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Electricity
Electricity wasn't invented but discovered. Benjamin Franklin showed the connection between lightning and electricity with a Franklin Rod, a kite he flew in the middle of a thunderstorm with a metal key attached to it. He got a pretty big electric shock but was okay. William Gilbert discovered electricity and wrote about it in his book, De Magnete (1600).
https://www.universetoday.com/82402/who-discovered-electricity/
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Steam Locomotive
Steam Locomotive
The locomotive was an extremely big change in the history of transportation as it lets people with heavy cargo transfer to different places. Richard Trevithick’s steam locomotive wasn’t a very big success as on its first test it proved too heavy for the railway to hold and so it snapped.
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Jacquard Loom
Francis Joseph-Marie Jacquard developed the Jacquard Loom as he was a silk weaver. The Jacquard Loom can make more complex designs then any machine that was seen at the time. It was invented on 1804
http://theinventors.org/library/inventors/
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Revolver
The revolver was improved by Samuel Colt and it was an extremely great weapon, the functions were pretty simple. You put the bullets in the firing chamber and then you pull the trigger at the top. You can now pull the trigger to activate the bullet and just repeatedly fire and reload until all bullets are used. The firing chamber usually has 5-8 ammunition holes.
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First Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone being a teacher for the deaf and conceived the idea of “electronic speech”. His famous words were to his assistant Thomas A. Watson “Mr. Watson, come here. I need you.” The invention was a success and by 1900 600,000 phones in Bell’s telephone system. Bell’s other remarkable inventions are the hydro boat, which has evolved to the modern hydro boat, capable of 200mph at fastest.
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Early incandescent light bulb
Joseph Swan brought light bulbs to the world he helped the world put light bulbs in houses and the Savoy Theatre in 1881. Joseph Swan's light bulb used a carbonized paper filament, but the vacuum wasn’t strong enough and so it only lasts for 13 and a half hours. Thomas Edison who improved the light bulb made a filament derived from bamboo that lasted for 1300 hours.
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The First Automobile
Carl Benz had commercial success as it attracted so much attention. Newspapers in July 1886 reported of its first Public outing. It was even more famous when Benz’s wife Bertha and her 2 sons used an improvised version of the automobile and made a 180-kilometre journey to her birth place. She then returned and her husband was shocked at about the vehicle as he didn’t have any knowledge about the secret journey.
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The First Flying Machine
The Wright brothers were bicycle engineers and they were inspired to fly. They watched birds and made many mistakes, however these mistakes would make a their dreams come true as they kept on improving their invention. the Wright Flyer was the most successful as it was in the air for 255.6m in 59 seconds. The plane was hard to control though.
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British Tank
Lancelot de Mole invented the tank to answer the rough terrain in which battles in world war 1 faced, the tank got its name while building the tank, they called it a water tank to hide it’s secret, the name is still the same today. By 1918 2,600 tanks were invented and they kind of effective. The tanks have evolved with a turret at the turn of World War II.
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The First Ballistic Missile
Wernher von Braun invented the V-2 and in October the 3rd 1942 it was first launched. It proved successful and by the end of World War ll 2000 of these rockets were invented. After World War ll the Soviets and the Americans told Germany to give them the plans for the V-2. The V-2 soon led to the Soviets Sputnik 1 launch, followed by the Americans and Soviets competing in the Space Race.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-conducts-first-successful-v-2-rocket-test
