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Most important inventions of the 1800's

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Each of these are important to humanity in their own way.

Rated 1 point - posted 12 years ago by JanetK in category World.
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Car by Karl Friedrich Benz Report Abuse
95 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK - 1 comment
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F in chat. he was not the first
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August Otto Report Abuse
Founder of the Otto motor, which is in every car, except Diesel car
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Gas powered engine by Gottlieb Daimler Report Abuse
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Rudolf Diesel Report Abuse
Founder of the Diesel engine
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Motorcycle by Gottlieb Daimler Report Abuse
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no
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Automatic Machine Gun by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim Report Abuse
This one invention established a new age in military campaigns.
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Electric Lamp by Thomas Edison Report Abuse
It is known today as the light bulb.
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Electric Railway by Ernst Werner von Siemens Report Abuse
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Telephone by Philip Reis Report Abuse
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Airplane by Otto von Lilienthal Report Abuse
He was close tothe real plane, The brothers Wright improved his inventions
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Karl Drais Report Abuse
inventer of the bicycle
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Wilhelm Röntgen Report Abuse
invented x-rays which revolutioned medicine to the benefit of millions
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Pneumatic drill by Samuel Ingersoll Report Abuse
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Barbed Wire by Joseph Glidden Report Abuse
This invention transformed the American Western Frontier
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Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell Report Abuse
Catapulted voice communication from a dream into a reality.
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No, the telephone was invented from the German Reis in 1862, 12 years before Bell used a Reis-telephone to develop his own design. It wwas the Germans telephone type which was selected inthe USA already in the sixties.
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The Telephone was at the same time invented by the German Philipr Reis and Graham Bell
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Pneumatic tire by John Boyd Dunlop Report Abuse
The tire company he created still bears his name.
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Electric Typerwriter by Thomas Edison Report Abuse
This inventions wasn't widely used until long after Edison death.
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Microphone by Alexander Graham Bell Report Abuse
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Adding machine by William Seward Burroughs Report Abuse
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Phonograph by Thomas Edison Report Abuse
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Tungsten Steel by Robert Mushet Report Abuse
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Traffic Light by J.R. Knight Report Abuse
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Willy Messerschmitt Report Abuse
invented jet engine and jet airplane
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Escalator by Jesse Reno Report Abuse
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Dry plate method of photography - George Eastman Report Abuse
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Fountain Pen by Lewis E. Waterman Report Abuse
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Electric Flat Iron by Harry W. Seeley Report Abuse
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Folding Cabinet Bed by Sarah E. Goode Report Abuse
Sometimes called a Murphy Bed, Sarah E. Goode was the first African -American woman in American History to obtain a patent.
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