Category: Invention History

Reading Time: 7 minutes No single person, or even society, can be credited as the one who invented the wheel. Most people imagine primitive stone wheels used as far back as the caveman days, but they were created more recently than that. Archaeologists estimate

Reading Time: 7 minutes Edmund Cartwright was an English inventor from the 18th century that invented the power loom and the wool combing machine. His achievements were essential contributions to the Industrial Revolution and the textile industry. Cartwright’s work was a progression from previous

Reading Time: 7 minutes Benjamin Franklin was one of the most prominent personalities in American history. Nowadays, he is known as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, and a politician. Franklin was primarily a printer but was also an

Reading Time: 8 minutes Alexander Graham Bell is known as the man who invented the telephone in 1876. He was a visionary who changed the way people communicated. Bell contributed significantly to how the world is today. His groundbreaking invention enabled people from all

Reading Time: 7 minutes Cyrus McCormick was born into a home where inventing was the family business. His father, Robert McCormick Jr., was an inventor who worked on making improvements to farming machines. Among those improvements was the mechanical reaper. Robert worked on this

Reading Time: 8 minutes Guglielmo Marconi was born on the 25th of April, 1874, in Bologna, Italy. Marconi was one of the most important innovators that changed the way the world communicates. His invention of the radio was a groundbreaking invention that had significant

Reading Time: 7 minutes In 1769, a machine was patented by Richard Arkwright that would see him go from wig maker to industrial tycoon. His Water Frame brought hydropower to spinning machines, which would enable the devices to turn hundreds of threads into high-quality,

Reading Time: 7 minutes The band received their name from their booking agent who was a history buff. You will learn from this article how the name “Jethro Tull” influenced us in both music and agriculture. When you hear the name Jethro Tull, you

Reading Time: 7 minutes Goodyear Tires is one of the largest producers of rubber tires in the world. The company’s namesake, Charles Goodyear, was an American inventor who created the chemical process to manufacture vulcanized rubber. The rubber that Goodyear created was more elastic

Reading Time: 11 minutes Joseph Henry was one of the giants of American history. When we look at inventors from the past, there are not many out there more significant and more influential than Joseph Henry. His work is unprecedented, and he was an