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John Kay - flying shuttle
It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, and it could be mechanized, allowing for automatic machine looms. This lead to much faster and cheaper production but put many weavers out of business. -
James Watt - steam engine
The first type of steam engine to make the condenser separate. Did not use high pressure do do safety concerns. The machine allowed for factories to be all over and not just by rivers. The negative impact is the sprout of pollution and child labor. -
Richard Arkwright - water frame and spinning frame
The roller spinning process starts with a thick line of loose fibers which is passed between three pairs of rollers, each pair going faster than the previous one. The spinning frame was usually powered by water thus the water frame. The spinning frames required little skill but enough money -
James Hargreaves - spinning jenny
Early multiple-spindle machine for spinning wool or cotton. Greatly increased speed but hand spinners were scared of unemployment. -
Samuel Compton - spinning mule
The spinning mule spins textile fibres into yarn by an intermittent process. In a movement the thread is pulled through rollers and twisted and on the return is wrapped onto the spindle. -
George Stephenson - steam locomotive
A type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine. These trains run on wood, coal, or oil to make steam to fuel a steam engine. An advantage was the urbanization of towns but the increase of pollution and use of fossil fuels. -
Richard Trevithick - steam locomotive
Working with George Stephenson, he was the first the create the model. -
Robert Fulton - steamboat
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddle wheels. The steamboat had made transportation of trade goods much easier but passengers usually became sick from smoke or developed lung cancer. -
Henry Bessemer - steal making process
He created the Bessemer process of steel. A cheaper faster way to industrialize steel than before. The monopoly of this contributed to poor working conditions. -
Louis Pasteur - pasteurization
Discovered that microbes were souring alcohol and came up with the process, where bacteria is destroyed by heating beverages and then allowing them to cool. This let to an increase in health but also an increase in alcoholism. -
Thomas Edison - light bulb
An electric light with a wire filament heated to a high temperature that it glows light. A positive and negative effect was the work day being longer. -
Nikola Tesla - radio
Radio signals are just another frequency that needs a transmitter and receiver. Radio greatly increase communication to the public but also created chances of secret communication.
