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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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george stephenson inventes the steam locomotive. makes travel much easier and the good distribution rises.
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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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William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
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American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter. Alows papers and books to be written more efficiently