2.3.5_SCI REVOLUTION-Mechanics

Invented the steam engine in 1712

Thomas Newcomen

Improved the steam engine of Newcomen in 1770

James Watt

First successful steam locomotive, also called "Puffing Devil"

Richard Trevithick

Invented the commercial electrical telegraph in 1837

William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone

Invented the steam turbine in 1884

Sir Charles Parsons

Invented the electric current

Alessandro Volta

Discovered methane

Alessandro Volta

Showed lightning is static electricity

Benjamin Franklin

Discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism in 1831

Michael Faraday

Used coal gas for illumination and pioneered steam power

William Murdock

First to determine the uses of electricity and made lamps with different filaments

Thomas Edison

Invented the internal combustion engine in 1859

Etienne Lenoir

Developed the four-stroke internal-combustion engine

Nikolaus Otto

Invented the first gasoline automobile in 1886

Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz