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Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents the automated cloth-weaving loom
The loom used interchangeable punch cards that controlled the weaving of the cloth so that any desired pattern could be obtained automatically. It greatly reduced the human labor, and it also allowed the storing of patterns on cards, which could then be used all over again to create the same product. It helped not only the textile industry, but helped in the advance of technology that's why is quickly spread throughout the country. -
Michael Faraday builds primitive electric generators and motors in 1820s-1830s
Electric motors that refined Faraday's concept were producing energy on a large scale, with electric generators powering everything from industry to transportation, with the invention of the carbon filament lamp in the 1870s domestic lighting. -
Charles Wheatstone, William Cooke and Samuel Morse developed the electric telegram in 1830s-1840s
The electric telegraph transformed how wars were fought and won and how journalists and newspapers conducted business. Rather than taking weeks to be delivered by horse-and-carriage mail carts, pieces of news could be exchanged between telegraph stations almost instantly. -
James Francis invents a water turbine now used in many of the world's hydropower plants.
Water turbines can generate power to the grid immediately, they provide essential backup power during major electricity outages or disruptions. -
Fire extinguishers
Fire extinguisher has helped save countless lives and has gone through a variety of changes to its design to further increase its efficiency and ability to put out a fire -
Thomas Edison opens the world's first power plants.
It distribute electricity to end-users in the high-profile business. Advances in alternating current (AC) technology opened up new realms for power generation and has been maintained and further enhanced by the people to this day, -
French brothers Joseph and Louis Lumiere invent movie projectors and open the first movie theater.
It enables people to travel the world vicariously, and experience tragedy, love and nearly every other emotion. Movies spread quickly, making them one of the most accessible and beloved forms of entertainment in the world. -
German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen discovers X rays
Millions of lives have been saved as a result of faster and accurate diagnosis that would not have been possible without an x-ray machine.