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Spinning Jenny
Spinning Jenny-About.com/inventors
The spinning jenny was created sometime in 1764 by James Hagreves. The spinning jenny was an improvement upon the spinning wheel as it could spin eight spindles instead of one. His later models would have up to 120 spindels. -
Watt Steam Engine Developed
James Watt came up with a new patent for the steam engine; a improvement upon Thomas Newcommen's steam engine. James Watt was given a job of repairing a model Newommen engine when he noticed how inefficient it was. Watt got the idea of a seperate condensation chamber -
Steamboat patented
History of SteamboatsAfter Watt invented the steam engine, John Fitch began working on the steamboat. On August 22, 1787 Fitch sent a forty-five foot steamboat accross the Delaware. Later on Fitch built a larger steamboat with passengers on it to set sail. After a period of four years Fitch patented his steamboat after a dispute with James Rumsy who had a similar design. -
Edward Jenner vaccinations
photoThe smallpox vaccine was one of the first vaccines to be developed. He acted when his milkmaids that got cowpox did not develope smallpox. After a series of 23 sucesful attempts at vaccinating, he brought his findings before the Royal Society. By 1973 smallpox was erradicated. -
Eli Whitney: Interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney made ten guns that had the same parts and mechanisms. Eli took them before the United States Congress in a mixed pile and put them together again. Congress was interested and ordered for all standard equipment to be made of interchangeable parts. Now if one weapon were to break you could buy a new part instead of having to make a whole new item. this practice would not become common until the late 19th and early 20th century as int was much more expensive and difficult to do this. -
First practical Steam-powered locomotive
George StephensonGeorge Stephenson worked in the mines where he learned how to fix the Watt steam engines. He bagan working for extra money to work on his inventions. Stephenson got a job building his first locomotive with William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth. Ten months later, Stephenson's locomotive "Blütcher" was completed and tested. -
Factory Act of 1833
In 1833 the government passed the Factory Act to improve working conditions among children. These were put in place because of the terrible working conditions around them. There were several parts to to this act including: no children under nine can work, employers need an age sertificate, children from 9 to thiteen can only work for nine hours while children thirteen to eighteen can only work twelve hours, children cannot work at night, and there are to be four inspectors present every day. -
Cooke and Whetstone Telegraph
pictureWilliam Cooke and Chrles Wheatstone patented the first comercially used electronic telegraph. They used the principals of electromagnetism to point a needle at alphabetic symbols to spell out a word or phrase. The origional devise had five needles but before the commercial use they limited it to one. The Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was discarded after Samuel Morse invented morse code. -
Cunard Line
PictureThe Cunard Line was a Britiish-American sjipping company based in Southampton, England. From !840 to 1864 Cunard Line has been using paddle boats to send mail across the Atlantic. In May of 1840 their first steamboat, Unicorn, accross the atlantic and became one of the first steamboats to make a trans-atlantic voyage. -
Third French Revolution
After the overthrowing of Louis-Phillipe the elected government of the Second Republic ruled France.As time passed, the government became more conservative. This led to a rebellion that was unsuccessful. This became known as the June days. On December 2, 1848 Louis Napoleon was elected president of the Second Repubic ending the rebellion. -
Edwin Drake Finds Crude Oil
By 1825 the petrolem industry was in full swing and still gaining momentum. The first American oil company in Pittsburgh, Seneca Oil (originaly Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company), hired Edwin Drake to investigate possible oil deposits in Titusville, PA. Drake found a deposit and began drilling at slow three feet per day. This was considered a failure to the point that Seneca Oil stopped backing him. He relied on money form his friends to keep the drill going when Drake's Folly struck oil.
