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An automating weaving in the weaving of cloth.
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The creation of the steam engine drove the Industrial Revolution because the steam power overcame the use of weak men or tired horses to do tough work and speed factories along.
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Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule that combined the moving carriage of the spinning jenny with the rollers of the water frame.
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Was the world's first twin-track inter-city passenger railway that was created.
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Henry Bessemer developed a new method for manufacturing steel. The Bessemer process made possible the manufacture of large amounts of high-quality steel for the first time. This provided steel at relativel low cost to various industries.
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American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company that was the biggest oil refiner in the world at the time. Founded by John D Rockefeller.
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In 1901, he sold the Carnegie Steel Company to banker J.P. Morgan for $480 million.
