10 Inventions/discoveries/developments in and around the Industrial Revolution
1. Darby's process of using coke (coal with certain gases taken out) to smelt iron ore (rock with iron in it) giving iron only (1709)
2. Newcomen's steam engine (1712)
3. Kay's flying shuttle: cutting weaving time in half (1733)
4. Harrison's clock - an accurate one helping to determine longitude at sea (1761)
5. Hargreaves "spinning jenny" (1764)
6. Watt's more efficient steam engine (1765)
7. Brindley's canal (1766)
8. Arkwright's spinning frame (1768)
Cort's wrought iron and iron sheets (1784)
9. Fulton's steamboat (1807)
10. Cartwright's power loam (1785)
2. Newcomen's steam engine (1712)
3. Kay's flying shuttle: cutting weaving time in half (1733)
4. Harrison's clock - an accurate one helping to determine longitude at sea (1761)
5. Hargreaves "spinning jenny" (1764)
6. Watt's more efficient steam engine (1765)
7. Brindley's canal (1766)
8. Arkwright's spinning frame (1768)
Cort's wrought iron and iron sheets (1784)
9. Fulton's steamboat (1807)
10. Cartwright's power loam (1785)