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Steam Engines
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. Steam engines are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separated from the combustion products. Non-combustion heat sources such as solar power, nuclear power or geothermal energy may be used.
Invented by Thomas Savery -
Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. -
Textile Mill
Textile manufacturing is a major industry. It is based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into clothes. Different types of fibre are used to produce yarn.
Invented by Samuel Slater -
Cotton Gin
The cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
Invented by Eli Whitney
Invented in the South -
Railroads
A permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
Invented by George Stephenson -
Photograph
A photographer uses various techniques, such as enhancing lighting or using specialized filters or lenses, to set the scene for film or digital photographs.
Invented by Nicéphore Niepce -
Telegraph
The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
Invented by Samuel Morse -
Reaper
A reaper is a farm implement or person that reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest, when they are ripe.
Invented by Cyrus McCormick -
John Deer plow
John Deere invented the steel plow in 1837 when the Middle-West was being settled. The soil was different than that of the East and wood plows kept breaking. He invented it in Grand Detour, Illinois where he had settled. -
Rubber
rubber or Caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds, plus water.
Invented by Stephen Perry -
Sewing Machine
A sewing machine is used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies.
Invented by Josef Madersperger -
Telephone
Is a system used to send speech or data over distances using a device called a telephone that functions as the transmitter and receiver.
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell -
Elevator
Is a lifting device usually made up of cables and a compartment that moves people or items up and down along a shaft.
Created in New York
Invented by Elisha Graves Otis -
phonograph
The phonograph is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
Invented in New Jersey
Invented by Thomas Edison -
Light Bulb
The incandescent light bulb turns electricity into light by sending the electric current through a thin wire called a filament. Filaments are made up mostly of tungsten, a metal. The resistance of the filament heats the bulb up.
invented Thomas Edison -
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building having multiple floors. When the term was originally used in the 1880s it described a building of 10 to 20 floors but now describes one of at least 40–50 floors. One common feature of skyscrapers is having a steel framework that supports curtain walls.
Invented by William Le Baron Jenney
Invented in Chicago -
Automobile
A passenger vehicle designed for operation on ordinary roads and typically having four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal-combustion engine.
Invented by Karl Benz
Invented in Germany -
Steam Ship
A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically drive (turn) propellers or Paddle wheels.
Invented by Robert Fulton -
Airplane
An airplane is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine or propeller. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations.
Invented by Wright brothers
Invented in Kitty Hawk -
Assembly Line
fabricates parts and joins them together to construct products like aircrafts, automobiles, electronics and household appliances. Some assemblers specialize in a particular part, such as electric motors, or a type of product, such as office machinery.
Invented by Ransom E. Olds
