Chronology of Major Inventions By Gavin11111 1730 Charles Townshend's Invention of the Four Field System of Crop Rotation 1764 James Hargreaves' Invention of the Spinning Jenny 1764 James Watt's Improvement to the Steam Engine 1769 Richard Arkwright's Invention of the Water Frame 1794 Eli Whitney's Invention of the Cotton Gin 1800 Alessandro Volta's Invention of the Electric Battery 1804 Joseph Marie Jacquard's Invention of the Jacquard Machine 1814 George Stephenson's Invention of the Steam Locomotive 1839 Louis Daguerre's Invention of Photography 1844 Samuel Morse's Invention of Morse Code 1855 Henry Bessemer's Invention of the Bessemer Process 1876 Alexander Graham Bell's Invention of the Telephone 1879 Thomas Edison's Invention of the Incandescent Light Bulb 1885 Gottlieb Daimler's Invention of the Internal Combustion Engine 1896 Guglielmo Marconi's Invention of the Radio