cottage industry

  • The flying shuttle

    The flying shuttle

    The flying shuttle was one of the developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, and it could be mechanized, allowing for automatic machine looms.
  • The sewing machine

    The sewing machine

    Invented by Charles Wiesenthal. The sewing machine was a machine in which has an eye needle that had a string of thread in the eye and had winded up thread inside the machine and automatically sewed the cloth that you were sewing.
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny

    The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun, so by turning a single wheel, the operator could now spin eight threads at once
  • The water frame

    The water frame

    The water frame is the name given to a water powered spinning frame which was an easy way to create cotton thread. It was created by Richard Arkwright.
  • The submarine

    The submarine

    was a boat that was meant to sink and was propelled by paddles and was worked by the legs
  • The spinning mule

    The spinning mule

    The spinning mule was a machine that spun wool and made clothing. It was made by Richard Roberts
  • Puddling

    Puddling

    in the process coke which was derived from coal was used to burn away impurities in crude iron to make. created by Henry Cort
  • The power loom

    The power loom

    Was a weaving machine that weaved things faster than other things. Was invented by Edmund Cartwright
  • The gas turbine

    The gas turbine

    was a machine powered by gas
  • The steam boat

    The steam boat

    in 1807 Robert Fulton made the first steam boat. it transported things easier across the United States
  • Trains and railroads

    Trains and railroads

    was powered by coal and carried 10 tons of ore, 70 people and ran at a speed of five miles per hour. it was built by George Stephenson
  • The type writer

    The type writer

    Had keys or little buttons that when pressed stamped ink onto a paper. Invented by W.A Burt.
  • The factory act

    The factory act

    Protected children working in factories in 1833
  • The telagraph

    The telagraph

    was a type of Morse code connected by wires
  • Germ theory of disease

    Germ theory of disease

    Louis Pasteur purposed theory which was crucial towards scientific medical practices
  • The elevator safety brake

    The elevator safety brake

    Was invented by Elisha Otis. It was a brake that prevented elevator cars from falling.
  • The Gatling gun

    The Gatling gun

    was a firing weapon designed by Richard Gatling. It stood on two wheels and was hand cranked to rapidly fire bullets. It was used in many early wars like the American civil war, and the Spanish american war. It changed the outcome firearms.
  • Dynamite

    Dynamite

    created by Alfred Noble. dynamite was a safer way to mine and make holes in mountains
  • The Brooklyn bridge

    The Brooklyn bridge

    Is a bridge that connects to Manhattan to Brooklyn. It was made out of a suspension type material.
  • The telephone

    The telephone

    Invented by Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone could transmit speech through electricity.