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First steam engine created
Thomas Newcomen made his atmospheric engine that was powered by steam and was used to pump flood water out of a mine. This was the first of its kind external combustion steam engine that used a piston. -
Invention of the spinning jenny
It was one of the first and key inventions of the First Industrial Revolution in Britain that powered its cotton textile industry. The Jenny initially had 8 spindles doing the work of 8 workers at a time. -
Eli Whitney Patents The Cotton Gin
The cotton gin pulled the cotton through a set of wire teeth mounted on a revolving cylinder. The fibre passed through narrow slots in an iron breastwork too small to permit passage of the seed. In 1794, Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin. His invention made removing the seeds from cotton extremely easy. -
Bessemer Process For Extracting Steel Is Discovered
During the Crimean War in the 1850s, Henry Bessemer worked on the problem of manufacturing cheap steel for British Navy. He successfully produced a low-grade steel from molten pig iron in a side-blown fixed converter without any external source of heat. -
ÉTIENNE LENOIR MAKES A SUCCESSFUL INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
Lenoir’s engine was a two stroke cycle engine which used a mixture of coal gas and air. It converted double-acting steam engine with slide valves to admit the air-fuel mixture and to discharge exhaust products. This workable engine later led to Nicolas Otto’s four stroke engine and future internal combustion engines. -
RANSOM ELI OLDS INTRODUCES MODERN ASSEMBLY LINE
An assembly line is a line of factory workers and equipment along which a product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed.