Began the first regular commercial rail service
Marc Brunel's first underwater tunnel (1826-1842)
Under the Thames
Cartwright's power loom (1787)
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.
Alfred Nobel's dynamite (1867)
Tremendously helped with making weaving easier, used in the putting-out industry at first.
James Brindley (1761)'s Bridgewater Canal
Joseph Monier (1849)
Reinforced Concrete
Jethro Tull (1708)'s mechanical seed drill
Helped plant crops
Richard Arkwright's water frame (1769)
Karl Benz's internal-combustion automobile engine (1885)
cars go vroom
William Murdock's cool thing he did (1792)
Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph and Morse Code (1837)
Charles Babbage (1834)'s analytic engine
First ancestor of the computer
Revolutionized the production of steel
Gugliemo Marconi (1896)'s wireless telegraph patent
Useful for, like, ship distress calls. Say, for example, the one the Titanic sent out.
Gasoline refinement
First occurred in 1850. Gasoline is an important fuel 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.
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.
1883
Made communicating across long distances much easier, but such conversations still had to be done in public, etc.,
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.
Gugliemo Marconi (1901) transatlantic radio message
From Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Early form of photography
First steam-powered mill (1779)
Crompton's "mule" + Spinning jenny and water frame fully automated weaving process. Yeah.
Cathode rays discovered
1858
This is a record player. Useful for music, instructions, etc.,
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.
Thomas Edison (1879)
Invented the incandescent lamp. Though he was, in general, prone to rude tendencies.
First transatlantic cable completed
1858
