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Flying Shuttle
Doubles the work a weaver can do in a day, One of the best inventions of this century. Made weaving easier and more productive and alot faster. -
Railroads
Railroads became the most important method of transportation during the Industrial Revolution. The Railroad was created to transport things form one place to another. Things such as coals and cloth. -
The Industrial Revolution
The shift, beginning in England during the 18th century, from making goods by hand to making them by machine. -
Waterpower
Made both of these inventions faster because it was controled by pushing water insted of humans controling the machines. -
Spinning Jenny
A wheel that allows a worker to spin 8 spools of yarn at a time, productive fast machine. This created a new thing called factories and produced more fabric than ever before. -
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton was an inventor who created the Steam engine he created many diffrent kinds then he had his partner sell them. -
Steam Engine
James Watt develops a better, more efficient steam engine and teams with entrepreneur Matthew Boulton to sell it. -
Urbanization
In the late 1700’s more and more people moved to cities, and away form the middle of nowhere because they built factories out in the middle of nowhere. -
Clermont
American, Robert Fulton placed a steam engine on a boat and built the Clermont, the first steam boat. The Clermont was one of the very sucussful steam engines that was used very often in production. -
Factories
A building in which machines are set up to produce goods, and these made the produce of goods speed up. Insted of using a bunch of people these used water powerd machines and created twice the amount of goods.