-
Spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves
-
Steam Engine improved by James Watt
-
American Revolution begins
-
Guillotine invented by Dr. Guillotin
-
French Revolution begins
-
Cotton Gin with interchangeable parts invented by Eli Whitney
-
Edward Jenner invents smallpox vaccination method
-
British abolition of Trans-Atlantic slave trade
-
First Bicycle owned by German Baron Karl von Drais
-
Telegraph invented by Samuel Morse
-
Sewing Machine invented by Elias Howe
-
First Women's Rights convention in Seneca Falls
-
Bessemer Process Developed
-
Emancipation Proclamation in US
-
Germ Theory developed by Louis Pasteur
-
Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
-
Light Bulb invented by Thomas Edison
-
First Automobile by Karl Benz
-
Founding of the American Federation of Labor
-
Diesel Engine invented by Rudolf Diesel