Inventions of the industrial age

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    Inventions

  • Steam Engine

    Inventor: Thomas Savery
    Importance: powers machines making transportation and manufacturing quicker and easier
  • Mechanical seed sower

    Inventor: Jetrho Tull
    Importance: Made it easier for large scale planting and increased the likely hood of germination (less wastage)
  • Steam Engine 2.0

    Inventor: Thomas Newcomen
    Importance: Made it safer and more effective, improved transport (steamboats, locomotives), used in mines and factories
  • Spinning Jenny

    Inventor: James Hargreaves
    Importance: It spined thread quickly so it increased the production of textiles and made more affordable.
  • Threshing Machine

    Inventor: Andrew Meikle
    Importance: it made separating the seeds from the plant easier and less wastage.
  • Power Loom

    Inventor: Edmund Cartwright
    Importance: Made looms run faster, women replaced men in the making of cloth