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Can You Guess Which Of These Inventions Came First?

Can You Guess Which Of These World-Changing Inventions Came First?

In 1823 Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner invented the first [lighter](http://acshist.scs.illinois.edu/bulletin_open_access/num24/num24%20p66-68.pdf).   
Three years later the first successful [friction match](https://museumofeverydaylife.org/exhibitions-collections/current-exhibitions/history-of-the-match) was invented by John Walker.

The lighter!

Which came first?

Alexander Graham Bell was granted a [patent for the telephone](https://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/150/1870.xhtml) in 1876.   
Three years later, in 1879, Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan were both granted patents for [the incandescent light bulb](https://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html).

The patent for the telephone!

In 1783, frenchman Pilatre De Rozier launched [the first hot air balloon](https://www.space.com/16595-montgolfiers-first-balloon-flight.html) (the first trips were taken by animals, but within two weeks brave humans went up).   
The [steam-powered train](https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Steam-trains-railways/) actually came many years later, either in 1814 (when the first train ran in England) or 1825 (when the first public train with passengers was launched).

The first manned hot air balloon!

[Eyeglasses](https://allabouteyes.com/see-past-fascinating-history-eyeglasses/) were invented in Italy in the late thirteenth century.   
The Ottoman Empire was among the first to use [rifles](http://www.turkishculture.org/military/arms/rifles-167.htm), but that came later — in the fifteenth century.

Eyeglasses!

Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright pulled off the first manually controlled, fixed wing, motorized [aircraft flight](https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/wright-brothers) in 1903.   
British army officer Ernest Swinton invented [the tank](https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-britain-invented-the-tank-in-the-first-world-war) in 1915.

The first flight!

John J. Loud invented the [ballpoint pen](http://www.historyofpencils.com/writing-instruments-history/history-of-ballpoint-pens/) in 1888.   
Whitcomb Judson invented [the zipper](https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-zipper-4066245) in 1891.

The ballpoint pen!

In 1886, Karl Benz (yep, of Mercedes-Benz fame) invented the first [gas-powered car](https://www.daimler.com/company/tradition/company-history/1885-1886.html).  
The [vacuum cleaner](http://www.vacuumcleanerhistory.com/) was patented in 1901 by British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth and American inventor David T. KenneyIn.

The gas-powered car!

Australia's James Harrison produced the world's first practical [ice making machine](https://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2328/2352/PAct21862.pdf;jsessionid=791CA7177303FEBD5586445F5EE6FB5F?sequence=1) in 1856.  
A couple decades later, in 1877, Thomas Edison invented the world's first [working phonograph](https://www.loc.gov/collections/edison-company-motion-pictures-and-sound-recordings/articles-and-essays/history-of-edison-sound-recordings/history-of-the-cylinder-phonograph/).

The ice making machine!

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