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Steamboat: John Fitch
A boat that utilized a steam engine to turn the wheel pushing it forward. -
Cotton Gin: Eli Whitney
small box machine that quickly separated the seeds from the cotton. -
First battery: Count Alessandro Volta
Created by stacking alternating layers of zinc, brine-soaked pasteboard or cloth, and silver. -
Steam Locamotive: Richard Trevithick
utilized a steam engine to propel. -
First electric light: Humphry Davy
First practical light produced light by throwing an electric arc between two carbon electrodes. -
Electromagnet: William Sturgeon
generated an electric field using electricity. -
Dynamite: Alfred Nobel
used gunpowder and fire to generate an explosive reaction. -
motor-driven vacuum cleaner: John Thurman
used a motor to generate a vacuum -
The zeppelin: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
filled with hydrogen or helium to lift it into the air. -
Air conditioner: Willis Carrier
Sucked air in and blew it past water cooled coils, initially used to control humidity. -
The Wright brothers: first gas motored and manned airplane
used a motor and specially designed wings to lift it into the air. -
Color photography: Auguste and Louis Lumiere
Used colored film/ribbon
