Module 1 : WORKSHEET 2B
WORKSHEET 2b:
Designs of the past
Instructions to students: Read through the list of 18th and 19th Century inventions and then
answer the following:
How many do you recognise? How many are
still in use today? Were you surprised at when
they were invented?
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How many made life easier for: Workers; People;
Industry; Farming; Travel; Communicating.
Who do you think were the main beneficiaries
of these inventions? Who do you think might
have used these inventions first: Working
people? Industrialists? Other inventors?
Wealthy people?
Choose five from the list which individuals
might use and find out:
How was its development funded? How might life
have been improved because of it? What was the
impact on the world? How much might it have cost to
buy? Was it affordable? Do you consider it a good or
bad invention in terms of its impact on life? Explain.
How do you think these inventions might
have affected at the time:
Job opportunities; working conditions; skills required;
education; training; qualifications.
18th Century inventions
The seed drill
(J. Tull)
Marine chronometer
(J. Harrison)
Bi-focal eyeglasses
(B. Franklin)
Power loom
(E. Cartright)
The piano
(B. Cristofori)
Spinning jenny
(J. Hargreaves)
Circular saw
(Gervinus)
Chemical bleaching
(C. Berthollet)
Atmospheric
steam engine
(T. Newcomen)
Soda water
(J. Priestley)
Parachute
(demonstrated
by L. Sebastien)
Steamboat
(J. Fitch)
Diving bell
(E. Halley)
Fire extinguisher
(F.C. Hopffer)
Thermometer
(G. Fahrenheit)
Flying shuttle
(J. Kay)
Lightning rod
(B. Franklin)
Sextant
(J. Campbell)
Spinning frame
(R. Arkwright)
Improved steam engine
(J. Watt)
Flush toilet
(A. Cummings)
Steamship
(J. Perrier)
Submarine
(D. Bushnell)
Spinning mule
(S. Crompton)
Self-winding clock
(B. Hanks)
Hot air balloon
(Montgolfier brothers)
Steel roller
(H. Cort)
Threshing machine
(A. Meikle)
Safety lock
(J. Bramah)
Gas lighting
(W. Murdoch)
Smallpox vaccination
(E. Jenner)
Cotton gin
(patented by E. Whitney)
Battery
(A. Volta)
Form of toilet paper
(British perforated
company)
Module 1 : WORKSHEET 2B
WORKSHEET 2b:
Designs of the past (ConTinued)
Seismograph
(J. Milne)
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19th Century inventions
Jacquard Loom
(J.M. Jacquard)
Electric dynamo
(M. Faraday)
Developed steam
powered locomotive
(R. Trevithick)
Ice machine
(J. Perkins)
First arc lamp
(H. Davy)
Improved printing press
(F. Koenig)
Tin can
(P. Durand)
Steam locomotive
(G. Stephenson)
First person to take
a photograph
(J. N. Niepce)
Miners lamp
(H. Davy)
Soda fountain
(S. Fahnestock)
Stethoscope
(R. Laennec)
Mackintosh raincoat
(C. Mackintosh)
Electromagnet
(W. Sturgeon)
Matches
(J. Walker)
Coin the phrase
“microphone”
(C. Wheatstone)
Typewriter
(W.A. Burt)
Braille printing
(L. Braille)
First functional
sewing machine
(B. Thimonnier)
Patented wrench
(S. Merrick)
Propellor
(F.P. Smith)
Mechanical calculator
(C. Babbage)
Revolver
(S. Colt)
Telegraph and
Morse code
(S. Morse)
Postage stamp
(R. Hill)
Platform scales
(T. Fairbanks)
Rubber vulcanisation
(C. Goodyear)
Bicycle
(K. Macmillan)
Blueprint
(J. Herschel)
Stapler
(S. Slocum)
Grain elevator
(J. Dart)
Facsimile
(A. Bain)
Rubber pneumatic
tire patented
(R.W. Thomson)
Anaesthesia used
for tooth extraction
(Dr. W. Morton)
Safety pin
(W. Hunt)
Patent for first
dishwasher
(J. Houghton)
Another sewing
machine patented
(I. Singer)
Rayon
(G. Audemars)
Pasteurisation
(L. Pasteur)
First moving pictures
(E. Muybridge)
Film for camera patented
(D. Houston)
Pullman sleeping car
(G. Pullman)
Paper-strip photographic
paper patented
(G. Eastman)
Safer elevator
(E. Otis)
Steam turbine
(C. Parson)
Lock
(L. Yale)
First practical
automobile
(K. Benz)
Machine gun
(R. Gatling)
Man-made plastic
(A. Parkes)
Dynamite
(A. Nobel)
Tin can with key
(J. Osterhoudt)
Torpedo
(R. Whitehead)
Air brakes
(G. Westinghouse)
Traffic lights
(J.P. Knight)
Barbed wire
(J. Glidden)
Gas-engined
motorcycle
(G. Daimler)
Coca cola
(J. Pemberton)
Gramophone
(E. Berliner)
Successful pneumatic
tire
(J.B. Dunlop)
Escalator
(J.W. Reno)
Diesel-fueled internal
combustion engine
(R. Diesel)
Telephone
(A.G. Bell)
Dewar flask or
vacuum flask
(Sir James Dewar)
Carpet sweeper
(M. Bissell)
Zipper
(W.L. Judson)
Cylinder phonograph
(T. Edison)
Portable motion
picture camera
(Lumiere Brothers)