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Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
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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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George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive. Eventually makes travel over long distances much easier which also allows massive amounts of goods to be transported across land easily.
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Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
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American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter. Allows papers and books to be written more efficiently
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American, Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper. Reduces the amount of work needed to harvest crops. Production increases.
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Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent. Makes it far easier to plant one of the main staple crops of the North and Midwest
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Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
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Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator
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Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotype photography.
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Samuel Colt invented the first revolver. makes life on the frontier more and less dangerous. this invention is widely used in the Civil War
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph. Begins a time of lightning fast communication
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Samual Morse invents Morse Code. This system of tones is used to turn the telegraph into an effective mode of communication
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Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
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Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
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Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator. Makes daily life easier.
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Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton. gives cotton a glossy glow. Improves the quality and astethitic apeal of cotton clothes.
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Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction. Allows dentistry work to be done far less painfully making dentist appointments more pleasurable.
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Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics. A ground breaking invention in the medical industry still used today.
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Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher. Makes home life easier for those who can afford it.
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Bessemer Process invented by Henry Bessemer, a new and easier way to convert iron into steel. This makes steel far easier to get and is used to make many things from sky-skrapers to knives.
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George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel. Makes long travel on trains more bearable.
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Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine. Makes home life far easier for those fortunate enough to have one.
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Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine. leads to the firts automobiles, motorcycles and many other motor driven vehicles.
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Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
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Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock. Makes door locks easier and cheaper to manufacture. Similar locks are still used today.
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Richard Gatling patents his machine gun. Revolutionalizes war.
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Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic. Makes a lighter, cheaper solid to use in industry. Very widely used today.
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Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. An explosive that makes excavation easier and more dangerous. Still widely used today
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Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo. A new weapon used to deystroy ships. Newer versions are still used today.
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Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter. Typewriters are easily available. This revolutionalizes the business and writing worlds.
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George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
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Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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J P Knight invents traffic lights.
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A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog. Makes products easily available for people in the back country.
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Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. Makes long distance instant comunication posible for the everyday person.
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Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
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Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
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Thomas Edison invents the ylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph. Makes home life more enjoyable to those who can afford it.
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Thomas Edison invents the ylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph. Makes home life more enjoyable to those who can afford it.
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Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures or movies.
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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electric lightbulb, begins the electric revolution.
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Thomas Edison invents the first practical and commercially available light bulb. Electric light soon becomes widely available making home life far easier.
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The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
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David Houston patents the roll film for cameras. Which allowed for millions of Americans to posses cameras and use them easily.
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Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano. A great entertainment peace for homes or restaurants for those who could afford it.
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Charles Parson patents the steam turbine
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James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register. Changes business life drastically.
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Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen..
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Harim Maxim invents his machine gun.
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Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
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Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
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Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.
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John Pemberton invents Coca Cola. A drink we all still drink today, minus the cocain of course.
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Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
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F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses. These are the beginning to the vast contact industry of today. They were not very practical at the time though.
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German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar. Still used today to detect airplanes, read the speed of moving objects, and many other things.
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German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar. Still used today to detect airplanes, read the speed of moving objects, and many other things.
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Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
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Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
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Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator. newer versions are still in use today.
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Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
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American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper. Revolutionized the clothing industry.
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Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
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Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster. Provides fun for the Whole Family! Begins amusement parks.
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John Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner. Cheaper and more modern looking vacuum cleaner. Made life easier for the wealthy