Joseph Monier (1849)
Alfred Nobel's dynamite (1867)
Robert Fulton (1807)'s Clermont
The first successful steamboat. Like the locomotive, made trade so, so much better. For example, now the US could leverage its advantage in having the Mississippi river.
William Murdock's cool thing he did (1792)
Lit his home using coal gas. Also, he was James Watt's assistant.
Charles Babbage (1834)'s analytic engine
First ancestor of the computer
Michael Faraday (1831)'s discovery of electromagnetic currents
Made generators and electrical engines possible
Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph and Morse Code (1837)
Henry Bessemir's steel converter (1854)
First transatlantic cable completed
1858
Gugliemo Marconi (1896)'s wireless telegraph patent
Useful for, like, ship distress calls. Say, for example, the one the Titanic sent out.
Large suspension bridge, "triumph of engineering."
More efficient thread spinning
Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph (1877)
This is a record player. Useful for music, instructions, etc.,
James Hargreaves (1765)'s spinning jenny
Eli Whitney (1793)'s cotton gin
John Kay (1733)'s flying shuttle
Tremendously helped with making weaving easier, used in the putting-out industry at first.
Alexander Graham Bell's telephone (1876)
Made communicating across long distances much easier, but such conversations still had to be done in public, etc.,
From Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Invented the incandescent lamp. Though he was, in general, prone to rude tendencies.
1858
Allowed for barges to carry coal from Worsely to Manchester
First skyscraper (10 stories tall) (in Chicago)
James Watt's efficient steam engine (1765)
First commercially successful (though kind of clumsy) steam engine, used to pump water out of coal mines. Big deal, since we've just unlocked a new power source.
Allowed for more sewing, including at-home
First occurred in 1850. Gasoline is an important fuel source.
Daguerre's daguerrotype (1838)
Early form of photography
Mass slaughter is now possible, begins mechanization of warfare. Unfortunately, as some predicted, his machine gun did not prevent war — people still fought, despite these monsters being on the battlefield.
Cartwright's power loom (1787)
cars go vroom
