Medicine
- Papier-mache anatomical model Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux · 1820
- Kymograph trace Carl Ludwig · 1847
- Farr circular mortality diagram William Farr · 1852
- Snow walking-distance boundary John Snow · 1855
- Polar area diagram (coxcomb) Florence Nightingale · 1858
- Sphygmogram Étienne-Jules Marey · 1859
- Zsigmondy-Palmer dental grid Adolf Zsigmondy; modified by Corydon Palmer · 1861
- Clinical temperature chart Carl Wunderlich · 1868
- Dermatome map Henry Head; Otfrid Foerster; Jay Keegan and Frederic Garrett · 1893-1948
- Anaesthesia record (ether chart) Harvey Cushing; Ernest Codman · 1894
- Pressure-volume loop Otto Frank · 1899
- Pedigree chart Medical genetics practice; no single originator · 1900s
- Brodmann cytoarchitectonic map Korbinian Brodmann · 1909
- Wiggers diagram Carl J. Wiggers · 1915
- Du Bois body surface area nomogram Delafield Du Bois and Eugene Floyd Du Bois · 1916
- Life chart Adolf Meyer · 1919
- Vectorcardiogram Hubert Mann (1920 concept); Ernest Frank (1956 lead system) · 1920-1956
- Audiogram Western Electric (1-A audiometer); Harvey Fletcher · 1922
- Henderson blood nomogram Lawrence Joseph Henderson · 1928
- Isobologram Siegfried Loewe · 1928
- Darrow-Yannet diagram Daniel Cady Darrow and Herbert Yannet · 1935
- Cortical homunculus Wilder Penfield · 1937
- The Wetzel Grid Norman C. Wetzel · 1941
- Gamblegram James L. Gamble · 1942
- Lund-Browder chart Lund & Browder · 1944
- Visual field chart Hans Goldmann · 1945
- Davenport diagram Horace W. Davenport · 1947
- Rule of nines Pulaski and Tennison (1947); published by Alexander Burns Wallace (1951) · 1947-1951
- Pain drawing Harold Palmer · 1949
- Partograph E. Friedman; Philpott & Castle · 1954/1972
- Hypnogram William Charles Dement and Nathaniel Kleitman · 1957
- Done nomogram Alan Kimball Done · 1960
- Siggaard-Andersen alignment nomogram Ole Siggaard-Andersen · 1963
- Forest plot Gradual; no single documented originator · 1970s-1980s
- Fagan nomogram Terrence Fagan · 1975
- Rumack-Matthew nomogram Rumack & Matthew · 1975
- Altman sample-size nomogram Douglas G. Altman · 1982
- Funnel plot Richard J. Light and David B. Pillemer · 1984
- Bland-Altman plot John Martin Bland and Douglas Graham Altman · 1986
- L'Abbe plot Kristan A. L'Abbe, Allan S. Detsky and Keith O'Rourke · 1987