Inventors and Inventions Timeline

  • Invention of Flying shuttle

    Invention of Flying shuttle
    John Kay was a machinist and engineer who invented the Flying shuttle in 1733. which was an important step toward automatic weaving. The flying shuttle helped make clothes and many other items that we use today.
  • Invention of the Spinning Jenny

    Invention of the Spinning Jenny
    James Hargreaves was an English inventor of the Spinning Jenny. which was the first practical application of multiple spinning by a machine.
  • Invention of the Water frame

    Invention of the Water frame
    Richard Arkwright was a textile industrialist and inventor whose use of the power-driven machinery of a factory system was more important than his inventions. His invention the Water frame was a spinning frame when water power is used to drive it.
  • Invention of the Steam engine

    Invention of the Steam engine
    James Watt was an inventor and mechanical engineer and chemist who invented the steam engine which is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. in today's transportation, we use this type of engine for trains.
  • Invention of Spinning mule

    Invention of Spinning mule
    Samuel Compton was a British inventor of the Spinning mule and took the moving carriage of the Jenny and mixed it with the rollers of the water frame. with significant impact on society during the Industrial Revolution.
  • Invention of the Steamboat

    Invention of the Steamboat
    Robert Fulton was an American inventor, engineer, and artist who invented the Steamboat which was a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power. The Steamboat is used today as a boat for a cruise or the small boats that drive on lakes
  • Invention of the Steam locomotive

    Invention of the Steam locomotive
    George Stephenson and Richard Trevithick were British mechanical engineers and inventors who invented the Steam locomotive which was a steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine. The steam locomotive could be used in trains today.
  • Invention of the Bessemer converter

    Invention of the Bessemer converter
    Henry Bessemer was an inventor and engineer who invented Bessemer converter which was steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The Bessemer converter is used today as a furnace to make food or make a house warm.
  • Invention of the Pasteurization

    Invention of the Pasteurization
    Louis Pasteur was a French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist who invented the Pasteurization which was a liquid that could be prevented from spoiling with a special heating treatment. This method was particularly implemented to save wines and beers from diseases by heating.
  • Invention of the Phonograph

    Invention of the Phonograph
    Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who invented the Phonograph which was record sound on tinfoil-coated cylinders. The Phonograph is used today as phones and texting. as like sending signals
  • Invention of the Remote control

    Invention of the Remote control
    Nikola Tesla was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who invented the Remote control which is an electronic device used to operate the device wirelessly from a distance. Today a remote could be used for televisions to change the channels and for much other new technologies.