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design became synonymous with steam engines, and it was many years before significantly new designs began to replace the basic Watt design. -
The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is often referred to as the Newcomen fire engine (see below) or simply as a Newcomen engine. -
The flying shuttle is a type of weaving shuttle. It was a pivotal advancement in the mechanisation of weaving during the initial stages of the Industrial Revolution -
The spinning Jenny was a spinning machine, invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves at Stanhill, near Blackburn in Lancashire, England. -
The Arkwright water frame was able to spin 96 threads at a time, which was an easier and faster method than ever before. -
The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. -
A power loom is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. -
Trevithick built a full-size steam road locomotive in 1801, on a site near present-day Fore Street in Camborne. -
In 1856, the first patent was granted to Alexander Parkes for his material called parkesine -
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. -
America's first transcontinental railroad (known)
originally as the "Pacific Railroad" -
Edison light bulbs, also known as filament light bulbs and retroactively referred to as antique light bulbs or vintage light bulbs -
In architectural history, one structure stands as the leader of a new era—the Home Insurance Building. -
The first motion picture ever shot was Roundhay Garden Scene, shot in 1888. -
Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi (pictured at right) became known across the world as the most successful inventor in applying radio waves to human communication in the 1890s. -
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of cost-saving / wage stealing machinery, and often destroyed the machines in clandestine raids. -
They made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903 -
The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927 -
It start with the murder of the archiduque of austro-hungary and his wife