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Steam Engines
Created by Thomas Savery:
A heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. -
Spinning Jenny
Created by James Hargreaves:
The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun, so by turning a single wheel, the operator could now spin eight threads at once. -
Textile Mill
Created by Samuel Slater:
It is based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into clothes. Different types of fibre are used to produce yarn. -
Sewing Machine
Created by Thomas Saint:
A sewing machine is a machine used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread. -
Cotton Gin
Created by Eli Whitney:
A machine for separating cotton from its seeds. -
Railroads
Created by George Stephenson:
A track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run. -
Airplane
Created by Wright Brothers:
Transportation that allows you to aboard it, and fly through the air. -
Steam Ships
Created by Robert Fulton:
The steam engine turned paddle-wheels that moved the ship along. But by the 1850s most ships were using propellers, first fitted to a steamship in 1839, instead. -
Steam Ships
Created by Richard Wright:
A vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines -
Reaper
Created by Cyrus McCormick:
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. -
Steel Plow
Created by John Deere:
It was used for farming to break up tough soil without soil getting stuck to it. -
Photograph
Created by Nicéphore Niépce:
Pictures are a photographer's means of expression as a writer's means are words, it was invented for communication. -
Rubber
Created by Charles Goodyear:
Uniformly heating sulfur- and lead-fortified rubber at a relatively low temperature, he could render the rubber melt-proof and reliable. -
Telegraph
Created by Samuel Morse:
The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
Telegraph
Created by Samuel Morse:
The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
Elevator
Created by Elisha Graves Otis:
An elevator or lift is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors of a building, vessel, or other structure. -
Telephone
Created by Alexander Graham Bell:
Telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. -
Telephone
Created by Alexander Graham Bell:
Early telephones are more accurately called “mechanical acoustic devices”. Instead of transforming audio energy into electrical energy, these devices simply transmitted voice data mechanically – like through pipes and other media. -
Phonograph
Created by Thomas Edison:
A device, invented in 1877, for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. -
Light Bulb
Created by Thomas Edison:
An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that it glows with visible light. -
Automobile
Created by Karl Benz:
A road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine or electric motor and able to carry a small number of people. -
Skyscraper
Created by William Le Baron Jenney:
A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building having multiple floors. When the term was originally used in the 1880s it described a building of 10 to 20 floors but now describes one of at least 40–50 floors. -
Assembly Line
Created by Henry Ford:
A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.
