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James Watt
Steam Engine - A heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. -
Abraham Darby
Iron Smelting - Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product. -
John Kay
Flying Shuttle - A type of weaving shuttle. 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 -
Adam Smith
The Invisible Hand Theory - a metaphor for how, in a free market economy, self-interested individuals operate through a system of mutual interdependence. -
Richard Arkwright
Water Frame - The water frame is a spinning frame that is powered by a water-wheel. -
Samuel Crompton
Spinning Mule - A machine used to spin cotton and other fibres.They were used extensively from the late 18th to the early 20th century in the mills of Lancashire and elsewhere -
Robert Owen
Spinning Mules - A machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. -
Henry Cort
Puddling Process - converting pig iron into wrought iron by subjecting it to heat and stirring it in a furnace, without using charcoal. -
Jeremy Bentham
The Panopticon - A prison System. A design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control. -
Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin - A machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. -
Eliaas Howe
Sewing Machine - a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. -
Cyrus Field
Transatlantic Cable - Undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications.