Alfred Nobel's dynamite (1867)
Charles Babbage (1834)'s analytic engine
First ancestor of the computer
Gasoline refinement
Eli Whitney (1793)'s cotton gin
Brooklyn Bridge opened (1883)
Large suspension bridge, "triumph of engineering."
Cathode rays discovered
James Brindley (1761)'s Bridgewater Canal
Like fifty years later, they finally came out with a steam engine with a condensing chamber, making it more efficient. Also a pretty big deal.
Robert Fulton (1807)'s Clermont
This would allow for long-distance communication
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Daguerre's daguerrotype (1838)
Early form of photography
For the World Exposition in Paris
Automated thread spinning
Karl Benz's internal-combustion automobile engine (1885)
Richard Arkwright's water frame (1769)
More efficient thread spinning
Gugliemo Marconi (1901) transatlantic radio message
From Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
John Kay (1733)'s flying shuttle
Tremendously helped with making weaving easier, used in the putting-out industry at first.
Gugliemo Marconi (1896)'s wireless telegraph patent
Useful for, like, ship distress calls. Say, for example, the one the Titanic sent out.
Alexander Graham Bell's telephone (1876)
Made communicating across long distances much easier, but such conversations still had to be done in public, etc.,
First steam-powered mill (1779)
Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
Began the first regular commercial rail service
First skyscraper (10 stories tall) (in Chicago)
1883
Marc Brunel's first underwater tunnel (1826-1842)
Under the Thames
Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph (1877)
This is a record player. Useful for music, instructions, etc.,
William Murdock's cool thing he did (1792)
Lit his home using coal gas. Also, he was James Watt's assistant.
Singer's first practical sewing machine (1851)
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.
Joseph Monier (1849)
Jethro Tull (1708)'s mechanical seed drill
Helped plant crops
