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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin created the lighting rod to conduct experaments about lighting. In the early 1700s lighting was causing many fires and the would burn for hours becuase the building were made of mainly wood. This caused benjamins curiosity to boil and thats when he built the lighting rod a long pole that stuck up in the air and attracked lighting -
James Hargreaves
James hargreaves a British carpenter and weaver that invented a machine called the Spinning Jenny. The spinning jenny lets you spin more than one ball of yarn and thread at a time. -
James Watt
James watt created the steam engine. The steam engine generated a way for people to use less man power and more machine power. -
David Bushnell
David Bushnell created the first submerine. He named it the turtle no one really knows why but it looks more like a ball. There had been many attemps but nothing had ever been accomplished -
Gervinus of Germany
Gervinus created a circular saw that has improved but is still in use today. Before the saw was created men would dig a hole and have one man in the hole pushing the saw up and another man pushing the saw back down. -
John Barber
John Barber invents the first gas powered turbine and was put on a bicycle. it was known as the first bysicle with an engine. This man had patends and many machines but this one was the most remarkable -
Eli Whitney
Eli whitney created the first cotton gin. The cotton gin stripped the cotton from the seed. It was more productive becuase is could strip more than one seed at a time -
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton created the first steam boat. The steam boat used to big round wheels with paddles that grabbed the watter and propelled the boat foward -
George Cayley
George Cayley invented the manned glider. George is one of the most important people in the history aeronautics. He is considered one of the first men to trully understand the world of aviation. -
Burt William Austin
Burt was a man that loved invetning thing he had spent most of his life fixing stuff or inventing stuff such as the typographer that is now called a typewriter. It was to culturally advanced for its time so its failed commercially but still its legacy lives on today. -
Alexander Bain
Alexander's first patent was on January 11th 1841, He had just created the first ever electric clock. He put a electro-magnetic pendulum instead of a wieght or spring in the clock. He improved the clock with later patents and more advancements on the clock -
Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph. The telegraph was used to send messages a long distance in a shot amount of time through a wire. This was more affective than the pony express or other methods used the these days. -
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel inveted the Blasting cap for dynamite!! Instead of using heat or combustion he created a way to shock it with a strong charge of electricity run through wires. Useing the clasting cap let u stay far away and blast at the specific time you needed to. -
Louis Pateur
Louis Pasteur created vaccines for disease's. He was a man of great wisdom believeing that germs caused diseases and with that information he created vaccines that would stop the commom disease and help people live a longer more happy life. -
Ksrl Janky
Karl Jansky invented the radio telescope. He created antenna that would spin in circles and in just 20 some odd minutes it gained the name mary-go-round becuase of its spinning motion. The radio would spin in cirlcles searching for a radio signal to pick up
