Inventors of the Industrial Revolution

• Thomas Edison:

  • laid the groundwork for electricity
  • advancements in the industrial revolution, no need for day daylightlight hours
  • increased consumption of power, making it worse
  • from new jersey
  • expansion of urbanization of the usa and implementing electricity in the households
  • creates classism between those who have access to the light
• Orville and Wilbur Wright:

  • American
  • made the airplane
  • revolutionary way
  • aerodynamic wings, control, and engine
  • not the first ones, but the first ones to build the first airplane for cross-country travel
  • used as a weapon as well
• Melina Benz:

  • married her husband and had 3 children, was a housewive
  • she brewed coffee and was very bad, didn't like powdered coffee
  • she took aper, punched holes, made coffee and it tasted good
  • melita was the company
  • paid christmas bonuses, financial-aid
• Margaret E. Knight:

  • flat-bottomed bags
  • did not make a company made from the patent
  • made a lat-bottomed paper bag machine
• Thomas Newcomen:

  • steam engine - atmospheric steam engine
  • he was a blacksmith
  • it was very costly to pump out water
  • sped out the process of keeping the floods out
• Elias Howes and Singer:

  • Elias was the first to make the sewing machine
• George Eastman invented the Kodak camera
• Henri Ford:

  • assembly line brought down costs
  • increased the production of cars
  • Model-T
• Samuel Colt:

  • revolver
  • interchangeable parts
  • who invented it?
  • more efficient and jammed less
• Alfred Novel:

  • dynamite
  • dynamite revolutionized industries such as the mining industries and wars
  • used in franco-prussian wars
  • "safe" because required a lot of heat
• Maria Beasley

  • made improvements on the life-rafts
  • used on the titanic and saved 700 people
• Alexander Graham Bell:

  • telephone
• James Watt:

  • created the improved steam engine
  • Watt Steam engine was used for boats, automobiles, and factories
• Josephine Cochrane:

  • designed the dishwasher
  • butter created it
  • more employment options for women
• Louis Pasteur:

  • immunity through vaccines
  • defied spontaneous generation
  • saved the wine industry through pasteurization to kill bacteria
  • developed vaccines experimented on livestock
• Nikola Tesla:

  • believed electromagnetic waves could travel without a wire
  • Serbian American
  • created the radio
  • wireless energy
  • AC system
• Henry Bessemer:

  • mass production of steel
  • Bessemer system