A Changing World Industrial Revolution and New Technology

A Changing World Industrial Revolution and New Technology

INVENTIONS & DISCOVERIES

SPINNING JENNY • Inventor – James Hargreaves • Description: Reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn.

STEAM ENGINE • INVENTOR – JAMES WATT • DESCRIPTION Could power machines automatically; led to development of moving vehicles.

COTTON GIN • Inventor - ELI WHITNEY • Description – Allowed cotton to be cleaned & seeds removed quickly. Led to increase in slave labor.

BESSEMER PROCESS • Inventor – HENRY BESSEMER • Description – Could produce steel that was strong and cheap used to make skyscrapers and bridges.

SMALLPOX VACCINE • Discoverer – EDWARD JENNER • Description – safely prevented people from catching deadly smallpox disease

RADIO • Inventor – GUGLIELMO MARCONI • Description – Allowed for distribution of radio waves allowing people to receive news & music at home.

PHONOGRAPH • Inventor – THOMAS EDISON • Description – Could automatically play music that people could listen to at home.

MODEL T AUTOMOBILE • Inventor – HENRY FORD • Description – 1 st mass produced car on an assembly line that many people could afford.

GERM THEORY • Discoverer – LOUIS PASTEUR • Description – Showed that disease was caused by germs and led to pasteurization and methods to prevent disease.

PHONE • Inventor – ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL • Description – allowed for improved communication over a telegraph.

AIRPLANE • Inventor – WRIGHT BROTHERS • Description – created and tested the first functional airplane in Kitty Hawk, NC.

Create your own Industrial Invention! Your job is to design and implement a new invention that would help society during the I. R. Could it… • Improve factory life? Production? • Improve sanitation conditions? • Improve transportation? You MUST: 1. Draw and label the invention. 2. Color the invention. 3. Write a 5 -6 sentence paragraph explaining what the invention does, and how it would help society during the Industrial Revolution.