top ten inventions

  • steamboat

    Robert Fulton
    22 Aug 1787 Robert Fultons first successful trial of the steam boat was on Aug,22,1787. Later they built larger boats that carried people from Philadelphia and Burlington, and New Jersey.
  • cotton gin

    Eli Whitten
    27 Dec 1793 Eli Whitten invented the cotton gin, the date on this invition is only the year, because I was unable to find the exact month and day. This invention automatcitly separated the seeds, and it could make up to fifty pound of cleaned cotton daily.
  • telegraph

    Samuel Morse
    27 Dec 1836 Samuel Morse invited the Telegraph. On this invention I was only able to find the year of the invention, I couldn't not find a offical month or day. Although today the telegraph is outdated, back when it was invented it was bran new and a wonderful tool. It was able to send eletric signals over wires from diffrent locations.
  • sewing machine

    Elias Howe
    10 Sep 1846 Elias Howe invented teh sewing machine on September 10,1846. This machine did 250 stiches ina minute, and could do five times the stiches of a human hand. He patented is lockstich sewing machine on September 10, 1846 in New hartford, Connecticut.
  • ligtbulb

    Thomas Edison
    11 Feb 1847 Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. This was was his greatest challenge it was the creation of the incandescent, electric light. However some might say that he just imporved teh idea of the lightblub instead of inventing it.
  • translantic telegraph

    Cyrus Field
    27 Aug 1858 Cyrus Field invented the Transatlantic telegraph cable on Aug,27, 1858.
  • telphone

    Alexander Bell
    10 Mar 1876 March 10, 1876 was the day that the first telephone call was made on the telephone that Alexander Bell invented. The frist three words spoken on a telephone where " Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you".
  • phonograph

    Thomas Edison
    12 Aug 1877 Thomas Edison invented teh Phongraph on Augest 12, 1877. The photograph was to record sound.
  • deisel engine

    Rudolf Diesel
    23 Feb 1892 Rudolf Diesel invited the diesel engine in 1892. The diesel engines that we use today are of chorse updated from the type that Diesel invited. This man also invited many heat engines one of those was the solar powered air engine.
  • airplane

    The Wright Brothers
    17 Dec 1903 This was the day that the first flight was made inthe plane that the Wright Brothers invited.