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Period: to
Inventions
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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