World History Digital Timeline

  • Jethro Tull

    Jethro Tull

    Tull developed a horse-drawn mechanical seed drill. The seed drill made the plats grow more efficiently.
  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith

    date: 1759
    published the theory explanation of event. the theory of moral sentiments.
  • Richard Arkwright

    Richard Arkwright

    Invented the spinning frame that could produce stronger threads for yarn.
  • James Watt

    James Watt

    Date: February 23, 1784 he released his steam engine. people were excited that he finally made the steam machine
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney

    Eli invented the cotton gin to quickly seperate cotton fibers from the seeds, a job formerly perdormd by hand.
  • Samuel Slater

    Samuel Slater

    Slater and his brother built a mill village they called Slatersville, also in Rhode Island. It included a large, modern mill, tenement houses for its workers, and a company store .
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

    Born in Shrews berry England on February 12, 1809. In 1831, he embarked on a five year survey voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    In 1861, Lister observed that 45 to 60 percent of amputation patients died from sepsis. In 1865, he learned of Louis Pasteur's theory that microorganisms cause infection.
  • Michael Faraday

  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    date: February 11,1847- October 18, 1931 he was an American inventor and buisnss man. He developed may devises that greatly influence life.
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell

    He was the great inventor and scientists. He is best known for his invention on the telephone.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    (14 March 1879- 18 April 1955) was a german born theoretical physicists who developed the general theory of relatively, one of the two pillars of the modern physicists.
  • Wright Brothers

    Wright Brothers

    Wilbur (1867-1712) and Orville (1871-1948) U.S. aviation pioneers. They assembled their first piloted fight in power-driven plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina