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."
Useful for, like, ship distress calls. Say, for example, the one the Titanic sent out.
James Hargreaves (1765)'s spinning jenny
Automated thread spinning
Thomas Newcomen (1712)'s steam engine
Henry Bessemir's steel converter (1854)
Revolutionized the production of steel
Joseph Monier (1849)
Reinforced Concrete
Daguerre's daguerrotype (1838)
Early form of photography
Karl Benz's internal-combustion automobile engine (1885)
cars go vroom
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.
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 steam-powered mill (1779)
Crompton's "mule" + Spinning jenny and water frame fully automated weaving process. Yeah.
Jethro Tull (1708)'s mechanical seed drill
Helped plant crops
James Watt's efficient steam engine (1765)
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.
First occurred in 1850. Gasoline is an important fuel source.
Cartwright's power loom (1787)
According to wikipedia:
Marc Brunel's first underwater tunnel (1826-1842)
Under the Thames
William Murdock's cool thing he did (1792)
Lit his home using coal gas. Also, he was James Watt's assistant.
James Brindley (1761)'s Bridgewater Canal
Allowed for barges to carry coal from Worsely to Manchester
For the World Exposition in Paris
Tremendously helped with making weaving easier, used in the putting-out industry at first.
Michael Faraday (1831)'s discovery of electromagnetic currents
Made generators and electrical engines possible
This would allow for long-distance communication
1883
First transatlantic cable completed
1858
Singer's first practical sewing machine (1851)
Charles Babbage (1834)'s analytic engine
First ancestor of the computer
Gugliemo Marconi (1901) transatlantic radio message
From Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph (1877)
Robert Trevithick (1801)'s steam locomotive demonstration
