Transcript INVENTORS

INVENTORS
Industrial Revolution Unit
Timeline
TIMELINE OF INVENTORS
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Who was the inventor?
What was the invention?
Where was it invented?
When was it invented?
What did the invention do?
Why is the invention important?
JAMES HARGREAVES
JAMES HARGREAVES
• Spinning Jenny =
thread
• Great Britain
• 1764
• 1st Industrial
Revolution
• Makes clothes faster
and cheaper
James Watt
JAMES WATT
• Improved steam engine
= energy
• Great Britain
• 1769
• 1st Industrial Revolution
• An engine that converts the heat
energy of pressurized steam into
mechanical energy.
• Power source for factories
Eli Whitney
ELI WHITNEY
• Cotton gin – remove seeds
from cotton
• United States
• 1793
• 1st Industrial Revolution
• Made it easier to clean
cotton of its seeds
• Increases cotton
production = more textiles
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
• Small pox vaccine
• Great Britain
• 1798
• Helped prevent the spread
of smallpox
• Greatly reduced the
number of people getting
smallpox and lower fatality
rate.
1802 caricature of Jenner
vaccinating patients who feared it
would make them sprout cow-like
appendages.
Robert Fulton
ROBERT FULTON
• Steam Boat =
water transportation
• United States
• 1807
• 1st Industrial Revolution
• Propelled boats along waterways powered
by steam
• Transportation – faster and cheaper
– Communication
improves (mail moves faster)
Michael Faraday
MICHAEL FARADAY
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Electric Generator
Great Britain
1821
1st Industrial Revolution
to 2nd Industrial
Revolution
• New energy source –
makes light, heat, runs
machines
George Stephenson
GEORGE
STEPHENSON
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Steam locomotive – train
Great Britain
1825
1st Industrial Revolution
• Transportation – land,
revolutionized transportation
• Linked people, place, goods
• Creates demand for: iron rails
& engines, jobs for building &
operating, coal
Samuel Morse
SAMUEL MORSE
• Telegraph – coded
messages over wires
by means of electricity
• United States
• 1844
• 1st Industrial
Revolution
• Communication
Revolution
Henry Bessemer
HENRY BESSEMER
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Mass produce steel
Great Britain
1856
2nd Industrial
Revolution
• Steel – lighter, harder,
more durable than iron
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
• Nursing profession
– Cleaner hospitals, better
hygiene, 1st school of nursing
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Great Britain
1860
2nd Industrial Revolution
Health/Sanitation Revolution
LOUIS PASTEUR
LOUIS PASTEUR
• Germ Theory - Kill germs
– lowers disease & more
people live
• France
• 1870
• 2nd Industrial Revolution
• Pasteurization – heat-up
& cool down
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
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Telephone
United States
1882
1876
2nd Industrial
Revolution
• Made
communication
easier and quicker
1913
THOMAS EDISON
THOMAS EDISON
• Light Bulb
• United States
• 1879
• 2nd Industrial Revolution
• Light – led the way for
light and electricity
BENZ, OTTO & DAIMLER
BENZ, OTTO & DAIMLER
• Engine – made
transportation quicker
and more reliable
• Germany
• Benz
– 1885 – 3 wheeled
automobile
• Otto
– 1876 - Four-stroke cycle
• Daimler
– 1885 – 1st motorcycle
Guglielmo Marconi
G. MARCONI
• System of wireless
telegraphy
• Great Britain
• 1896
• 2nd Industrial Revolution
• Improved ways of
communication
• Allowed communication to go
across the Atlantic
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Orville and Wilbur Wright
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Airplane
December 17, 1903
United States
2nd Industrial revolution
the first sustained and controlled
heavier-than-air powered flight
• Began a new age to
transportation
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
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Model T
Assembly line method
United States
1908
2nd Industrial Revolution
Improved transportation, mass
production improvement, treatment
of employees