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1884 BCE
Light Switch
The light switch is important because people need to need to operate the light -
1875 BCE
Telephone
It letting you communicate with other people that’s not close to you -
1793 BCE
Cotton Gin
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. ... Seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil. -
1790 BCE
Sewing Machine
Instead of sewing with your hand it's a machine that do it for you. -
1785 BCE
Power Loom
loom powered by a line shaft -
1779 BCE
Spinning Mule
spun textile fibers into yarn by an intermittent process -
1769 BCE
Water Frame
a large spinning machine and was used when cloth was only made by hand. -
1764 BCE
Spinning Jenny
The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun, so by turning a single wheel, the operator could now spin eight threads at once. -
1698 BCE
Steam Engine
The first crude steam powered machine was built by Thomas Savery, of England, in 1698. Savery built his machine to help pump water out of coal mines. -
Flying Shuttle
It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, and it could be mechanized, allowing for automatic machine looms.