The Industrial revolution

By noahlcmpa

  • Coke-fuelled furnace

    Abraham Darby discovered a cheaper , easier method to produce cast iron.

  • First steam engine

    The Englishman Thomas Newcomen developed the first pratical steam engine which is a machine used to pump water out of mines.

  • The spinning jenny

    The englishman James Hargreaves invented a machine that enabled an individual to produce multiple spools of threads simultaneously

  • Improved steam engine

    The Scottish inventor James Watt had improved on Newcomen’s work,and the steam engine went on to power machinery,locomotives and ships during the Industrial Revolution

  • spinning mule

    The british inventor Samuel Compton’s improved spinning jenny

  • first aerosol

    In 1783, in the France of Louis XVI the mongolfiers brothers created the first aerosol

  • Bifocal lenses

    In 1784 Benjamin Francklin created bifocal lenses , previous current varifocal lenses

  • Power loom

    The inventor Edmund Cartwright developed the process of weaving cloth

  • First steamboat

    Robert Fulton operates the first steamboat on the Seine on August 9, 1803.

  • Bessemer process

    The british engineer Henry Bessemer developed the first inexpensive process for mass-producing steel.