Secondindustrialrevolution

Second Industrial Revolution - Technologies/Innovations

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  • Bessemer Process for Steelmaking

    Bessemer Process for Steelmaking
    Henry Bessemer receives a patent for his Bessemer Process for Steelmaking.

  • First Successful Machine Gun Created

    First Successful Machine Gun Created
    The first successful machine gun had been created, the Gatling Gun, by Richard Gatling. Patented originally in 1861, the outbreak of the American Civil War.

  • Railroad Refrigerator Car

    Railroad Refrigerator Car
    J.B. Sutherland receives the first patent for a railroad refrigerator car; Joel Tiffany receives a patent the next year.

  • American Typewriter Patented

    American Typewriter Patented
    Christopher Latham Stoles receives a patent for the first American typewriter. The first typewriter dates back to 1714 in Britain, by Englishman Henry Mill.

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad
    Union Pacific & Central Pacific Railroads cross at Promontory Point, Utah.

  • First Telephone Patented

    First Telephone Patented
    Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his new invention that could send human voices over wires and transmit currents of sound.

  • First Microphone Created

    First Microphone Created
    Emile Berliner invents the microphone based on "loose contact" between two metal electrodes.

  • First Phonograph Created

    First Phonograph Created
    Thomas Edison releases the first phonograph.

  • First American Motion Picture

    First American Motion Picture
    Eadweard Muybridge is the first American credited with creating the motion picture, "Horse in Motion" in 1878.

  • First Incandescent Lamp Patented

    First Incandescent Lamp Patented
    Thomas Edison received a patent for the incandescent lamp that set the precedent for the universal domestic use of light.

  • World's First Skyscraper Built

    World's First Skyscraper Built
    The Home Insurance Building in Chicago is issued a patent.

  • First Camera (Kodak)

    First Camera (Kodak)
    George Eastman invented the Kodak Camera and introduced rolled photographic film.