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Spinning Jenny
• Created by British builder and weaver, James Hargreave.
• Made the thread and yarn usually made by weavers with looms and more than one ball of thread or yarn was able to spin at once, this allowed a boost in the making of yarn and thread.
• The Spinning Jenny made thread fasters than weavers could sew and use it. -
Steam Engine
• Improved by James Watt, a Scottish engineer.
• In 1782, the steam engine could be used to power machines.
• Since it could be used to spin and weave cotton, factories were found all over countries, not just near rivers. -
Sewing Machine
• Created by Thomas Saint
• A textile (cloth) machine used to stitch fabric and other materials with thread.
• The purpose was to reduce the number of hours spent sewing by hand.
• Compared to today’s sewing machines, they were large, complex, and faster. -
Cotton Gin
•Created by Eli Whitney
•Purpose was to separate cottonseeds from the cotton fiber, the white thread-looking material.
•Before the cotton gin, farming and separating cotton took hundreds of hours, but with the cotton gin fifty pounds of cleaned/seedless cotton could be produced every day. -
Telegraph
• Created by Samuel Soemmering.
• First way to quickly send messages over long distances.
• The messages were sent with signals through wires laid between stations.
• Samuel Morse developed Morse Code to send the messages over the wires. -
Photograph
•Developed in the 1820s
•The camera has been around for hundreds of years by this time in history, but there were problems with maintaining the picture.
•To solve the problem, Nicephore Niepce created a process to maintain the image.
•After his death, Louis Dagurre improved the design so that the process would take less than the eight hour process created by Niepce.
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Phonograph
•Created by Thomas Edison.
•Before this device, music could only be experienced live.
•Led to tapes, CDs, and MP3 players.
•What is to be recorded is spoken into the phonograph and a needle presses grooves onto a rotating barrel. Then, these grooves are traced by another needle, this is where the sound is replayed. -
Light Bulb
• Thomas Edison improved the light bulb to be more reasonable for use in homes.
• The light bulb he created was reliable and was long-lasting.
• Created a lighting system for the light bulbs. -
Airplane
• Created by Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• December 7 was the first successful experiment of an airplane carrying a man that rose in the air, maintained speed, and landed without crashing.
• The airplane allows for faster travel and led to the rocket and space travel. -
Automobile (Car) and Assemble Line
• In 1869, Henry Ford created his first automobile, or horseless carriage.
• In October 1908, the Model T was introduced. The Model T was the automobile for the common man because the assembly line allowed the price to be low.
• The assembly line is a system where each worker in a line has a job to add to the product and after that person is done it moves down the line.
• The automobile gave people a sense of freedom and allowed them to travel outside ten miles of their hometown.
