Allowed for more sewing, including at-home
Gugliemo Marconi (1896)'s wireless telegraph patent
Cathode rays discovered
Cartwright's power loom (1787)
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Marc Brunel's first underwater tunnel (1826-1842)
Lit his home using coal gas. Also, he was James Watt's assistant.
First skyscraper (10 stories tall) (in Chicago)
1883
Alfred Nobel's dynamite (1867)
Robert Trevithick (1801)'s steam locomotive demonstration
Gugliemo Marconi (1901) transatlantic radio message
Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph and Morse Code (1837)
This would allow for long-distance communication
Charles Babbage (1834)'s analytic engine
Karl Benz's internal-combustion automobile engine (1885)
cars go vroom
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.
Reinforced Concrete
Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph (1877)
This is a record player. Useful for music, instructions, etc.,
For the World Exposition in Paris
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.
First transatlantic cable completed
1858
Michael Faraday (1831)'s discovery of electromagnetic currents
Made generators and electrical engines possible
Thomas Edison (1879)
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.
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.
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.
Jethro Tull (1708)'s mechanical seed drill
Brooklyn Bridge opened (1883)
Large suspension bridge, "triumph of engineering."
Tremendously helped with making weaving easier, used in the putting-out industry at first.
Daguerre's daguerrotype (1838)
Early form of photography
Revolutionized the production of steel
James Brindley (1761)'s Bridgewater Canal
Allowed for barges to carry coal from Worsely to Manchester
