Industrial revolution

Inventions of the Industrial Revolution and Beyond

By solomonc

  • Benjamin Franklin, lightening rod

    Benjamin Franklin He was a founding father of the United States, an inventor, and a printer

  • James Watt, steam engine

    James Watt, steam engine
    James Watt

  • Jacques Perrier, invents the steamship

    His invention revolutionized travel.

  • Eli Whitney, cotton gin

    Eli Whitney, cotton gin
    Eli Whtney's invention of the cotton gin increase cotton production in the American South and made cotton "king" of the southern economy

  • Alessandro Volta, invents the battery

  • Robert Fulton, steamboat service

  • Barthelemy Thimonnier, invents a sewing machine

  • Samuel Morse, invents the telegraph

    Samuel Morse, invents the telegraph
    Samuel Morse Radio communication was revolutionized by Morse. Morse Code is named after him and is still used by Ham Radio opperators and emergency services organizations for reliable communications during challenging conditions.

  • Elias Howe, sewing machine

  • Isaac Singer, improves and markets Howe's sewing machine

    Isaac Singer, improves and markets Howe's sewing machine
    Singer's improvements to and marketing of the sewing machine revolutionized the clothing industry. Additionally, it made it possible for clothes to be made in the home at a much faster rate than sewing by hand had allowed.

  • Cyrus Field, transatlantic cable

  • Alexander Graham Bell, telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell, telephone
    Alexander Graham BellNothing has revolutionized the world quite as dramatically as the invention of the telephone. All the telecommunications applications to follow are the offspring, as it were, of the telephone.

  • Thomas Edison, incandescant light bulb

    Thomas Edison, incandescant light bulb
    Thomas Edison He literally lit up our world. Once dark night streets, only lit by candle or gas lights, now are almost as bright as day.

  • Josephine Cochrane, invents the dishwasher

  • Gottlieb Daimler, builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle

  • Nikola Tesla, induction electric motor

    Nikola Tesla, induction electric motor
    Nikola Tesla

  • Rudolf Diesel, Diesel engine

    Rudolf Diesel, Diesel engine

  • Orville and Wilbur Wright, first airplane

    Orville and Wilbur Wright, first airplane
    Orville and Wilbur Wright

  • Henry Ford, Model T Ford (assembly line, 1913)

    Henry Ford, Model T Ford (assembly line, 1913)
    Henry Ford

  • Max Knott and Ernst Ruska, co-invent the electron microscope

    Max Knott and Ernst Ruska, co-invent the electron microscope

  • Karl Jansky, invents the radio telescope

  • Samuel Colt, patents the Colt revolver

  • Igor Sikorsky, invents the first successful helicopter

    Igor Sikorsky, invents the first successful helicopter
    Igor Sikorsky Though the helecopter was successfully invented at the beginning of WWII, they were not used as widely as in later wars. Helicopters would become major players in warfare and travel in the late 1940s into the 1950s. The Korean and Vietnam Wars were the first wars that put helicopters to use in a large variety of missions.