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Thomas Newcomen
developed a steam engine;
used the vacuum to pull a piston down, which worked the beam engine, which was attached onto a chain which was atta ched to a pump in a mine -
John Kay
Flying Shuttle;
Weaved cloth -
James Hargreaves
The spinning Jenny;
Spun several threads at once -
James Watt
Improved Newcomen's steam engine;
Added a separate condensation chamber -
Ricahrd Arkwright
The water frame;
turned raw cotton into thread by the use of water power -
Samuel Crompton
Spinning Mule;
Produced yarn better than the spinning jenny -
Henry Cort
developed ideas for a puddling furnace ;
allowed for the manufacture of crude,standarised shapes made of wrought iron -
Edmund Cartwright
Invented the power loom;
it weaved much faster than one could with a hand loom -
Nicolas Leblanc
Develped the Leblanc system;
A two step system that sllows you to get sodium carbonate from salt -
Eli Whitney
The cotton gin;
could clean upto 55lbs of cotton daily -
Robert Fulton
created a better steamboat;
a steamboat that could reach 5 mph -
George Stephenson
Built first public inter-city locomotive railway line to use steam locomotives;
made transportation faster