In thinking about all the really significant inventions that changed our world, I thought about the compass, the printing press, the combustion engine, the lightbulb, the telephone, the airplane, etc. These machines took me then to the age of the Industrial Revolution from somewhere around 1760 to 1830. So many devices were created during this time period that I find it hard to pick out one of them and say that it shaped the world more than another.
So here is an interesting list of years, inventors, and their creations during the Industrial Age. As you read through the list, think about how different our world would be if these men had not been born or if they had not followed their imaginations.
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1764 James Hargreaves - The Spinning Jenny
1775 James Watt - steam engine
1775 Samuel Crompton - the Spinning Mule
1784 Henry Cort - puddling process for mass production of wrought iron
1791 John Barber - gas turbine
1792 William Murdoch - commercial gas lighting
1794 Thomas Mead - gas engine
1794 Robert Street - internal combustion engine
1794 Eli Whitney - the cotton engine (or gin, for short)
1798 John Stevens - American internal combustion engine
1802 - William Cruickshank - mass production of the battery
1802 Humphry Davy - first electric arc lamp
1804 - Richard Trevithick and George Stephenson - locomotive revolution
1810 Peter Durand - the tin can
(123rf.com)
1816 John McAdam - modern road building technique
1824 Joseph Aspdin - Portland Cement
1826 John Walker - modern friction match
1827 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce - first camera image
1829 William Austin Burt - typewriter
1830 Samuel Morse - telegraph
Later in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the patent for the electric telephone.
Between 1802 and 1879, 20 or more inventors worked on producing a functional, practical light bulb.
Thomas Edison is credited for inventing the incandescent light in 1879.
original carbon-filament bulb by Thomas Edison (www.bulbs.com)
One thing comes to mind as I look at all these machines and devices. God made the man and gave him his intelligence, curiosity, talent, and drive. Man used these gifts to invent.
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