Steam Engine: With ancestors dating back to ancient times, the authentic steam engine is now considered to have been invented by the English blacksmith Thomas Newcomen, and was used to extract water from coal mines, which were constantly flooded. This device was the main driver of the Industrial Revolution, which brought profound social and technological changes to the world. It was later perfected by James Watt, who devised a separate, non-included condenser as in the Newcomen machine, which allowed it to be more efficient and consume only one-third as much carbon as Newcomen's.
Typewriter: its inventor was Henry Mill, who patented a device with which it was possible to print letters one after another, although no one was interested, because secretaries took letters by shorthand (known since Roman times), and then they transcribed them by hand.
Elevator: the first known corresponds to the one built in the Palace of Versailles for King Louis XV. Compensated by a system of weights, and manually operated, the elevator transported the monarch in absolute privacy from one floor to another.
Lightning rods: the American scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin placed them, in the form of cables, on the facades of buildings in Philadelphia, United States.
Steamboat: The Pyroscaphe, a 182-ton wheeled ship, built by the Marquis Jouffroy d’Abbans, made a test trip up the Saone River in France, powered by the power of steam.
Gas lighting (domestic): William Murdoch lit his office with this system, in Redruth, England. Gas street lighting began operating in 1807 in England.
Ambulance - The first vehicle built specifically to transport casualties was designed by Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, Napoleon's personal physician.