Industrial Revolution Inventions

  • (Watt) Steam Engine

    (Watt) Steam Engine

    James Watt: It helped pump water more efficiently and help machinery in many different kinds of mills and industries
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny

    James Hargreaves: It was made to spin with more than one spindle at once
  • Power Loom

    Power Loom

    Edmund Cartwright: It weaves cloth and tapestries
  • Steamboat

    Steamboat

    John Fitch: Commercial and passenger transportation for water
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney: Cleaned the cotton seeds out of the cotton
  • Locomotive

    Locomotive

    George Stephenson: A self-propelled vehicle that can haul railroad cars on the tracks
  • Camera

    Camera

    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce: Helped document things because we were able to capture them in a picture
  • Sewing Machine

    Sewing Machine

    Barthélemy Thimonnier: It made sewing material more efficient
  • Automobile

    Automobile

    Robert Anderson: Easy transportation for people
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph

    David Alter: Transmits information/messages
  • Dynamite

    Dynamite

    Alfred Nobel: It helped quicken the process of railway and road building
  • Telephone

    Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell: Made communication between people quicker and easier