- 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
- 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
- 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?
?cryptography?
Finance
- Promissory note - Strozzi family
- Negotiable instrument - House of Medici
- Holding company - House of Medici
- Double-entry bookkeeping system - Luca Pacioli
- Commercial bank
- Merchant bank
- Marine insurance
- Stock exchange
Food
Education
Engineering
- 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
- Graphite-filament incandescent light bulb - Alessandro Cruto
- Moka pot - Alfonso Bialetti
- Neapolitan flip coffee pot
- Whirlpool bathtub - Candido Jacuzzi
Medicine
- 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
- Piano - Bartolomeo Cristofori
- Violin - Andrea Amati
- Spinettone - Bartolomeo Cristofori
- Ocarina - Giuseppe Donati
?meteorology?
- Anemometer - Leon Battista Alberti
- Barometer - Evangelista Torricelli
- Seismometer - Luigi Palmieri
- Mercalli intensity scale - Giuseppe Mercalli
Military
- Aerial warfare
- Aerial reconnaissance
- Airpower - Giulio Douhet
- Airstrike - Giulio Gavotti
- Alpini
- Steam cannon ( Architonnerre) - Leonardo da Vinci
- Battledress
- Torpedo - Giovanni Luppis
Optics
- Amici prism - Giovanni Battista Amici
- Amici roof prism - Giovanni Battista Amici
- Eyeglasses - Salvino D'Armate
- Monocular - Galileo Galilei
- Telescope - Galileo Galilei
?chemistry?
- Compass - Flavio Gioja
- Hydrofoil - Enrico Forlanini
- Rebreather - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
- Submersible - Leonardo da Vinci and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Transport
- 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.