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Steam Engine - A heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. -
Iron Smelting - Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product. -
Flying Shuttle - A type of weaving shuttle. Advancement in the mechanisation of weaving during the initial stages of the Industrial Revolution, and facilitated the weaving of considerably broader fabrics, enabling the production of wider textiles -
The Invisible Hand Theory - a metaphor for how, in a free market economy, self-interested individuals operate through a system of mutual interdependence. -
Water Frame - The water frame is a spinning frame that is powered by a water-wheel. -
Spinning Mule - A 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 -
Spinning Mules - A machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. -
Puddling Process - converting pig iron into wrought iron by subjecting it to heat and stirring it in a furnace, without using charcoal. -
The Panopticon - A prison System. A design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control. -
Cotton Gin - A machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. -
Sewing Machine - a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. -
Transatlantic Cable - Undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications.