Industrial

Industrial Revolution

  • Flying Shuttle

    Flying Shuttle
    John Kay created the flying shuttle. An advantage of the flying shuttle is it was a much more efficient process that doubled the production of cloth. Some disadvantage are it took four spinners to keep up with production of the flying shuttle
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny
    James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny and named it after his daughter jenny. Him and his partner, Thomas James, built a small mill and used the jennies to a spin yarn for the hosiers.
  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine
    James Watt invented the steam engine. More money was being made because factories and mills sprung up everywhere because of his invention.
  • Carding Cotton

    Carding Cotton
    Richard Arkwright made a machine for carding cotton had been introduced into England with help from others he made the machine even better than before and it was patented in 1775
  • Steam Locomotive

    Steam Locomotive
    Richard Trevithick invented the steam locomotive. His invention helped people get to their destination faster then before his invention.
  • Spinning Mule

    Spinning Mule
    Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule. His invention was used worldwide. The machine was slightly modified throughout the years.
  • Light Bulb

    Light Bulb
    Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb and the phonograph. This invention helped people to talk to their peers that are further away from them.
  • Steam Boat

    Steam Boat
    Robert Fulton invented the steamboat. Helped people travel on boat and get to where they need to be quicker.
  • Railway

    Railway
    George Stephenson built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use locomotives.
  • Pasteurization

    Pasteurization
    Louis Pasteur came up with the food preparing process known as pasteurization. He also made a vaccination for rabies and other sicknesses.
  • Furnace

    Furnace
    Henry Bessemer invented the Bessemer furnace. The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel.
  • Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla
    Nikola invented the radio in 1989. He patented a radio controlled robot-boat.