Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
Began the first regular commercial rail service
Singer's first practical sewing machine (1851)
Allowed for more sewing, including at-home
First skyscraper (10 stories tall) (in Chicago)
1883
William Murdock's cool thing he did (1792)
Lit his home using coal gas. Also, he was James Watt's assistant.
James Hargreaves (1765)'s spinning jenny
Automated thread spinning
Marc Brunel's first underwater tunnel (1826-1842)
Under the Thames
Gugliemo Marconi (1896)'s wireless telegraph patent
Alexander Graham Bell's telephone (1876)
Made communicating across long distances much easier, but such conversations still had to be done in public, etc.,
Joseph Monier (1849)
Reinforced Concrete
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.
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.
Eli Whitney (1793)'s cotton gin
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.
Charles Babbage (1834)'s analytic engine
First ancestor of the computer
Helped plant crops
Thomas Edison (1879)
Invented the incandescent lamp. Though he was, in general, prone to rude tendencies.
John Kay (1733)'s flying shuttle
Tremendously helped with making weaving easier, used in the putting-out industry at first.
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.
Cathode rays discovered
1858
Hiram Maxim's machine gun (1884)
Eiffel Tower (1889)
cars go vroom
Made generators and electrical engines possible
Daguerre's daguerrotype (1838)
Early form of photography
Richard Arkwright's water frame (1769)
More efficient thread spinning
Gasoline refinement
First occurred in 1850. Gasoline is an important fuel source.
Gugliemo Marconi (1901) transatlantic radio message
From Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Large suspension bridge, "triumph of engineering."
Cartwright's power loom (1787)
According to wikipedia:
This would allow for long-distance communication
Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph (1877)
This is a record player. Useful for music, instructions, etc.,
