Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny
    The Spinning Jenny allowed more threads and yarns to be produced by fewer spinners and was invented by James Hargreaves
  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine
    Steam Engine is four times more efficient than the old Newcomer engines were. Invented by James Watt
  • Power Loom

    Power Loom
    Power Loom a mechanized device designed to automate the weaving process.invented by Edmund Cartwright
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Cotton Gin a machine for separating cotton from its seeds. Eli Whitney
  • Locomotive

    Locomotive
    Locomotive a self-propelled vehicle that runs on rails and is used for moving railroad cars invented by Richard Thickener
  • Steamboat

    Steamboat
    Steamboat a boat that is propelled by a steam engine, especially a paddle-wheel craft of a type used widely on rivers in the 19th century. Invented by Robert Fulton
  • Photograph/Camera

    Photograph/Camera
    Photograph/Camera device for recording an image of an object on a light-sensitive surface Invented in 1816 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
  • Sewing Machine

    Sewing Machine
    Sewing Machine a machine with a mechanically driven needle for sewing or stitching cloth. In 1819 Elias Howe invented the sewing machine
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    transmitting and receiving messages over long distances invented by Samuel Morse
  • Dynamite

    Dynamite
    Dynamite a high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically molded into sticks invented by Alfred Nobel
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Telephone an instrument designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice by Alexander Graham Bell
  • Automobile

    Automobile
    Automobile a usually four-wheeled vehicle designed primarily for passenger transportation and commonly propelled by an internal-combustion engine invented by Carl Benz