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Industrial Revolution

  • John Kay

    John Kay
    Flying shuttle,Machine that represented an important step toward automatic weaving.
  • Watt Steam Engine

    Watt Steam Engine
    was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny
    The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution.
  • Water Frame

    Water Frame
    The water frame is given to a spinning frame, when water power is used to drive it. Both are credited to Richard Arkwright who patented the technology in 1768.
  • Spinning Mule

    Spinning Mule
    The spinning mule is 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. Mules were worked in pairs by a minder, with the help of two boys: the little piecer and the big or side piecer.
  • Steam locomotive

    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.
  • Steam boat

    Steam boat
    American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton is best know for developing the first successful commercial steamboat, the North River Steamboat (later known as the Clermont) which carried passengers between New York City and Albany, New York. Fulton also designed the world's first steam warship.
  • Pasteurization

    Pasteurization
    Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) He showed that food spoils because of microorganisms and invented pasteurization, which was originally used to prevent wine and beer from souring.
  • manufacturing steel

    manufacturing steel
    inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856), leading to the development of the Bessemer converter. He was knighted in 1879.
  • Light Bulb

    Light Bulb
    Edison is credited for contributing to various inventions, including the phonograph, the kinetoscope, the dictaphone, the electric lamp (in particular the incandescent light bulb), and the autographic printer. He also greatly improved the telephone by inventing the carbon microphone.
  • Wireless telegrahy

    Wireless telegrahy
    Wireless telegraphy is the transmission of electric telegraphy signals without wires (wirelessly). The term is used synonymously for radio communication systems, also called radiotelegraphy, which transmit telegraph signals by radio waves. When the term originated in the late 19th century it also applied to other types of experimental wireless telegraph communication technologies, such as conduction and induction telegraphy.