1858
Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
Robert Trevithick (1801)'s steam locomotive demonstration
Jethro Tull (1708)'s mechanical seed drill
Helped plant crops
From Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
More efficient thread spinning
Charles Babbage (1834)'s analytic engine
First ancestor of the computer
First skyscraper (10 stories tall) (in Chicago)
1883
For the World Exposition in Paris
Alfred Nobel's dynamite (1867)
First high explosive that could be safely handled. Useful for mining and clearing areas for infrastructure.
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.
Michael Faraday (1831)'s discovery of electromagnetic currents
Made generators and electrical engines possible
William Murdock's cool thing he did (1792)
Lit his home using coal gas. Also, he was James Watt's assistant.
Henry Bessemir's steel converter (1854)
Thomas Edison (1879)
Karl Benz's internal-combustion automobile engine (1885)
cars go vroom
Gasoline refinement
First occurred in 1850. Gasoline is an important fuel source.
Gugliemo Marconi (1896)'s wireless telegraph patent
First steam-powered mill (1779)
Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph (1877)
John Kay (1733)'s flying shuttle
Tremendously helped with making weaving easier, used in the putting-out industry at first.
Brooklyn Bridge opened (1883)
Large suspension bridge, "triumph of engineering."
First transatlantic cable completed
1858
Robert Fulton (1807)'s Clermont
Hiram Maxim's machine gun (1884)
Singer's first practical sewing machine (1851)
Allowed for more sewing, including at-home
Allowed for barges to carry coal from Worsely to Manchester
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.
Cartwright's power loom (1787)
According to wikipedia:
Joseph Monier (1849)
