Chronology Chart By alexa_rennie 1700 Charles Townshend popularized crop rotation 1764 James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny. 1768 Richard Arkwright patented and improved the water frame. 1776 James Watt improved the steam engine. 1793 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. 1800 Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile, an early electric battery. 1804 Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the first programmable loom. 1814 George Stephenson invented the locomotive. 1832 Samuel Morse invented the single wire telegraph. 1834 Gottlieb Daimler invented the first successful internal-combustion engine. 1839 Louis Daguerre invented an early camera called the daguerreotype. 1856 Henry Bessemer invented a process to produce steel inexpensively. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented and patented the first practical telephone. 1879 Thomas Edison invented the first lightbulb. 1896 Guglielmo Marconi invented the first wireless telegraph.
