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Jethro Tull
Seed Drill- Used in agriculture that sows seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth while being dragged by a tractor. This ensures that seeds will be distributed evenly -
Abraham Darby
Smelting Iron with coke-rather than charcoal this development was a major step forward and changed the course of the iron industry in the Industrial Revolution that was to follow -
Thomas Newcomen
Steam Engine-A heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force can be transformed, by a connecting rod and crank, into rotational force for work -
John Kay
Flying Shuttle-A type of weaving shuttle. It was a pivotal advancement in the mechanisation of weaving during the initial stages of the Industrial Revolution, and facilitated the weaving of considerably broader fabrics, enabling the production of wider textile -
John Roebuck
Condescending Champers-substitution of leaden chambers for glass globes, which had been employed for years, revolutionized the production process and drastically reduced costs -
James Hargreaves
Spinning Jenny-a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution. -
Edmund Cartwright
Power Loom-A mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution -
Eli Whitney
Gotten Gin-A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation -
Elias Howe
Sewing Machine-any of various machines for stitching material (such as cloth or leather), usually having a needle and shuttle to carry thread and powered by treadle, waterpower, or electricity -
Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto-The manifesto emphasized the importance of class struggle in every historical society, and the dangerous instability capitalism created -
Robert Owen
Factory-He is perhaps best known for his model textile factory and village at New Lanark in Scotland. Conditions in early factories were extremely harsh, with very hazardous working conditions for all employees -
Cyrus Field
Transatlantic Cable-Undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is now an obsolete form of communication, and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data are still carried on other transatlantic telecommunications cables