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The Industrial Revolution
Name: _____________________________
Technological Advancements and New Inventions
Directions: One the back of each invention/innovation illustration, create a profile. Your profile needs to include:
1.) Invention Name, Inventor and Date
2.) Three sentence (complete) summary based on information provided (may be bullet-pointed)
Next, for each invention/innovation, YOU be the innovator! Build on each already existing device. Make it better,
make it more efficient. Have fun with this requirement!
Finally, choose which invention/innovation you think was the most important to the Industrial Revolution. Write
one paragraph explaining your choice.
Pieces to the Puzzle
“Puddling” Process
“Spinning Jenny”
1764
1782
1784
1787
1804
Edmund Cartwright
Henry Cort
James Hargreaves
James Watt
Railroad/Locomotive
Richard Trevithick
Steam Engine
Water-Powered Loom
* This device is a heated instrument that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. Using boiling
water to produce mechanical motion goes back about 2,000 years, but early devices were not practical. Innovations
to this device in the 1800s produced an instrument that had a continuous rotative motion. This new instrument
enabled a wide range of manufacturing machinery to be powered by new sources of energy and could be sited
anywhere that water and coal or wood fuel could be obtained. This instrument could also be applied to vehicles
such as railway locomotives. Ultimately, it allowed factories to locate where water power was previously
unavailable.
* The entire Industrial Revolution was altered because of this device. Factories flourished because the demand for
this device was very high. This device became the dominant mode of land transportation in the last half of the 19 th
century; they provided a fast, inexpensive, convenient and efficient mode of transportation for many passengers.
* Method of converting pig iron into wrought iron by subjecting it to heat and frequent stirring in a furnace in the
presence of oxidizing substances. It was the first method that allowed wrought iron to be produced on a large scale.
This method enabled a great expansion of iron production in Great Britain, and shortly afterwards, in North
American to take place. Most 19th century applications of wrought iron, including the Eiffel Tower and the Victorian
era bridges and the original framework of the Statue of Liberty used this method.
* This device reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, with a worker able to work eight or more spools
at once. This grew to 120 as technology advanced through the Industrial Revolution. At the time, cotton production
could not keep up with demand, and considerable time was spent on how to improve the process. The invention of
the flying shuttle in 1773 had increased yarn demand by doubling the weaver’s productivity, and now this device
could supply that demand by increasing the spinners' productivity even more. The device was important and
succeeded because it held more than one ball of yarn, making more yarn in a shorter time and reducing the overall
cost of yarn.
* This device was a steam-powered, mechanically operated invention that combined threads to make cloth. It used
water as power instead of steam power which sped up the weaving process. Weavers were able to use all the
thread that spinners could produce. The relative ease of using this device reduced demand for skilled hand-weavers
which initially caused reduced wages and unemployment in England. In the longer term, by making cloth more
affordable, it increased demand and stimulated exports, causing a growth in low-paid industrial employment. The
device also opened up opportunities for women mill workers and led to the growth of employment of children in
textile mills.
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