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Glass Armonica was invented in 1771 by Benjamin Franklin. Today it's called Harmonica but wasn't invented till 1821 60 years later.
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Italian Alessandro Volta makes the first battery (known as a Voltaic pile).
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents the automated cloth-weaving loom. The punched cards it uses to store patterns help to inspire programmable computers.
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Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier develop the papermaking machine
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Humphry Davy develops electrolysis into an important chemical technique and uses it to identify a number of new elements.
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George Stephenson builds the first practical steam locomotive.
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Robert Stirling invents the efficient Stirling engine.
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Michael Faraday builds primitive electric generators and motors.
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Joseph Niepce makes the first modern photograph.
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William Sturgeon develops the first practical electric motor.
