Invention Timeline Scott Goreham

  • Ben Franklin

    Ben Franklin
    Benjamin franklin invented the bifocals in 1714 when he got tired of switching lenses all the time so he invented glasses with far away lenses on top and close lenses on the bottom
  • typewriter

    typewriter
    The typewriter inspired the placement of todays computer keys. Typewriter is the longest word that can be typed in one row.
  • Cotten Gin

    Cotten Gin
    The invention of the cotton gin spelled a major sucksess for the industrial revolution. Even with the invention of the cotton gin didn't take away the need for slaves to pick it.
  • Mechanical Reaper

    Mechanical Reaper
    At age 15 Cyrus invented a lightweight cradle for cartingharvested grain. The reaper was developed to cut down wheat more quickly.
  • Morse Code

    Morse Code
    Morse Code wasn't invented to help those in dire emergencys but to send messages along a telegraph line. The warning lights on the cyndrical Capital Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse Code
  • Continuous Sewing Machine

    Continuous Sewing Machine
    Godies Ladiesbook said that "next to the plough the sewing machine is one of humanitys most bessed machines". The first truly practical machine became available in 1850
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Some telephones might have been destroyed in many ways such as burieing, burnirng, crushed, thrown off the end of peirs, and other diobolcal ways. Before the invention of the telephone a man predicted "A man in one part of the country may communicate by the word of mouth with another man far away."
  • Air conditioning

    Air conditioning
    A/C was being invented then vanished because the scientist inventing it died but was continued 50 years later. A/C systems account for 40 to 60 % of total energy use.
  • Windsheild wipers

    Windsheild wipers
    Windsheild wipers are one of the inventions invented by wemon. Wipers were made to clean car windsheilds.
  • Zipper

    Zipper
    On a zipper the initials YKK mean Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibiashia the worlds largest zipper company. Gideon Sundback lived in Chicago.
  • Microwave Oven

    Microwave Oven
    Microwaves warm up and cook food by making the molecules in food vibrate. Microwave Ovens microwave energy to heat and cook food
  • Computer Mouse

    Computer Mouse
    Computer mouses were invented to easily navigate through software without remembering keyboard shortcuts. Youtube was invented in February 14, 2005.