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The Industrial Revolution
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Jethro Tull
Invented: Seed drill
Planted seeds in rows instead of being scattered by hand, which Tull considered wasteful. -
Thomas Newcomen
Invented: Newcomen Steam Engine
Steam engine for pumping water out of the bottom of mines. -
John Roebuck
Invented: Conversion of cast iron into malleable iron
Also credited for developing industrial-scale manufacture of sulphuric acid. (1746) -
Samuel Crompton
Invented: Spinning Mule
Combined the spinning jenny with roller of water frame. This gave the spinner control over the weaving process and many different types of yarn could be produced. -
Henry Cort
Invented: "Puddling"
Puddling was a process for refining iron ore. It removed excess carbon that the iron had absorbed during smelting. -
Edmund Cartwright
Invented: Power loom
Steam-powered mechanically operated loom that combined threads to create cloth. -
Nicholas LeBlanc
Invented: Process for making soda ash (sodium carbonate) from salt.
Thsi process proved to be simple, cheap, and direct. -
Eli Whitney
Invented: Cotton Gin
Machine that separated cotton see from the cotton fiber. -
Alessandro Volta
Invented: Electric Battery
The battery stores energy and makes it availible in electrical form. -
George Stephenson
Invented: Steam locomotive
Built "Blutcher" which could pull 30 tons up a grade at 4 miles per hour.
Also built the first public railway in 1825 -
David Ricardo
Contributed: Comparative Advantage
This idea adovcates that a nation should abandon indrustries in which it is internally competitive, and concentrate only on those industries in which it is most competitive. -
Cyrus Field
Invented: Trans-atlantic cable
Created the Atlantic Telegraph Company which laid the first telelgraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean.
