Major Inventions of the Industrial Revolution: 1712 1733 1745 1752 1764 1768 1769 1774 1775 1776

1779 1780 Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine John Kay invents the flying shuttle E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame James Watt invents an improved steam engine Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph Jacques Perrier invents a steamship David Bushnell invents a submarine Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule Gervinus invents the circular saw

1783 Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock; Englishmen, Henry Cort inven ts the steel roller for steel production 1784 1785 1786 Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom John Fitch invents a steamboat

1790 The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphi a for a machine that roves and spins cotton 1791 John Barber invents the gas turbine; Early bicycles invented in Scotland

1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin; Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball b earings 1797 Wittemore patents a carding machine; A British inventor, Henry Maudslay inv ents the first metal or precision lathe 1799 Alessandro Volta invents the battery; Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making 1800 Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom; Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery 1804 Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-p owered locomotive 1809 Humphry Davy invents the first electric light the first arc lamp

1814 George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive; Joseph Nicphore Nipce w as the first person to take a photograph

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William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter Frenchmen, Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a sewing machine

1831 American, Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper; Michael Faraday invents a electric dynamo 1834 Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receiv e a U.S. patent; Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator type device an ethe r ice machine 1835 Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotype photography; Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller; Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calcula tor 1836 Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson co-invent the propeller; Samuel Colt invented the first revolver 1837 Samuel Morse invents the telegraph

1839 American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization; Frenchmen, Louis D aguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography; Kirkpatrick Macmill an invents a bicycle; Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell 1843 Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile

1845 American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine; Robert William Thomson paten ts the first vulcanized rubber pneumatic tire 1850 1851 Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine an uns

1852 Henri Giffard builds an airship powered by the first aircraft engine uccessful design 1853 1854 1855 on George Cayley invents a manned glider John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics

Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor; Georges Audemars invents ray

1858 Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine; Jean Lenoir invents an i nternal combustion engine 1862 Richard Gatling patents the machine gun; Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic 1866 o 1867 1868 1873 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite; Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torped Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel; J P Knight invents traffic lights Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire

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American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher

1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone; Nicolaus August Otto invents t he first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine; Melville Bissell pate nts the carpet sweeper 1877 Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph; Eadwe ard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures 1881 Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector; David Houston patents the roll film for cameras; Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano 1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film; Frenchmen, H. de Char donnet invents rayon; James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash reg ister; Charles Parson patents the steam turbine 1885 Harim Maxim invents the machine gun; Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine; Gottlieb Daimler inve nts the first gas-engined motorcycle 1886 Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher; Gottlieb Daimler builds the worl d s first four-wheeled motor vehicle 1888 John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire; Nikola T esla invents the AC motor and transformer 1891 1892 Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine

1895 Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing u nit and projector called the Cinematographe. Lumiere Brothers using their Cinema tographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of m ore that one person 1898 Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster; Rudolf Diesel receives patent #6 08,845 for an internal combustion engine the Diesel engine 1899 1900 1901 1902 John Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner

1903 Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens; The Wright brothers i nvent the first gas motored and manned airplane; William Coolidge invents ductil e tungsten used in light bulbs 1904 Benjamin Holt invents a tractor; John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or F leming valve 1906 Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device; Lee Deforest invents elect ronic amplifying tube (triode) 1907 Leo Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite; Color ph otography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere; The very first piloted helicopt

er was invented by Paul Cornu 1908 Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger; Model T first sold

1910 Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture; Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris 1912 1915 Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City

1916 Radio tuners invented, that received different stations; Stainless steel in vented by Henry Brearly 1921 1927 1928 Artificial life begins the first robot built

Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver

1930 Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents neoprene; The differential analyze r , or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston; Frank Whittle a nd Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine 1931 1932 Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope first magneti

1934 Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting c recording

1935 Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon ( polymer 6.6.); Robert Wat son-Watt patented radar 1936 Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine; Samuel Colt patents the Co lt revolver 1937 1938 1939 Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier; The first jet engine is built Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter

1941 Konrad Zuse s Z3, the first computer controlled by software; Enrico Fermi inv ents the neutronic reactor 1942 er John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital comput