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Greatest Pieces of Technology from the past 300 Years

By ghorpaden

  • Steamship

    Steamship
    Improved by Patrick Miller to modern standards-Dumfries, Scotland

  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Was invented by Eli Whitney and helped revolutionize cotton production in the US. New England

  • Train

    Train
    First steam powered locomotive created by Richard Trevithick-Cornwall, England

  • Camera

    Camera
    First permenant photograph camera created by Joseph Nicephore Niepce-Paris, France

  • Machine Gun

    Machine Gun
    Created by Richard Jordan Gatling-America

  • Lightbulb

    Lightbulb
    First long lasting carbon filament lightbulb created by Thomas Edison-Menlo Park, New Jersey

  • Automobile

    Automobile
    Modern automobile invented by Karl Benz-Mannheim, Germany

  • Airplane

    Airplane
    Created with engine by Orville and Wilbur Wright-Kitty Hawk , North Carolina

  • Penicillin

    Penicillin
    Discovered by Alexander Fleming-england

  • Atom Bomb

    Atom Bomb
    Created by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer-America