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Sextant
Invented by John Campbell, the sextant was invented to measure the distance between stars, or other celestial bodies, in the sky to navigate through the oceans. It was very significant and assisted travelers with long-distance travel. -
Chromatic Lens
Invented by Dolland
Photochromatic lenses led the way for the creation of telescopes, and to the discovery of the light spectrum. -
Marine Chronometer
Invented by John Harrison, The marine chronometer was a very accurate clock that served as a tool in which someone could dtermione the longitude through.
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Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves invented a new frame that greatly increased textile productions. The spinning jenny could now turn 8 spools of yarn at once, and eventually gained up to 120 spools at once. -
Carbonated Water
Joseph Priestly created corbonated water, which played a large role in many soft drinks. It was an applicable demonstration of dissolving a gas into a liquid. -
Spinning Frame
Richard Arkwright created a mechanized way to fuel the growing textile industry. It produced thincker strands than the spinning Jenny,and produced far more. THe water wheel was eventually incorporated as a power source. -
Electric Telegraph
Georges Louis Lesage created the electric telegraph, which served as an easy form of long-distance communication, which used lon and short tones, through morse code, to create messages. -
Flush Toilet
Alexander Cummings created the flush toilet, that increased convenience within the bathroom. This technology was also later implememnted into transportation, making going to the bathrrom weasier on long trips. -
Submarine
David Bushnell created the submarine, which allowed man to stay underwater for long periods of time. It could support crews at a time, and were eventually used in marine exploration and war. -
Steam Engine
James Watt
One of the most important inentions that branched off the industrial revolutions, steam engines paved the way for steam powered locomotives/factories. It basically set up Europe and soon the rest of the world to mass produce/expand economically faster than ever before in history. -
Spinning Mule
Samuel Crompton created the spinning mule, which could support up to 1320 spindles of thread at one time. They stretched up to 10 feet, and continued to demonstrate the continued growth of fiber-stringing methods. -
hot-air balloon
Joseph and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier created the hot-air balloon, which allowed for a more controlled method of flying. It could be used for extensive travel, as well as for leisure. -
Parachute
Louis Sebastian created the parachute, a method for quicker evacuation from flying transportation. It was eventually used in war for dropping soldiers into battlefields, as well as other packages. -
Self-winding Clock
Benjamin Hanks created the self-winding clock, that eliminated the constant windingneeded to maintaintime in the previous clocks. It was a convenience that helpedmany households. -
Steel Roller
Henry Cort invented steel rollers, that were used in many other machines to flatten out,or process certain materials. It alse allowed for an ease of movement for certain products when moved down the industrial line. -
Power Loom
Edmund Cartwright
is a mechanised loom powered by a line shaft. It was refined over the next 47 years until a design by Kenworthy and Bullough made the operation completely automatic. This was known as the Lancashire Loom. By 1850 there were 260,000 in operation in England. Fifty years later came the Northrop Loom that would replenish the shuttle when it was empty and this replaced the Lancashire loom. -
Guillotine
Although no recorded inventor, the guillotine played a large role in executions within France, and bcame a symbol of much terror. -
Windmill
Although already established, newew versions of the windmill were created to increase productivity and durability. These new models were used as many different sources of power in many industrial practices. -
sewing machine
Barthélemy Thimonnier created the sewing machine, that served as another improvement to the textile industry. Pieces if cloth could now be more easily stitched together, however, with and added risk. -
Steam Locomotive
The steam locomotive was invented for long-distance land travel, and played a lrage role in civilization expansion. For a long period of time, this was the main form of transportation, and was refined to a very large extent. -
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Braille system
Luis Braille created the braille system, that served as a method of reading for the blind. They could now understand recorded language through different textures on a surface. -
Colt Revolver
It was small and light, but still killed things. It was the first weapon to be able to hold more than one round of bullets by using a chamber that has five holes for bullets to go into. -
anesthesia
Joseph Lister
A drug that numbed the nerves. This revolutionary painkiller is still used around the world to numb nerves while getting a pulled out; or in heavy dosage during surgeries. -
Battery
alessandro volta
The first electrochemical cell was developed by the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta in 1792, and in 1800 he invented the first battery, a "pile" of many cells in series. The battery is still used to this day to power many large/portal electronic devices. -
Bunsen Burner
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
A Bunsen Burner is a common piece of laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame, which is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.The gas can be natural gas (which is mainly methane) or a liquefied petroleum gas, such as propane, butane, or a mixture of both. Still used throughout labs today. -
Internal-combustion engine
Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir
Although various forms of internal combustion engines were developed before the 19th century, their use was hindered until the commercial drilling and production of petroleum began in the mid-1850s. By the late 19th century, engineering advances led to their widespread adoption in a variety of applications. -
Dynamite
Alfred Nobel
Dynamite is mainly used in the mining, quarrying, construction, and demolition industries, and it has had some historical usage in warfare. However the unstable nature of nitroglycerin, especially if subjected to freezing, has rendered it obsolete for military uses. It's inventor Alfred Nobel was also the founder of the Nobel Peace Prize. -
Typer writer
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Why it is important: Type writers made documenting a breeze, replacing hand writing when things needed to be noted complete. It was a precursor to the modern computer (word documents .doc) -
Telephone
The first phone call placed in the world, between Graham Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson, who was seated in the next room.
Why it is significant today: Telephones are used daily to communicate between people in the 21st century. It is also used for commerece and buisness. -
Elevator
Werner von Siemens
The first electric elevator was built by Werner von Siemens in 1880 in Germany.The safety and speed of electric elevators were significantly
enhanced adding floor control, automatic elevators, acceleration control of cars, and safeties. His elevator ran faster and with larger loads than hydraulic or steam elevators, -
Machine Gun
Joseph Belton
Philadelphia gunsmith Joseph Belton offered the Continental Congress a "new improved gun", which was capable of firing up to twenty shots in five seconds, automatically, and was capable of being loaded by a cartridge. This new machine gun, was the next step into modern warfare. Instead of tediously loading a musket/a slow rifle one could dnow rapidly fire in succession towards the enemy. -
Vacuum cleaner
John Thurman
On November 14, 1898, John S. Thurman of St. Louis, Missouri, submitted a patent (US No. 634,042) for a "pneumatic carpet renovator". It was issued on October 3, 1899.Thurman created a gasoline-powered carpet cleaner for the General Compressed Air Company.
