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James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
The spinning jenny was a machine used for spinning wool or cotton.(turning cotton into string or thread) -
James Watt patents the Watt Steam Engine
A machine that uses heat and steam pressure to create energy and motion. -
Richard Arkwright patents the Carding Machine
It was a machine that carded raw wool fibers into yarn. -
Samuel Crompton invents the Spinning Mule
It was another machine that produced cotton yarn into thread. -
Edmund Cartwright invents a power loom
A machine that weaves yarn into fabric -
Samuel Slater develops the first successful cotton mill in the U.S
On Rhode Island, Slater constructed a mill on the Blackstone River. The Slater mill was the first plant in the United States to effectively use water-powered machinery to create cotton yarn. -
Richard Trevithick invents the locomotive
A rail vehicle run by a steam engine is used to pull trains. -
William Burt invented the typewriter
A machine used to type on paper. When the user presses a key, a steel type is forced to strike a ribbon and transfer ink from that ribbon to the paper, producing letters on paper. -
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
His device used a mechanical transmitter made of a plate with long and short metal bars that stood in for the letters and digits in Morse code. The right dots and dashes were sent over the line as soon as the operator slid a pointer over the bars that was attached to a battery and a transmitting wire. -
Michael Faraday invents the first electric generator.
In simple terms, a generator transforms motive force, or mechanical energy—in this example, the back-and-forth motion of the magnet—into electrical energy. -
Cyrus McCormick invents the Mechanical Reaper
A machine used by farmers to harvest crops mechanically. -
Elias Howe patents sewing machine
A machine made to sew using a grooved and curved eye-pointed needle carried by a vibrating arm. -
Antonio Meucci invents the telephone
The telephone worked by a wire linking the battery to a needle, while another wire connected the battery to a receiver. Bell's voice vibrated the paper and needle as he talked into the open end of the drum-like device. After that, the vibrations were transformed into an electric current, which was sent to the receiver via the wire. -
Edwin Drake develops first successful Oil drilling system
He drills the first successful oil well. -
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
Dynamite is an explosive made by mixing nitroglycerine with a fine sand called kieselguhr would turn the liquid into paste which could be shaped into rods. -
Carl Benz invents the automobile
vehicle-powered by a gas engine with 3 wheels.