Industrial Revolution

By Macie01
  • Charles Townshend: Viscount

    Rotated crops and planted different crop each year
  • Thomas Savery: Paddle Wheels, Steam Engine, Pump Engine

    Propelled vessels in calm weathermade running engines more efficient extracted water from mines where miners could not reach
  • Jethro Tull: Seed Drill

    Dug a channel which planted seeds into and linited wastage and crops easier to weed
  • Thomas Newcomen: Newcomen Engine

    Converted the heat engery from the steam engine into mechanical
  • John Kay: Flying Shuttle

    Allowed weavers to produce wider pieces of cloth faster
  • James Watt: Steam Engine Improvements

    Converted the heat engery from steam engine into mechanical
  • James Hargreaves: Spinning Jenny

    Allowed spinners to produce more yarn
  • Richard Arkwright: Spinning Frame

    Helped to reduce spices and sugars and to produce thicker, more precise yarn and was powered by a waterwheel
  • Samual Crompton: Spinning Mule

    Produced strong soft yarn that could be used in all taxtiles
  • Abraham Darby: Bristol Iron Co.

    First sucessful smelt iron ore with coke and built much larger furnaces
  • Henry Cort: Puddling Furnace & Rolling Mill

    Refined oreallowed shapes to be made out of iron
  • Edmund cartwright:Imprefect Power Loom, Wool, Combing machine, and Steam Poward loom

    Converted looms into water-power to make more efficient built a design to make a steam powered loom produced wool more efficiently and lightened workload for factory workers.
  • Eli Whitney: Cotton Gin

    Extracted seeds from cotton and made cotton a valuable industry in the South
  • George Stephenson: Blucher

    Engine that could pull thirty tons at four miles per hour and helped in the building of the first railways
  • Henry Bessemer: Bessemer Process & Bessemer Converter

    Removed excess oxygen from inonreceives charge of molten metal which can then be "blown" into shape