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Jan 1,1800 Battery-Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
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Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp. Makes home life easier for people with the money to buy one.
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture.
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George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive. Eventually makes travel over long distances much easier. Also allows massive amounts of goods to be transported across land easily.
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William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
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W.A. Burt invents a typewriter. Allows papers and books to be written more efficiently.
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Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent. Makes it far easier to plant one of the main staple crops of the North and Midwest
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Henry Talbot invents calotype photography.
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Charles Babbage invented a mechanical calculator
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Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. Begins a time of lightning fast communication
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
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Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher. Makes home life easier for those who can afford it
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Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine. Makes home life far easier for those fortunate enough to have one
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Richard Gatling patents his machine gun. Revolutionizes war.
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Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic. Makes a lighter, cheaper solid to use in industry. Very widely used today.
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Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter. Typewriters are easily available. This revolutionizes the business and writing worlds
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J P Knight invents traffic lights.
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. Makes long distance instant communication possible for the everyday person.
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Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures or movies
