The Industrial Revolution

By heloise.jeannin

  • The fabrication of textile

    Before the seventeenth century, textiles were made mainly in people’s homes.

  • The coke-fueled furnace

    The coke-fueled furnace
    Abraham Darby discovered a cheaper and easier method to produce cast iron using a coke-fueled furnace.

  • A series of innovations

    A Series of innovations led to ever-increasing productivity, while requiring less human energy.

  • The use of steel and iron increased significantly

    Iron and steel became essential materials, they were used in everything from appliances.

  • The practical steam-engine

    Thomas Newcomen developed the first practical steam engine.

  • The use of the steam engine

    The steam engine was used to pump water out of mines.

  • The Spinning Jenny

    The Spinning Jenny
    James Hargreaves invented this machine in order to produce multiple spools of thread simultaneously.

  • The Waterframe

    The Waterframe
    Richard Arkwright created the Water frame, a spinning machine that used a water mill’s energy, in order to increase the production of cotton weavers.

  • Improvement of the Newcomen’s steam-engine

    James Watt had improved on Newcomen’s work

  • The use of steam engine

    The steam engine went on to power machinery, locomotives and ships during the Industrial Revolution.

  • The spinning mule

    The spinning mule
    The Spinning Jenny was improved by Samuel Crompton who called it the Spinning mule.

  • The Power Loom

    The Power Loom
    Edmund Cartwright developed a machine that mechanized the process of weaving clothes.

  • The gas lighting

    The gas lighting
    William Murdoch created gas lighting, using gas supplied by coal during combustion.

  • The electric battery

    The electric battery
    In 1800, Alessandro Volta created the first electric battery which produced electricity by converting chemical energy into electric energy.

  • The steamboat

    The steamboat
    In 1803, Robert Fulton developed the steamboat : the first boat capable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 13 days.

  • The Steam locomotive

    Richard Trevithick created the first Steam Locomotive, it is a motorized machine comprising a steam-engine.

  • The first harvester

    The first harvester
    The American Cyrus McCormick created the first harvester pulled by a horse.

  • First inexpensive process

    First inexpensive process
    Henry Bessemer developed the first inexpensive mass-producing steel.