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Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves invented this to allow workers to work 8 threads simultaneously. This helped pave the path towards the ammount of clothes you kids have today. -
Watt's Steam Engine
While James Watt didn't invent the steam engine, he made it usable. He made a steam engine that was much more efficient, while also increasing power. This is what paved the way for the internal combution engines that your parents have in their cars. -
Water Frame
This invention, designed by Richard Arkwright, helped along the path of mass production of clothing. It used waterpower from rivers to spin a wheel. -
Spinning Mule
Samuel Crompton invented this by combining the Water Frame and the Spinning Jenny. This created even stronger thread, more efficiently. This is like the addition that we were working on earlier. -
Power Loom
Edmund Cartwrite created this to speed up weaving even more. Do you see the pattern? These devices are getting increasingly more efficient. -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney developed this device to seperate green seeds from cotton. Most of you are wearing cotton right now, so you can see how this invention has changed things. -
Steam Driven Locomotive
Richard Trevithick invented this because of a bet. It was used everywhere in the 1800's. Have you ever acomplished anything off of a bet with your friends? -
Reaper
This device, invented by Cyrus McCormick, helped greatly speed up the harvesting of grains. Those of you who had cereal this morning already had grains today. -
Telegraph
Created by Alexander Graham Bell was this device used to communicate messaged instantly. Without the developments that spawned off of this, you kids wouldn't be getting your phones taken in class. -
Foot Treadle
I. M. Singer invented this device in order to improve his previous invention of the sewing machine. Sewing machines are widely used today.