Top Ten Inventions from the Industrial Revolution

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  • Robert Fulton

    Robert Fulton
    Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.

  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney
    Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

  • Samuel Morse

    Samuel Morse
    Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor. He contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

  • Elias Howe

    Elias Howe
    Elias Howe, Jr. (July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer.

  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

  • Cyrus Field

    Cyrus Field
    Cyrus West Field (October 20, 1819 – July 12, 1892) was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.

  • Alexander Bell

    Alexander Bell
    Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.

  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    The phonograph, record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 for the recording and reproduction of sound recordings.

  • Rudolf Diesel

    Rudolf Diesel
    Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (March 18, 1858 – September 29, 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine.

  • The Wright Brothers

    The Wright Brothers
    The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who were credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.