Tuesday, September 28, 2010

19 Century

I have chosenthis century because by this time electricy,steel and petroleum were already used.
Those materials made easier the invention of more products and machines. All this lead to the industrial revolution at this century.
Also in this century happened major changes just as transporting, mining, manufacturing, etc, in the whole world.
Now i will write about the ones i think are the most inportant inventions at 19th century.


1804:
Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive. Unfortunately, the machine was too heavy and broke the rails it was traveling on. The earliest railways employed horses to draw carts along railed tracks. with this invention the comunicationg and transporting with other places and people was easier and faster. This invention imporoved the commercialization too.


1814:
The first plastic surgery is performed in Engoland by Sir Harold Delf Hillesn to a british soldier named as Walter Yeo, who is known as the first person who has been beneficted from a plastic surgery.





1826:
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture.






1837
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph. With this invention was allowed fast communication. It was useful in business  to  get in touch with far away costumers and salesman




1838
Samuel Morse invents Morse Code which is a method of transmitting textual information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.




 

•1847
Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antiseptics.This invention has been extremely important in medicine and surgery because reduces the possibility of infection, sepsis, or putrefaction. ´
 


•1856
Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation. Pasteurization increases milk’s life due to a marked decrease in the total bacterial count.

1866

Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. it is mainly used in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries and has had historical use in warfare, but the unstable nature of nitroglycerin, especially if subjected to freezing, has rendered it obsolete for modern military use.

Friday, September 24, 2010

1876
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other. It is one of the most common appliances in the developed world, and has long been considered indispensable to businesses, households and governments. The word "telephone" has been adapted to many languages and is widely recognized around the world.
 
 

 1886
Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle. It made transporting easier and faster.