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James Watt
He invented the Steam Engine! Steam from the boiler is piped into the cylinder, causing the piston to move first one way then the other. This in and out movement (which is also known as "reciprocating") is used to drive.Steam engines rank with cars, airplanes, telephones, radio, and television among the greatest inventions of all time. -
John Kay
John Kay invented the flying shuttle.It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, and it could be mechanized, allowing for automatic machine looms. -
James Hargreaves
He created the Spinning Jenny. The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun, so by turning a single wheel, the operator could now spin eight threads at once. -
Richard Arkwright
He created the water and spinning frame.when water power is used to drive it. Both are credited to Richard Arkwright who patented the technology in 1768. It was based on an invention by Thomas Highs and the patent was later overturned. -
Samuel Compton
He created the spinning mule.machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. They were used extensively from the late 18th to the early 20th century in the mills of Lancashire and elsewhere. Mules were worked in pairs by a minder, with the help of two boys: the little piecer and the big or side piecer. -
George Stephenson
He Invented the Steam Locomotive! A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning combustible material – usually coal, wood, or oil – to produce steam in a boiler. -
Robert Fulton
He invented the First Steam Boat! is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation SS, S.S. or S/S (for 'Screw Steamer') or PS (for 'Paddle Steamer'), however these designations are most often used for Steamships. -
Richard Trevithick
He also Invented the Steam Locomotive! He took it more farther and is getting more attention for it and he took it to a railroad and took the locomotive and made it on the railroad with the steam engine on a train. -
Henry Bessemer
He processed the first manufacturing steel inexpensively! The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation with air being blown through the molten iron. -
Louis Pasteur
He invented Pasteurization! Pasteurization is a process that kills harmful bacteria by heating milk to a specific temperature for a set period of time. First developed by Louis Pasteur in 1864, pasteurization kills harmful organisms responsible for such diseases as listeriosis, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and brucellosis. -
Thomas Edison
He invented the Light bulb! This effects us greatly in today's society.
The incandescent light bulb turns electricity into light by sending the electric current through a thin wire called a filament. Filaments are made up mostly of tungsten, a metal. The resistance of the filament heats the bulb up. Eventually the filament gets so hot that it glows, producing light. -
Nikola Tesla
He Invented the first electric current! The SI unit for measuring an electric current is the ampere, which is the flow of electric charge across a surface at the rate of one coulomb per second. Electric current is measured using a device called an ammeter. Electric currents cause Joule heating, which creates light in incandescent light bulbs.
