| 1853 |
Creation of Oil Idustry—George Bissell 1845 & Dixi Crosby found a sample of rock oil from Titusville, Pennsylvania could be distilled into kerosene. |
| 1859 |
First incandescent light bulb—Moses Farmer invents the first incandescent light bulb. |
| 1896 |
First Clinical X-ray—Gilman Frost, professor of medicine at Dartmouth college, and his brother Edwin Frost, professor of physics, exposed the wrist of Eddie McCarthy, whom Edwin had treated some weeks earlier for a fracture, to the X-rays and collected the resulting image of the broken bone. |
| 1900 |
First Graduate School of Business—Amos Tuck School of Business and Finance |
| 1930's |
Ant Farm -Frank Austin 1895 a retired Thayer Professor invents the Ant Farm |
| 1931 |
Modern Suitcase—Theodore Cart '20 devised the Val-A-Pak – a lightweight, folding suitcase designed to prevent clothes from wrinkling |
| 1934 |
Radar—Irving Wolf '16 co-invents the world's first radar set |
| 1940 |
Remote use of computer—The fist public display of the remote use of a computer was undertaken at McNutt Hall Hanover |
| 1940's |
Splitting the Brain—The surgery was pioneered by Donald Wilson at DHMC |
| 1946 |
Pediatric Surgery—C. Everett Koop '37 pioneered this practice, tackling cases other physicians dismissed as impossible (was also US Surgeon General) |
| 1955 |
ICU—Conceived and first developed by Dick Mosenthal '38 at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, NH |
| 1956 |
Artificial Intelligence—Dartmouth Mathematician John McCarthy coined the term 'artificial intelligence' in a proposal to the Rockefeller Foundation which led to the first seminar on the topic |
| 1960's |
Portable batting cage—Groundskeeper Bill Heeremans '29 |
| 1966 |
BASIC Computer Language—John Kemeny '22, former president of Dartmouth, with Thomas Kurtz created BASIC |
| 1970's |
Split Brain Research—Michael Gazzaniga '61 (now Dean of Faculty) built on the work of Donald Wilson and developed this area of research |
| 1971 |
Pilobolus—Moses Pendleton '71, Jonathan Wolken '71 & Steve Johnson '71 became one of the nations most innovative dance troupes |
| 1998 |
Cranium—Richard Tait Tu'88 co-founded and co-created the mega-hit board game Cranium. |
| 2000 |
Glycofi—Dartmouth professors Tillman Gerngross and Charles Hutchinson co-founded GlycoFi Inc. Six years later they found out what their proprietary technology for turning yeast cells into therapeutic protein factories was worth: $400 million and sold GlycoFi to Merck. |
| 2004 |
Gyrobike—The Gyrobike was conceived in the fall 2004 ENG 212 class, first patent filings summer 2005; they won the undergrad b-plan contest in the spring of 2006, and licensed to Daniella Reichstetter's Gyrobike, Inc. in October 2007. |
| 2007 |
Adimab—Adimab was founded by two of the world's leading yeast biotechnologists: Dartmouth Professor Tillman Gerngross who led the humanization effort to engineer yeast for the production of human glycoproteins, and MIT Professor Dane Wittrup. |
