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Steam Engine
Invented by Thomas Newcomen in Dartmouth, Devon, England, his invention was the first steam engine to pump water out of coal mines. Steam power is one of the most important and key aspects of the Industrial Revolution. The invention of the steam engine created many changes and additions to the technology of the time, including steam powered locomotives. Steam locomotives are vehicles that run on rails or tracks and are powered by steam engines -
Flying Shuttle
Flying shuttle, Machine that represented an important step toward automatic weaving. It was invented by John Kay in 1733. In previous looms, the shuttle was thrown, or passed, through the threads by hand, and wide fabrics required two weavers seated side by side passing the shuttle between them. Using the flying shuttle, one weaver could weave fabrics of any width more quickly than two could before. It was created in Colchester, Essex. -
Modern Steam Engine
Created by James Watt, the steam engine began to be used in many industrial settings, not just in mining, where the first engines had been used to pump water from deep workings. Early mills had run successfully with water power, but by using a steam engine a factory could be located anywhere, not just close to water. Water power varied with the seasons and was not available at times due to freezing, floods and dry spells. Built in England. -
Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England. The device reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once -
Power Loom
The first power loom was designed in 1769 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1770 in England. It was refined over the next 47 years until a design by Kenworthy and Bullough made the operation completely automatic. By 1850 there were 260,000 in operation in England. Helped with weaving industry. -
Iron Plow
Iron Plow invented by James Small in Scotland. Used on farms to make it easier to work the soil. -
Cotton Gin
Increased supply of cotton, was a key to textile industry. Invented by Eli Whitney in the United States. -
1st Steamboat
The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807. Used for transportation. -
Electric Generator
The operating principle of electromagnetic generators was discovered in the years of 1831–1832 by Michael Faraday. Invented in England. Provides electricity. -
Labor Reform Laws
Limited length of working day, limited children to 8 hours a day. Took place in America, idea came to be through Labor Unions. -
Telegraph
An electrical telegraph was independently developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse. His assistant, Alfred Vail, developed the Morse code signalling alphabet with Morse. It was used for transmitting and receiving messages over long distances. -
Labor Reform Laws
Barred women from working in mines; Mines and Collieries Act 1842 , commonly known as the Mines Act of 1842, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It prohibited (banned) all girls and boys under ten years old from working underground in coal mines. It was a response to the working conditions of children revealed in the Children's Employment Commission (Mines) 1842 report. The Commission was headed by Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. -
Telephone
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell, invented in the U.S. and is used as a means of communication. -
Lightbulb
Invented by Thomas Edison in United States, the lightbulb produced a safer and more efficient way of light. It reduced the number of house fires and made light easily accessible. -
Internal Combustion Engine
The Otto engine was a large stationary single-cylinder internal combustion four-stroke engine designed by Nikolaus Otto. Designed in Germany, the engine is used to power cars. -
1st Commercial Automobile
The Flocken Elektrowagen of 1886 by German inventor Andreas Flocken is regarded as the first real electric car of the world. Invented in Germany, the automobile is used as a mode of transportation. -
Classical Conditioning
Experiment that used dogs and bells to induce a response to certain stimuli. The Idea was created by Ivan Pavlov in Russia. -
Wireless Telegraph Radio
Wireless telegraphy came to mean Morse code transmitted by radio waves (electromagnetic waves), initially called "Hertzian waves", discovered by Heinrich Hertz in 1886. The first practical wireless telegraphy transmitters and receivers were developed by Guglielmo Marconi beginning in 1901, in Germany. -
1st Airplane
Created by Orville & Wilbur Wright, the airplane is a mean of transportation. It was created in America. -
Assembly Line
On this day in 1908, Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two hours and 30 minutes. It reduced the amount of time it took to "produce" a car, and it was invented in America.
