Editing Timeline of historic inventions (section)

====1890s====
* '''1890s:''' [[Frédéric Swarts]] invents the first [[chlorofluorocarbon]]s to be applied as refrigerant.<ref name=Sneader2005>{{cite book|title=Drug discovery: a history|chapter=Chapter 8: Systematic medicine|pages=74–87|author=Sneader W|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|location=Chichester, England|year=2005|isbn=978-0-471-89980-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYQxRY9umjcC&q=Drug+Discovery+history|access-date=13 September 2010}}</ref>
* '''1890:''' [[Robert Gair]] would invent the pre-cut [[cardboard box]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kc0MSzFvrH8C&q=robert+gair|title=Cartons, Crates and Corrugated Board: Handbook of Paper and Wood Packaging Technology|first1=Diana|last1=Twede|first2=Susan E. M.|last2=Selke|date=15 August 2005|publisher=DESIGN HOUSE Incorporated|isbn=978-1-932078-42-8 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
* '''1891:''' [[Whitcomb Judson]] invents the [[zipper]].
* '''1892:''' [[Léon Bouly]] invents the [[cinematograph]].
* '''1892:''' [[Thomas Ahearn]] invents the [[Electric stove|electric oven]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Patent 39916 Summary |url=https://www.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/39916/summary.html?type=number_search&tabs1Index=tabs1_1 |website=Government of Canada |access-date=28 February 2022 |archive-date=28 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228192325/https://www.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/39916/summary.html?type=number_search&tabs1Index=tabs1_1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* '''1893:''' [[Rudolf Diesel]] invents the [[diesel engine]] (although [[Herbert Akroyd Stuart]] had experimented with compression ignition before Diesel).
* '''1893:''' [[William Stewart Halsted]], invents the [[rubber glove]] for his wife [[Caroline Hampton]] as he noticed her hands were affected by the daily surgeries she had performed. The gloves were intended to prevent medical staff from developing [[dermatitis]] from surgical chemicals.<ref>{{cite book|title=Born in the USA: The Book of American Origins|year=2009|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing Inc.|url=https://archive.org/details/borninusabookofa0000home|url-access=registration|quote=William Halsted and rubber gloves.|page=[https://archive.org/details/borninusabookofa0000home/page/186 186]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Rubber Gloves: "Born" - and Now Banished - At Johns Hopkins - 01/14/2008|url=https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/rubber_gloves_born___and_now_banished___at_johns_hopkins|access-date=2021-07-03|website=www.hopkinsmedicine.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Leyden|first=John G.|date=1990-11-27|title=The Strange Story of Surgical Gloves|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1990/11/27/the-strange-story-of-surgical-gloves/a4b63531-1b0a-4799-ae13-24ec3f2c33d1/|access-date=2021-07-03|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> The first modern disposable glove was created by Ansell Rubber Co. Pty. Ltd. in 1965.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brown|first=Walter|date=2016-12-12|title=The History of Disposable Gloves|url=https://blog.ammex.com/the-history-of-disposable-gloves/|access-date=2021-07-03|website=AMMEX|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ansell - Our history|url=https://www.ansell.com/us/en/about-us/our-history|access-date=2021-07-03|website=www.ansell.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite patent|title=Surgeon's glove having improved donning properties|gdate=1995-04-17|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US5570475A/en | status=expired | invent1=Jeffery G. Nile | invent2=Stanley J. Gromelski | invent3=Alan A. Brain | invent4=Steven T. Hardwick}}</ref>
* '''1895:''' [[Guglielmo Marconi]] invents a system of wireless communication using radio waves.
* '''1895:''' [[Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen]] invented the first radiograph ([[xrays|X-ray]]).
* '''1897:''' [[Surgical masks]] made of cloth were developed in Europe by physicians [[Jan Mikulicz-Radecki]] at the [[University of Breslau]] and [[Paul Berger (physician)|Paul Berger]] in Paris, as a result of increasing awareness of germ theory and the importance of antiseptic procedures in medicine.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Strasser BJ, Schlich T | title = A history of the medical mask and the rise of throwaway culture | journal = Lancet | volume = 396 | issue = 10243 | pages = 19–20 | date = July 2020 | pmid = 32450110 | pmc = 7255306 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31207-1 }}</ref>
* '''1898:''' [[Hans von Pechmann]] synthesizes [[polyethylene]], now the most common [[plastic]] in the world.<ref>{{cite journal|author=von Pechmann, H. |year=1898|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k90751n/f312.image.langEN |title=Ueber Diazomethan und Nitrosoacylamine|journal=Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin|volume=31|issue=3|pages=2640–2646|quote= page 643: Erwähnt sei noch, dass aus einer ätherischen Diazomethanlösung sich beim Stehen manchmal minimale Quantitäten eines weissen, flockigen, aus Chloroform krystallisirenden Körpers abscheiden;&nbsp;... (It should be mentioned that from an ether solution of diazomethane, upon standing, sometimes small quantities of a white, flakey substance, which can be crystallized from chloroform, precipitate;&nbsp;... )|doi=10.1002/cber.18980310314}}</ref>
* '''1899:''' [[Waldemar Jungner]] invents the rechargeable [[nickel-cadmium battery]] (NiCd) as well as the [[nickel-iron battery|nickel-iron electric storage battery]] (NiFe) and the rechargeable alkaline [[silver-cadmium battery]] (AgCd)