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Industrial Revolution Inventors

By RileyC
  • The Seed Drill

    The Seed Drill
    Jethro tull invented the seed drill to make planting seeds a lot easier rather than just planting them by hand.
  • The Creation of Smelting

    The Creation of Smelting
    Abraham Darby created smelting which was a new way to get the iron from the ore to make the strongest and purest of irons.
  • The First Steam Engine

    The First Steam Engine
    The first Steam engine was created by Thomas Newcomen to pump water out of the coal mines to make the miners jobs easier.
  • The Flying Shuttle

    The Flying Shuttle
    John kay created this wonderful invention to increase the output in the textile mills. This was on of the most useful items used in these textile mills.
  • The creation of Methodism

    John Wesley ceated the methodist religion in the mid 1700's. He was with a small group of people when he had discovered the new way of thinking about life.
  • The Spinning Jenny

    The Spinning Jenny
    This invention was created by James Hargreaves to spin a lot of threads at the same time.
  • The Water Frame

    The Water Frame
    Invented by Richard Arkwright the Water frame was created to speed up the power of the spinning wheel. Thus increasing the produciton rate of thread.
  • The Improvement of the Steam Engine

    The Improvement of the Steam Engine
    James Watt's improvement of the steam engine was so greatly appreciated he was named the father of the Industrial Revolution.
  • The foundation of Utilitarianism

    Jeremy Bentham created this Way of life that actions that made people happy were good and actions that made people hurt were wrong.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    The cotton gin was created to help produce cotton faster in the southern states instead of having the slaves do it themselves.
  • Interchangeable Parts

    Eli Whitney had also created the interchangeable parts during the main wars to make fixing weapons faster because the soldiers could pick up an old weapon and then fix it with those same parts.
  • Creation of the Steam Boat

    Creation of the Steam Boat
    Robert Fulton had invented the first steam boat and soon after he had created this first steam boat he had been hired by Napoleon to create the Nautilus which was the first submarine in the 1800's.
  • The steam powered Train

    The steam powered Train
    The steam powered locomotive was created by George Stephenson to pull carriages along iron rails to carry valuable ores.