invention Inventor Nationali occupati Year y on Gasoline Gottieb German engineer 1885 automobile Daimler Evangelista barometer Italian Physicist Torricelli 1643 mathematician Polaroid Edwin Herbert American Inventor camera 1947 industrialist Land Pendulum Christiaan Mathematician Dutch clock huygens physicist 1657 Diesel engine Rudolph German engineer 1892 Diesel Alfred dynamite Bernhard Swedish chemist 1866 Nobelinvention Inventor Nationali ty occupati on Year Gottieb Daimler Evangelista Torricelli Edwin Herbert Land Christiaan huygens Rudolph Diesel Alfred Bernhard Nobel Gasoline automobile German engineer 1885 barometer Italian Physicist & mathematician 1643 Polaroid camera American Inventor & industrialist 1947 Pendulum clock Dutch Mathematician & physicist 1657 Diesel engine German engineer 1892 dynamite Swedish chemist 1866