Industrial Revolution

  • Steam engine

    Steam engine
    Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine
  • Flying Shuttle

    Flying Shuttle
    John Kay invents the flying shuttle
  • Leyden Jar

    Leyden Jar
    E.G. von Kleist invents the Leyden Jar, the first electrical capacitor
  • Lightening Rod

    Lightening Rod
    Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny
    James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
  • Spinning Frame

    Spinning Frame
    Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame
  • Improved Steam Engine

    Improved Steam Engine
    James watt invents a improved steam engine
  • Electrical Telegraph

    Electrical Telegraph
    Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph
  • Steamship

    Steamship
    Jacques Perrier invents a steamship
  • Submarine

    Submarine
    David Bushnell invents a submarine
  • Spinning Mule

    Spinning Mule
    Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
  • Circular Saw

    Circular Saw
    Gervinus invents the circular saw
  • Self-Winding Clock

    Self-Winding Clock
    Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock
  • Threshing Machine

    Threshing Machine
    Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine
  • Power Loom

    Power Loom
    Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
  • Steamboat

    Steamboat
    John Fitch invents a steamboat
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
  • First Commercially Successful Reaper

    First Commercially Successful Reaper
    American, Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
  • First Gas Motored and Manned Airplane

    First Gas Motored and Manned Airplane
    The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane