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James Watt’s steam engine
design became synonymous with steam engines, and it was many years before significantly new designs began to replace the basic Watt design. -
T.Newcomen’s steam engine
The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is often referred to as the Newcomen fire engine (see below) or simply as a Newcomen engine. -
John Kay’s flying shuttle
The flying shuttle is a type of weaving shuttle. It was a pivotal advancement in the mechanisation of weaving during the initial stages of the Industrial Revolution -
James Hargreave’s spinning jenny
The spinning Jenny was a spinning machine, invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves at Stanhill, near Blackburn in Lancashire, England. -
Richard Arkwright’s water mill
The Arkwright water frame was able to spin 96 threads at a time, which was an easier and faster method than ever before. -
Samuel Croupton’s spinning mule
The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. -
Edmund Cartwright power loom
A power loom is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. -
Stephenson’s “Puffing devil”
Trevithick built a full-size steam road locomotive in 1801, on a site near present-day Fore Street in Camborne. -
first plastics in history
In 1856, the first patent was granted to Alexander Parkes for his material called parkesine -
R.Fulton’s steam boat
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. -
Trans continental railroad
America's first transcontinental railroad (known)
originally as the "Pacific Railroad" -
Edison light bulbs
Edison light bulbs, also known as filament light bulbs and retroactively referred to as antique light bulbs or vintage light bulbs -
The first skyscraper in Chicago
In architectural history, one structure stands as the leader of a new era—the Home Insurance Building. -
First moving picture
The first motion picture ever shot was Roundhay Garden Scene, shot in 1888. -
Invention of the radio
Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi (pictured at right) became known across the world as the most successful inventor in applying radio waves to human communication in the 1890s. -
Ludites opposed machines (in textile industry)
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of cost-saving / wage stealing machinery, and often destroyed the machines in clandestine raids. -
Wright brothers’ first flight
They made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903 -
Henry Ford’s T model
The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927 -
Begining
It start with the murder of the archiduque of austro-hungary and his wife