Industrial Revolution

  • James Hargreaves

    Spinning jenny
  • Richard Arkwright

    The spinning frame (water frame) used for spinning thread or yarn from fabrics such as wool.
    -Manufacturing.
  • Samuel Crompton

    Spinning mule
  • James Watt

    Photocopier
  • Robert Fulton

    Steam boat
  • Eli Whitney

    cotton gin
  • Alois Senefelder

    the printing technique of lithography
  • Alessandro Volta

    Battery
  • Joseph Marie Charles (Jacquard)

    Programmable loom, simplifies manufacturing textiles with comply patterns.
  • Nicéphore Niépce

    Photography
  • John Loudon McAdam

    macadam road surface
  • George Stephenson

    Steam locomotive
  • Cyrus McCormick

    mechanical reaper
  • Samuel Colt

    The colt revolver
  • Louis Daguerre

    Daguerreotype,
    the first commercially successful photographic process
  • Charles Goodyear

    Vulcanization
  • Samuel Morse

    Improvement in Electro-Magnetic Telegraphs
  • Elisha Graves Otis

    a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails.
  • Henry Bessemer

    first process for mass-producing steel inexpensively
  • Richard Gatling

    Gatling gun
  • Alfred Nobel

    Dynamite
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    The Telephone
  • Thomas Edison

    The lightbulb, using lower electricity, a small carbonated filiment, and an improved vacuum inside the globe, he produced a reliable, long-lasting source of light.
    -Industry
  • Auguste and Louis Lumière

    Color photography
  • Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler

    Automobile
  • Henry Ford

    the assembly line for automobile manufacturing, the the designed the famous Model T.