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Abraham Darby: Coke Smelting
This replaced charcoal with coal in metal foundries during the process of refining metals -
Thomas Newcomen: Atmospheric Steam Engine
a slow process to condense water to the exterior of the cylinder which caused strokes of the engine -
John Kay: Flying Shuttle
An improvment to weavers that allowed them to weave faster -
James Watt: Steam Engine
Watt helped improve the steam engine when he was repairing a model given to him by a university. He discovered the loss of latent heat was the worst defect of the engine so he worked to fix it. -
Richard Arkwright: Spinning Frame
A device that could produce stronger threads for yarn -
Edmund Cartwright: Power Loom
A power loom was a constructed machine to help weaving -
Eli Whitney: Cotton Gin
The cotton gin sped up the process of taking the seeds from the cotton fiber -
Samuel Crompton: Spinning Mule
an invention that spun textile fibers into yarn by an intermittent process which was in the draw stroke the roving is pulled through and twisted and on the return it is wrapped onto the spindle -
Alessandro Volta: Batteries
The term volt and voltage in a battery is named after Volta -
Robert Fulton: Steamboat
a 150 foot steamboat called the Clermont -
George Stephenson: Locomotive
Stephenson cominded the tramways and the steam engine to create the locomotive -
John Wesley: Celluloid
colorless synthetic plastic
