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John Kay- Flying Shuttle
Advantages:
-The flying shuttle let weavers make cloth a lot faster than the normal tedious methods of hand making cloth
-It also let weavers make a wider piece of cloth
Disadvantages:
-People were jealous of the idea and threatened the inventor, John Kay by trashing his house
-replaced weavers risking unemployment (but only slightly)
*The flying shuttle was a easier, faster way of making cloth to make clothing.
*The flying shuttle has now been replaced by machines. that make clothing. -
James Hargreaves- Spinning Jenny
Advantages:
-low yarn cost
-high delivery speeds
Disadvantages:
-low yarn strength
-difficulty of keeping constant
*The spinning jenny is a multi spindle spinning frame that helped weave during the industrial revolution.
*newer innovations of the spinning jenny have been created since the spinning jenny. -
Richard Arkwright- Water Frame
Advantages-
-less labor required
-faster producing speed
Disadvantages-
-people lost their jobs
-no better coarse yarn than spinning jenny
*The water frame is a water powered spinning frame for the textile industry and it was the first machine that could spin threads on water power.
*The water frame isn't used today but it led to the creation in factories which are used today. -
Samuel Compton- Spinning Mule
Advantages-
- it was able to spin many yarns at once which was faster by machine than by hand.
-the workers got paid more.
Disadvantages-
- The Mule spun such fine thread this meant that the price for this on the market was very high.
-cut down on the number of people needed in factories to spin yarn as it could be done by a machine.
*The spinning mule is used to spin cotton and other fibers.
*The spinning mule is still used today to spin wool and alpaca -
James Watt- Steam Engine
Advantages-
-A steam engine can be used at any time because steam can be produced at any time
- A steam engine could be located anywhere because water is heated in a separate boiler to produce steam.
Disadvantages-
- A steam engine does not start at once
- A steam engine is unsafe to use.
*Steam Engines burned coal to make heat. heat was then turned into steam which powered the steam engine.
*the steam engine is no longer used today, but newer inventions of the steam engines are used. -
Richard Trevithick- Steam Locomotive
Advantages-
-Early style of railroads, and was (at one point) the only way to power a train.
- Helped railroads grow and learn more about the fundamentals of railroading.
Disadvantages-
-Steam engine has low efficiency.
- Very polluting way of powering a train.
*The Steam Locomotive was originally used for efficient transport.
* The Steam Locomotive is no longer used today but other engines were created to replace the Steam Locomotive. -
Robert Fulton- Steam Boat
Advantages-
-Made it able to travel across water
-fast travel
Disadvantages-
-By the 1830s, trains started to compete with steamboats and eventually took away a lot of business.
-Steam propulsion is dangerous
*The Steam Boat was a new type of transport that operated on steam energy the purpose of the steam boat was to transport people and goods
*Steamboats are still used today -
Louis Pasteur- Pasteurization
Advantages-
-Pasteurization destroys microorganisms that can appear in milk and cause illnesses.
- keeps people from getting illnesses
Disadvantages-
-it meant to counter organisms that lead to the souring of milk.
- made milk go bad fast which waste money
*Pasteurization is the process of heat processing a liquid or a food to kill pathogenic bacteria to make the food safe to eat.
*today Pasteurization is still used but we buy them already Pasteurized. -
George Stephenson- Stephenson's Rocket
Advantages-
-made everything easier to transport
-was faster
Disadvantages-
-Very heavy
-tall
*Stephenson's Rocket was a machine that could effectively draw water from flooded mines using steam pressure.
* the rocked is no longer used today but more engines were created to replace Stephenson's Rocket -
Henry Bessemer- steel inexpensively
Advantages-
-cleaner to make
-cheaper to make
Disadvantages-
-lacks versatility
-heavy
*It is the process of making steel from pig iron by burning out carbon and other impurities by a blast of air, which is forced through the molten metal.
*led to the creation of skyscrapers, made most automobiles -
Thomas Edison- Light Bulb
Advantages-
-created light at night
- lat people work in factories at night
Disadvantages-
-cost
-uses more energy to work
*the light bulb is a glass bulb inserted into a lamp or a socket in a ceiling, that provides light by passing an electric current through a filament or a pocket of inert gas.
- light bulbs are still used every day wit many things for example, cell phones, cars, TVs, ect. -
Nikola Tesla- Wireless Telegraphy
Advantages-
-you could go anywhere and talk in the phone.
-long range
Disadvantage-
-unplugging the cord causes it not to work
-not long range
* wireless telegraphy is telegraphy carried on by radio waves and without connecting wires.
*we still used this every day with house phones, and cell phones with technology advancing every day
