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Steam Engine
A boiler full of water that the fire heats up to make steam. A cylinder and piston, rather like a bicycle pump but much bigger. Steam from the boiler is piped into the cylinder, causing the piston to move first one way then the other. This in and out movement (which is also known as "reciprocating") is used to drive -
Spinning jenny
the patent for which is shown here, would revolutionize the process of cotton spinning. The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun, so by turning a single wheel, the operator could now spin eight threads at once. -
Power loom
A power loom is a mechanised loom powered by a line shaft, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. The first power loom was designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1785. -
Sewing Machine
is a machine used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread -
Cotton gin
is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation -
Train
A train is a form of rail transport consisting of a series of vehicles that usually runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers. Motive power is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. -
Telegraph
A telegraph is a communications system in which information is transmitted over a wire through a series of electrical current pulses, usually in the form of Morse code -
Internal Combustion Engine
Spark ignition gasoline and compression ignition diesel engines differ in how they supply and ignite the fuel. In a spark ignition engine, the fuel is mixed with air and then inducted into the cylinder during the intake process. After the piston compresses the fuel-air mixture, the spark ignites it, causing combustion. -
Telephone
When a person speaks into a telephone, the sound waves created by his voice enter the mouthpiece. An electric current carries the sound to the telephone of the person he is talking to. A telephone has two main parts: -
Phonograph
The phonograph is a device invented in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. ... While other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound.
