Movers & Shakers:Inventions during the Industrial Revolution

Thomas Edison Alexander Graham BellLight Bulb (1879)

Phonograph (1878)

Motion Pictures (1888) Impact – Reliable source of light, mass entertainment

Telephone (1876)

Impact - Able to transmit sound over long distances, improving communication

Guglielmo Marconi The Wright Brothers

Impact - Provided wireless communication

Radio (1902) Impact - Improved mobility & started aircraft industry

The Airplane (1903)

Henry Ford James Watt

Impact - Assembly line production made cars affordable

Automobile Assembly Line & the Model T (1908)

Impact - Faster, more reliable transportation

Improved Steam Engine (1784)

Eli Whitney Louis Pasteur

Impact - Quicker, improved cotton industry

Cotton Gin (1794) Impact - Reduced infection, preserved food

Pasteurization (1862)

Joseph Lister Charles Darwin

Impact - Higher survival rate in surgery

Antiseptics (1867) Impact – new theory stirs controversy and conflicts with religious teachings

Theory of Evolution (1859)

Other Inventions/Ideas

Joseph Cugnot (Automobile) Henry Bessemer (Steel Production) Robert Fulton (Steamboat) John Kay’s Flying Shuttle (Weaving Textiles) James Hargreaves (Spinning Jenny) I.M. Singer (Sewing Machine - Textiles) Samuel Morse’s Telegraph (Communication) Cyrus Field (Transatlantic Cable) George Eastman (Camera) Alessandro Volt (Battery) Gregor Mendel (Genetic Laws) John Dalton (Atom Theory) Ivan Pavlov & Sigmund Freud (Psychology)