Samuel F. B. Morse
1791- 1872Place of Birth: Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Biography: Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.
Invention/s: Telegraph
Importance of Invention/s:The telegraph revolutionized communications throughout the world, and Samuel Morse played a major role in this revolution. After the telegraph, communication no longer depended on the length of time it took to hand-carry messages from one location to another.
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James Watt
1736 - 1819
Place of Birth: Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Biography: James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist whose Watt steam engine, was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. While working as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Watt became interested in the technology of steam engines. He realized that contemporary engine designs wasted a great deal of energy by repeatedly cooling and reheating the cylinder. Watt introduced a design enhancement, the separate condenser, which avoided this waste of energy and radically improved the power, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of steam engines. Eventually he adapted his engine to produce rotary motion, greatly broadening its use beyond pumping water.
Invention/s: Steam Engine
Importance of Invention/s: It is use to give off electricity or power in a particular machine. In modern times, these engines were used not only in factories and other machines but also in vehicles nowadays. This invention is a really great contribution during Industrial Period even until now.
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Alexander Graham Bell
1847 – 1922
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Biography:Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His education was largely received through numerous experiments in sound and the furthering of his father’s work on Visible Speech for the deaf. Bell worked with Thomas Watson on the design and patent of the first practical telephone. In all, Bell held 18 patents in his name alone and 12 that he shared with collaborators. He died on August 2, 1922, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Invention/s: Telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell1847 – 1922
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Biography:Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His education was largely received through numerous experiments in sound and the furthering of his father’s work on Visible Speech for the deaf. Bell worked with Thomas Watson on the design and patent of the first practical telephone. In all, Bell held 18 patents in his name alone and 12 that he shared with collaborators. He died on August 2, 1922, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Invention/s: Telephone
Importance of Invention/s: Device that coverts sound and electrical waves into audible relays, and is used for communication.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright1867-1912, 1871-1948
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio
Biography: They were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. From 1905 to 1907, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft.
Invention/s: Airplane
Importance of Invention/s: The significance of development of the airplane has had widespread ramifications on the society of the world. Airplanes have changed the way people travel and conduct wars. At times, they have also been centerpieces in popular culture, influencing generations of Americans and people worldwide.
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Thomas Edison 1847- 1931
Place of Birth: Milan, Ohio, United States
Biography: Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio; the seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison. When Edison was seven his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. Edison lived here until he struck out on his own at the age of sixteen. Edison had very little formal education as a child, attending school only for a few months. He was taught reading, writing, and arithmetic by his mother, but was always a very curious child and taught himself much by reading on his own. This belief in self-improvement remained throughout his life.
Invention/s: The Light Bulb
Importance of Invention/s: The impact of the light bulb was great it is use to provide light. It is use until now even when your rich or poor the light bulb is still very important.
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John Kay
1704- 1779
Place of Birth: Walmersley, United Kingdom
Biography:John Kay is one of Britain’s leading economists. His interests focus on the relationships between economics and business. His career has spanned academic work and think tanks, business schools, company directorships, consultancies and investment companies.
Invention/s: flying shuttle
Importance of Invention/s: It is an improvement to looms that enabled weavers to weave faster. It is an important step toward automatic weaving.
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John Loudon McAdam1756- 1836
Place of Birth: Ayr, United Kingdom
Invention/s: Road building
Importance of Invention/s: By making roads both significantly cheaper and more durable, McAdam triggered an explosion in municipal connective tissue, with roads sprawling out across the countryside. It is still use until now for vehicles to have a smooth ride.
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Henry Bessemer1813- 1898
Place of Birth: Charlton, United Kingdom
Biography: Sir Henry Bessemer was a prominent British engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He developed the first cost-efficient process for the manufacture of steel in 1856, which later led to the invention of Bessemer converter.
Invention/s: Steel-making
Importance of Invention/s: Bessemer is best known for devising a steel production process that inspired the Industrial Revolution. It was the first cost-efficient industrial process for the big-scale production of steel from molten pig iron by taking out impurities from pig iron using an air blast. Bessemer’s process still continues to inspire the production of modern steel.
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Robert Fulton1765-1815
Place of Birth: Pennsylvania, United States
Biography: American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton is best know for developing the first successful commercial steamboat, the North River Steamboat (later known as the Clermont) which carried passengers between New York City and Albany, New York. Fulton also designed the world's first steam warship. He also designed the "Nautilus," the first practical submarine in history, which was built in 1800.
Invention/s: Steamboat and the world’s first steam warship.
Importance of Invention/s: Steamboats completely changed the way Americans in the early 1800's shipped and received goods and how people traveled.The steamboat was used in United States so widely that by end of mid 1850's there were as many as 1200 boats sailing in New Orleans alone. The importance of steamboat as a freight carrier died out in 1870's, after more modernized steam railway engines arrived.
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Eli Whitney
1765- 1825
Place of Birth: Westborough, Massachusetts, United States
Biography: Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States. Despite the social and economic impact of his invention, Whitney lost many profits in legal battles over patent infringement for the cotton gin. Thereafter, he turned his attention into securing contracts with the government in the manufacture of muskets for the newly formed United States Army. He continued making arms and inventing until his death in 1825.
Invention/s: Cotton engine (cotton gin)
Importance of Invention/s: The cotton gin is a mechanical device that removes the seeds from cotton, a process that had previously been extremely labor-intensive.
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