* Summary Table of Year, Inventions and Inventors Year Inventions Inventors Nationality 1733 Flying shuttle John Kay Briton 1764 Spinning jenny N/A N/A 1769 Improved the steam engine James Watt British 1769 1st steam locomotive Nicolas Cugnot Frenchman 1796 Vaccine against smallpox Edward Jenner Briton 1807 First city in the world to use coal gas light N/A London 1808 Steamboat Robert Fulton American 1825 1st railway for steam train N/A Britain 1830 Steam locomotive Rocket George Stephenson Briton 1835 First telegraph N/A N/A 1836 The Morse Code Samuel Morse American 1847 Chloroform (Anesthetic to be used in surgery) James Simpson Briton 1860 1st Invention telephone Antonio Meucci Italian 1876 Improved telephone device, and applied Bell Canadian for a patent for the telephone 1879 A more durable type of lightbulbs Thomas Edison American 1885 1st motor vehicle with single cylinder engine Karl Benz German 1886 1st three-wheeled motor vehicle N/A N/A 1895 X-rays (Examine bones and organs inside body) Wilhelm Roentgen German 1898 Radium (A radioactive element later used Pierre Curie French to treat cancer) and his wife A new method of building roads John McAdam 19th Century 1 Scotsman * Summary Table of Year, Inventions and Inventors Year Inventions Inventors 1733 1764 1769 1769 1796 1807 1808 1825 1830 1835 1836 1847 1860 1876 1879 1885 1886 1895 1898 19th Century 2 Nationality
