History - Unit 5 Technological Advances

Seed Drill

Seed Drill

Jethro Toll; made to plant more efficiently

Spinning Jenny

James Hargreaves; >1 yarn spinning at a time

Water Frame

Richard Arkwright; could spin larger quantities of yarn at one time

Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney; removed seeds from cotton faster than humans

Steam Engine

James Watt; used to pump water from the coal mines

Internal Combustion Engine

Nicolaus Otto; used as a heat engine for ships & trains to make them faster

Bessemer Process

Henry Bessemer; allowed for mass production of steel

Electricity

Benjamin Franklin; used to give the flow of electrical power/charge

Photography

Francois Arago; a tool for science & exploration to document things

Typewriter

Rasmus Malling-Hansen; used to print characters on a piece of paper by decompressing the keys

Telegraph

Samuel Morse; used to communicate over long distances w/ morse code

Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell; used to talk to people over long distances

Locomotives

Richard Trevithick; used to transport people over long distances (faster than by horse or foot)