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Jethro Tull/ Seed Drill
Jethro Tull invented the seed drill as a way to make farming and agriculture easier and more efficient. Before this invention farming was done by hand with seeds randomly scattered with some no even rooting. By creating this machine it wasted less seeds and made farming a lot easier. -
Abraham Darby/ Sand Casting
This was the a metal casting process where sand was used as a mold material for the casting -
John Kay/ Flying Shuttle
The Flying Shuttle was created to be used by one person along a loom so that the process of making cotton was sped up and could produce more in shorter amounts of time. -
James Watt/ Steam Engine
He created the Watt steam engine which was used to provide electricity for other machines or processes, it used pressure form one side which pushed a piston causing the machine to work -
James Hargreaves/ The Spinning Jenny
The invention of the Spinning jenny was a machine that made weaving a lot quicker than doing it by hand. This machine used many spindles at once in order to weave more quickly. -
Samuel Crompton/ Spinning Mule
He used the spinning jenny for spinning cotton and he felt that it could be better so he created the spinning mule. This machine simultaneously drew out and gave the final twisting to the cotton fibres fed into it which made spinning cotton much easier -
Edmund Cartwright/ Power Loom
The power loom was a loom machine that used water power to do the looming instead of doing it by hand. -
Eli Whitney/ Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney created the cotton gin which was a revolutionary machine that made the process of cleaning out the seeds and buds in the cotton fibers quicker and more efficient. -
Elias Howe/ Lockstitch Sewing Machine
Elias Howe was a skilled machinist who spent his time apprenticing in a textile factory. While seeing this he decide to find a way to make sewing more efficient and fast. This led to him creating the sewing machine. -
Karl Marx/ Marxism
Karl Marx created the idea of Marxism or better known as communism. Communism is a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. -
Cyrus Field/ Telegraph Cable
Cyrus Field was an American businessman who, with the help of others, laid the first telegraph cable across the atlantic ocean. -
John Wesley/Synthetic Plastic
John Wesley Hyatt was the person who discovered synthetic plastic,he came upon the mixture of pyroxylin and camphor which created the substance known as plastic.
