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James Watts invented the first reliable steam engine
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Eli Whitney interchanges parts for muskets
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Robert Fulton invents regular steamboat service on the Hudson River
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Samuel F. B. Morse invents the first telegraph
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Elias Howe invents first sewing machine
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Isaac Singer improves and markets Howe's Sewing Machine
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Cyrus Field invents transatlantic cable
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Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone
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Thomas Edison invents phonograph, first long-lasting incandescant light bulb
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Nikola Tesla invents induction electric motor
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Rudolf Diesel invents diesel engine
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Orville and Wilbur Wright invent first airplane
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Henry Ford invents the Model T ford, and the first large scale moving assembly line