Jethro Tull's seed sower permits large-scale planting in rows, for easier cultivation between the rows
Jethro Tull's seed sower permits large-scale planting in rows, for easier cultivation between the rows
Abraham Darby uses coke to smelt iron ore, replecing wood and charcoal as fuel
Abraham Darby uses coke to smelt iron ore, replecing wood and charcoal as fuel
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
Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock; Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production
Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine
Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
John Fitch invents a steamboat
The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton
John Barber invents the gas turbine; Early bicycles invented in Scotland
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin; Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings
– Alessandro Volta invents the battery; Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making
Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom; Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery
Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive
George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive; Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph
American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter
Frenchmen, Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a sewing machine
Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent; Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator type device – an ether ice machine
Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotype photography; Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller; Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher
George Cayley invents a manned glider
Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine; Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine
Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter
Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel; J P Knight invents traffic lights
– Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph; Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures
Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector; David Houston patents the roll film for cameras; Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano
Harim Maxim invents the machine gun; Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine; Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle
Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher; Gottlieb Daimler builds the world’s first four-wheeled motor vehicle
Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator
Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person
The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission
Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens; The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane; William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in light bulbs
Leo Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite; Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere; The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu
Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras
Artificial life begins — the first robot built
Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system
– Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine; Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver
Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter
Konrad Zuse’s Z3, the first computer controlled by software; Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor
John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer
