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James Watt
He invented the steam engine, it is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. Its advantage is could be located anywhere because water is heated in a separate boiler to produce steam. It's disadvantage is that its unsafe to use. We don't use the steam engine anymore today, because of its efficiency -
John Kay
He invented the flying shuttle It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, allowing for automatic machine looms. With the flying shuttle, the weaver's movements are minimized: he only has to change the sheds using his feet on the treadles, pull the cord and beat. A disadvantage is the shuttle could fly out of the machine at great speed, and the factories where flying shuttles were used began to become dangerous places with accidents such as eye injuries. It is still used today. -
Richard Arkwright
He invented the water frame. The machine made thousands of cotton threads all at once. An advantage is, It was made strong and it was quicker than weaving. A disadvantage is it made coarse yarn not as fine of a yarn as the spinning jenny. This creation is no longer active, but still affects us today. This invention led to the creation of factories which are used everyday. -
James Hargreaves
He invented the spinning jenny. The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun from a corresponding set of rovings. By turning a single wheel, the operator could now spin eight threads at once. Some advantages are high delivery speeds, low yarn production costs. Some disadvantages are low yarn strength,high tendency to snarl and, high air consumption. original spinning jenny is no longer used today
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Samuel Crompton
He invented the spinning mule. Mules were worked in pairs by a minder, with the help of two boys: the little piecer and the big or side piecer. The carriage carried up to 1,320 spindles and could be 150 feet long, and would move forward and back a distance of 5 feet four times a minute. A disadvantage is the thread it produced was coarse and not very strong,Mule Spinners Cancer A type of skin cancer. The Spinning Mule is still used today to spin wool and alpaca. -
George Stephenson
Invented the steam locomotive. A boiler full of water that the fire heats up to make steam. A cylinder and piston, rather like a bicycle pump but much bigger. Steam from the boiler is piped into the cylinder, causing the piston to move first one way then the other. An advantage is early style of railroads, and was the only way to power a train. Disadvantage is it was a very polluting way of powering a train. It is still in use today for many tourist trips in the UK and elsewhere. -
Richard Trevithick
He also created the Steam locomotive. A boiler full of water that the fire heats up to make steam. A cylinder and piston, rather like a bicycle pump but much bigger. Steam from the boiler is piped into the cylinder, causing the piston to move first one way then the other. An advantage is early style of railroads, and was the only way to power a train. Disadvantage is it was a very polluting way of powering a train. It is still in use today for many tourist trips in the UK and elsewhere. -
Robert Fulton
He invented the steam boat. It's powered on steam. An advantage It allowed travelers to go upstream and downstream. A disadvantage The steam engine would accumulate too much pressure and explode. -
Thomas Edison
He invented the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb and one of the earliest motion picture cameras. Edison and his team tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880. In November 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament . A pro is they are cheap to replace and a con is that they Waste up to 97.5% energy mostly as heat. Yes they are still used today in about everything that haw light. -
Henry Bessemer
He invented the Bessemer Process, manufacturing steel. It was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The Bessemer process was very efficient and created an ingot in only a few minutes. A con is that The Bessemer converter had a low retention percentage of nitrogen in the newly formed steel. The Bessemer Converter was replaced with the Linz Donawitz converter which is still used today. -
Nikola Tesla
He invented the alternating current. Alternating current is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current which flows only in one direction. A pro of this current is Efficient Power Transmission and a con is it' expensive in cars, it is still used today.
