Technology of the Industrial Revolution By BlakeGlenn Jan 1, 1687 Charles Townshend Has the Idea of 4-field Crop Rotation Jan 1, 1764 James Hargreaves Creates the Spinning Jenny Jan 1, 1768 Richard Arkwright Builds a Spinning Frame to Spin Wool Jan 1, 1775 James Watt Improves on the Steam Engine Vastly Jan 1, 1794 Eli Whitney Patents the Cotton Gin Jan 1, 1800 Alessandro Volta Creates the First Electric Battery Jan 1, 1804 Joseph-Marie Jacquard Invents a New Way to Spin Wool in order to Weave in Intricat Patterns Jan 1, 1830 George Stephenson Builds the First Locomotive and Inner City Railway Line to Use Locomotives Jan 1, 1830 Samuel Morse Invents the Telegraph Jan 7, 1839 Louis Daguerre Invents the First Camera Jan 1, 1855 Henry Bessemer Finds a New, More Efiicient Way to Produce Stronger Steel Cheaply Mar 1, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell Creates the First Telephone Jan 1, 1877 Thomas Edison Invents the First Phonograph Jan 1, 1885 Gottlieb Daimler Creates the First Internal Combustion Engine Jan 1, 1899 Guglielmo Marconi Makes the First Effective form of Radio Communication