Top Ten Inventions from the Industrial Revolution

By sarahnorris
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    Industrial Revolution

  • First Seed Drill

    Jethro Tull is credited with creating the first seed drill.

  • Steam Engine

  • New Version of traditional Spinning Machine

  • Samuel Crompton introduces the spinning machine, combining the efforts of earlier machines in the production of cotton products.

  • Rotary Motion device for Steam Engine

  • Cotton Gin

  • Richard Trevithick develops the steam locomotive.

  • George Stephenson operates his locomotive Locomotion along a 20-mile rail in England, the first time a steam locomotive hauls cars on a public railway.

  • Samuel F. B. Morse sends the first telegraph message from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland. Five years later he is granted a patent for his invention.

  • Henry Bessemer establishes the Bessemer process, in which steel could be made in more quantities for less money.