prepare a table on inventions during the
time of industrial revolution
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1. Spinning Jenny
The ‘Spinning Jenny’ was an engine for spinning wool or cotton invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves, who had it patented in 1770.
2. Newcomen steam engine
In 1712, Thomas Newcomen invented the first steam engine. It was used predominantly to pump water out from coal mines, allowing the miners to dig further down.
3. Watt steam engine
Scottish engineer James Watt invented the first practical steam engine in 1763.
4. The locomotive
The first recorded steam railway journey took place on 21 February 1804, when Cornishman Richard Trevithick’s ‘Pen-y-Darren’ locomotive carried ten tons of iron, five wagons and seventy men the 9.75 miles from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal in four hours and five minutes. The journey had an average speed of c. 2.4 mph.
5. Telegraph communications
On 25 July 1837 Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone successfully demonstrated the first electrical telegraph, installed between Euston and Camden Town in London.
6. Dynamite
Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, in the 1860s.
7. The photograph
In 1826, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first permanent photograph from a camera image.
8. The typewriter
In 1829 William Burt, an American inventor, patented the first typewriter which he called a ‘typographer’.
9. The electric generator
The first electric generator was invented by Michael Faraday in 1831: the Faraday Disk.
10. The modern factory
With the introduction of machinery, factories began springing up first in Britain and then across the world.
There are various arguments as to the first factory. Many credit Derby’s John Lombe with his five storey red brick silk mill, completed in 1721. The man often credited with inventing the modern factory, however, is Richard Arkwright, who constructed Cromford Mill in 1771.
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