Industrial Timeline

  • Paddle Wheels, Steam Engine, Pump Engine

    Thomas Savery-Propelled vessels in calm weather made running engins more efficient extracted water from mines where miners could not reach
  • Seed Drill

    Jethro Tull- Dug a channel which planted seeds into and limited wastage and cropseasir to weed
  • Bristol Iron Co

    Abraham Darby- first successful smelt iron ore with coke and built much larger furnaces
  • Newcomen Engine

    Thomas Newcomen- Drove the water pump( a machine used to extract water)
  • Viscount

    Charles Townshed- Roated crops and Planted differnt crops each year
  • Flying Shuttle

    John Kay-Allowed waevers to produce wider pieces of cloth faster
  • Spinning Jenny

    James Hargreaves-Allowed spinners to produce more yarn
  • Spinning Mule

    Samuel Crompton- produced strong soft yarn that could be used in all textiles
  • Steam Engine Improvments

    James Watt-Converted the heat energy from steam engine into mechanical engine
  • Spinning Frame

    Richard Arkwright- Helped to produce spices and sugars and produce thinker, more preciese yarn adnwas powered by waterwheel
  • Puddling Furnance and Rolling Mill

    Henry Cort- Refined ore allowed shapes to be made out of iron
  • Imperfect Power Loom, Wool-Combing Machine,Steam Powered Loom

    Edward Cartwright-Converted loom to make waterpower to make more efficient built a design to make a steam powerd loom produced wool more efficiently and lighted workload for made weaving practical and base for modern day looms
  • Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney- Extracted seeds from cotton andmade cotton a valuable industry in the South
  • Steam Locomotive(Bluncher)

    George Stephenson- Engine that could pull four miles per hour and helped in the building of the first railway
  • Bessemer Process and Bessemer Converter

    Henry Bessemer- removed excess oxygen from iron recievs charge of molton metal which can then be blown into a shape