Industrial Evolution Timeline

  • 1440

    Printing Press

    Printing Press
    Invention by Johannes Gutenburg that would print out text or pictures
  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine
    Invention made by Thomas Savery that uses steam to power something that used a piston to produce the steam, was very effective back then
  • Sewing Machine

    Sewing Machine
    Invention by Elias Howe that helped sew things together more effectively
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Invention by Eli Whitney that made producing cotton easier
  • Fountain Pen

    Fountain Pen
    Invention by Louis Waterman that allowed people to write in a more efficient way
  • Board Games

    Board Games
    Invention by Milton Bradley that was a game that was played on a flat board for entertainment
  • Dynamite

    Dynamite
    Was created accidentally by chemist Alfred Nobel, who was messing with chemicals and made a huge explosion
  • Barbed Wire

    Barbed Wire
    Invention by Joseph Glidden that was pretty much just a wire with spikes that was utilized to protect things or keep thing out
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Invention by Alexander Graham Bell that allowed people to communicate by talking over a long distance
  • Escalator

    Escalator
    Invention by Jesse Wilford Reno that would allow people to not have to walk upstairs