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Robert Fulton: STEAMBOAT
The steamboat made transportation over water quicker and more efficient. They were used for trading/shipping goods. Steamboats also came in handy during wars for weapontry and such. -
George Stephenson: RAILWAY LINE
It was the first railway line ever to use steam locomotives. The rail gauge on in still the standard gauge today. -
Louis Daguerre: PHOTOGRAPHY
Was a more convienent and effective method of photography. Created this machine and called it: daguerreotype. -
Henry Bessemer: STEEL
Inexpensively, essential to the development of skyscrapers. The system involves of air blowing the carbon out of pig iron" a method of steel production known as the pneumatic process of steelmaking. Air is blown through molten pig iron to oxidize and remove unwanted impurities. -
Alexander Graham Bell: TELEPHONE
for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically" after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers. -
Thomas Edison: PHONOGRAPH
transcribe telegraphic messages through indentations on paper tape, which could later be sent over the telegraph repeatedly. The machine had two diaphragm-and-needle units, one for recording, and one for playback. -
Gottlieb Daimler: GAS-ENGINED MOTORCYCLE
an engine attached to a wooden bike. That marked the moment in history when the dual development of a viable gas-powered engine and the modern bicycle collided. -
Nikola Tesla: FLUORESCENT LIGHTING (Tesla coil)
The true inventor of radio, fluorescent light, and the man who gave the world the electric grid, Nikola Tesla is hardly remembered because he kept selling his patents to Westinghouse, Edison and J.P. Morgan to raise money for his research on wireless power, the aether and gravity control. Whether he ever actually built and flew a craft capable of gravity control is conjecture. -
Henry Ford: AUTOMOBILE
Ford had constructed his first horseless carriage which he sold in order to finance work on an improved model. -
Rudolf Diesel: DIESEL ENGINE
