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All answers to “Name an invention”
Every one of the 132 answers Icillion accepts, A to Z. 24 can be spelled more than one way. Which ones are rare stays a secret.
A
- Abacus
- Aeroplanealso Airplane, Aircraft
- Air conditioningalso Air conditioner
- Airbag
- Analytical engine
- Antikythera mechanism
- Aqueduct
- Archimedes' screw
- Astrolabe
- ATMalso Cash machine
B
- Ballpoint penalso Biro
- Barcode
- Battery
- Bessemer process
- Bicyclealso Bike
- Bubble wrap
C
- Calculator
- Camera
- Can opener
- Caralso Automobile
- Cat's eye
- Clock
- Compact discalso CD
- Compass
- Computer
- Computer mousealso Mouse
- Concrete
- Contact lens
- Cotton gin
- Credit card
D
- Daguerreotype
- Difference engine
- Dishwasher
- DVD
- Dynamite
E
- Electric kettle
- Electric motor
- Elevatoralso Lift
- Escalator
F
- Fax machine
- Floppy disk
- Flush toiletalso Toilet
- Flying shuttle
G
- Glass
- Glassesalso Eyeglasses, Spectacles
- GPS
- Gunpowder
H
- Hard disk drive
- Helicopter
- Hologram
- Hovercraft
I
- Integrated circuitalso Microchip
- Internet
J
- Jacquard loom
- Jet engine
K
- Kevlar
- Kinetoscope
L
- Laser
- Lawn mower
- Leyden jar
- Light bulbalso Lightbulb
- Lighter
- Lithium-ion battery
- Lock
M
- Matches
- Microscope
- Microwave ovenalso Microwave
- Mirror
N
- Nuclear reactor
- Nylon
P
- Pacemaker
- Pager
- Paper
- Parachute
- Pasteurization
- Pencil
- Penicillin
- Phonographalso Gramophone
- Plastic
- Power loom
- Printing press
R
- Radio
- Refrigeratoralso Fridge
- Rocket
S
- Safety pin
- Satellite
- Scubaalso Aqualung
- Seatbelt
- Seismoscope
- Sewing machine
- Smartphone
- Solar panelalso Solar cell
- Spinning jenny
- Steam engine
- Stethoscope
- Sticky notealso Post-it note
- Submarine
- Superglue
T
- Teflon
- Telegraph
- Telephonealso Phone
- Telescope
- Televisionalso TV
- Theremin
- Thermometer
- Tin can
- Toaster
- Toothbrush
- Touchscreen
- Traffic light
- Trainalso Locomotive
- Transistor
- Typewriter
U
- Umbrella
- USB flash drive
V
- Vaccine
- Vacuum cleaner
- Velcro
- Video game
- Voltaic pile
- Vulcanized rubber
W
- Walkman
- Washing machine
- Water wheel
- Wheel
- Wind turbine
- Windmill
- Windscreen wiperalso Windshield wiper
- World Wide Web
X
- X-ray machine
Z
- Zipperalso Zip
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