1800s inventions

The first form of electric light, the carbon arc lamp and its innovators

Neal Pollard According to Joey Green, author of Contrary to Popular Belief, Edison did not invent the lightbulb. Predating Edison’s work was that of English chemist Sir Humphrey Davy (1802), …

The period between the late 1800s and the early 1900s saw a boom in innovations that would take the world by storm.

One of the most famous inventions attributed to Leonardo da...

The lightbulb, telephone, and sewing machine were all invented during the Second Industrial Revolution and helped to define 19th-century America.

With the new exhibit Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland at the Brooklyn Museum, it seemed like an appropriate time to talk about the first escalator, which was installed in Coney Island in 1896. This was the era of invention around the world and Jesse W. Reno, who patented his “continuous elevator” or the “inclined elevator” in 1892, also designed such things as a submersible vehicle for salvaging shipwrecks, an early version of an aircraft carrier, and an electric rail system…

The telegraph and Morse code revolutionized long‑distance communication after their invention in the 1800s by Samuel Morse and other inventors.

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Download this stock image: An old engraving of Philipp Reiss’ ‘Musical’ Telephone (telepon) of the 1860s. It is from a Victorian book of the 1890s on discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. In 1861 German Johann Philipp Reis (1834–1874) succeeded in creating a device that captured sound, converted it to electrical impulses which were transmitted via electrical wires to another device that transformed these pulses into sounds similar to the original. In this later version the transmitter…