Cray Supercomputer
Credit Cards
Cricket
Crinolines, Petticoats
Crossword Puzzles
Cruise Control
Cuisinart
Cyclotron
Daguerreotype (Louis Daguerre invented daguerreotype photography, the first modern method of
photography.)
Dentistry Innovations (The history of false teeth, dentistry, the toothbrush, toothpaste, dental
floss and more.)
Deodorants (The history of deodorants.)
Depth Charge (The depth charge or bomb is a weapon used by ships or aircraft to attack
submerged submarines. The first depth charges were developed by the British in World War I for use
against German submarines.)
Detergents (In the synthetic detergent industry is not easy to pinpoint exactly when the first
synthetic detergents were invented.)
Dewar Flask (Sir James Dewar invented the Dewar flask, the first thermos.)
Diabetes Testing Kits (Helen Free received a patent for a home diabetes test. The history of
insulin.)
Dialysis Machine (Willem Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine. The history of kidney
innovations.)
Diapers (Disposable) The convenient disposable diaper was invented by New Yorker Marion
Donovan in 1950.)
Diesel Engine (Rudolf Diesel was the inventor of the diesel-fuelled internal combustion engine.)
Digital Camera (The history of the digital camera.)
Dirigibles (The history of airships, balloons, blimps, dirigibles and zeppelins.)
Dishwasher (Josephine Cochran invented the dishwasher in 1886.)
Disposable Cell Phone (Randice-Lisa Altschul invented the world's first disposable cell phone.)
Diving Equipment (In the 16th century, barrels were used as primitive diving bells, and for the first
time divers could travel underwater with more than one breath of air, but not much more than one.)
Domes Geodesic (The geodesic dome was invented in 1954 by Richard Buckminster Fuller.)
Donut/Doughnut (The history of the pastry with the hole in the middle.)
DRAM (Robert Dennard invented one-transistor Dynamic Random Access Memory or DRAM.)
Drinking Straws (In 1888, Marvin Stone patented the spiral winding process to manufacture the
first paper drinking straws.)
Drive-In (Richard Hollingshead patented and opened the first drive-in theatre.)
Dr Pepper (In 1885, Charles Aderton invented the Dr Pepper soft drink. The history of soft drinks.)
Dry Ice (Dry ice was discovered not invented - the name was trademarked by the first company to
sell dry ice.)
Duramold (Duramold is a process that involves laminating and moulding thin sheets of veneer
together. Howard Hughes' airplane called the Spruce Goose was made of Duramold.)
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