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the flying shuttle is a key tool of productivity during the industrial revolution, a single person operating a loom from home, could only produce a piece of cloth that was as wide at their outstretched arms because they had to able to throw the shuttle.
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the first type of steam to make use of a separate condenser.
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A spinning Jenny is an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously
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The water frame was a very important invention. some people believe it was one of, if not the most important invention of its time. it was a machine that could mechanically spin thread. it was the first spinning machine that was water powered and automatic.
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spinning mule was an invention by Samuel Crompton, with significant impact on society during the industrial revolution
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credited with inventing the first high pressure steam engine and the first operational steam locomotive. it was capable of hauling ten tons of iron, 70 passengers, and five wagons.
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most times it was used to carry supplies across the water, or it would carry passengers across the water also.
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he showed that food spoils because of microorganisms and invented pasteurization, which was originally used to prevent wine and beer from souring.
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the steam locomotive was the first to carry passengers on a public rail line
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The Bessemer process is the method for making steel by blasting compressed air through molten iron to burn out excess carbon and impurities.
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electric lamp using a "carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to contact wires
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the ac motor works because the magnet is fixed in place and forms the outside, static part of the motor, while a coil of wire carrying the electric current forms the rotating part of the motor
