Who Invented What infographic

by Writersroom Boardwalk: Alfred Nobel

Credit for the air conditioner goes to Willis Carrier, and the airplane to Wilbur and Orville Wright. Same deal for Evangelista Torricelli and the barometer, Karl Landsteiner and ABO blood groups, Alfred Nobel and dynamite, Elisha G. Otis and the elevator safety device. Hydrogen is Henry Cavendish's, the laser is Theodore Maiman's, the periodic table is Dmitri Mendeleev's, the submarine is Cornelis Drebbel's. Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail get the telegraph, Alexander Graham Bell the telephone, Thomas Edison the incandescent light bulb, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain the transistor, Tim Berners-Lee the World Wide Web. X-rays belong to Wilhelm Röntgen, penicillin to Alexander Fleming, the motor car to Karl Benz, the steam engine to James Watt, pasteurization to Louis Pasteur. Karl Drais is tied to the draisine, Rudolf Diesel to the diesel engine, Robert H. Goddard to the liquid-fueled rocket, Frank Whittle to the turbojet engine. Garrett Morgan is credited with the traffic signal, Johannes Gutenberg with the printing press, Philo Farnsworth with electronic television, Percy Spencer with the microwave oven, John Logie Baird with a television demonstration. GPS is credited to the U.S. Department of Defense. That's the whole roll call of who invented what.