Inventions Project

By zniyawilliams
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin

    A cotton gin "cotton engine" is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds.

  • the Jacquard loom.

    French silk weaver J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard loom.

  • the battery.

    Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
  • Steam locomotive

    Steam locomotive

    In 1802, Richard Trevithick patented a "high pressure engine" and created the first steam-powered locomotive engine on rails.
  • Steamboat

    Steamboat

    The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807.

  • the arc lamp

    Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp, the first electric light.

  • printing press.

    German Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.

  • tin can.

    Peter Durand invents the tin can.

  • the stethoscope.

    René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
  • Reaper

    Reaper

    The mechanical reaper was invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831. This machine was used by farmers to harvest crops mechanically. For hundreds of years