Gasoline refinement
First occurred in 1850. Gasoline is an important fuel source.
cars go vroom
James Hargreaves (1765)'s spinning jenny
Automated thread spinning
Crompton's "mule" + Spinning jenny and water frame fully automated weaving process. Yeah.
Lit his home using coal gas. Also, he was James Watt's assistant.
Jethro Tull (1708)'s mechanical seed drill
Helped plant crops
Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
Michael Faraday (1831)'s discovery of electromagnetic currents
Made generators and electrical engines possible
Alexander Graham Bell's telephone (1876)
Made communicating across long distances much easier, but such conversations still had to be done in public, etc.,
Brooklyn Bridge opened (1883)
Large suspension bridge, "triumph of engineering."
This separated the useful raw cotton from its seeds, making the cotton industry much more profitable. It had mixed effects — remember how a lot of cotton was farmed using slave labor.
First skyscraper (10 stories tall) (in Chicago)
Daguerre's daguerrotype (1838)
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.
Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph and Morse Code (1837)
This would allow for long-distance communication
George Stephenson's Rocket, 1829, would lead to great railroad infrastructure, which helped with city planning, made moving to the city easier, and made trade and large-scale commerce much better. For example, now placing factories in population centers made more sense. (I barely understand why myself, but okay)
Eiffel Tower (1889)
Allowed for barges to carry coal from Worsely to Manchester
First transatlantic cable completed
1858
Thomas Edison (1879)
Invented the incandescent lamp. Though he was, in general, prone to rude tendencies.
Gugliemo Marconi (1901) transatlantic radio message
From Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Hiram Maxim's machine gun (1884)
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.
Useful for, like, ship distress calls. Say, for example, the one the Titanic sent out.
Charles Babbage (1834)'s analytic engine
First ancestor of the computer
Under the Thames
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.
Cathode rays discovered
1858
Henry Bessemir's steel converter (1854)
Revolutionized the production of steel
Allowed for more sewing, including at-home
Richard Arkwright's water frame (1769)
More efficient thread spinning
