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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)