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Inventors
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Thomas Newcomen and the First Steam Engine
- The engine raised ten gallons of water from a depth of 156 feet.
- Approximately went at a speed of 5.5 horse power.
- Very expensive, but also very inefficient.
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John Kay and the Flying Shuttle
- Using the flying shuttle, one weaver could weave fabrics of any width more quickly than two could before. -Kay mounted his shuttle on wheels in a track and used paddles to shoot the shuttle from side to side when the weaver jerked a cord.
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James Watt and the Steam Engine
- Allowed miners to go down further without having to deal with the flooding of water.
- Improved off the original steam engine that was built.
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John Roebuck and Leaden Chambers
- Replaced glass globes and r evolutionized the production process for sulfuric acid.
- The invnetion also reduced the cost of sulfuric acid.
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Richard Arkwright and the Water Frame
- Produced a cotton yarn suitable for warp.
- The thread made on James Hargreaves’ spinning jenny lacked the strength of Arkwright’s cotton yarn and was suitable only for weft.
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Nicolas LeBlanc and Soda Ash
- Found out how to convert sodium into soda ash.
- originally used many materials to make sodium ash, Nicolas made a way to only use sodium to make it.
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Henry Cort and the Grooved Rollers
- Produced iron bars more quickly.
- Later had a specific process with this invention that removed the carbon from the iron.
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Edmund Cartwright and the Power Loom
- It was the first machine to make practical the weaving of wide cotton cloth.
- Based his invention off of seeing Richard Arkwright's invention.
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Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
- First introduced the cotton gin in 1789, but never finished it.
- The machine sped up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
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Robert Fulton and the Steamboat
- Made the first viable commercial steamboat service.
- Transported people from place to place on water.
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George Stephenson and Locomotives for the First Railways
- Some people call him the father of the railway.
- Allowed trains to transport faster with better tracks.
- Opened the Liverpool and Manchester railway.
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Cyrus Field and the Telegraph
- At first, failed several times the lay the cord out.
- The telegraph transmitted messages with a specific code.
