Inventions and Inventors of the past

  • Signing of the Constitution

    Signing of the Constitution
    Led to the America of today
    Caused by bad government
  • Period: to

    Signing of the Constitution to the start of the Civil War

  • Invention of the Guillotine by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

    Invention of the Guillotine by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
    This led to more murder weapons (groesome, i know)
    Caused by criminals commiting horrible crimes, and Joseph Guillotin thought that people who commited these horrible crimes should be murdered, the government agreed.
  • The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton

    The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton
    This led to the invention of the Cotton Gin
    Caused by slow cotton production
  • John Barber invents the gas turbine

    John Barber invents the gas turbine
    Leads to more inventions that power other things, such as he steam turbine
    Caused by the knowledge that machines ran slow sometimes, and to speed things up the gas turbine was invented
  • Dominique Larrey invents the first real ambulance

    Dominique Larrey invents the first real ambulance
    Leads to more saved lives, and better health care
    Caused by deaths of people that could've been saved
    NOT EXACT DATE)
  • Eli Whitney patents the Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney patents the Cotton Gin
    This leads to more cotton production
    Caused by slow cotton production
  • Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination

    Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination
    Leads to better health for people who get smallpox
    Cuased by knowledge of smallpox deaths, and knowing that smallpox can be treated
    (NOT EXACT DATE)
  • Edward Jenner gets to try out his vaccine for smallpox on his first patient

    Edward Jenner gets to try out his vaccine for smallpox on his first patient
    Leads to the assumption that the vaccine is succesful
    Caused by his knowledge of widespread smallpox deaths
  • Alessandro Volta invents the first battery

    Alessandro Volta invents the first battery
    This lead to more battery like inventions
    Caused by the lack of battery powered machines, these machines could work better and faster
    (NOT EXACT DATE)
  • John Barber dies

    John Barber dies
    Led to_(does this really lead to anything)
    Caused by diseases that John Barber had
    (NOT EXACT DATE)
  • Jospeh-Ignance Guillotin dies in Paris, France

    Jospeh-Ignance Guillotin dies in Paris, France
    Led to_(does this really lead to anything)
    Cause by diseases that Joseph-Ignance Guillotin had
  • René Laënnec invents the stethoscope

    René Laënnec invents the stethoscope
    Invented in France
    Led to better health care
    Caused by curiosity of René Laënne and others (curious to hear the heart beat, e.t.c)
    (NOT EXACT DATE)
  • William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet

    William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet
    (NOT EXACT DATE)
    He was a British inventor
    John Henry was the first one to invent an electromagnet that could hold 1 ton!
    Led to better working electromagnets (such as John Henry's)
    Caused by bad generations to electromagnetic fields, this is what an electromagnet was originally meant to do, it can also control magnets
    (NOT EXACT DATE)
  • Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph

    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
    Led to better working cameras, such as the ones we have today
    Caused by Joseph's knowledge that things needed to be captured (recorded may be another word for it) right away, unlike the long process of painting everything
  • John Walker invents modern matches

    John Walker invents modern matches
    Led to the lighter
    Caused by lack of quick lighing, lighting a candle takes longer
  • American, W.A. Burt invents a good working typewriter

    American, W.A. Burt invents a good working typewriter
    Not the very first invented, but this was the first to work very well
    Led to the computer!
    Caused by the knowledge that their needed to be a fater form of writing (typing) letters or other forms of writing
    (NOT EXACT DATE)
  • Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent

    Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent
    It was moved by horse. It opens the furrow, drops the corn, covers it and levels the earth so the corn can be planted quickly
    Led to more advanced corn planters, not ones pulled by horses (such as Henry Blair's)
    Caused by knowledge that their needed to be a faster way to plant corn, not just by hand
    (NOT EXACT DATE)
  • Solymon Merrick patents the wrench

    Solymon Merrick patents the wrench
    Led to more advanced wrenches
    Caused by knowledge that their needed to be a faster way to fix things
    (NOT EXACT DATE)
  • Samuel Slocum patents the stapler

    Samuel Slocum patents the stapler
    ^It may have looked something like the above picture^
    Led to better staplers
    Caused by lknowledge that their should be a good way to bind several sheets of paper together
  • Elias Howe invented and patented the first Automatic Sewing Machine for practical operation

    Elias Howe invented and patented the first Automatic Sewing Machine for practical operation
    Led to more advanced automatic sewing machines
    Caused by knowledge that sewing took to long to do, and their needed to be a faster process
    (EXACT DATE NOT KNWON)
  • Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher

    Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher
    Joel was a woman
    Led to more modern day dishwashers (and cleaner dishes!)
    Caused by Joel's knowledge that a faster way to clean dishes needed to be invented
    (NOT EXACT DATE)
  • Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle

    Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle
    Leads to more advanced bicycles
    Caused by knowledge that their should be a faster and more compact way of transportation
    (NOT EXACT DATE)
  • Civil War starts

    Civil War starts