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Thomas Saint invents the sewing machine.
A cabinet maker from England named Thomas Saint designed the first sewing machine of its kind. in 1874, English engineer, William Newton Wilson found the patent drawings.Early attempts at sewing machines used only strand of thread and needles with eyes on the blunt ends, which were pushed completely through the cloth, grasped by a pincer or clamp on the other side, and then pushed back through again. Such motions proved too complex for 18th- and early-19th-century technology. -
Claude Chappe invents the modern semaphore telegraph.
The semaphore telegraph originated in 1794 by French engineer Claude Chappe with the first formal telegraph message. Operators at each tower would watch the neighboring tower through a telescope, and when the semaphore arms began to move spelling out a message, they would pass the message on to the next tower. A modern derivative of the semaphore system is flag semaphore, signalling with hand-held flags. -
Joseph Bramah invents the hydraulic press.
Joseph Bramah patented the hydraulic press in 1795.A hydraulic press works on the principle of Pascal's law, which states that when pressure is applied to a confined fluid, the pressure change occurs throughout the entire fluid. Within the hydraulic press, there is a piston that works as a pump, that provides a modest mechanical force to a small area of the sample. -
Alois Senefelder invents the lithography printing technique.
Lithography was invented around 1796 in Germany by an otherwise unknown Bavarian playwright, Alois Senefelder Lithography, which is also called optical lithography or UV lithography, is a process used in microfabrication to pattern parts of a thin film or the bulk of a substrate. It uses light to transfer a geometric pattern from a photomask to a light-sensitive chemical "photoresist", or simply "resist," on the substrate. -
Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
The first true battery was invented by the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta in 1800. A battery is a device that stores chemical energy and converts it to electrical energy.The flow of electrons provides an electric current that can be used to do work. To balance the flow of electrons, charged ions also flow through an electrolyte solution that is in contact with both electrodes. -
Friedrich Winzer (Frederick Albert Winsor) patented coal-gas.
In 1804, the same year Friedrich Winzer patented coal-gas lighting, Winzer demonstrated the technology during a lecture at London's Lyceum Theatre.The coal was gasified by heating the coal in enclosed ovens with an oxygen-poor atmosphere. The fuel gases generated were mixtures of many chemical substances, including hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide and ethylene, and could be burnt for heating and lighting purposes. -
Steamboat
The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807. systems and,eventually, moved to France to work on canals.The steam engines on steamboats burned coal to heat water in a large boiler to create steam. The steam was pumped into a cylinder, causing a piston to move upward to the top of the cylinder. A valve would then open to release the steam, allowing the piston to fall back to the bottom of the cylinder. -
Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp, the first electric light.
Invented decades before it could be used, the first type of electric light was so brilliant it was used for lighthouses and street lamps. An arc lamp produces light by the sparking (an electrical arc) of a high current between two conducting electrodes, usually carbon rods. -
Nicolas Appert invents the canning process for food.
Nicolas Appert was trying to win a hefty prize offered by the French army. During the French Revolutionary Wars, the French army had a problem. Canning works by placing food in jars or cans (jars, in Appert's early work) and heating the whole set-up to a temperature that kills bacteria and other microorganisms. -
Electric Magnet
The idea of electric magnetism began with the Danish scientist Hans Christian Oersted in 1820. He discovered the relation between electricity and magnetism. William Sturgeon, an English electrical engineer, furthered Oersted's ideas and built the first useful electric magnet in 1825. This was a horseshoe-shaped piece of iron with 16 turns of copper wire around it. The magnet weighed seven ounces; when electrically charged, it could lift nine pounds, or 20 times its weight. -
Lawn mower
Edwin Budding created the lawn mower in 1830 .The mower was pushed from behind with motive power coming from the rear land roller which drove gears to transfer the drive to the knives on the cutting cylinder; the ratio was 16:1. There was another roller placed in between the cutting cylinder and the land roller which was adjustable to alter the height of cut. -
Typewriter
According to the book The Marvels of Modern Mechanism published in 1901, Thurber invented and patented in 1843 the first practical typewriterThe first typewriter had no shift-key mechanism—it wrote capital letters only. ... On nearly all typewriters the printing is done through an inked ribbon, which is fitted on spools, travels with the operation of the machine, and reverses automatically when one spool becomes completely unwound. -
Safety pin
Main navigation. Mechanic and independent inventor Walter Hunt secured a place in American history when he invented the useful, everyday device known as the safety pin in 1849.The safety pin is a variation of the regular pin which includes a simple spring mechanism and a clasp. The clasp serves two purposes: to form a closed loop thereby properly fastening the pin to whatever it is applied to, and to cover the end of the pin to protect the user from the sharp point.