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John Kay
John Kay create the flying shuttle which helped weave wider fabrics. The shuttle was on the other side in another box and brought to a halt with leather straps and the process repeated. Unfortunately sometimes these straps broke and people were seriously injured by these shuttle missiles, but this helps produce cloth quickly -
James Watt
James Watt improved on Newcomen's ideas and produced more efficient steam engines.The steam engine was extremely big and took up space, but was good to getting water out of coal mines -
James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves invented a new machine that was capable of spinning eight threads of cotton yarn, instead of the spinning wheel's one. The new machine was called the spinning jenny. The spinning jenny did have some disadvantages like low yarn strength and high amount of fibers needed, but it was beneficial to clothes making -
Richard Arkwright
The water frame was a a large spinning machine and was used when cloth was only made by hand. The machine made thousands of cotton threads all at once. This machine was invented in 1769 by Englishman Richard Arkwright and used flowing water as its source of power. The water frame made coarse yarn. but helped produce clothing -
Samuel Crompton
Nick Crompton invented the spinning mule in 1779, so called because it is a hybrid of Arkwright's water frame and James Hargreaves' spinning jenny. It had the same purpose,to make clothing -
Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick created the first high-pressure steam engine and the first operational steam locomotive at the turn of the 19th century. Steam locomotives led to the creation of trains, but due to the locomotive's boiler, it is extremely huge,heavy, and clumsy -
Robert Fulton
Most times the steamboat used to carry supplies across water, or it would carry passengers across water also. The steamboat was invented because of the efficiency of a steam boat was much better than a simple paddle boat. Even though this seems like an excellent and new way of transportation, steamboats would sometimes build up too much pressure and explode -
George Stepenson
Steam locomotives are vehicles that run on rails or tracks and are powered by steam engines. They were historically used for moving freight and other materials, as well as passengers. The steam engine has low efficiency, but can transport people quickly -
Henry Bessemer
He developed the first cost-efficient process for the manufacture of steel in 1856, which later led to the invention of Bessemer converter. This was extremely important because steel is used commonly to construct, but steel could not bend the way you wanted it to and has small resistance to fire. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur created pasteurization, to sterilize, or eliminate the bacteria out of beverages. This discovery effected sterilization on the future, which create sterilized milk. Even though pasteurization kills the harmful bacteria in beverages, it is also know to kill helpful bacteria and nutrients in drinks -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was the creator of the light bulb which allowed for people to be able to see in the dark. The light bulb is still used around the world today, but a disadvantage to the light bulb is that it can burn out quickly. -
Nikola Telsa
Nikola Telsa produced the "Telsa Coil" which was used for transmitting energy, an electrical circuit, but due to high primary currents, the coil can produce a very loud sound, but that is the only disadvantage.
