Industrial revolution

Industrial revolution

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  • the english civil war

    the english civil war
    http://www.historyonthenet.com/Civil_War/civilwarmain.htmThe Civil war, which began in 1642 during the reign of Charles I resulted in the monarch being executed by the order of Oliver Cromwell. England was then declared a Commonwealth. For eleven years, England was without a monarch - the only time in its history.

  • Glorious Revolution

    the overthrow of King James II of England aka the bloodless revolution, andrevolution of 1688

  • Steam Power

    first real attempt of steam power was conducted by thompson savery, when he invented a low lift combined vacuum and pressure water pump

  • coke used to fuel furnaces

    abraham darby I began to use coke to fuel his blast furnaces

  • original steam engine

    1.The first commercially successful engine did not appear until 1712. Incorporating technologies discovered by Savery and Denis Papin, the atmospheric engine, invented by Thomas Newcomen, paved the way for the Industrial Revolution. 2. Newcomen's engine was relatively inefficient, and in most cases was only used for pumping water.3. It was mainly employed for draining mine workings at depths hitherto impossible, but also for providing a reusable water supply for driving waterwheels at factories

  • Flying shuttle

    1. The flying shuttle was developed by John Kay in 1733.2. Its one of the key developments in weaving that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution3.3. The fly shuttle enabled the weaver to propel the shuttle through a wider strip of cloth with a single hand, and allowed the other hand to perform the combing to compact the cloth. This speeded the process and thus increased production.

  • Crucible steel devoloped

    The raw material for this was blister steel, made by the cementation process. it was cheaper than regular steelThe supply of cheaper iron and steel aided the development of boilers and steam engines, and eventually railways.

  • Furnaces

    Abraham Darby II (father of abraham darby III) built Horsehay and Ketley furnaces

  • rediscovery of concrete

    had been lost for 13 centuriesBritish engineer John Smeaton discovered it based on hydraulic lime mortar

  • Bridgewater Canal

    1. openend in 17612. halved the price of coal in Manchester3. triggered a period of "canal mania" in Britain so that between 1760 and 1820 over one hundred canals were built.

  • water frame pattented

    1. The water frame is the name given to the spinning frame, when water power was used to drive it. 2. unlike the spinning jenny, the water frame could only spin one thread at a time until Samuel Crompton combined the two inventions into his spinning mule in 1779. However the water frame could be assembled with hundreds of spinning heads in a single building and was easy to operate3. In 1771 Arkwright installed the water frame in his cotton mill at Cromford.