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Jethro Tull's seed sower permits large-scale planting in rows, for easier cultivation between the rows
Jethro Tull's seed sower permits large-scale planting in rows, for easier cultivation between the rows -
Abraham Darby uses coke to smelt iron ore, replecing wood and charcoal as fuel
Abraham Darby uses coke to smelt iron ore, replecing wood and charcoal as fuel -
Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine
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John Kay invents the flying shuttle
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E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor
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Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod
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James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
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Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame
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James Watt invents an improved steam engine
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Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph
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Jacques Perrier invents a steamship
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David Bushnell invents a submarine
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Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
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Gervinus invents the circular saw
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Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock; Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production
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Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine
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Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
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John Fitch invents a steamboat
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The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton
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John Barber invents the gas turbine; Early bicycles invented in Scotland
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Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin; Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings
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– Alessandro Volta invents the battery; Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making
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Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom; Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery
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Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive
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George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive; Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph
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American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter
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Frenchmen, Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a sewing machine
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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
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Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotype photography; Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller; Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
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Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher
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George Cayley invents a manned glider
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Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine; Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine
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Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter
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Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel; J P Knight invents traffic lights
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– Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph; Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector; David Houston patents the roll film for cameras; Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano
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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
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Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher; Gottlieb Daimler builds the world’s first four-wheeled motor vehicle
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Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator
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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
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The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission
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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
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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
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Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras
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Artificial life begins — the first robot built
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system
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– Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine; Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver
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Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter
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Konrad Zuse’s Z3, the first computer controlled by software; Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor
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John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer