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The Industrial revolution

By n6vi
  • The Steam engine is invented.

    The Steam engine is invented.
    The steam engine is an intergral part in the industrial revolution, and steampunk aesthetics. The steam engine revolutionised pretty much almost everything in those days. In the tail end of the industrial revolution, it became more and more obsolete though.
  • Threshing Machine used in agriculture for the first ime

    Threshing Machine used in agriculture for the first ime
    A man in scottland named Andrew Meikle was a mill worker. He made this machine, the mechanical thresher. It is the earlyiest known form of the threshing machine as we know it.
  • Vaccinations first used

    Vaccinations first used
    Vaccinations were first used way back when, in the 18th century. A guy named Edward Jenner first found out that milkmaids that have had the not-so fatal cow diesease were immune to the deathly smallpox. So he vaccinated people. and that's how vaccinations were invented.
  • Electricty is generated from a generator for the first time

    Electricty is generated from a generator for the first time
    Michael Faraday was an inventor. In 1831 he made a crude generator, the first known/recorded version of so that could be used in other electric devices, like a lightbulb. Other inventors like nickola telsla and thomas eddison made more improvements in the electric feild later.
  • First Refrigerator (as we know it) built

    First Refrigerator (as we know it) built
    Refrigerator improves lives vastly. from the humble icebox to the amazing industrial freezer, it helps people by preserving food for longer, usually in ice or cold conditions.
  • the "Camera" patented.

    the "Camera" patented.
    The camera (as we know it) was patented on this date. There was a few methods before of capturing images in time, but A) they were few and far between, as well as expensive, and B) this was the first "machine" that was patented to do it.
    http://photography.lovetoknow.com/First_Camera_Invented
    http://optics.mbhs.edu/camera/film.html
  • Alfred Nobel Makes Dynamite

    Alfred Nobel Makes Dynamite
    Alfred Nobel was an inventor or many weapons (mainly explosives) and a great buisnessman with them. He made dynamite after adding some diatomacous earth to nitro glysterine, in hopes to stable the glysterine.
  • Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone
    Alexander is a socttish-smerican and his father thought deaf people to speak. He invented the telephone. His first words on the telephone were to be thought: " Mr. Watson, come here, I want you. "
  • First Machine Gun (Gattling Gun) invented

    First Machine Gun (Gattling Gun) invented
    The first type of machine guns were supposedly invented in the 1710's, but with the invention of smokeless gunpowder in 1880's the first true version of the machine gun was invented. The Gattling Gun was invented by Richard Jordan Gattling. The first major war that the gattling gun was used in was world war one, and the deadly machine had been used in many armed fighing after.
  • First man powered Flight made in an areoplane.

    First man powered Flight made in an areoplane.
    The wright brothers are brothers that are also inventors. They were the first pilots! They made the frist man-made flight and made the first areoplane.