Industrial Revolution Inventors/Inventions/Contributions

  • Seed Drill By Jethro Tull

    Seed Drill By Jethro Tull
    This was a horse drawn cart that dispensed seeds evenly. It also made planting seeds way more time efficient.
  • Steam Engine by Thomas Newcomen

    Steam Engine by Thomas Newcomen
    Was the first good-working engine made. This invention pumped water because of the high cost of using the power of horses to pump water.
  • The Flying Shuttle by John Kay

    The Flying Shuttle by John Kay
    A wheeled shuttle for hand looming fabrics/ clothes. Was great at weaving. And was more time efficient.
  • sulphuric acid by John Roebuck

    sulphuric acid by John Roebuck
    a chemical that was used and still is used for a lot of things such as fertalizer.
  • Spinning machine(water frame) by Richard Arkwright

    Spinning machine(water frame) by Richard Arkwright
    A spinning machine thayt spins cotton into thread or yarn quickly and easily.
  • Steam engine by james watt

    Steam engine by james watt
    watt improved newcomens steam engine, improvements were the separate condenser and rotary motion.
  • Soda by Nicolas LeBlanc

    Soda by Nicolas LeBlanc
    This was a soda made from salt to produce soap, glass etc. But Used to be made out of wood ash.
  • Cotton Gin by Eli whitney

    Cotton Gin by Eli whitney
    The cotton gin is a machine that manually sparates cotton from its seeds. This made collecting cotton a lot easier.
  • battery by Alessandro Volta

    battery by Alessandro Volta
    The first battery that actuallyy worked and produced power to things. Still used today for a lot of things.
  • 'Railways by George Stephenson

    'Railways by George Stephenson
    These made it easier to get back and forth to deliver goods.
  • Sewing machine by Elias Howe

    Sewing machine by Elias Howe
    the machine actually wasn't praised in his time. Even though it worked; But now these days sewing machines are great and are better than sewing by hand.
  • celluloid, by John Wesley

    celluloid, by John Wesley
    the first practical artificial plastic.