Who invented the steam engine and rubber?
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Thomas Savery invented the Steam Engine\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsavery1.htm\n\nThe English word ``rubber'' was coined by Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen, from its use in rubbing out pencil marks. The term ``India rubber'' was given to it because it was first brought to Europe from the West Indies, the land that Columbus and his contemporaries thought was India. The word ``elastomer'' is now generally used to describe materials that have rubberlike properties.\n\nFrom excavations of ruins in Central and South America, it seems likely that rubber was known to the Maya Indians as early as the 11th century. It is reported that the Spaniards under Columbus saw the natives of Haiti using rubber in various ways. Long afterward, in 1731, Portuguese missionaries exploring the Amazon Valley found the Indians there using rubber to make useful articles.\n\nThe first record of scientific importance was written by Charles Marie de la Condamine, who was commissioned in 1735 by the Academy of Science of Paris to measure a degree of the meridian in South America. In his eight years of travel he made many observations and sent home, among other things, specimens of rubber. He wrote, ``The natives prepare watertight shoes of one piece from this material. They also spread it over an earthen flasklike form, and when the fluid has solidified, they break up the earthen form, remove the fragments through the neck of the bottle, and thus obtain a light, unbreakable vessel suitable for holding liquids.''
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Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile.\n\nHe was a brilliant man. When he was thirteen he was already making locomotives, tractors, even miniature boats with clockwork mechanisms. Joseph-Armand had a dream - to conquer the obstacle of snow in winter.
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Most notable was Watt's 1769 patent for a separate condenser connected to a cylinder by a valve. Unlike Newcomen's engine, Watt's design had a condenser that could be cool while the cylinder was hot.\nFor a complete history of the steam engine see link below
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,097 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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Train.\nthe Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR)\nopened on 15 September 1830.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Great_Britain
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Tesla Coils or the creator of the Tesla Coil, Nikola Tesla.
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CAPE\n\nitwas invented by the dirty raincoat men in 1587
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It is difficult to credit a single individual for the creation of the modern wetsuit. In 1951, while working for the US Navy, Hugh Bradner had the insight that a thin layer of trapped water could act as an insulator. It was a colleague of Bradner who suggested neoprene as a feasible material. However, Bradner was not overly interested in profiting from his design and never marketed a version to the public; nor did he patent his design. The first written documentation of Bradner's invention was in a letter dated June 21, 1951.\n\nTraditionally, most say it was Jack O'Neill (businessman) who invented the wetsuit and started using neoprene, which he found lining the floor of an airliner. However, this is disputed by some aviation experts because neoprene and other rubbers are not fire retardant; therefore, they would not be found on any passenger aircraft. O'Neill went on to found the successful wetsuit manufacturing company called O'Neill. But Bob and Bill Meistrell, from Manhattan Beach, California, claim to have started experimenting with neoprene around 1953. Their company would later be named Body Glove.
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Micheal Faraday was the inventor of electric motor and Marie Curie and her husband discovered radium
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i've been looking and can't find an answer...maybe this is just one of the things history hasn't kept up with...:)...well i found the inventor of the first rubber cushioned brush...lol...that was mason pearson...well i found this website, which gives some history of the cushion but still no inventor...well i give up...tired of looking..hope you find your answer :)
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ERASERS are made from either a synthetic rubber compound or from vinyl. In either case, the raw material is blended to the proper consistency and is put into a machine called an "extruder." The eraser material is forced through a small hole producing a long ribbon of eraser.\n\nEach ribbon is cut into strands about 3 feet in length. If the eraser is made of synthetic rubber, the strands are placed in a "vulcanizer," which cooks them under pressure to cure the rubber. When cool, the strands are put into a rotary cutter and chopped into bits -- called plugs. (Vinyl eraser strands go straight to the rotary cutter -- vinyl does not need to be vulcanized!)\n\nHistory\nPrior to using rubber, white bread (without crust) was used to erase the mark of graphite pencil and charcoal. It is still sometimes used for that by charcoal artists.\nIn 1770, scientist Joseph Priestley noted, "I have seen a substance excellently adapted to the purpose of wiping from paper the mark of black lead pencil."\n\nAlso in 1770, Edward Naime, an English engineer, is credited with creating the first rubber eraser, and reportedly was selling natural rubber erasers for the astonishingly high price of 3 shillings per half-inch cube. According to Nayme himself, he inadvertently picked up a piece of rubber instead of breadcrumbs, discovered rubber's erasing properties, and began selling rubber erasers. Incidentally, this was the first practical application of the substance in Europe, and rubbing out the pencil marks gave it its English name.\n\nHowever, rubber in its raw form shared the same inconveniences as bread, since it was perishable and would go bad over time. In 1839, inventor Charles Goodyear discovered the process of vulcanization, a method that would cure rubber and make it a durable material. Rubber erasers became common with the advent of vulcanized rubber.\n\nIn 1858, Hymen Lipman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, received the first patent for attaching an eraser to the end of a pencil. It was later invalidated because it was determined to be simply a composite of two devices rather than an entirely new product.
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Charles Babbage is credited as the inventor of the first computer due to the invention of his difference engine machine in 1840.
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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The traffic light\nGas masks (both by Garrett Morgan)\n\nLong haul refrigeration systems on trucks.\n\nThe ironing board.\n\nOpen heart surgery.\n\nStreet sweeper trucks.\n\nThe electronic resistor (for which help make electronics possible)\n\nThe filament in a lightbulb (for which was Edison's toughest feat)\n\nThe WC (restroom) on trains.\n\nModern music.\n\nThe super soaker.\n\nThe jenny coupler (it links railroad cars, a dangerous task for which is how it's black inventor Andrew Beard, lost his leg.)\n\nCarver invented peanut butter, adhesives, bleach, chili sauce, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, talcum powder and more.\n\nMatzeliger invented an automatic method for lasting shoes, which made the mass production of affordable shoes possible.\n\n\nDr. Charles Richard Drew invented the possibility of blood banks.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSo enjoy your affordable shoes, PB, music, anything electronic that you have, milk when you don't live near a dairy farm, your flat shirts, clean streets, incandescent lights, vacuum tubes... but don't say black people haven't done anything to make life more livable for you.
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My hero is Thomas Alwa Edison.Because he has done many things for a better world.Electric blub, Gramophone,film projector and sound recording device are some of his great inventions done for the mankind.
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&*&*&\n\nThe Earl Of Sandwich\nHe is also credited with the invention of the sandwich, the name obviously derived from his title. It was long said that he invented the food to sustain himself while gambling without having to eat a full meal; he would never leave his seat at his gambling table and, when compelled to eat, asked his servants to bring him a piece of meat between two slices of bread. His biographer Rodger, however, points out that the sole source of this rumour was gossip mentioned in a travel book by Grosley, and that at the period in question (1765) the Earl was known to be very busy, and it is just as likely that this was for the purpose of eating at his desk. Sandwiches were likely eaten long before the Earl's life — for example, according to Jewish tradition, sanwiches made of unleavened bread and bitter herbs are eaten on Passover.\n\n    * Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber in 1844 that was later used for tires.\n    * In 1888, John Dunlop invented the air-filled or pneumatic tires, however, his were for bicycles. \n    * In 1895, André Michelin was the first person to use pneumatic tires on an automobile, however, not successfully. \n    * In 1911, Philip Strauss invented the first successful tire, which was a combination tire and air filled inner tube. Strauss' company the Hardman Tire & Rubber Company marketed the tires. \n    * In 1903, P.W. Litchfield of the Goodyear Tire Company patented the first tubeless tire, however, it was never commercially exploited until the 1954 Packard. \n    * In 1904, mountable rims were introduced that allowed drivers to fix their own flats. In 1908, Frank Seiberling invented grooved tires with improved road traction. \n    * In 1910, B.F. Goodrich Company invented longer life tires by adding carbon to the rubber. \n    * Goodrich also invented the first synthetic rubber tires in 1937 made of a patented substance called Chemigum.\n\nPneumatic Tyre (Tire)\nJohn Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921) was a Scottish veterinarian and the recognized inventor of the first practical pneumatic or inflatable tyre/tire. His patent was for a bicycle tire, granted in 1888. However, Robert William Thomson (1822 - 1873) invented the actual first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire. Thomson patented his pneumatic tire in 1845, his invention worked well but was to costly to catch on. Dunlop's tire patented in 1888 did, and so he received the most recognition. William Thomson also patented a fountain pen (1849) and a steam traction engine (1867).\n\nThe Ferris Wheel - George W. Ferris\nThe first ferris wheel was designed by George W. Ferris, a bridge-builder from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ferris began his career in the railroad industry and then pursued an interest in bridge building. He understood the growing need for structural steel, Ferris founded G.W.G. Ferris & Co. in Pittsburgh, a firm that tested and inspected metals for railroads and bridge builders.\n\nHe built the Ferris Wheel for the 1893 World's Fair, which was held in Chicago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's landing in America. The Chicago Fair's organizers wanted something that would rival the Eiffel Tower. Gustave Eiffel had built the tower for the Paris World's Fair of 1889, which honored the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.\n\nFinding a suitable design proved difficult: Architect Daniel H. Burnham, who was in charge of selecting the project for the Chicago World's Fair, complained at an engineer's banquet in 1891 about having found nothing that "met the expectations of the people". Among the audience was George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., owner of a firm that tested iron and steel. He had an inspiration and scribbled the design for the Ferris Wheel on a napkin during the dinner.\n\nIt was considered an engineering wonder: two 140-foot steel towers supported the wheel; they were connected by a 45-foot axle, the largest single piece of forged steel ever ma
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1.) To answer how they work you would have to have the kind of steam boat it is because thier are many, here the site where it tells the ins and out of alot of steamboats (http://www.steamboats.com/) The paddles squeaked enormously and turn the wheel which forced resistance against the water thus creating movement at a rel 2.) In 1787 John Fitch made the first steam boat 3.) In America on the Deleware River