the industrial revolution

By louise bessodes

  • Coke-fuelled furnace

    Abraham Darby; His a burner used to produce cheap cast iron.

  • First steam engine

    Thomas Newcomen; It is a machine used to pump water out of mines.

  • spinnig jenny

    james hargreaves; It is an engine which produces multiple spools of thread simultaneously.

  • Improved steam engine

    James Watt; It is a machine used to power all sorts of machinery, like locomotives

  • spinning mule

    Samuel Compton; The same as the spinny jenny but improved.

  • power loom

    edmund cartwright; It is a machine that allowed to weave cloth much faster than manually.

  • rocket locomotive

    Robert Stephenson; The Rocket was a pioneering steam-powered locomotive

  • telegraph morse key

    William Fothergill Cook, Charles Wheatstone; transformed communications so that messages could be sent and received anywhere in just minutes.

  • bessemer process

    Henry Bessemer; It is a process used to produce cheaper steel.