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Typewriter Patent
In the year of 1714, Henry Mill, an engineer at the New River company which was in England, obtained a patent for an artificial machine that printed letters on a piece of paper. Few details are known about this invention so we can't really know for sure if it worked well. -
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Typewriter
The typewriter has affected society by making it easier for people to write out letters and papers. It also made it more neat than the regular writing by hand. The typewriter has influenced the computer and the computer could have ended up a lot differently without the invention of the typewriter. It also helped the social liberation of women by opening up secretarial jobs. The jobs were open to women because men thought it didn't offer much career advancement and so the jobs were open to women -
Flying Chair
The Flying Chair is one of the first passenger elevators and was used by King Louis XV. It was a manual elevator and he had people pull on a rope for him to go up. -
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Elevators
Elevators are a pretty great invention. They have allowed us to travel up and down without walking up stairs which has made us more lazy. For people that are disabled, it's really handy to have something where you don't have to go up stairs. Elevators have also contributed to society because it allows us to build higher buildings since you won't have to climb up them (Though it'll help you get fit). Overall I think elevators were a pretty useful invention in changing the way cities are built. -
First Artificial Refrigerator
In 1748, William Cullen at the University of Glasgow invented the first artificial refrigerator. He laid down the foundations for all the future refrigerators to be invented. He used the evaporation of liquid to help him build it but he never used it for practical purposes like storing food in it. -
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Refrigerator
The refrigerator was an important invention for the past and the present. The refrigerator has allowed us to preserve foods without rotting which is something we take for granted now. Without the refrigerator, we would have to go get groceries every day and there wouldn't be any frozen desserts like ice cream. It has helped us eat things that we could normally not eat in a season because it was too hot. It has also become an industry and created more jobs for people to work in a factory. -
First Proven To Work Typewriter
In the year 1808, Pellegrino Turri built the first typewriter that was proven to work. He fell in love with the Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzona and because her vision was fading away, he wanted to build a typewriter to improve her writing. -
Ascending Room
In the year 1823, two architects, Burton and Hormer, built the Ascending Room. It was a elevator that didn't require manual work and was instead steam powered. It was built for tourists to be able to see a view of London. -
Practical Refrigeration
In the year 1834, Jacob Perkins invented the first refrigerator for practical refrigeration. It used ether in a vapor compression cycle to cool the things stored inside the refrigerator. -
Refrigerator for Yellow Fever Patients
John Gorrie is the inventor of the air-refrigerator in 1844. He wanted to cool the air for his yellow fever patients so he built a refrigerator to produce ice for cooling the air. -
Elevator Safety Break
Elisha Graves Otis was the first person to create a safety break for the elevator in case the ropes got accidently cut. At the New York's World Fair in 1854, he went into a makeshift elevator and cut the ropes on the elevator but the safety break stopped him from plummeting to his death. -
FIrst Refrigerator for Food Purposes
James Harrison built the first refrigerator for food purposes such as meat packing in 1857. He sold them worldwide and were used in breweries but then he almost ran out of money after failing to ship frozen meat from Australia to Britain. -
The Writing Ball
The Writing Ball was an invention made in 1870 by a man named Rasmus Malling-Hansen. This device also kind of looks like a pincushion. It is arranged so that the most used letters in the alphabet are to be pressed by the fastest writing fingers. The way it was arranged, it makes it a very fast typewriter. It's also the first commercially produced typewriter. -
Sholes & Glidden Type Writer
The Sholes & Glidden Type Writer was invented in 1873 by Christopher Sholes. This typewriter was different from others and showed a new style of keyboard called QWERTY. The QWERTY keyboard is the basically the same as the keyboards we use today. Sholes & Glidden sold their company later on because of slow sales to Densmore and Yost. It kind of looks like a sewing machine since it was manufactured by the sewing department of the Remington Arms Company. -
Electric Elevator
The first electric elevator was invented by Werner von Siemens. The previous power source of steam has changed into electricity and this elevator has become similar to the elevators we have today. -
Automatic Doors
The automatic elevator door was introduced by Alexander Miles in 1887. Normally, they had to open and close the doors manually but he helped change that. Most times they would leave the door open so people may fall out and plummet to their deaths but with the automatic doors, there was no need to keep the doors open. -
Monitor Top Refrigerator
General Electric released the first widely owned refrigerator in 1927 called Monitor Top. It was designed by the Chief Engineer, Christian Steenstrup. It became General Electric's most successful product and boosted them to the industry leader at that time. It had legs like the ones on furniture and was made to look like a cabinet which is a bit different from the refrigerators we have now. -
Whirlwind
In 1956, the first computer to allow its users to enter commands through a keyboard was patented. It was invented by Jay Forrester and was the fastest machine in his time.
