Industrial revolution

TOP TEN INVENTIONS FROM INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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  • The Battery is Invented

    The Battery is Invented
    Alessandro Volta invented the first Voltaic Pile, otherwise known as the Battery in 1800.

  • The Telegraph

    The Telegraph
    The telegraph was invented by Baron Schilling von Canstatt. A telegraph is similar to a telephone. It uses electrical signals through telecommunication lines or a radio.

  • Theory of Evolution

    Theory of Evolution
    Charles Darwin spent years taking notes and reaserching before he finally invented the Theory of Evolution, the Theory of how living organisms change over a period of time.

  • Rockefeller's Oil Drill

    Rockefeller's Oil Drill
    Rockefeller invented the oil drill in June of 1870 along with founding his own oil company.

  • First Telephone

    First Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone in 1876.He made the first call to Thomas A. Watson saying "Mr. Watson come here; I want you". Telephones first appeared in England but soon traveled to America. The first telephone in America appeared in Wisconsin in 1877.

  • Electric lightbulb invention

    Electric lightbulb invention
    Thomas Alva Edison invented the electric lightbulb in 1879. He was not the first person to attempt to invent an electric lightbulb although he was was the first one to succeed.

  • Diesel and the Diesel engine

    Diesel and the Diesel engine
    Rudolf Diesel invented the first diesel engine in 1897, it sold much more in 1898 after beeing put on display in the Munich Exhibition.

  • The first radio

    The first radio
    Nikols Tesla invented the first radio after the Supreme Court rejected Marconi's invention of the radio. Not many people know Tesla created the radio, Marconi is credited for it because he invented the first attempt of a radio.

  • First Airplane Flight

    First Airplane Flight
    The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, built and manned the first flight of an airplane at Kitty Hawk. They flew a glider, a plane with no engine designed as a kite, 12 times in two minutes.

  • Assembly Line

    Assembly Line
    Henry Ford invented the assembly line to increase production on his cars. He used ideas from other industries and in 1913 put it all together to create the assembly line.