CHANGES AND ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY DURING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

1901- Hubert Booth invented the vacuum cleaner.
1902- Willis Carrier invented the air conditioner.
1903- The Wright brothers invent the first gas powered motored and manned airplane.
1906- William Kellogg invents Corn Flakes.
1910- Thomas Edison motion pictures.
1919- Charles Strite invents the Pop Up toaster.
1922- Frederick Grant Banting invents insulin.
1927- Edward Haas III invents Pez candy.
1932- Edwin Herbert Land-Polaroid photography.
1933- Frequency modulation (FM) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
1944- Willem Kolff invented the kidney dialysis machine.
1950- First credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
1967- The first handheld calculator was invented.
1973- Gene splicing was invented.
1997- The gas powered fuel cell was invented.

Today we have long passed many of these inventions.