A Time of Inventions

By e.ramirez
  • Period: to

    1860-1900

  • The Phonograph

    The Phonograph
    Inventor: Thomas Eddison
    Explanation and purpose: First device capable of recording and reproducing sound.
    Benefits: Made recording and preserving sound possible (Music, speeches and more).

  • Electric Dynamo

    Electric Dynamo
    Inventor: Werner von Siemens
    Explanation and purpose: He developed a practical version of the dynamo, enabling more efficient electricity generation.
    Benefits: It supplied power to industries.

  • The Typewriter

    The Typewriter
    Inventor: Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule
    Explanation and purpose: The first modern typewriter that included the QWERTY keyboard layout, it made it so the keys wouldn't get stuck so easily.
    Benefits: It made writting a lot faster and easier

  • The Telephone

    The Telephone
    Inventor: Alexander Graham Bell
    Explanation and purpose: It revolutionized communication by allowing voice transmissions over long distances
    Benefits: It made communication much easier.

  • The Lightbulb

    The Lightbulb
    Inventor: Thomas Edison
    Explanation and purpose: It creates light.
    Benefits: It was a new light source that helped replace candles and fires.

  • Internal Combustion Engine

    Internal Combustion Engine
    Inventor: Karl Benz
    Explanation and purpose: It converts chemical energy derived from liquid or gas fuels into mechanical energy.
    Benefits: It marked the start of the automobile industry.

  • Roll Film Camera

    Roll Film Camera
    Inventor: George Eastman
    Explanation and purpose: It is a type of photographic camera that rapidly takes a sequence of photographs, either onto film stock or an image sensor, in order to produce a moving image to display on a screen
    Benefits: It was cheaper, more durable and easier to mantain that the older film cameras.

  • X-Rays

    X-Rays
    Inventor: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
    Explanation and purpose: X-rays use invisible electromagnetic energy beams to produce images of internal tissues, bones, and organs on film or digital media.
    Benefits: It revolutionized medicine and diagnostic techniques.

  • Wireless Telegraphy

    Wireless Telegraphy
    Inventor: Guglielmo Marconi
    Explanation and purpose: The transmitting antenna radiates the electromagnetic field created by the originating current from the spark coils—at the speed of light in every direction.
    Benefits: It layed the foundation for radio technology.

  • The Vacuum Cleaner

    The Vacuum Cleaner
    Inventor: John S. Thurman
    Explanation and purpose: It was more of an industrial cleaning machine than a household appliance but, thay have a fan rotates that at high speeds, drawing air into the vacuum through the intake nozzle.
    Benefits: It made cleaning inside factories much more easier, making them safer workplaces.