the industrial revolution

By dante.jarrett

  • James watt

    The Watt steam engine was the first type of steam engine to make use of a separate condenser. It was a vacuum or "atmospheric" engine using steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to create a partial vacuum beneath the piston

  • John Kay

    John Kay was the inventor of the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution

  • James Hargreaves

    James Hargreaves invented a new machine that was capable of spinning eight threads of cotton yarn, instead of the spinning wheel's one

  • Richard Arkwright

    The water frame was a large spinning machine and was used when cloth was only made by hand. The machine made thousands of cotton threads all at once

  • Samuel Compton

    The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres

  • Richard Trevithick

    A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning combustible material – usually coal, wood, or oil – to produce steam in a boiler.

  • Robert Fulton

    Transcript of What was the purpose in the creation of the SteamBoat. Most times the steamboat used to carry supplies across water, or it would carry passengers across water also. The steamboat was invented because of the efficiency of a steam boat was much better than a simple paddle boat.

  • George Stephenson

    Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for, and won, the Rainhill Trials held by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1829 to choose the best design to power the railway.

  • Henry Bessemer

  • Louis Pasteur

    He showed that food spoils because of microorganisms and invented pasteurization, which was originally used to prevent wine and beer from souring.

  • Thomas Edison

    phonograph, the incandescent light bulb and one of the earliest motion picture cameras. He also created the world's first industrial research laboratory.

  • Nikola Tesla

    electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.