Charles Babbage (1834)'s analytic engine
Thomas Edison (1879)
Invented the incandescent lamp. Though he was, in general, prone to rude tendencies.
Robert Fulton (1807)'s Clermont
Daguerre's daguerrotype (1838)
Alfred Nobel's dynamite (1867)
James Hargreaves (1765)'s spinning jenny
Automated thread spinning
First skyscraper (10 stories tall) (in Chicago)
1883
Singer's first practical sewing machine (1851)
Cathode rays discovered
1858
William Murdock's cool thing he did (1792)
Lit his home using coal gas. Also, he was James Watt's assistant.
Cartwright's power loom (1787)
According to wikipedia:
Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph (1877)
This is a record player. Useful for music, instructions, etc.,
Marc Brunel's first underwater tunnel (1826-1842)
Under the Thames
James Brindley (1761)'s Bridgewater Canal
Gasoline refinement
Jethro Tull (1708)'s mechanical seed drill
Helped plant crops
Richard Arkwright's water frame (1769)
More efficient thread spinning
Thomas Newcomen (1712)'s steam engine
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.
Made generators and electrical engines possible
Eiffel Tower (1889)
Brooklyn Bridge opened (1883)
Karl Benz's internal-combustion automobile engine (1885)
cars go vroom
Crompton's "mule" + Spinning jenny and water frame fully automated weaving process. Yeah.
First transatlantic cable completed
1858
Henry Bessemir's steel converter (1854)
Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
Began the first regular commercial rail service
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.
Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph and Morse Code (1837)
This would allow for long-distance communication
Gugliemo Marconi (1896)'s wireless telegraph patent
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.
