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Cotton gin
A cotton gin – meaning "cotton engine" – is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. ... The separated seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil. -
Electric Battery
In 1802, William Cruickshank designed the first electric battery for mass production. He arranged square sheets of copper with equal-sized sheets of zinc placed into a long rectangular wooden box and soldered together. -
steam locomotive
In 1802, Richard Trevithick patented a "high pressure engine" and created the first steam-powered locomotive engine on rails. -
Punch Card
Punched cards were invented about 1750 for the control of textile looms, and were adopted for use in Herman Hollerith in the 1890 US census. -
Steam boat
The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807. -
Arc lamp
British chemist Humphrey Davy is credited with inventing the arc lamp. In 1809, he connected two wires to a battery, and used charcoal strips as electrodes. This created a sufficiently intense light for illumination, and Davy's arc lamp became a popular component of his public lectures. -
Miners' Lamp
The first ever prototype of Davy's miner's safety lamp. Created in 1815, it was designed to be lit safely for miners to use without allowing the heat from the flame to explode the concentration of methane gas often found as miners dug deeper. Humphry Davy miners' lamps. -
Lawn Mower
On August 31 1830 Edwin Beard Budding patented "a new combination and application of machinery for the purpose of cropping or shearing the vegetable surface of lawns, grass-plats and pleasure grounds". This was the world's first lawnmower. -
Mechanical 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, farmers and field workers had to harvest crops by hand using a sickle or other methods, which was an arduous task at best. The McCormick mechanical reaper replaced the manual cutting of the crop with scythes and sickles. This new invention allowed wheat to be harvested quicker and with less labor force -
sewing machine
Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies.