| INVENTION | YEAR | INVENTOR | COUNTRY |
| Electric vacuum cleaner | 1901 | Herbert Cecil Booth | UK |
| Air conditioning | 1902 | Willis Haviland Carrier | US |
| Airplane, engine-powered | 1903 | Wilbur & Orville Wright | US |
| Electrocardiogram (ECG, EKG) | 1903 | Willem Einthoven | The Netherlands |
| Radar | 1904 | Christian Hülsmeyer | Germany |
| Silicone | 1904 | Frederic Stanley Kipping | UK |
| The spherical ball bearing | 1906 | Sven Wingqvist | Sweden |
| Bakelite | 1907 | Leo Hendrik Baekeland | US |
| Outboard boat motor | 1907 | Ole Evinrude | Norway/US |
| Electric washing machine | 1907 | Alva J. Fisher | US |
| The Geiger counter | 1908 | Hans Geiger | Germany |
| Safety glass | 1909 | Édouard Bénédictus | France |
| The zipper | 1910 | Gideon Sundbäck | Sweden |
| Cellophane | 1911 | Jacques E. Brandenberger | Switzerland |
| The assembly line | 1913 | Henry Ford | US |
| Brassiere (the bra) | 1913 | Mary Phelps Jacob | US |
| Stainless steel | 1914 | Harry Brearley | UK |
| Sonar | 1915 | Paul Langevin | France |
| The latex condom | 1916 | Julius Fromm | Poland |
| The mobile home | 1919 | Glenn H. Curtiss | US |
| Synthetic adhesives | 1920 | Axel Karlsson | Sweden |
| Adhesive bandage | 1921 | Earle Dickson | US |
| Insulin, extraction and preparation of | 1921 | Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Charles H. Best | Canada |
| Refrigerators with no moving parts | 1921 | Baltzar von Platen, Carl Munters | Sweden |
| Traffic lights, automatic | 1923 | Garrett A. Morgan | US |
| Television | 1923 | Vladimir Kosma Zworykin | Russia |
| Frozen foods | 1924 | Clarence Birdseye | US |
| Loudspeaker | 1924 | Chester W. Rice, Edward W. Kellogg | US |
| Metal detector | 1925 | Gerhard Fisher | Germany/US |
| The aerosol can | 1926 | Erik Rotheim | Norway |
| Liquid-fueled rocket engine | 1926 | Robert H. Goddard | US |
| Baby food, prepared | 1927 | Dorothy Gerber | US |
| Quartz clock | 1927 | Warren A. Marrison | Canada/US |
| Television | 1927 | Philo Taylor Farnsworth | Russia |
| The audiotape | 1928 | Fritz Pfleumer | Germany |
| Electric razor | 1928 | Jacob Schick | US |
| Electroencephalogram (EEG) | 1929 | Hans Berger | Germany |
| The particle accelerator | 1929 | Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton | Ireland/UK |
| Jet engine | 1930 | Sir Frank Whittle | UK |
| Scotch tape | 1930 | Richard Drew (3M) | US |
| Paper towel | 1931 | Arthur Scott | US |
| Stereophonic sound recording | 1931 | Alan Dower Blumlein | UK |
| Metal beverage can | 1933 | American Can Co. | US |
| Dry Milk | 1933 | Ninni Kronberg | Sweden |
| Polyethylene | 1935 | Eric Fawcett, Reginald Gibson | UK |
| Richter scale | 1935 | Charles Francis Richter, Beno Gutenberg | US |
| Nylon | 1937 | Wallace H. Carothers | US |
| Photocopying (xerography) | 1937 | Chester F. Carlson | US |
| The blood bank | 1938 | Charles Richard Drew | US |
| Fiber glass | 1938 | Owens Corning (corp.) | US |
| The ballpoint pen | 1938 | Lazlo Biro | Hungary |
| Teflon | 1938 | Roy Plunkett | US |
| Computer, electronic digital | 1939 | John V. Atanasoff, Clifford E. Berry | US |
| The helicopter | 1939 | Igor Sikorsky | Russia/US |
| Integrated telephone handset (Ericofon) | 1940 | Ralph Lysell, Gösta Thames | Sweden |
| Xylocaine local anesthetic | 1941 | Nils Löfgren, Bengt Lundqvist | Sweden |
| The first Tetra Pak package: Tetrahedrons | 1944 | Erik Wallenberg | Sweden |
| Microwave oven | 1945 | Percy L. Spencer | US |
| Carbon-14 dating | 1946 | Willard F. Libby | US |
| Freeze-dried foods | 1946 | Earl W. Flosdorf | US |
| Mobile telephone | 1946 | Bell Laboratories | US |
| The single-lens reflex camera | 1948 | Victor Hasselblad | Sweden |
| The credit card | 1950 | Frank McNamara, Ralph Schneider (Diners' Club) | US |
| Disposable diapers | 1950 | Marion Donovan | US |
| High Voltage Direct Current | 1950 | Uno Lamm | Sweden |
| The respirator | 1950 | Carl Gunnar Engström | Sweden |
| White correction fluid | 1951 | Bette Nesmith | US |
| Videotape | 1951 | Charles Ginsburg | US |
| Airbag, automotive | 1952 | John Hetrick | US |
| Bar code | 1952 | Joseph Woodland | US |
| Cardiovascular heart-lung machine | 1952 | Åke Senning | Sweden |
| Defibrillator | 1952 | Paul M. Zoll | US |
| Cardiac pacemaker | 1952 | Paul M. Zoll | US |
| Titanium screws for dental treatment | 1952 | Per-Ingvar Brånemark | Sweden |
| Ultrasound | 1953 | Carl Hellmuth Hertz, Inge Edler | Sweden |
| Fiber optics | 1955 | Narinder S. Kapany | India |
| Respirator | 1955 | Forrest M. Bird | US |
| Music synthesizer, | 1955 | Harry Olson, Herbert Belar | US |
| The disposable diaper | 1955 | ??? Libero | Sweden |
| Satellite, successful artificial earth | 1957 | Sergey Korolyov, et al. | USSR |
| The safety belt (with three points) | 1957 | Bengt Odelgard, Per-Olof Weman, Stig Lindgren, Nils Bohlin | Sweden |
| L-dopa | 1958 | Arvid Carlsson | Sweden |
| The pacemaker | 1958 | Rune Elmqvist | Sweden |
| Ultrasound imaging, obstetric | 1958 | Ian Donald | UK |
| Seat belt, automotive shoulder | 1959 | Nils Bohlin (Volvo) | Sweden |
| Satellite, communications | 1960 | John Robinson Pierce | US |
| Freezing foods | 1961 | Per Oscar Persson/Göran Lundahl | Sweden |
| Building Elevator | 1962 | Alvar Lindmark | Sweden |
| Light-emitting diode (LED) | 1962 | Nick Holonyak, Jr. | US |
| Retractable seat belt in cars. | 1962 | Hans Karlsson | Sweden |
| Liquid crystal display (LCD) | 1963 | George Heilmeier | US |
| Computer mouse | 1963 | Douglas Engelbart | US |
| Rear-facing car seat | 1963 | Bertil Aldman | Sweden |
| Kidney machine | 1965 | Nils Alwall | Sweden |
| calculator, electronic hand-held | 1967 | Jack S. Kilby | US |
| Automated teller machine (ATM) | 1968 | Don Wetzel | US |
| The gamma Knife | 1968 | Lars Leksell | Sweden |
| Internet | 1969 | Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) at the Dept. of Defense | US |
| Construction Crane / Crane Tower | 1970 | Elis Lindén | Sweden |
| Digital wristwatch | 1970 | John M. Bergey | US |
| Electronic mail (e-mail) | 1971 | Ray Tomlinson | US |
| Computed tomography (CT scan, CAT scan) | 1972 | Godfrey Hounsfield, Allan Cormack | UK, US |
| Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | 1974 | Raymond Damadian, Paul Lauterbur | US |
| Geothermal heat | 1975 | Sten Engwall | Sweden |
| Losec | 1979 | Sven Erik Sjöstrand, Ivan Östholm | Sweden |
| Computer Graphics | 1981 | Håkan Lans | Sweden |
| Synthetic skin | 1981 | Ioannis V. Yannas, John F. Burke | US |
| DNA fingerprinting | 1984 | Alec Jeffreys | UK |
| Mobile telephony; NMT and GSM | 1989 | Östen Mäkitalo | Sweden |
| Virtual reality | 1989 | Jaron Lanier | US |
| World Wide Web | 1989 | Tim Berners-Lee | UK |
| Application of GPS system for positioning | 1991 | Håkan Lans | Sweden |
| Sedimentation measurement and Triomix / blood analysis | 1994 | Barbro Hjalmarsson | Sweden |
| The Nicotine Gum | 1995 | Ove Fernö | Sweden |
| Audio compression, AAC (www standard) | 1997 | Lars Liljeryd | Sweden |
| Viagra | 1997 | Pfizer Inc. | US |
| The Bluetoth Standard | 1998 | Sven Mattisson, Jaap Haartsen, Örjan Johansson | Sweden |
| Map of the human protein | 2003 | Mathias Uhlén | Sweden |
| Skype, Kazaa | 2003 | Niklas Zennström | Sweden |
| Clean water from sunlight | 2005 | Petra Wadström | Sweden |
| Peepoo - disposable toilet | 2003 | Anders Wilhelmson | Sweden |
| Spotify | 2006 | Daniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon | Sweden |