- Category:Italian inventions
- List of Italian inventions
- List of Italian inventors
- List of English inventions and discoveries
- List of musical instruments
Italy has been the source of many significant inventions. The following inventions and discoveries were made in the geographical region of Italy or were made by Italians.
MISC edit
- Electric clock - Giuseppe Zamboni
- Pendulum - Galileo Galilei
- Zamboni pile - Giuseppe Zamboni
- Battery (electricity) (Voltaic pile) - Alessandro Volta
- Universal joint - Gerolamo Cardano
- Drive shaft - Gerolamo Cardano
- Cardan suspension - Gerolamo Cardano
- Probability - Gerolamo Cardano
- Combination lock - Gerolamo Cardano
- Ballistics - Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
- Calcio Fiorentino
Communications edit
- Desktop computer (Programma 101) - Pier Giorgio Perotto
- Microprocessor - Federico Faggin
- Kinetograph - Filoteo Alberini
- Newspaper (Avviso)
- Carbon paper - Pellegrino Turri
- Pantelegraph - Giovanni Caselli
- Typewriter - Giuseppe Ravizza
- Telephone - Innocenzo Manzetti and Antonio Meucci
- Radio - Guglielmo Marconi
- Italic type - Aldus Manutius
- Italic script - Niccolò de' Niccoli
?clothing? edit
?cryptography? edit
Finance edit
Food edit
Education edit
Engineering edit
- Alternating current motor - Galileo Ferraris
- Pneumatic motor - Angelo Di Pietro
- Steam engine - Giovanni Branca
- Nuclear reactor - Enrico Fermi
- Dinamo - Antonio Pacinotti
- Ball bearing - Agostino Ramelli
- Connecting rod - Taccola
- Electrophorus - Alessandro Volta
- Energy Catalyzer - Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi
- Carburetor - Enrico Bernardi
Home appliances edit
Medicine edit
- Alendronic acid
- Anesthesia - Theodoric Borgognoni
- Artificial heart - Domingo Liotta
- Artificial insemination - Lazzaro Spallanzani
- Artificial pneumothorax - Carlo Forlanini
- Condom - Gabriele Falloppio
- Cellular microbiology - Rino Rappuoli
- Cephalosporin - Giuseppe Brotzu
- Coronary stent - Cesare Gianturco
Music edit
?meteorology? edit
Military edit
Optics edit
?chemistry? edit
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Transport edit
- Bicycle - Gian Giacomo Caprotti
- Bicycle gearing - Tullio Campagnolo
- Quick release skewer - Tullio Campagnolo
- Scooter (motorcycle) - (modern) Corradino D'Ascanio
- Helicopter - (prototype) Enrico Forlanini and (modern) Corradino D'Ascanio
- Steam car - Innocenzo Manzetti
- Parachute - Leonardo da Vinci
- Pedaliante - Enea Bossi, Sr.