imdustrial revolution inventions timeline

By tyren
  • steam engine

    steam engine
    The first viable steam engine was introduced in 1712 and was used to pump water from mines. Steam engines largely relied on coal as a source of fuel and could generate far more power than humans or animals. As steam engines became more and more efficient, they were made to power trains and ships.
  • spinning jenny

    spinning jenny
    -james hargreaves
    -baptized January 8, 1721, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England—died April 22, 1778, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire) was an English inventor of the spinning jenny, the first practical application of multiple spinning by a machine.
  • Waterframe and Spinning Mule

    Waterframe and Spinning Mule
    samuel crompton nvented the spinning mule in 1779, so called because it is a hybrid of Arkwright's water frame and James Hargreaves's spinning jenny in the same way that a mule is the product of crossbreeding a female horse with a male donkey.
  • Edmund cartwright

    Edmund cartwright
    Ordained deacon in the Church of England in 1765, and priest in 1767, Cartwright was appointed rector of Killington in 1767. With other livings, in 1779 he became also rector of Good by Marwood, Leicestershire, and in 1783, he was elected a prebendary at Lincoln Cathedral.
  • cotton gin

    cotton gin
    The Patent. The cotton gin was given the official patent number of 72-X in 1794. ...
    Production Level. The cotton gin was able to churn out about 50 pounds of lint each day. ...
    'Gin' Means the Engine. ...
    Use of the Cotton Seeds. ...
    Eli Whitney was not the Only Inventor. ...
    The Other Partner.
  • rail roads

    rail roads
    -john stevens
    Railways were introduced in England in the seventeenth century as a way to reduce friction in moving heavily loaded wheeled vehicles. The first North American "gravity road," as it was called, was erected in 1764 for military purposes at the Niagara portage in Lewiston, New York. The builder was Capt. John Montressor, a British engineer known to students of historical cartography as a mapmaker.
  • telegraph

    telegraph
    Born: January 20, 1775, Lyon, France
    Died: June 10, 1836 (age 61 years), Marseille, France
    Award: Fellow of the Royal Society (1827)
    Children: Jean-Jacques Ampère
  • Mechanical Reaper

    Mechanical Reaper
    Cyrus Hall McCormick-
    he mechanical reaper invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831, the mechanical thresher designed by Hiram and John Pitts in the 1830s, and the steel plow developed by John Deere in 1837 revolutionized farming. These inventions allowed farmers to produce more crops at a lower cost for a rapidly expanding commercial market.
  • telephone

    telephone
    Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Boston, Massachusetts in 1875 and patented it in 1876. Bell was not the first inventor
  • maxim machine gun

    maxim machine gun
    The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim. a gun based on his design became standard issue for the british army during world war 1 which became known as "the machine gun war"in 1884