INVENTOR

INVENTION

YEAR

Richard Arkwright

Water Frame

1769

James Hargreaves

Spinning Jenny

1770

James Watt

First reliable steam engine

1775

Eli Whitney (2)

Cotton Gin, Interchangeable

parts for muskets

Alessandro Volta

Electric Battery

1799

Robert Stephenson

Locomotive

1802

Robert Fulton

Steamboat

1807

Cyrus McCormick

Mechanical Harvester (Reaper)

1831

Samuel F.B. Morse

Telegraph

1836

Samuel Colt

Repeating Arms (Handguns)

1836

Elias Howe

Sewing Machine

1844

Charles Goodyear

Vulcanization of Rubber

1850

Isaac Singer

Improves sewing machine

1851

Elisha Otis

Elevator (safety device)

1851

Henry Bessemer

Steel making process

1855

Richard Gatling

Gatling Gun (machine gun)

1862

Alfred Nobel

Dynamite

1865

Cyrus Field

Transatlantic Cable

1866

William Burt

Typewriter

1867

Alexander Graham Bell

Telephone

1876

Thomas Edison (3)

Phonograph, Light Bulb, Movie

Nikola Tesla

Induction Electric Motor

1888

Rudolf Diesel

Diesel Engine

1892

Valdemar Poulsen

Audio Tape Recording

1898

Guglielmo Marconi

Radio

1899

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Airplane (fixed-wing aircraft)

1903

Henry Ford (2)

Model T, Assembly Line

1793, 1798

1877, 1879, 1891

1908, 1913