Invention and the inventors

By 26trostlee

  • Abraham Darby-Smelting iron with coke(roasted coal)

    Helped change the course of the iron industry and not using charcoal. Helped us make brass and iron goods more quickly. He used a blast furnace to melt the iron. The furnace was heated by coal.

  • Thomas Newcomen

    The first steam engine made it so that miners could pump water out of coal mines, so they could go deeper and find better rocks and minerals. It ran off of coal which created pressure to go into the cylinder then cold water was pumped into it to make a vacuum like pressure to pull the water out of the mines.

  • John Kay-Flying shuttle

    The flying shuttle made it possible so that we could start automatic weaving with a machine. It made it so that 1 person could weave themselves and be able to weave a bigger and thicker piece of cloth.They were put on looms.

  • James Hargreaves-Spinning Jenny

    One of the key developments for textile manufacturing. It was a multi spindle frame on legs. Powered by a human sitting there cranking the wheel on the side. Used for cotton spiining.

  • John Roebuck- Leaden condensing chambers

    Leaden condensing chambers speed up production for things like snow globes. Helped make cast iron in to more malleable iron. It reduced the cost of making these things and helped the environment a little bit.

  • Henry Cort- Puddling furnace

    This made it so that we could melt pig iron into a better form of iron called wrought iron in a faster way. The Furnace worked by heating up the pig iron and melting it while mixers mixed it around. This made it so we didn't have to use charcoal to make wrought iron.

  • John wesley- Methodist Church

    John Wesley created the first methodist church. He opened up christianity for society. John did much more for the poor like building them schools, orphanages, and homes for poor widows.

  • Edmund Cartwright-Power Loom

    This transformed the textile industry by speeding up production and made automatic weaving. It ran off of gears connected to a pulley run by a steam engine. Textiles became more cheep and this was the first wool comb too,

  • Eli Whitney-Cotton Gin

    Sped up the cotton cleaning process by around 50 times. You would crank the handle and brushes would run through the cotton while a hook would grab the cotton to pull it through. It produced cleaner cotton in a smaller bit of time

  • Alessandro Volta- First battery

    This helped advance the study of electromagnetism and the development of electricity. This was made of stacked copper and zinc in between slaty wet pieces of cloth. Copper wires attached to the top to make a continuous electric flow

  • George Stephenson-Steam locomotive

    This locomotive named the Blucher made it so that we could haul coal faster by railroad transportation. It ran off of coal to build pressure in the piston chambers with cold water. It only averaged about 10 miles per hour

  • Cyrus Field-First Transatlantic Cable (telegraph Cable)

    This made it so that we could have conversations across the world over telegraphs. All the cable lines were able to be secured underground and safely, so that no catastrophic failures were prone. HE secured a charter to lay a well insulated one across the bottom of the atlantic ocean.