Industrial Revolution

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    Industrial Revolution

    Era of The Industrial Period.

  • British engineer Henry Bessemer developed the first inexpensive process for mass-producing steel.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. Tensions rise in th South

  • Elisha Otis invents the Elevator Safety Brake

    invention made skyscappers possible

  • George Cayley invents a manned glider

  • John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics

  • Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor

  • Georges Audemars invents rayon

  • Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine

  • Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine

  • Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic

  • Freedmen's Bureau

    Created by the U.S. government to help the freed black slaves in the South

  • Assasination of President Lincoln

    John Wilkes Booth assasinates the President of the United States

  • President Johnson vs. Congress

    President Johnson vetoed a bill Congress passed to increase the powers of the Bureau saying it was unconstitutional and increased the rights of blacks

  • Alfred Nobel invents dynamite

  • Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo

  • Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter

  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment is ratified in the US

  • Standard Oil Company

    John D. Rockefeller creates the Standard Oil Company in Ohio

  • Carnegie Steel Company

    Andrew Carnegie builds his first steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire

  • The first Telephone was created

    Alexander Graham Bell creates the frist prototypical telephone

  • Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine

  • Number of Railroad tracks in US tripled

    From 1860 to 1880 the number of miles of railroad tracks in America tripled.

  • Richard Gatling patents the machine gun

  • Brooklyn Bridge opens to the public

    John Augustus Roebling designs and creates the Brooklyn Bridge

  • Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher

  • Gottlieb Daimler builds the world’s first four-wheeled motor vehicle

  • Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph

  • Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures

  • Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine

  • Marconi patents wireless telegraph

  • The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin