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T. newcomen's steam engine
This machine was able to pump water and generate power from the atmosferic pressure in the air. -
John Kay's flying shuttle
Like other machines, it accelerated weaving, by allowing the shuttle carrying the weft to be passed through the warp threads faster and over a greater width of cloth. -
James hargreave spinning jenny
This device was made to reduce the amount of work needed to produce a special amount of cloth. -
Stephensons puffing devil
It was the first locomotive able to function properly. -
Richard Arkwright's water mill
This machine was made to be able to spin big quantities of cotton yarn which was later used to make clothes, etc. -
James Watt's steam engine
James watt invented a new machine called the Steam engine, which made one wheel always be boiling to be able to recieve steam from the other boiler. It was the first steam machine. -
Samuel Crompton's spinning mill
It revolutionised textile production by increasing the amount of cotton that could be spun at any one time using the spinning mill. -
Edward Cartwright's power loom
The power loom was a machine that used water to speed up the process of weaving. -
Luddites opposed machine industrial industry
Luddites disagreed of the use of automated machines/equipment, he started to threaten the jobs and lives of skilled workers as this technology allowed them to be replaced by cheaper and less skilled workers. -
First plastics
In 1856, the first plastic made was granted to Alexander Parkes for his material called parkesine, the first man made plastic in the world. -
Transcontinental railroad
The first transcontinental railroad was made in America and it was a huge advance in the world and in the revolutions. -
Edisons light bulb
Thomas eddison invented the first light bulb. -
The first skyscraper in chicago
This is the first skyscraper made and the oldest one that exists nowadays, it's made of structural steel. -
First moving picture
The first motion picture ever shot was Roundhay Garden Scene. -
Inventor of the radio
Gugliemo Marconi made the worlds first telegraph. -
Wright brothers first flight
They made the first controlled flight containing a real engine suitable of flying. -
Henry Ford's T model
The vehicle was one of the first mass production vehicles, allowing Ford to achieve his aim of manufacturing the universal car. -
Beginning of the WW1
when a man from Bosnia named Gavrilo Princip assasinated and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in order to get the Austro-Hungarian throne. Austria-Hungary held Serbia responsible for their actions and war was declared on the 28th of july 1914.