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Industrial Revolution Inventors Chronology Chart

  • Charles Townshend

    Charles Townshend
    Invention: The idea of Crop Rotation
    Invention Date: 1730
    Nationality: British
  • Joseph Marie Jacquard

    Joseph Marie Jacquard
    Invention: Jacquard Machine
    Invention Date: 1752
    Nationality: French
  • James Hargreaves

    James Hargreaves
    Invention: Spinning Jenny
    Invention Date: 1764
    Nationality: British
  • Richard Arkwright

    Richard Arkwright
    Invention: Water Frame
    Invention Date: 1769
    Nationality: British
  • James Watt

    James Watt
    Invention: Photocopier
    Invention Date: 1780
    Nationality: Scottish
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    Invention: Cotton Gin
    Invention Date: 1793
    Nationality: American
  • Alessandro Volta

    Alessandro Volta
    Invention: Electric Battery
    Invention Date: 1800
    Nationality: Italian
  • George Stephenson

    George Stephenson
    Invention: Steam Locomotive
    Invention Date: 1814
    Nationality: British
  • Samuel Morse

    Samuel Morse
    Invention: Morse Code
    Invention Date: 1830
    Nationality: American
  • Louis Daguerre

    Louis Daguerre
    Invention: Daguerreotype
    Invention Date: 1839
    Nationality: French
  • Henry Bessemer

    Henry Bessemer
    Invention: Steel
    Invention Date: 1856
    Nationality: British
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell
    Invention: Telephone
    Invention Date: 1876
    Nationality:Scottish
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    Invention: Light Bulb
    Invention Date: 1879
    Nationality: American
  • Gottlieb Daimler

    Gottlieb Daimler
    Invention: Grandfather Clock
    Invention Date: 1885
    Nationality: German
  • Guglielmo Marconi

    Guglielmo Marconi
    Invention: Long Distance Wireless Telegraph
    Invention Date: 1901
    Nationality: Italian