Industrial Revolution Inventors
Throughout the industrial revolution, many new discoveries were made and many new inventions were thought up. To have an invention, you must also have an inventor. This page will outline some of the more prominent inventors of the industrial revolution. Additionally, you may click on an inventor's name, and you will be linked to a page containing more detailed information about that particular inventor.
1775: James Watt discovered the steam engine.
1793: Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
1807: Robert Fulton created the first steamboat transportation service.
1836: Samuel F. B. began the revolution of the telegram.
1844: Elias Howe invented the sewing machine (quite an asset to the textile industry).
1851: Issac Singer modifies and improves Elias Howe's sewing machine.
1866: Cyrus Field came up with the idea of a transatlantic cable (to allow transatlantic transmission of messages).
1876: Alexander Graham Bell created the first telephone.
1877: Thomas Edison created the first phonograph
1879: Thomas Edison, after numerous failures, created the incandescant light bulb.
1888: Nikola Tesla created the induction electric motor.
1892: Rudolph Diesel invented the diesel engine.
1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully flew the first airplane.
1908: Henry Ford made his first Model T Ford automobile.
1913: Henry Ford perfected the manufacturing process with his new assembly line.