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Iron Furnace
The iron furnace was created by Abraham Darby in 1708. The furnace instead of uing coal or charcoal used coke. The furnace was more cost efficient so he could create better furnaces on par with brass in such applications as the manufacture of pots and other hollow ware. -
The first Factory opened (Documented)
The factory was built on an island on the River Derwent in the English county of Derby. The idea for the factory came to Lombe after he had toured Italy looking at silk throwing machines.On his return to the UK, he employed the services of the architect George Sorocold to design and build his new "Factory". Once completed the mill, at its height, employed around 300 people. -
The Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny was a was a mult-spindle spinning frame it was easy to use so unskilled workers could still use it and it was a major part in advancing the industrial revolution. It was created in 1764 by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England -
The Watt Steam Engine
James Watt created The first Reliable Steam engine in 1775 His invention changed The world. His innovation of adding a separate condenser significantly improved steam engine efficiency, especially latent heat losses. His new engine would prove very popular and would wind up installed in mines and factories across the world. -
Gas lights
Commercial gas lighting was first developed and introduced in 1792 by William Murdoch. These early gas lights used coal gas which was installed as lighting in his house in Redruth, Cornwall.After its development, gas lighting became the method of street lighting across the United States and Europe. -
Cotton Engine
Eli Whitney is another name synonymous with inventions of the Industrial Revolution. He invented the cotton engine, gin for short, in 1794. Prior to its introduction into the textile industry, cotton seeds needed to be removed from fibres by hand. This was laborious and time-consuming to say the least. This machine vastly improved the profitability of cotton for farmers. -
The first Modern Battery
Although there is evidence of early batteries from the Parthian Empire around 2,000 years ago, the first true modern electric battery was invented in 1800. This world first was the brainchild of one Alessandro Volta with the development of his voltaic pile. Mass production of the world's first battery began in 1802 by William Cruickshank. The first rechargeable battery was invented in 1859 by the French physician Gaston Plante. -
The locomotive
The First successful Steam engine locomotive was created by George Stephenson. it was made to carry coal form mines near Darlington to the port of Stockton after the first locomotive was created George and his son robert were contracted to build a railway line between Manchester and Liverpool. -
The Mackintosh Raincoat
Perhaps one of the most useful of all inventions during the Industrial Revolution was when, in 1823, Charles Mackintosh devised the Mackintosh. Prior to his invention clothing was waterproofed by using a coating of rubber. But rubber would become sticky and tacky during hot weather and extremely stiff during winter months. Charles, a Scottish Chemist, successfully cured this problem and patented a new method of using rubber to waterproof clothing. -
The first Photograph
Beginning in 1814, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce started a journey of discovery that would eventually lead him to become the first person to ever take a photograph. He would eventually do this using his new-fangled camera obscura that was set up in the windows of his home in France. In 1827 he successfully produced the first, long-lasting image using a plate coated with bitumen. This was then washed in a solvent and placed over a box of iodine to produce a plate with light and dark qualities. -
The Faraday Disc
The Faraday Disc was created in 1831 by Michael Faraday. The Farady Disc itself was not very effective but it later led on to other improvements such as the Dynamo. The Faraday Disc worked by turning a hand crank which rotated a copper disk between two other magnets one generates a electrical current that runs from the outer edge of the disc to the center. But faraday thought that his invention created electromagnetic Induction not Electromotive force. -
the Dynamo
The basic principles of electromagnetic generators were discovered in the early 1830's by Michael Faraday. Faraday noted that electromotive force is generated when an electrical conductor encircles a varying magnetic flux. This would later become known as Faraday's Law. The first true dynamo, based on Faraday's principle, was built in 1832 by Hippolyte Pixii, a French instrument maker. His device used a permanent magnet that was rotated using a crank.
