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Pantograph
The first pantograph was created by Christoph Scheiner. He used the device to copy and scale diagrams; a pantograph is an instrument used for enlarging or reducing a geometric figure.The pantograph influenced many other inventors as they experimented with electronic devices. Even though it was invented before the Industrial revolution, it still made an impact in the invention of the pantelegraph, which was made in the Industrial Revolution. -
The Mail System
The mail system started with William Dockwra and Robert Murray. Theyse men lived in England, and they began what was known as the Penny Post-- they would deliver mail for a penny. Before 1680, there were no mail delivery systems in London or any other town in England. Two years after the Penny Post was established, the government shut down William's business because of how much profit he was making; the government reopened it as a branch of royal mailing. -
Semaphore
Semaphore with flags Semaphore is how people communicated before the electric age of communication. It derives from ancient times when civilizations would use smoke signals. Semaphore consists of a series of hilltop stations that each had large arms to signal letters and numbers, and on the hill tops there were two telescopes with which to see the other stations. An example of semaphore used today is flags during airplane landings. -
Braille
Louis Braille, who was blind by the age of three, invented braille. Braille is a universally accepted system of writing used by and for blind people and consisting of 63 characters. A Frenchman named Valentin Haüy was the first person to emboss paper as means of reading for the blind. When Louis Braille entered the school for the blind in Paris, in 1819, he learned a system of tangible writing using dots, it was called night writing. He adapted it into the 6 dot system, brialle, when he was 15. -
The First Electric Telegraph Invented
The electric telegraph was invented by Samuel F.B. Morse. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between two stations. Morse invented the Morse Code which is an assortment of dots and dashes, and this invention lead as the first device that wsa able to send messages electronically. This code played an important role in the military; at one point it was the main form of communication. -
The Fax Machine
The fax machine was invented by Alexander Bain. This machine is also known by its full name facsimile. The use of the fax machine is to transmit images via telephone lines, and it is comprised of two pens connected to pendulums; they were then joined to a wire, that was able to reproduce writing on an electrically conductive surface. -
The Pantelegraph
The pantelegraph was invented by Italian physicist, Giovanni Caselli. The pantelegraph was an early precursor to the fax machine for sending images over telegraph lines; Caselli also called it the universal telegraph. The pantelegraph was most commonly used to verify signatures used in banking transactions. While inventing the device the Emporer Napolean III visited Caselli, he was so interested in the device that the emporer gave access to lines in Paris needed for the invention to grow. -
The Type Writer
Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee invented the first typewriter. He gets the credit even though a variety of prototypes had been created previously. The Sholes & Glidden typed only in capital letters, and it introduced the QWERTY keyboard, which is still used today. At first buying a type writer seemed impractical, until technical modifications took place, and the first successful commercial product was created. -
The Telephone
The first telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone is a wire based electrical system just like a telegraph, and Bell called it his "harmonic telegraph". The first words spoken through the telephone were, "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you." -
The Phonograph
The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison. While working on improvements to the telegraph and the telephone, Edison figured out a way to record sound on tinfoil-coated cylinders. When Edison spoke into the mouthpiece, the sound vibrations of his voice would be indented onto the cylinder by the recording needle. -
The Radio
The radio was invented by an Italian named Gugliemo Marconi. He called it "the wireless telegraph". Radios work by changing sounds into waves, which then travel through air, space, and solid objects, and then a radio receiver changes them back into the sounds, words, and music we hear. In 1901, Marconi recieved morse code dots making the letter S-- that had traveled across the Atlantic ocean. The United States took away Marconi's patents claiming a man named Nikola Telsa was the true inventor. -
Crayons
Crayons were invented by Binny and Smith. They had taken over their father's chemical company, and the the two men began developing school products. In the late 1890s and early 1900s, slate pencils and dustless chalk were among their innovations. They had also been working with paraffin to create a wax crayon, and in 1903 the product was introduced under the name "Crayola". -
The Walkie Talkie
The walkie talkie was invented by Donald Hings. He created the devices so that they could be used in the canadian military. Hing has 23 other patents relating to the field of electronics; one of those patents is for the electric piano. Unlike a normal radio, a walkie-talkie is two-way: you can both talk and listen (send and receive). Donald Hing called them a "packset" before they were nicknamed walkie talkier. -
Email
Email was invented by Ray Tomlinson; there are many debates as to who was the original creater becasue many say it was created by a fourteen year old Indie born scientist. Email is an important program that people use to communicate through computers. Email works by the sender composing a message using the email client. When the user sends the message, the email text and attachments are uploaded to the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server as outgoing mail. Voila Email! -
Cell Phones
The cell phone was invented by Martin Cooper. He led a team that designed the first cell phone, and It was called the Motorola DynaTAC; it was not a small device -- it was 9 inches long and weighed 2.5 pounds. Cooper decided to make one of the first cellular telephone calls to a professional rival, Joel Engel, at Bell Labs. Technially the first cell phone was involved in what some say is a prank call.
