Industrial Revolution

John Philip Holland (Submarine)

Apr 10, 1620

Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the U.S. Navy.

John Fitch (Steamboat)

Apr 11, 1787

American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States.

Cotton Gin (Eli Whitney)

Apr 11, 1793

American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

Telegraph (Samuel F. B. Morse)

Apr 11, 1837

American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

John Mason (John Mason)

Apr 11, 1858

American tinsmith and the patentee of the metal screw-on lid for fruit jars that have come to be known as Mason jars.

Milton Bradley (Game Board)

Apr 11, 1860

American business magnate, game pioneer and publisher, credited by many with launching the board game industry.

Alfred Nobel (Dynamite)

Apr 11, 1867

Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite.

Andrew Hallidie (Cable Car)

Apr 11, 1873

Promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco, USA. This was the world's first practical cable car system.

Charles Martin Hall (Aluminum)

Apr 11, 1886

American inventor, businessman, and chemist. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum.

William Painter (Bottle Cap)

Apr 11, 1892

American mechanical engineer, inventor and the founder of Crown Holdings, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. He most notably invented the crown cork bottle cap and bottle opener.

Guglielmo Marconi (Radio)

Apr 10, 1895

Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system.

John Kellogg (Breakfast Cereal)

Apr 11, 1906

John Kellogg was an advocate of vegetarianism for health and is best known for the invention of the breakfast cereal known as corn flakes with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg.