Question

b) Name the major inventions of the Industrial Revolution and the scientists who

discovered them?​

Answer 1

Answer

1. James Watt - First reliable steam engine
2. Eli Whitney - Cotton gin, Interchangeable parts for muskets
3. Robert Fulton- Regular steamboat service on the Hudson River
4. Samuel F.B. Morse - Telegraph
5. Elias Howe - Sewing machine
6. Isaac Singer -Improves and markets Howe's sewing machine
7. Cyrus Field - Transatlantic cable
8. Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone
9. Thomas Edison - Phonograph, Incandescent light bulb
10. Nikola Tesla - Induction electric motor
11. Rudolf Diesel - Diesel engine
12. Orville and Wilbur Wright - First airplane
13. Henry Ford -Model T Ford, Large-scale moving assembly line