industrial revolution vocab

James Hargreaves

Invented spinning Jenny; sped up spinning process

James Watt

Innovated using Newcomen engine and turned it into a multipurpose source of power instead of just an invention used to pump water out of mines

Invented steam engine and rotary engine

Richard Arkwright

Scented water frame spinning machine

First modern factory was built by him and Derbyshire

Samuel Crompton

Patent his spinning mule

Oliver Evans

Invented an automated flour mill

Henry Cort

Invented puddling and rolling iron process

Puddling

Method that allowed pig iron to be heated by Cole without having the sulphur and coal come into contact and contaminate the molten iron

Edmund Cartwright

Invented power loom

Richard Trevithick

Built the first railway steam locomotive

Robert Fulton

Both the very first commercial speed boat

George and Robert S'tephenson

Inventive substantial railway bridges early and locomotives

Samuel F.B.Morse and Alfred Vail

Develop the American electrical telegraph system

1712 -Thomas Newcomeon atmospheric engine engine

This invention was powered by coal

It could pump large quantities of water out of deep mines at low cost

1733- John Kay’s Flying Shuttle

Invention that was used in the cotton industry. And improve weaving speeds in the quality of finished cloth

Eli Whitney

invented the Cotton gin

Coke

Hard made fuel made from coal with less impurities in it

Cottage industry

When families make goods at home with the intention of selling them

Industrialization

Increase mechanism of production in the social changes that accompanied this shift

Enclosure movement

A push/pull factor for urbanization that ended the commons

Port/port city

Were ships carrying goods dock. A place that receives imports and ships off exports

Crop rotation

System where my land would be planted with wheat, barley, clover, and turnips in a four year cycle. This made the land significantly more productive each year