Friday, June 1, 2018

25 Machines...

The Jacquard Loom (1801)
The Roberts Lathe (1817)
The Stephenson's "Rocket" (1829)
The Roberts Loom (1830)
The Whitworth tool-machines (1842)
The Corliss steam engine (1849)
The Scheutz Difference Engine (1855)
The "Turtleback" sewing machine (1856)
The "Great Eastern" (1858)
The Hyatt celluloid (1872)
The Gramme electric machine (1873)
The Mergenthaler lynotype (1884)
The Parson steam turbine (1884)
The "Rover" bicycle (1885)
The Westinghouse AC System (1887)
The Berliner grammophone (1887)
The "cinématographie" Lumière (1895)
The Marconi wireless telegraph (1897)
The Diesel engine (1897)
The Underwood typewriter (1897)
The "Brownie" Kodak camera (1900)
The Tungsram electric bulb (1904)
The Strowger automatic electric telephone (1905)
The Ford "Model T" (1908)
The Hoover vacuum cleaner (1908)

From Eric Chaline, Fifty Machines that Changed the Course of History, London : Quid Publishing, 2012.

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