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Battery
Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery. -
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Industrial Revolution
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Electric Lamp
Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp. Makes home life easier for people with the money to buy one. -
Locomtive
George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive. Eventually makes travel over long distances much easier. Also alows massive amounts of goods to be transported across land easily. -
Electromagnet
William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet. -
Typewriter
American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter. Alows papers and books to be written more efficiently. -
Calculator
Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator. -
Photgraphy
Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotype photography. -
Telegraph
The Telegraph worked by interupting electric wave signals. Interupting these signals would make dots and dashes. Morse code was than invented as a new lanquage to represent the alphabet by reading the signs. -
Movies
Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures or movies. It was a horse race. -
Automobile
Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. -
Zipper
American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper. Revolutionalized the clothing industry.
