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Bessemer process
The modern process is named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856. The process was said to be independently discovered in 1851 by the American inventor William Kelly though the claim is controversial.
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. -
The phone
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell created the first phone.
A phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user. -
The electric bulb
On October 22, 1879, a genius handyman invented electric lighting. After countless tests which show a rare determination, the American Thomas Edison succeeds in producing a durable lighting by passing current through a carbon filament, in a vacuum interrupter.
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication... -
The automobile
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Nummer 1, manufactured by Carl Benz in 1885, considered by some to be the first automobile in history, because of the internal combustion engine which constitutes its propulsion system.
Carl Benz, né en 1844, est un inventeur allemand, pionnier de l'automobile, et fondateur de Benz & Cie qui devint Mercedes-Benz en 1926. -
The first movie
The first film is entitled "The Exit of the Lumière Factory in Lyon" by the Lumière brothers.
The Lumière brothers were among the first filmmakers in history. They patented an improved cinematograph, which in contrast to Thomas Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties.
