INVENTIONS

ELI WHITNEY

• Invented interchangeable parts
• Interchangeable parts: identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing
• He made this in

HENRY FORD

• Made models that reached the breathtaking speed of 45 miles per hour
• Made this in the early 1900s

HENRY BESSEMER

• Independently made a new process of making steel and iron
• Made this in 1856

GUGLIELMO MARCONI

• Invented the radio
• Made in 1901

ALFRED NEAL

• He invented dynamite
• Dynamite: an explosion much safer than others used in time
• Made in 1866

MICHAEL FARADAY

• Created the first simple electric motor and first Dynamo
• Dynamo: a machine that generates electricity
• Made in late 1800s

THOMAS EDISON

• He made the electric lightbulb. Soon incandescent lamps illuminated cities
• Made in 1870s

NIKOLIA TESLA

• Invented AC current electricity
• Made in late 1800s

WRIGHT BROTHERS

• Designed and flew a flimsy airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
• Made in 1903

LOUIS PASTEAR

• Went on to make other major contributions to medicine including development of vaccines against rabies and diseases
• 1870

ROBERT KOCH

• He identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis
• In 1880s

FLORENCE NIGHTINGDE

• She found the worlds first alcohol of nursing

JOSEPH LISTER

• Discovered how antiseptic prevented infections