Hi Major Inventions of the Industrial Revolution:
Hi Industrial Revolution Inventions Timeline – 1712-1942.
1712 – Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine
1733 – John Kay invents the flying shuttle
1745 – E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor
1752 – Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod
1764 – James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
1768 – Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame
1769 – James Watt invents an improved steam engine
1774 – Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph
1775 – Jacques Perrier invents a steamship
1776 – David Bushnell invents a submarine
1779 – Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
1780 – Gervinus invents the circular saw
1783 – Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock; Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production
1784 – Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine
1785 – Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
1786 – John Fitch invents a steamboat
1790 – The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton
1791 – John Barber invents the gas turbine; Early bicycles invented in Scotland
1794 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin; Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings
1797 – Wittemore patents a carding machine; A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe
1799 – Alessandro Volta invents the battery; Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making
1800 – Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom; Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery
1804 – Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive
1809 – Humphry Davy invents the first electric light – the first arc lamp
1814 – George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive; Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph
1825 – William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet
1829 – American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter
1830 – Frenchmen, Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a sewing machine
1831 – American, Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper; Michael Faraday invents a electric dynamo
1834 – Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent; Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator type device – an ether ice machine
1835 – Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotype photography; Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller; Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator
1836 – Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson co-invent the propeller; Samuel Colt invented the first revolver
1837 – Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
1839 – American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization; Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography; Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle; Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell
1843 – Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile
1845 – American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine; Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanized rubber pneumatic tire
1850 – Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher
1851 – Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine
1852 – Henri Giffard builds an airship powered by the first aircraft engine – an unsuccessful design
1853 – George Cayley invents a manned glider
1854 – John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics
1855 – Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor; Georges Audemars invents rayon
1858 – Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine; Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine
1862 – Richard Gatling patents the machine gun; Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic
1866 – Alfred Nobel invents dynamite; Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo
1867 – Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter
1868 – Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel; J P Knight invents traffic lights
1873 – Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire
1874 – American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone; Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine; Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper
1877 – Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph; Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures
1881 – Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector; David Houston patents the roll film for cameras; Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano
1884 – George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film; Frenchmen, H. de Chardonnet invents rayon; James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register; Charles Parson patents the steam turbine
1885 – Harim Maxim invents the machine gun; Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine; Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle
1886 – Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher; Gottlieb Daimler builds the world’s first four-wheeled motor vehicle
1888 – John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire; Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer
1891 – Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator
1892 – Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine
1895 – Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person
1898 – Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster; Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an “internal combustion engine” the Diesel engine
1899 – John Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner
1900 – The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
1901 – The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission
1902 – Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner
1903 – Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens; The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane; William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in light bulbs
1904 – Benjamin Holt invents a tractor; John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve
1906 – Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device; Lee Deforest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode)
1907 – Leo Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite; Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere; The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu
1908 – Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger; Model T first sold
1910 – Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture; Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris
1912 – Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras
1915 – Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City
1916 – Radio tuners invented, that received different stations; Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly
1921 – Artificial life begins — the first robot built
1927 – Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system
1928 – Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver
1930 – Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents neoprene; The “differential analyzer”, or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston; Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine
1931 – Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope
1932 – Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope
1934 – Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting – first magnetic recording
1935 – Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon ( polymer 6.6.); Robert Watson-Watt patented radar
1936 – Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine; Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver
1937 – Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier; The first jet engine is built
1938 – Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon
1939 – Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter
1941 – Konrad Zuse’s Z3, the first computer controlled by software; Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor
1942 – John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer
Beginning of the Information Age…
