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John Kay
The flying shuttle is a type of weaving shuttle. It was a pivotal advancement in the mechanisation of weaving during the initial stages of the Industrial Revolution, and facilitated the weaving of considerably broader fabrics, enabling the production of wider textiles. -
James Hargreaves
Spinning jenny, early multiple-spindle machine for spinning wool or cotton. The hand-powered spinning jenny was patented by James Hargreaves in 1770. The development of the spinning wheel into the spinning jenny was a significant factor in the industrialization of the textile industry. -
James Watt
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force can be transformed, by a connecting rod and crank, into rotational force for work -
Richard Arkwright
Water frame, In textile manufacture, a spinning machine powered by water that produced a cotton yarn suitable for warp (lengthwise threads).Patented in 1769 by R. Arkwright, it represented an improvement on James Hargreaves’s spinning jenny, which produced weaker thread suitable only for weft (filling yarn). -
Samuel Crompton
The spinning mule was invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779, a period of rapid invention and technological advancement, especially in mechanised spinning and textile production. The 'spinning Jenny', one of the first successful mechanised attempts at cotton spinning, had been invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves.Mules were worked in pairs by a minder, with the help of two boys: the little piecer and the big or side piecer. -
Henry Cort
The puddling process converted pig iron into wrought iron by subjecting it to heat and stirring it in a furnace, without using charcoal. It was the first method that allowed quality wrought iron to be produced on a large scale. -
Edmund Cartwright
A power loom is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. The first power loom was designed and patented in 1785 by Edmund Cartwright.
Power loom machines are engineered to weave fabrics at exceptionally high speeds. In contrast to traditional hand-weaving techniques, they can produce extensive yards of material in a fraction of the time it would typically take countless hours of labor -
Eli Whitney
The Cotton Gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. The cotton gin is an example of an invention directly called forth by an immediate demand. -
Alessandro Volta
A battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices. When a battery is supplying power, its positive terminal is the cathode and its negative terminal is the anode. -
George Stephenson
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material to heat water in the locomotive's boiler to the point where it becomes gaseous and its volume increases 1,700 times. -
Elias Howe
A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies -
Cyrus Field
Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. the cable helped reshape many U.S. industries, including one of the biggest exports, raw cotton, ultimately growing U.S. exports through increased efficiency.