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industrial revolution

  • spinning jenny

    The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England.
  • Steam Engines

     Steam Engines
    A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. made by james watt
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    a machine for separating cotton from its seeds made by eli whitney .
  • skyscraper

    A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building having multiple floors. When the term was originally used in the 1880s it described a building of 10 to 20 floors but now describes one of at least 40–50 floors
  • Railroads

    Railroads
    Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) built that vehicle, the first steam engine tramway locomotive. On February 22, 1804, the locomotive hauled a load of 10 tons of iron, 70 men and five extra wagons the 9 miles between the ironworks at Pen-y-Darron in the town of Merthyr Tydfil
  • Photograph

    Photograph
    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833) took the first photograph c. 1827. However, his process needed eight hours of exposure to light, and the picture was fuzzy. In 1837 Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) created a sharp but one-use image in a few minutes.
  • john deere plow

    john deere plow
    John Deere invented the steel plow in 1837 when the Middle-West was being settled. The soil was different than that of the East and wood plows kept breaking. Where was it created or discovered ? He invented it in Grand Detour, Illinois where he had settled.
  • Sewing Machine

    Sewing Machine
    Elias Howe, Jr. was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer. Cloth could be made by machines, but the actual sewing of garments and other things could only be done by hand.
  • Elevator

    Elevator
    Elisha Otis is the founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails.
  • Phonograph

    Phonograph
    The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound.
  • light bulb

    light bulb
    The electric light, one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives, was not “invented” in the traditional sense in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison
  • automobile

    automobile
    One of the first cars that was accessible to the masses was the 1908 Model T, an American car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.
  • airplane

    airplane
    On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft.
  • Assembly Line

    Assembly Line
    a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled. created by her