-
Thomas Newcomen invents the first steam engine. It is not very useful yet but the idea of using steam to make machines go will be important to the Industrial Revolution.
-
James Hargreaves a British carpenter and weaver invents the spinning jenny.
-
James Watt from Scotland designs a more efficient steam engine. One of the most important inventions of the Industrial Revolution, steam engines power the first trains, steamboats, and factories.
-
Eli Whitney creates a machine that makes it much easier to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber
-
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph, which allows messages to be sent quickly over a wire.
-
Elias Howe invents the sewing machine. Now clothes can be made in large factories.
-
Henry Bessemer invents a process for making steel out of iron.
-
Louis Pasteur believed that germs caused disease.
-
He may not have invented the telephone but Alexander Graham Bell was the first to get a patent for it.
-
Not the first man to create a light bulb, Thomas Edison created a light bulb that lasted longer than other designs and showed it off by lighting a lamp.
-
After 13 years of construction the Brooklyn Bridge is finished in New York City.
-
Using an engine that they invented Orville and Wilbur Wright invent the first plane that is not powered by wind.
-
It is much cheaper than other cars because it is made on an assembly line, allowing many more people to buy cars.
