Key Inventions

  • 1875 BCE

    Telephone

    Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell is credited with being the inventor of the telephone since he was awarded the first successful patent.
  • Steam Engine\

    Steam Engine\
    The steam engine was used for pumping water out of rivers, driving rotary mine hoists and as stationary engines for pulling trucks along railway tracks. It was invented by James Watt.
  • The Spinning Jenny

    The Spinning Jenny
    The spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves in the mid 1700s to help revolutionize the process of cotton spinning
  • Power Loom

    Power Loom
    Edmund Cartwright invented and made a power loom which used water power to speed up the weaving process
  • Steam Boat

    Steam Boat
    The steamboat was a revolutionary inventions that changed the way trade and transportation by sea or water happened and it was invented by Robert Fulton.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    The cotton gin helped speed up the process of helping produce and sort cotton and was made by Eli Whitney.
  • Locomotive

    Locomotive
    The locomotive was an inventions in the early 1800s and was invented by George Stephenson and Richard Trevithick. It was used as a rail engine transport viechle.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    The telegraph was invented for long distance communication. It was invented by Samuel Morse.
  • Sewing Machine

    Sewing Machine
    A tailor names Barthélemy Thimonnier whose machine used a hooked or barbed needle to produce a chain stitch
  • Automobile

    Automobile
    The automobile was a revolutionary gasoline powered car that worked like modern cars. It was invented by Karl Benz.
  • Camera/Phtograph

    Camera/Phtograph
    The first camera was built by Alphonse Giroux. It was used in many instances for family's who wanted pictures or memories of someone.
  • Dynamite

    Dynamite
    Dynamite was invented by a Swedish physicist Alfred Nobel. It was used as a powerful explosive.