Life without these? NO WAY!! A Brief Look At Innovations during and shortly before the 2 nd Industrial Revolution ( )
Refrigerator 1834Jacob Perkins
Morse Code 1837Samuel F.B. Morse
Elevator 1853Elisha Graves Otis
Ice Cream 1851Jacob Fussell
Roller Skates 1863James Plimpton
Chewing Gum 1870Thomas Adams
Typewriter 1873Christopher Latham Sholes
Telephone Alexander Graham Bell 1876
Light Bulb Thomas Edison Late 1879 (Arc lamp outdoor street lighting: Charles Brush- early 1879) Lewis Latimer Wizard of Menlo Park The young Edison The aged Edison 1 st Incandescent Light bulb (Long-lasting Indoor bulb)
Edisons Menlo Park Inventions Vote Recorder 1868 Printing Telegraph1869 Stock Ticker 1869 Automatic Telegraph1872 Electric Pen1876 Gramophone1877 Carbon Telephone Transmitter 1877 Carbon Telephone Transmitter 1877 Phonograph1877 Dynamo1877 Light Bulb1879 Electric Motor1881 Talking Doll1886 Projecting Kinetoscope1897 Storage Battery 1900
Chain Stores: Chain Stores: Ever Heard of WALMART???? Frank W. Woolworth Lancaster, PA 1 st Chain store: F.W. Woolworth & Co 5 and 10 Cent Store
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Fountain Pen 1884 L. E. Waterman
Electric Toothbrush 1885Dr. G.A. Scott
Dishwasher 1886Josephine Cochran
Revolving Door 1888Theophilu von Kannel
Breakfast Cereal 1893William Kellogg
Zipper 1893Whitcomb Judson
Imagine living without some of these 19 th Century Innovations!