Important Inventions of the Industrial Revolution Era

Important Inventions of the Industrial Revolution Era

Inventions : Inventor - Year

Blast Furnace (Iron & Steel) : Abraham Darby 1709

Steam Engine : Thomas Newcomer 1712

Flying Shuttle (Textiles) : John Kay 1733

Improved Darby Process (Iron & Steel) : John Smeaton 1760

Spinning Jenny (Textiles) James Hargreaves 1764

Spinning Frame (Waterframe)  : Textiles) Richard Arkwright 1769

Newcomen’s Steam Engine Redesigned : James Watt 1769

Spinning Mule (Textiles) : Samuel Crompton 1779

Power Loom (Textiles) : Edmund Cartwright 1785

Cotton Gin (Textiles) : Eli Whitney 1793

Air Pump (in Mines) : John Bundle 1807

Puffing Devil (the first steam powered locomotive) : Richard Trevithick 1801

The Butcher (Locomotive) : George Stephenson 1814

Safety Lamp (for Mining) : Humphrey Davy 1815

Sewing Machine (Textiles) : Elias Howe 1846

Telegraph; Morse Code (Communication) : Samuel Morse 1844

Cheaper method of Making Steel (Iron & Steel) : Henry Bessemer 1856

Telephone : Alexander Graham Bell 1876

Wireless Signals (Communication) : Marconi 1899

Incandescent Electric Bulb : Thomas Alva Edison 1888