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I need help i have no time to look it up, Please include: Year, Invention, And Inventor Thanks.

2006-12-03 09:41:09 · 4 answers · asked by iloveu 1 in Education & Reference Homework Help

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Here's 10..........you choose


The Spinning jenny was a machine that could spin threads of wool. It was invented by James Hargreaves in 1770 and initially could spin 8 threads at once. Hargreaves developed this machine to the extent that it could spin 120 threads at any one time. These machines were small enough to fit into cottages and rapidly increased production (by hand a person can only spin one thread at a time).

Richard Arkwright patented the Water Frame in 1769. It had been designed by Thomas highs on his behalf. The Water frame was a large wheel that was turned by running water. This was then harnessed to turn cogs inside a factory which then made the machinery work. This invention led to the building of a number of factories and is regarded by some as being the catalyst of the Industrial Revolution.

The first steam powered devices were pumps. The first practical one being developed by Thomas Newcomen. This steam powered pump was used to not only pump water from mines but also to blow air into furnaces, and for pumping drinking water into towns.

James Watt's development of the steam engine led to a large number of further developments. using steam to create energy meant that this new form of powering a machine could be used anywhere, rather than just next to a stream/ river as with the Water Frame. The steam engine is best associated with the invention of trains but also was used to power machinery in factories, to power lifts in mines and for many other purposes.

In 1801 Richard Trevithick developed a steam powered carriage that carried passengers on roads, he developed this idea further and in 1804 created the first locomotive to run on rails (ie the first train). He then demonstrated an updated version of his locomotive in london in 1808.

Trevithicks' ideas were developed by the George Stephenson. Stephenson was an engineer in the mining industry and had responsibility for the steam engines that pulled waggons up from the pit face. He rapidly developed these engines and built a locomotive in 1814. he then was appointed chief engineer of the first 'railway' between Stockton and Darlington and later built the famous 'Rocket' which ran on the Manchester to Liverpool line which opened in 1830.

William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone patented their first needle electric telegraph in 1837.

Joseph Bramah invented a flushing water closet as early as 1783

In 1786 Matthew Boulton applied steam power to coining machines. So successful was the process that as well as his supplying the home market, he produced coins for foreign governments as well.

In 1733 John Kay patented his flying shuttle that dramatically increased the speed of this process. Kay placed shuttle boxes at each side of the loom connected by a long board, known as a shuttle race. By means of cords attached to a picking peg, a single weaver, using one hand, could cause the shuttle to be knocked back and forth across the loom from one shuttle box to the other. A weaver using Kay's flying shuttle could produce much wider cloth at faster speeds than before.

2006-12-03 09:52:44 · answer #1 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 1 1

The link below shows some of the biggest inventions during the industrial revolution, who made them, when, and the purpose of each invention.

2006-12-03 17:48:44 · answer #2 · answered by ebush73 5 · 0 1

Look up people like
Eli Whitney -- both the cotton gin [huge economic impact] and interchangeable rifle parts [to help industrialize and modernize warfare]
James Watt -- steam engine [well, the "modern" version anyway]..yes this is who we named the unit of power the watt after.
try places like the historychannel website or history websites
good luck

2006-12-03 17:50:25 · answer #3 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0 1

All your answers are on this link..........


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2006-12-03 17:52:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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