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First English Dictionary
Samuel Johnson creates the first english dictionary.
It took Samuel Johnson and his six helpers to create the dictionary with 40,000 words.Each word was defined in detail, the definitions illustrated with quotations covering every branch of learning. It was a huge achievement, a more extensive and complex dictionary than any of it's predecessors -
British Canals Increased Efficiency of Industrial Revolution
Canals came into being in Britain due to the response to the Industrial Revolution's demand for an economic and reliable way to transport goods and commodities in large quantities. Significant because it increased the efficiency of good transport. -
Spinning Machine
James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny. Significant because it increased the production of wool. Enabling the clothing of many -
Invention of carbonated water
Joseph Priestley invents carbornated water. This was significant because it spurred the creation of a number of new drinks. -
Patent for indoor plumbing
Thomas Crapper was credited with inventing an indoor toilet in Elizabethan times. This was significant due to its lastin effect on modern culture. -
Steam Engine
Steam engines helped to run factories and made transportation easier. Steam engines made transportation safer and faster than the carriages. -
Mass Production
Mass production enabled factories to produce products more efficiently, raising profitability. One major user of this technique was Josiah Wedgewood who implemented this into his pottery production. Significant because it enabled FAST production of items. -
Guillotine is invented
French doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin invented this device as a more humane and painless form of execution. This tool enabled The Reign of Terror in France during the french revolution and supplied a means by which to decapitate numerous people in a single day. -
Non-Electrical Telegraph
Invented in 1794 by Claude Chappe. The system used semaphore, rather than electrical signals along a wire, as later telegraphs did. -
Dicovery of small pox vaccination
Edward Jenner finds the vaccination of small pox. Small pox was a rather threatening disease at the time and caused many deaths, this vaccine provided immunity to those bestowed with it. -
Invention of batteries
Alessandro Volta invents batteries This was significant because it was no longer necessary to hand or water power objects and was a lasting idea into the modern time period. -
Electrical Telegragh
Was a simple form of electric telegraph using liquid and the concept of electrolysis. Invented by Samuel Soemmering in Bavaria. Was not a commercially viable product, but showed how electrical signals could be transmitted. Significant because it was yet another step on the road to a more viable product. -
Electromagnet
Invented by William Sturgeon, the electromagnet would later play a big part in the transmission of signals via telegraphs. -
Matches
invented by John Walker. Modern matches were significant in their much easier and more convinient use to start fire in comparison to its predecessor steel and flint. -
Typewriter
Invented by an American by the name of W.A. Burt. the typewriter was a newfangled form of a generator for the written word. This was significant due to its lasting use and adaptaion into the computer. -
Sewing Machine
Barthelemy Thimonnier, a frenchmen, invented the sewing machine. Significant because it increased production(again) and its use was widespread even into modernday. -
Electrical Telegraph: Improved
Samuel F B Morse, improved upon initian designs, his personal disign would be very popular. Significant due to the advancements it helped spur in the degign of the telegraph. -
Revolver
Samuel Colt invented first revolver. This was the first multi-shot gun invented. Before this revolver was invented, guns could only fire one bullet, took long time to relod, and fairly inaccurate. -
Bicycle invention
Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents bicycle. The first mechanically driven bicycle was made by Kirkpatrick MacMillan, a Scottish blacksmith. It was driven by steps which moved up and down. By pressing down on these the back wheel was turned. Later bicycles had pedals attached to the front axle.
Provided easier and cheaper mode of transportation to the poor. Good for exercise. -
Grain Elevator
invented by Joseph Dart Significant because it allowed for an increase in efficiency of grain production. -
First Experimental Telegraph
The first experimental telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore was constructed, in 1843 using Morse's concepts. Significant because this enabled advanced communication. -
Anesthesia
Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction. SIgnificance, no more painful teeth..poor babies from before! -
Increase in Manufacture of Iron
Increase in manufacture of iron drove the creation of the crystal palace and other such buildings that could now span further vertically than they could before due to the increase in strength of iron from wood. -
Dental Chair
Waldo Hanchett invented Dental chair. Significance, WE FOUND WALDO! -
Day of first Telephone used
Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone, and he was the first person to use it. His assistant Thomas Watson was on the other end. Significant because it was a lasting source of communication. -
Electric Light
Thomas Edison developed the electric light in the late nineteenth century, enabling longer hours of illumination and allowing jobs that previously couldn't be done after daylight hours were finished. Significant because its use continued into modern day. -
Wireless Telegraph
Invented by Guglielmo Marconi, more efficient, not hindered by wires. Significant because this was one of the many steps to even more advanced technologies for communication in addition to providing lasting communication for its time.
