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Industrial Revolution Timeline
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Flying Shuttle
Flying Shuttle John Kay Textiles Accelerated weaving greatly because it enabled threads to be weaved together faster and over a much greater area of cloth. -
Lightning Rod
Lightning Rod Benjamin Franklin Power Helped greatly lessen the risk of buildings getting struck by lightning because his invention directed the lightning straight into the ground near the buildings instead of the buildings themselves. -
Spinning Jenny
Spinning Jenny James Hargreaves Textile Decreased the need for labor because it improved upon the spinning wheel by handling larger quantities of raw cotton. -
Steam Engine
Steam Engine James Watt Transportation Made it much easier and more efficient to pump water out of mines. it also used much less power and took less time to pump a lot of water from the mines than the old steam engine did. -
Power Loom
Power Loom Edmund Cartwright Power This power loom made it much easier to combine threads to make cloth (the job of a loom) because it was steam powered and operated mechanically. -
Steam Boat
Steam Boat Robert Fulton Transportation Enabled people to be transported across bodies of water more easily and with less work. -
Telegraph
Telegraph Samuel F.B. Morse Communications Helped people communicate over long distances using Morse code. -
Telephone
Telephone Alexander Graham bell Communication Enabled people to communicate over long distances with their voices instead of always having to interpret every letter of Morse code to understand what the other person is trying to say.
