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The first steam engine is used to power a loom
The steam engine helped the loom industry very much. Although James Watt designed the first steam engine, the idea originally came from Thomas Newcomen. With the use of the steam engine people didn't need to do as much work and it was less expensive. -
Steamboat
A steamboat was launched on Delaware River. The steamboat was invented and designed by John Fitch. The sailing was presented to the Constitutional members. -
Samuel Slater and George Washington
Samuel Slater installs copied spinning machines at his mill in Rhode Island. George Washinton is elected president of U.S.A. Richard Arkwright helped Slater. Arkwright was the inventer of the spinning frame. In Pawtucket, RI Slater installed it on the Blackstone River. -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
The cotton gin made life easier because it was less work for the people who used to make cotton. It was on a plation named Mulberry Grove. -
Telegraph
The first telegraph was invented in Paris. Invented by Claude Chappe. The telegraph was used to send long distance messages. -
Smallpox
The first vacciination against smallpox, by Edward Jenner in England. This saved some people from dying. -
Submarine
The first submarine is built by Robert Flulton in America.
Submarines were used to travel deep under sea waters. -
Chemistry
John Dalton introduces atomic theory to chemistry. This helped people learn things about the world. -
Riot
Luddites(unemployed cottage textile workers in England) riot against new textile machines.
They lost their jobs because of these machines and were very angry. -
Modern textile factory
Francis Lowell opens his modern textile factory in Massachusetts, using designs for machines copied from Bristish factories. -
Electromagnetism is discovered.
The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
discovered by Frederick Gregory. -
Sockton-to-Darlington
The Sockton-to-Darlington passenger railroad line is opened in England. -
The First Photographs were produced.
Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographs. -
World's first computer and American's first steam train
Charles Baddage invents a mechanical computing machine, the world's fisrt computer. The first American steam train is in operation in Maryland. -
Michael Faraday demonstrates the phenomenon of electromagnetic
Induction that is essential in making electric motors. -
Telegraph
A telegraph is invented that carries messages nearly two miles! -
Railroad vehicles
The first efforts to propel railroad vehicles using electric batteries is attempted. Great Britan has more than 120,000 power looms in operation. -
Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse demonstrates the electric telegraph. A telegraph is like a phone. -
The first Electric Clock is designed
Carl August Steinhall invented it in Germany. -
Telegraph messages
Telegraph messages are sent between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. -
Electric arc lightning is used at Paris Opera
Drury Lane Theatre is the first to use gas in England. -
The first battery
The first practical battery fo storing electricity is used. -
The first practical internal combustion engine is used for automobiles.
Invented by Gottlieb Daimler in Central Europe -
First telegraph cable
The completion of the first transatlic telegraph cable. -
Telephone
Alexander Bell patents the telephone, in Boston, Macachusetts. On valentines day!!<3 -
Thomas Edison and photos
Thomas Edison invents the photograph. -
Thomas Edison perfected the electric Light bulb.
A company in San Francisco, California build the first centralized power plant for generating electricity.
