Saturday, 16 June 2012

Exercise : 3


EXERCISE 3:
KEY 19TH CENTURY INVENTIONS- THEN AND NOW.
TOPIC: historical examples of images, representations and other references.
IMAGES:
The typewriter

Telephone



Automobile



 
Original Stethoscope

Modern Stethoscope.

Gas Lighting

Representation contributing to the construction of 19th century vehicles.
The 19th century was from 1801- 1900. It brought in inventions of electricity, steel and petroleum products. The 2nd industrial revolution followed on from 1865-1900. This included railways and steam ships, as well as quicker and bigger groups of communication methods.
The 19th century was the birth of machine tools which added a speedy process to factory production and the manufacturing of goods. The 19th century introduced the lightbulb, telephone, typewriter, sewing machine and many more inventions.
1800
·         Frenchman, J M Jacquard invented the Jacquard Loom
·         Count Alessandro Volta : the battery
1804
·         Freidrich Winzer: gas lighting
·         Richard Trevithick: steam powered locomotive
1809
·         Humphry Davy: Electric arc lamp/light
1810
·         Frederick Koenig: Printing Press
·         Peter Durand: Tin can
1814
·         George Stephenson: steam powered locomotive
·         Plastic surgery was used in England for the first time.
·         Joseph Von Fraunhofer : spectroscope, chemical analyzation of glow in the dark objects.
·         Joseph Niepce: the very first individual to take a photograph with the aid of the camera obscura. The duration was eight hours.
1815
·         Humphry Davy: Miners lamp
1819
·         Samuel  Fahnestock: soda fountain.
·         Rene Laennec: stethoscope
1823
·         Charles Mackintosh: Raincoat
1824
·         Micheal Faraday: Toy Balloon
·         Joseph Aspdin: Portland cement
1825
·         William Sturgeon: electromagnet
1827
·         John Walker : modern matches
·         Charles Wheatstone: microphone phrase.
1829
·         W.A.  Burt: Typewriter
·         Louise Braille: Braille printing for the blind.
1830
·         Barthelemy Thimonnier: sewing machine
1831
·         Cyrus McCormick: Reaper
·         Michael Faraday: electric dynamo
1832-1838
·         Charles Wheatstone: stereoscope




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