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Inventors in the Industrial Revolution

  • Eli Whitney born

    Eli Whitney born
    Eli Whitney pictureEli whitney was smart as a child. He did no have enough money for college but instead he taught at a school for $7.00 a month. He saved up and then attended Yale. He then went to Georgia to study law and to teach. He died in 1825.
  • Thomas Newcomen

    Thomas Newcomen
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    Thomas Newcomen invented the Sream engine. His first working engine was installed at a coalmine at Dudley Castle. It was a big techonology advance during the Industrial Revolution. Newcomen engines were very expensive but were successful. By the time Newcomen died in1729 there were at least one hundred of his engines in Britain and Europe.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin had a problem with him eyesight. He didn't like changing between 2 glasses. This made his start to look into the glasses more. The distance lens was placed at the top and the the up-close lens was placed at the bottom. The bifocals have helped billions of people over the past 200 year.
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    [' >Cotton Gin](<a href='<a href='http://www.history.com/photos/inventions-inventors/photo2) Whitney worked a long time to invent a device that would quickly clean the cotton using hooks,wires and a rotating brush. Whitney presented his cotton gin to some people in his town and it produced more cotton in a hour then multiple people in a whole day.This is how the cotton gin got so popular so quickly. He in 1794 he had patented the gin. So many people where claiming it was their idea.
  • Dr. Richard Gatling born

    Dr. Richard Gatling born
    Dr. Richard Gatling<a href='http://www.nndb.com/people/592/000104280/' >a>Richard Gatling was born in Hertford County, NC, on September 12, 1818. He was very smart and well educated. He was a schoolteacher and a merchant, spending all his spare time in developing new inventions.
  • Industrial Revolution began

    Industrial Revolution began
  • John Stevens

    John Stevens
    Railroad pictureStevens John Stevens is known as the father of railroads. Him and his two sons invented them in 1815. After years of promoting his ideas, he finally made the New Jersey and Pennsylvania legislatures to give him money for railways. He is considered the founder of the Pennsylvania railroad system. Railroads are still used to today to trade products.
  • Cyrus Mccormick

    Cyrus Mccormick
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    Cyrus Mccormick was only 22 years old when he invented "The Reaper" to help the farmers harvest. The Reaper can harvest an acre for one hour. In 1843 a man challenged him to see who could harvest the most. Cyrus built his better so he won. This got got a lot of the peoples attention. He sold so much that he started a compnay "International Harvester Company in 1902.
  • Dr. Richard Gatling

    Dr. Richard Gatling
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    Dr. Richard Gatling invented the Gatling Gun which it a multibarrel machine gun. He invented this gun during the civil war. He thought this would help his soldiers win because it fired phenomenal 200 rounds per minute. The Gatling gun was the first easily usable gun. The Gatling gun was not the first weapon to use multiple barrels. This gun still worked the best out of most.
  • Thomas Edison was Born

    Thomas Edison was Born
    Thomas Edison Picture
    Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, He was the last child his parents Samuel and Nacy had.
  • Alexander Graham Bell born

    Alexander Graham Bell born
    Alexander Graham Bell pictureAlexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He had a well education due to all the experiments he always did.His dad also helped him with everything he has learned. Alexander had 18 patents with other people and 12 with just his name. he died on August 2, 1922
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell
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    Alexander is best know for his invention the Telephone. While his teaching, Bell also began researching ideas to transmit several telegraph messages. Alexander's success with the telephone helped improve the telegraph. He undestood music and the way it worked. He offered his own musical approach as a possible solution to the teleophone.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
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    Thomas Edison is best known for his invention of the light bulb. Thomas didn't exactly invent the lightbulb, but he improved the older version of the light bulb idea. This is was one of Thomas's hardest inventions he made. His achievement was inventing not just an incandescent electric light bulb, but also an electric lighting system that you could use for your house. This helped everyone.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
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    Einstein made a lot of inventions. Albert Einstein made a refrigarator from 1926-1930. he was trying to make an environmentally friendly refrigerator that runs without electricity. Einsteins refrigerator uses an absorption process where it changes in pressure between liquids and gases so it doesnt poison the food.
  • Steve Jobs was born

    Steve Jobs was born
    [steve Jobs picture](www.deyoungmedia.com)Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, CA. He was soon but up for adaption. while Jobs was enrolled at Homestead High School he met to his future partner, Steve Wozniak. Soon after hight school he went to Reed College and then dropped out 6 months later. not long after that him and his parnter started to invent the Iphones.
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    Steve Jobs Picture Steve jobs invented the very first Iphone. This phone was much more advanced then any other phone out there. It was a computer that you could hold in your hand. It was also a touch screen with every thing right at your finger tips. Steve didn't think anyone would actually but it. although it became so popular that more newer versions of Iphones came out.