Household Appliances (1)Iron and Steel Making Processes (1)Life Support and Resuscitation Equipment (1)Manufacturing, Construction And Material Handling Machinery (1)Nuclear and Radiation Devices (1)Other Mechanical Inventions (1)Plastics and Composites Moulding (1)Printing And Media Devices (1)Spinning and Fibre-Preparation Machinery (1)Transportation And Locomotives (1)Underwater Diving Technology (3)Warehouse and Material Handling Systems (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 26Afterburner1940sALCO RS-11940sAqua-Lung1940sBasic Oxygen Steelmaking1940sBathyscaphe1940sCrash Test Dummy1940sEjection Seat1940sHemodialysis Machine1940sIce Resurfacer1940sInstant Camera1940sMagnetic Core Memory1940sMicrowave Oven1940sNuclear Reactor1940sOpen-End Spinning1940sPager1940sPalletizer1940sScuba Diving1940sSlinky1940sThe Computer1940sThe Dialysis Machine1940sThe Transistor1940sTrackball1940sTransistor1940sTurbofan1940sVacuum Forming Machine1940sVelcro1940sConnectionsShowing 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.