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Steam Engine
Long ago, the Greeks began creating small steam powered novelties including a steam powered door, and an aleophile. Hundreds of years later in 1712 Thomas Newcome created an engine out of a prototype steam piston he had created earlier. He had found an engine that ran efficiently with little to no waste and that was capable of traveling at high speeds -
Spinning Jenny
In 1754, A business man who specialized in carpentry and weaving created a machine that spun yarn with the same motion that human fingers would. The machine had 8 spindles that could all turn yarn at the same time. The fastest machine yet, the Spinning Jenny changed the way yarn was made across the world. -
Flying Shuttle
In 1786, John Kay created a machine that allowed wever to spin cotton faster than ever. He had created the Flying Shuttle. The Flying Shuttle began popular across the world and allowed wool to be spun more than 2x faster than with the great wheel. Afterwards, the Royal Society of Arts offered money for new inventions to increase the supply of yarn. -
Cotton Gin
In 1793 an inventor Eli whitney created a machine that would change the agricultural business forever. The first cotton cleaning machine invented could only clean black seeded cotton which only grew in certain areas and the most prosperous crop; the green seeded cotton flourished but couldn't be cleaned without staining the wool. After recieving a patent for his Cotton Gin machine, Eli Whitney could clean 50 pounds of green seeded cotton could be cleaned a day. -
Telegraph
In 1872, A multiplex-printing telegraph was invented by Maurice Baudot that used a digit code called morse code that transmitted electrical signals over a copper while using an electromagnet. This allowed messages to relayed across the country and later on even the world with the invention of the under the sea telegraph wire that ran across greenland and landed in europe connecting the world together.