Invetions from the second industrial revolution

By Melquiades

  • Bicicle

    Bicicle
    A German baron named Karl von Drais made the first major development when he created a steerable, two-wheeled contraption in 1817.

  • Electric motor

    Electric motor
    Thomas Davenport of Vermont invented the first official battery-powered electric motor in 1834. This was the first electric motor that had enough power to perform a task and his invention was used to power a small-scale printing press.

  • Lighter

    Lighter
    One of the first lighters was invented by a German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner in 1823 and was often called Döbereiner's lamp.

  • Steam locomotive

    Steam locomotive
    George Stephenson and his son, Robert, built the first practical steam locomotive. Stephenson built his "travelling engine" in 1814, which was used to haul coal at the Killingworth mine. He had also built the first American steam locomotive in 1825.

  • Refridgerator

    Refridgerator
    Albert T. Marshall, an American inventor, patented the first mechanical refrigerator in 1899. Renowned physicist Albert Einstein patented a refrigerator in 1930 with the idea of creating an environmentally friendly refrigerator with no moving parts and did not rely on electricity.

  • Revolver

    Revolver
    In 1836, Connecticut-born gun manufacturer Samuel Colt received a U.S. patent for a revolver mechanism that enabled a gun to be fired multiple times without reloading.

  • Elevator

    Elevator
    In 1887, American Inventor Alexander Miles of Duluth, Minnesota patented an elevator with automatic doors that closed off the elevator shaft when the car was not being entered or exited.

  • Repeating rifle

    Repeating rifle
    The first effective breech-loading and repeating flintlock firearms were developed in the early 1600s. One early magazine repeater has been attributed to Michele Lorenzoni, a Florentine gunmaker.

  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell is often credited with being the inventor of the telephone since he was awarded the first successful patent.

  • Radio

    Radio
    Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi first developed the idea of a radio, or wireless telegraph, in the 1890s. His ideas took shape in 1895 when he sent a wireless Morse Code message to a source more than a kilometer away.