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John Kay
Flying shuttle: Using the flying shuttle, one weaver could weave fabrics of any width more quickly than two could before -
Richard Arkwright
Spinning frame:Arkwright spinning frame. This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768. Also known as a water frame, it was the first textile machine designed to be powered by water. Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, in 1771. Advantage high delivery speeds, low yarn production costs (lower than those of ring spinning) Disadvantage low yarn strength, difficulty of keeping spinning conditions constant -
James Hargreaves
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Samuel Compton
Spinning Mule: This is arguably one of the most important objects in any museum in the north west. It is the only surviving spinning mule made by its inventor, Samuel Crompton. Crompton developed the mule in 1779, so called because it combined two previous spinning machines, the water frame and the spinning jenny. -
James Watt
Steam Engine: The Invention of the Steam Engine. It's common knowledge that modern civilization was forged in the factories of the industrial revolution. ... The first crude steam powered machine was built by Thomas Savery, of England, in 1698. Savery built his machine to help pump water out of coal mines. -
Richard Trevithick
steam locomotive: The first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick, an English engineer born in Cornwall. (The story goes that it was constructed to satisfy a bet by Samuel Homfray, the local iron master.) -
George Stephenson
Steam Locomotive: In 1814, the first successful steam engine locomotive was built by the British Engineer George Stephenson called Blücher, which could haul up to 30 tons of coal at 4mph going uphill. Later in 1825, Stephenson also created the first public railway for steam locomotives.
