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Camera Obscura
Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. -
Reaper
Invented by Cyrus H. McCormick. It was the first commercially successful reaper, a horse-drawn machine to harvest wheat. -
Daguerreotype
Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure. -
Morse Code
Invented by Samuel Morse. It was an electronic alphabet. -
Calotype
William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies -
Fax machine
Invented by Alexander Bain. -
Telegraph
Samuel F. B Morse invented it. Using light or electric impulses as the means of communication. -
Rubber Band
Invented by Stephen Perry in London, England. It was made of vulcanized. Invented to hold papers together and envolopes. -
Collodion process
Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three -
Gyroscope
Invented by Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, a French physicist. Gyroscope is essentially a spinning wheel set in a movable frame -
Safety Matches
Invented by Johan Edvard Lundstrom. It could only be lit by striking the match against the specially-prepared surface that came attached to the box. -
Typewriter
Invented by Christopher Latham Sholes. Sholes' prototype had the user hit a key (for each letter and number), which struck upward onto a flat plate, producing a carbon impression of the letter or number on the paper. There was no way of spacing the letters, no carriage return, and no shift keys; these features would be added to later models -
gelatin dry plate silver bromide
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately. -
Cash Register
Invented by James RItty. During each sale, a paper tape was punched with holes so that the merchant could keep track of sales. -
Seismograph
Invented by John Milne. -
Radar
Heinrich Hertz began experimenting with radio waves in his laboratory in Germany. -
Escalator
Invented by Jesse W. Reno. It had a stationary handle. And took you up and down while it rolls. -
X-Ray
Invented by Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen. It is something that can photograph objects that were hidden behind opaque shields. He even photographed part of his own skeleton. -
Paperclip
Created by a Norwegian clerk called Johann Vaaler. The original paper clip was a thin spring-steel wire with triangular or square ends and two "tongues." -
Pushpin
Edwin Moore invented this. It's basically a a thumbtack with an elongated handle that makes it easier to put in and remove. -
Adhesive Tape
Invented by Richard G. Drew. This tape was a clear, all-purpose adhesive tape that was soon adopted worldwide.