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Industrial Revolution Timeline

  • Eli Whitney

    interchangeable parts, cotton gin
  • Alessandro Volta

    one of the first electric batteries
  • Gottlieb Daimler

    internal combustion engine fueled by gasoline, one of the first automobiles
  • Thomas Edison

    phonograph, incadescent light bulb, electric generating plant
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    telephone
  • Guglielmo Marconi

    broadcast first transatlantic radio signal
  • Orville Wright

    invented the Flyer, flew the first plane
  • Henry Ford

    assembly line