2 GH THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES , INVENTIONS TO IMPROVE LIFE

  • Locomotive

    Locomotive
    The first locomotive was created in 1802 and was built by Richard Trevithick, Tregajorran, 13 April 1771-Dartford, 22 April 1833) was an English inventor and engineer and machine builder, who developed the first working steam locomotive.
    I think it is a good invention to be able to move a lot of things over long distances easily, it could also be used to carry a lot of people.
  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    In 1829, William Austin Burt (June 13, 1792 – August 18, 1858) was an American inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwrightpatented a machine called a typesetter. It was called the "first" typewriter.
    I Think it was a good invention to write important things and send them elsewhere, it was also used as a form of communication through letters.
  • Photography

    Photography
    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgundy, 7 March 1765 - Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, 5 July 1833), a French inventor, is credited with taking the first permanent photograph in 1826. He used a camera obscura and a metal plate coated with a photosensitive substance
  • Anaesthetic

    Anaesthetic
    The first anaesthetic was invented in 1846 by William Thomas Green Morton, Charlton, Massachusetts, 9 August 1819 - New York, 15 July 1868, was an American dentist and pioneer in the application of anaesthesia in surgery and dentistry.
    I think that was a very good invention to medicine in that epoch, because the pople they would no longer suffer so much pain when performing operations
  • Lift

    Lift
    The first public use of the lift as such took place in New York on 23 March 1857 and was the brainchild of Elisha Graves Otis, 3 August 1811 - 8 April 18611, was an American inventor of an elevator safety device and manufacturer of lifts and founder of the Otis Elevator Company.
    Its first installation was in a five-storey building.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Was invented in 1854 by the Italian Antonio Meucci, Florence, 13 April 1808-New York, 18 October 1889, was an Italian inventor and engineer who immigrated to the United States and was the creator of the "teletrophone", later known as the "telephone", among other technical innovations.
    The purpose was simple: to connect his office to the bedroom so that he could talk to his sick wife who was immobile in bed due to a serious illness.
  • Clinic Termometer

    Clinic Termometer
    In 1866, Thomas Clifford Allbutt ,(20 July 1836, Dewsbury, Yorkshire - 22 February 1925, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire,) was a British physician.
    Allbutt invented the clinical thermometer, which was a closed thermometer approximately 15 cm long, capable of measuring a patient's temperature in 20 minutes. The thermometer continued to be improved until the development of the digital thermometer.
  • Incandescent Lamp

    Incandescent Lamp
    Thomas Edison was the first to patent an incandescent carbon filament light bulb, viable outside the laboratory, i.e. commercially viable.
    Thomas Alva Edison, Milan, Ohio; February 11,1847-New Jersey; October 18,1931, was an American inventor, scientist and entrepreneur.
    He patented it on 27 January 1880.
    This invention helped to did more inventions.
  • Car

    Car
    On 29 January 1886, Carl Benz (25 November 1844- 4 April 1929), was a German engineer and inventor.
    Patented his three-wheeled "petrol-engined motor vehicle", and it was considered the day of the birth of the automobile. This invention changes how people move, I think that was a technological advance in the history, people could travel further in less time and things could be transported from one place to another more easily
  • Aspirin

    Aspirin
    Aspirin was developed and invented by the German chemist Felix Hoffmann,(21 January 1868 in Ludwigsburg - 8 February 1946 in Switzerland) who worked for the pharmaceutical company Bayer. Hoffmann succeeded in synthesising the acetylsalicylic acid molecule for the first time in 1897. Aspirin became one of the most popular and widely used medicines in the world due to its analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties.