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The Great Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

The Great Inventions of the Industrial Revolution. Textiles: Why clothing?. Most people wore wool clothing before the industrial revolution. Cotton in plentiful supply from the United States, and India. Cotton is difficult to weave into clothes. Textile Inventions. Flying Shuttle-1733

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The Great Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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  1. The Great Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

  2. Textiles: Why clothing? • Most people wore wool clothing before the industrial revolution. • Cotton in plentiful supply from the United States, and India. • Cotton is difficult to weave into clothes.

  3. Textile Inventions • Flying Shuttle-1733 • Device that allowed looms to weave much wider fabric • Spinning Jenny-1764 • Allowed yarn to be spun much faster • Water Frame-1769 • Water-powered device that threaded yarn to spools • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOA5op2dAkg Drawing of Power Looms- 1835

  4. Early Factories • First cotton mills established 1770 • Used water power for the machinery • Employed mostly younger women

  5. The Steam Engine • Originally used to pump water out of coal mines • James Watt improves engine in 1781. • Quickly expands to other inventions

  6. Steam Applications • Trains • The Rocket (1829): first economical locomotive • Railroads begin connecting English cities • Steam Boats • The North River Steamboat- 1807 moved goods up and down the Hudson river.

  7. Steam Today • Basis for most electrical power generation • Use a heat source to boil water • Steam from water turns a turbine • Turbine turns Generator Schematic of a Nuclear Power plant, essentially a giant, radioactive steam engine.

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