Top Ten Industrial Revolution Inventions

In 1770 Hargreaves patented his Spinning Jenny. You can view the Patent for the Spinning Jenny , it is in the British Library Collection. And it was called a Spinning Jenny because James Hargreaves named his invention after his wife.

Industrial Revolution - Steam Engines. Another one of the great inventions that came about during the Industrial Revolution was the steam engine. The first commercial steam engine appeared in 1698. Then in 1712 Thomas Newcomen improved it. Although it was an improvement, it had many faults; including wasted heat and fuel.

Before the Industrial Revolution (which enabled the technology for the power loom), weaving cloth for clothes was done by hand, usually a task done part-time by a family of craftspeople. Not all weavers were necessarily good at this, and the process was also tedious and slow, even for master weavers.

Whitney received a patent for his invention in 1794; he and Miller then formed a cotton gin manufacturing company. The two entrepreneurs planned to build cotton gins and install them on plantations throughout the South, taking as payment a portion of all the cotton produced by each plantation.

Although the telegraph had fallen out of widespread use by the start of the 21st century, replaced by the telephone, fax machine and Internet, it laid the groundwork for the communications revolution that led to those later innovations.

During the Industrial Revolution, inventors and engineers attempted to improve technology to make it easier to relay information, transport goods, farm more efficiently, spin cotton quicker, etc. The few main inventions of the time period were the automated flour mills, the sewing machine, the telegraph, the cotton gin, the mechanical reaper, and many others.

The Industrial Revolution was the period of time during the 18 th and 19 th centuries when the face of industry changed dramatically. These changes had a tremendous and long lasting impact on the economies of the world and the lives of the average person.

Transcript of Invention of the Industrial Revolution: The Telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was the son and grandson of authorities in elocution and the correction of speech. He is commonly credited as the inventor of the first practical telephone.