Gugliemo Marconi (1901) transatlantic radio message
Richard Arkwright's water frame (1769)
More efficient thread spinning
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.
William Murdock's cool thing he did (1792)
Lit his home using coal gas. Also, he was James Watt's assistant.
First steam-powered mill (1779)
Crompton's "mule" + Spinning jenny and water frame fully automated weaving process. Yeah.
Michael Faraday (1831)'s discovery of electromagnetic currents
Made generators and electrical engines possible
Thomas Edison (1879)
John Kay (1733)'s flying shuttle
Cartwright's power loom (1787)
Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph and Morse Code (1837)
This would allow for long-distance communication
James Hargreaves (1765)'s spinning jenny
Alexander Graham Bell's telephone (1876)
Made communicating across long distances much easier, but such conversations still had to be done in public, etc.,
Daguerre's daguerrotype (1838)
Charles Babbage (1834)'s analytic engine
First ancestor of the computer
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.
1858
Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph (1877)
Henry Bessemir's steel converter (1854)
Revolutionized the production of steel
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.
Helped plant crops
Eiffel Tower (1889)
For the World Exposition in Paris
Brooklyn Bridge opened (1883)
Large suspension bridge, "triumph of engineering."
Thomas Newcomen (1712)'s steam engine
Marc Brunel's first underwater tunnel (1826-1842)
Under the Thames
Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
Began the first regular commercial rail service
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.
Useful for, like, ship distress calls. Say, for example, the one the Titanic sent out.
Alfred Nobel's dynamite (1867)
Gasoline refinement
First occurred in 1850. Gasoline is an important fuel source.
Cathode rays discovered
1858
