Photography
First photographic picture, not permanent—Thomas Wedgewood, England, 1791.
Daguerreotype, first developing process—Louis Daguerre, France, 1839.
First photographic portraits, daguerreotype process—Prof. J. W. Draper, United States, 1839.
Collodion process in photography—Scott Archer, England, 1849.
Photographic roll films—Melhuish, England, 1854.
Dry-plate photography—Dr. J. M. Taupenot, 1855.
Photographic emulsion, bromide of silver in gelatine, basis of present rapid photography—R. L. Maddox, England, 1871.
Hand photographic camera for plates—William Schmid, United States, 1881.
Printing
First printing with movable types in Europe and first printing-press—Guttenberg, Germany, about 1445.
Screw printing-press—Blaew, Germany, 1620.
First newspaper of importance—London Weekly Courant, 1625.
Stereotyping, making plates from casts of the type after it is set up—William Ged, Scotland, 1731.
First practical steam rotary printing-press, paper printed on both sides, 1800 impressions per hour—Frederick Koenig, Germany, 1814.
Printing from curved stereotype plates—H. Cowper, England, 1815.
Hoe's lightning press, 2000 impressions per hour—R. Hoe, United States, 1847.
Printing from a continuous web, paper wound in rolls, both sides printed at once—William Bullock, United States, 1865.
"Straightline newspaper perfecting" press, prints 100,000 eight-page papers per hour—Goss Company, United States.
Linotype machine. The operator uses a keyboard like that of a typewriter. The machine sets the matrices which correspond to the type, casts the type in lines from molten metal, delivers the lines of type on a galley, and returns the matrices to their appropriate tubes. It does the work of five men setting type in the ordinary way—Othmar Mergenthaler, United States, 1890.
Steam Navigation
First steamboat in the world—Papin, River Fulda, Germany, 1705.
First steamboat in America—John Fitch, Delaware River, 1783.
First passenger steamboat in the world, the Clermont—Robert Fulton, Hudson River, 1807.
First steamer to cross the Atlantic, the Savannah, built at New York—First voyage across the Atlantic, 1819.
The screw propeller first used on a steamboat—John Ericsson, United States, about 1836.
Compound engines adopted for steamers—1856.
First turbine-steamer, the Turbinia—Parsons, 1895.
First mercantile steam-turbine ship, the King Edward—Denny and Brothers, England, 1901.
Steam Used for Power and Land Transportation
First steam-engine with a piston—Denys Papin, France, 1690.
First practical application of the power of steam, pumping water—Thomas Savery, England, 1698.
Double-acting steam-engine and condenser—James Watt, Scotland, 1782.
Steam-locomotive first used to haul loads on a railroad—Richard Trevethick, England, 1804.
First passenger steam railway, the "Stockton & Darlington"—George Stephenson, England, 1825.
First steam-locomotive in the United States, the "Stourbridge Lion"—1829.
Link motion for locomotives—George Stephenson, England, 1833.
Steam-whistle, adopted for use on locomotives—George Stephenson, 1833.
Steam-hammer—James Nasmyth, Scotland, 1842.
Steam-pressure gauge—Bourdon, France, 1849.
Corliss engine—G. H. Corliss, United States, 1849.
First practical steam-turbine—C. A. Parsons, England, 1884.
Textile Industries
Flying shuttle, first important invention in weaving, leading to modern weaving machinery—John Kay, England, 1733.
Spinning-jenny—James Hargreaves, England, 1763.
Power loom—James Cartwright, England, 1785.
Cotton-gin, for separating the seeds from the fibre, gave a new impetus to the cotton industry. The production of cotton increased in five years from 35,000 to 155,000 bales—Eli Whitney, United States, 1792.
Pattern loom, for the weaving of patterns—M. J. Jacquard, France, 1801.
Application of steam to the loom—William Horrocks, England, 1803.
Knitting-machine—Brunel, England, 1816.
Sewing-machine—Elias Howe, United States, 1846.
Mercerized cotton—John Mercer, England, 1850.
Process of making artificial silk—H. de Chardonnet, France, 1888.