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Charles Townshend
Invention: viscount
Importance: rotated crops and planted different crop each year
Jethro Tull
Invention: seed drill
Importance: dug a channel which planted seeds into and limited wastage and crops easier to weed
Enclosure Movement
Invention: Unknown
Importance: landless peasants who raised lived move to cities because out of work when land fenced off
John Kay
Invention: Flying Shuttle
Importance: allowed weavers to produce wider pieces of cloth faster
James Hargreaves
Invention: Spinning Jenny
Importance: allowed spinners to produce more yarn
Richard Arkwright
Invention: Spinning Frame
Importance: helped to reduce spices and sugars and to produce thicker, more precise yarn and was powered by a waterwheel
Samuel Crompton
Invention: Spinning Mule
Importance: produced strong soft yarn that could be used in all textiles
Edmund Cartwright
Invention: Imperfect Power Loom, Wool- combing machine, and Steam Powered Loom
Importance: converted looms into water-power to make more efficient built a design to make a steam powered loom
produced wool more efficiently and lightened workload for factory workers
made weaving practical and base for modern day looms
Eli Whitney
Invention: cotton gin
Importance: extracted seeds from cotton and made cotton a valuable industry in the South.
Thomas Savery
Invention: Paddle Wheels, Steam Engine, Pump Engine
Importance: propelled vessels in calm weather
made running engines more efficent
extracted water from mines where miners could not reach
Thomas Newcomen
Invention: Newcomen engine
Importance: drove the water pump ( a machine used to extract water)
James Watt
Invention: Steam Engine Improvements
Importance: converted the heat energy from the steam engine into mechanical engine
Abraham Darby
Invention: Bristol Iron Co.
Importance: first successful smelt iron ore with coke and built much larger furnaces
Henry Cort
Invention: Puddling Furnace & Rolling Mill
Importance: refined ore
allowed shapes to be made out of iron
Henry Bessemer
Invention: Bessemer Process & Bessemer Converter
Importance: removed excess oxygen from iron
receives charge of molten metal which can then be "blown" into a shape
Duke of Bridgewater
Invention: Bridgewater Canal
Importance: first artificial industrial waterway
George Stephenson
Invention: Blucher
Importance: engine that could pull thirty tons at four miles per hour and helped in the building of the first railways
Robert Fulton
Invention: Improved Steam Powered Engine & Steam Boat
Importance: improved speed and travel by waterway
Eli Whitney
Invention: Inter-changeable Parts
Importance: allowed large quantities for identical parts into muskets
Gottlieb Daimler
Invention: Internal-Combustion Engine
Importance: used gasoline to power the engine
Rudolph Diesel
Invention: Diesel Engine
Importance: first to prove that fuel could be ignited without a spark
Henry Ford
Invention: automobile
Importance: first "car" to use an engine that was not powered by water
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Invention: Airplane
Importance: first ever manned power flight
Alessandro Volta
Invention: Electrophorus
Importance: first electrochemical battery
Michael Faraday
Invention: Dynamo
Importance: first successful invention of the use of electromotive force
Samuel Morse
Invention: Morse-code
Importance: first communication system that used electrical impulses across a wire
Louis Daguerre
Invention: daguerro type
Importance: first use of photography in light in a system
Alexander Graham Bell
Invention: telephone
Importance: the first use of communication across a distance
Thomas Edison
Invention: Light bulb
Importance: first use of electricity to create artificial light
Nikola Tesla
Invention: Alternating Current System
Importance: used an alternating current to power the light bulb instead of a direct system illuminating the light bulb brighter
Guglielmo Marconi
Invention: Syn tonic
Importance: Wireless telegraphy
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