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Mechanical Seed Sower
Jethro Tull's mechanical (seed) sower permits large scale planting in rows, for easier cultivation between the rows. -
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Industrial Revolution
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Smelting iron Ore
Abraham Darby uses coke to smelt iron ore, replacing wood and charcoal as fuel. -
Steam Engine
Thomas Newcomen builds first comercially successuful steam engine. Able to keep deep coal mines clear of water. First significant power sorce other than wind and water. -
Flying Shuttle
John Kay's flying shuttle. -
Threshing machine
First threashing machine. -
Power Loom
Cartwright builds a power loom. -
Steam Locomotive.
Robert Threvithick demonstrates a steam locomotive. -
Steamboat
Robert Fulton's Clermont first successful steamboat. -
Electro-magnetic rotation
Faraday demonstrates electro-magnetic rotation, the principle of the electric motor. -
Telegraph and morse code. Steam ship
Morse develops the telegraph and Morse Code. Great Western--first ocean-going steamship. -
Sewing Machine
Singer inventsfirst practicle sewing machine. Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge. -
Elevator safety brake makes skyscraper possible.
Elisha Otis invents the elevator safety brake making skyscapers possible. -
The origin of species, Striking oil and Gasoline engin.
Charles Darwin. The origin os Species. Edwin Drake strikes oil in Pennsylvania.Etienne Lenoir demonstrates the first successful gasoline engin. -
Dyamite!!
Alfred Nobel produces dynamite, the first high explosive which can be safely handled -
Telephone
Bell invents the telephone -
first automobile
Benz develops first automobile to run on internal-combustion engin.
