Benjamin Franklin 1752
production of electricity from lightning
James Watt 1769
improved steam engine
Voltaic cell 1800
Alessandro Volta
Richard Trevithick 1803
high pressure steam engine
Michael Faraday 1821
EMI
Hippolyte Pixil 1831
commercial dynamo
Moritz Jacobi 1834
electric motor
Significance of these Inventions
- flexibility in opening up factories near markets / raw material availability
- factories not limited to vicinity of flowing river(for power production)