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Annotated Time Line of Inventions
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The cotton gin
The cotton gin was a machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds and ti was invented in the United States by Eli Whitney -
Jacquard's Loom
Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern data computation -
The Battery
The first true battery was invented by the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta in 1800 -
Steam Locomotive
In 1802, Richard Trevithick patented a "high pressure engine" and created know the first steam-powered locomotive engine on rails -
Patented coal-gas.
Coal gas was introduced in the US in the 1804 as an illuminating gas by the Scottish inventor William Murdoch and became very widely used for lighting, cooking, heating and powering gas engines. -
Steamboat
The first know successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807. -
arc lamp
British chemist Humphrey Davy is credited with inventing the arc lamp. In 1809, he connected two wires to a battery, and used charcoal strips as electrodes. This created a sufficiently intense light for illumination, and Davy's arc lamp became a popular component of his public lectures. -
The tin can
The canning concept was based on experimental food preservation work in glass containers the year before by the French inventor Nicholas Appert. By 1813 they were producing their first tin canned goods for the Royal Navy. By 1820, tin canisters or cans were being used for gunpowder, seeds, and turpentine -
spectroscope
Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectroscope for use in the chemical analysis of glowing objects. -
Reaper
The McCormick Reaper was patented by his son Cyrus McCormick in 1831 as a horse-drawn farm implement to cut small grain crops.