Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

By kyle12stulack

  • Flying Shuttle

    Flying Shuttle
    John Kay invited the flying shuttle, in 1733. It was an improvement to speed up the weaving process. John Kay was attacked in England by workers that belived that his invention would take away work from them, so he fled to France.

  • Spinning Mule

    Spinning Mule
    Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule in 1779. It was a combination of the moving carriage in the spinning jenny with teh rollers in the water frame. it gave the spinner better control over the weaveing process, now spinners could make diffrent yarn, and better cloths could be made.

  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Eli Whitney made the cotton gin in April of 1793, it was made to speed up the process of picking out seeds in cotton. It was first introduced in England and then Eli brought it to the Americas. Eli speed up the process of farming and made it so that you no longer need to pick seeds and can just put it into the machine.

  • Reaper

    Reaper
    Cryus McCormick made the reaper in July of 1831. In 1847 it made it into factories, the reaper cut the grain still standing, and then with a reel, swept it on a platform and was raked by men. It produced more grain than what five men were able to do. Later they made it so it raked by itself, and men would bundle the grain. It was produced in Chicago. It was later taken over by the self-propelled combine.

  • Vulcanized Rubber

    Vulcanized Rubber
    Charles Goodyear invented the Vulcanized Rubber, in the mid 1830's. The industry of rubber was on the downfall, because it was frozen and cracking in the winter, then in the summer it would melt. Goodyear sold his family into debt and was later thrown in jail. Still determined he perfected the process in 1844. His two brothers from Ohio named their company after him, hence the name Goodyear tires.

  • Phonograph

    Phonograph
    Alva Edison, completed his first Phonograph. It worked by the air vibrations being translated to the human voice into minute indentations on a peice of tinfoil placed over a metal cylinder, and the machine reproduced the sounds which had cause the indentations. In the later 1800's Samuel Morse brought it to America.