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Steam Boat

The Scottish Engineer named Henry Bill built a steam powered boat in the year 1812. The steam boat was called Comet. It was the first successful commercial steam boat built in Europe. Now looking back Comet was the very boat that caused the beginning of a revolution in the navigation industry.

Lawn Mower

The credit for inventing the first ever lawn mower in the year 1830 goes to an English engineer Edward Beard Budding.

A modern Lawn Mower.

His Lawn mower consisted of set of blades set in a cylinder on couple of wheels. When the lawn mower used to be pushed the cylinder used to rotate and the blades used to cut the grass.

Sewing Machine

Barthelemy Thimonnier invented the first sewing machine in the year 1830. Other tailors feared and got jealous of this invention and even tried to burn down his workshop.

Elias Howe an American inventor patented an improved sewing machine in the year 1846. Howe's machine was a revolutionary one.

Historic Industrial Revolutions

  • Industrial Revolutions

    During the 18th century dramatic changes took place in history. People started to shift from an agrarian culture to a more sophisticated machine culture. Instead of goods being produced by hand they were now mass-produced on machines.

  • Rubber Band

The first ever Rubber Band was invented in the year 1845 by Stephen Perry of the company Messers Perry and Co.

It was a rubber manufacturing company in London, England.

The rubber band was constructed from vulcanized rubber.

Perry then invented the rubber band to serve the purpose of holding papers and envelopes together.

Today modern rubber technology has allowed production of rubbers from low quality to bands with extremely high strengths.

Safety Pin

Walter Hunt invented the safety pin in 1849.

Hunt made the safety pin by twisting a certain length of wire.

The reason why he invented this safety pin was to pay the debt of $15. He finally sold the rights to his patent for $400.

Dish Washer

Joel Houghton invented the first ever dish washer in 1850. His machine was basically a wheel which could be turned by hand and on turning it used to splash water on dishes, though it was a good concept but this machine was not much effective at that time.

The first automatic dish washer was invented by Mrs. Josephine Garis, in the year 1889. Her machine consisted of the wooden tub and the wired basket in it.

The dishes were placed in the basket and the dishes were rotated by rollers. There was a handle attached to the tub, when the handle was turned hot and soapy water was sprayed on to the dishes.

Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in the year 1876. Bell also played a part in improving Thomas Edison's phonograph.

Light Bulb

The first electric light in the history was made in the year 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist. He also invented an electric battery while experimenting with electricity.

When he connected carbon with the wires of his battery, the carbon glowed hence producing light.

The first electric bulb was invented by Thomas Alva Edison in the year 1879.The electric bulb revolutionized the world.

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