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steam engine
Thomas Savery invented the first model steam engine in 1698. A steam engine is a machine that converts the heat energy of steam into mechanical energy. A steam engine passes its steam into a cylinder, where it then pushes a piston back and forth. it affected society in many ways such as, transporting people and goods a lot faster and influenced in making the modern train. -
water frame
The water frame was developed by a man called Richard Arkwright in 1769. The water frame was a very important invention. Some people believe it was one of, if not the most important invention of its time. It was a machine that could mechanically spin thread. It was the first spinning machine that was water-powered and automatic. -
power loom
The power loom was a steam-powered, mechanically-operated version of a regular loom, an invention that combined threads to make cloth. In 1785, an inventor named Edmund Cartwright patented the first power loom and set up a factory in Doncaster, England to manufacture cloth. -
cotton gin
In 1793, U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
computer
made in 1822 by Charles Babbage the computer was born not for entertainment or email but out of a need to solve a serious number-crunching crisis. By 1880, the U.S. population had grown so large that it took more than seven years to tabulate the U.S. Census results. The government sought a faster way to get the job done. -
TNT
Julius Wilbrand made TNT in 1863. TNT was originally created not to be used as an explosive, but rather, was used as a yellow dye. Because it was so difficult to detonate and not very powerful compared to many other popular explosives of the day, it wasn’t commonly used as an explosive until much later by German forces in 1902. -
telephone
the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1976. A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. -
automobile
The first stationary gasoline engine developed by Carl Benz was a one-cylinder two-stroke unit which ran for the first time on New Year’s Eve 1879 and was completed in 1885. Benz had so much commercial success with this engine that he was able to devote more time to his dream of creating a lightweight car powered by a gasoline engine, in which the chassis and engine formed a single unit. -
dynamite
Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay) and stabilizers. It was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Geesthacht, and patented in 1867. -
television
the television was invented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in 1927. The television is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black-and-white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
