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Industrial Revolution

By Majestic_Potato

  • Photography

    Photography
    Nicéphore Niépce took the first photo in 1826. Therefore, he invented/discovered them. Photography brought about entire careers in capturing photos, and allowed people to travel through images.

  • Beehives

    Beehives
    L. L. Langstroth came up with the idea of bee keeping. Obviously bees were around before some knuckle-head deicided to utlize them. However, bees brought about the concept of buyable honey and bee by products.

  • Elevator BRAKE

    Elevator BRAKE
    Invented by Elisha Graves Otis. Saving hundreds of lives and just making more sense than an elevator without a brake. Seriously, it should not have been released without one. The first inventor was just plain lazy.

  • Dynamite

    Dynamite
    Alfred Noble gets credit for inventing this well used explosive. Used for mining, warfare, construction, and scaring children.

  • Barbed Wire

    Barbed Wire
    First invented by 1867 to Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio, who is regarded as the inventor. Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois, received a patent for the modern invention in 1874 after he made his own modifications to previous versions.
    Barbed wire keeps in cattle and other livestock, feeding the world today.

  • Telephone

    Telephone
    There is debate wether Alexander Grahman Bell or Antonio Meucci actually invented the telephone. This new device was enormously helpful in the speed and sureness of a message being sent. Before telephones mail had to be sent, this could take days or weeks even months to deliver any and all information.

  • Calculators

    Calculators
    Willhelm Schickard invented them. They made the calculation of massive numbers not only possible but easy. Allowing massive amounts of production to be calculatable.

  • Electric Elevator

    Electric Elevator
    Invented by Alexander Miles even thought the idea had been around since Roman times. His invention had no break... As one can see that would be a small problem.

  • Escalator

    Escalator
    Debate between wether Jesse W. Reno or Charles Seeberger invented the escalator. Not as revolutionary as some of the other inventions, but can be used as a convayer belt to move large amounts of objects up or down any amount of virtical space.

  • Radio

    Radio
    Heinrich Hertz claims the credit for inventing the radio. A step up from telephone which broad casts news over many miles. Replacing the nessessity for newspapers.