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Steam Engine
The first Steam Engine was invented. The Industrial Revolution is coming about and will bring many changes to the world. The use of machines will alloow itmes to be mass produced and the growth of cities. -
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Industrial Revolution Inventions
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Spinning Jenny
The Spinning Jenny made it possible for more than one thread to be spun from raw material, making the spinning process faster. -
Steam Engine
The improvement of the Steam Engine made it able to powere factory machines and locomotives. -
Cotton Gin
The invenstion of the Cotton Gin allowed for eaier speration of the cotton and seeds when the cotton was removed from the cotton plant. This resulted in icreased cotton production and more spun cloth for goods. -
First Steam Locomotive
The first steam locomotive was made by Richard Trevithick. The first steam locomotive haul was along the tramway from the Penydaren Ironworks in South Wales. -
United States Steam Locomotive
The first railroads were tracks on roads. Horses pulled wagons with their wheels altered to ride on the rails. The development of the steam engine allowed trains be moved by steam power. America's first steam-powered railroad was the Baltimore & Ohio, the engine was the Tom Thumb. Within decades hundreds of thousands of railway miles crisscrossed the nation. -
Telegraph - First Message
Telegraph HistoryMay 24, 1844, Morse sent Vail the historic first message: “What hath God wrought!” from the electric telegraph. The message was sent from Washington D.C. - Baltimore, MD. Though types of telegraph had been eveloped earlier a combination of battery cell inventions and Morse Code needed to be invented before the public saw the telegraph as a cahnge to their everyday lives. -
SInger Sewing Machine
Industrial sewing machines are large, fast, more complex than household sewing machines. These sewing machines have the ability to sew cloth quickly. -
Steel Production
A new method to produce steel made the material more affordable and available for the building of factories and expanding cities. -
Dynamite
The invention of dynamite made blasting safer to expand mining and clearing areas to build. -
Vaccines
Chemist Leuis Pasteur created vaccines to fight diseases plauging the general population. These vaccines improved peoples quality of life and led the population to live longer.
