https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl A time line of the inventions during the Revoulution en-us 2020-11-10 21:46:03 UTC 2020-11-10 22:06:23 UTC hello@padlet.com 4075521 https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910741687 Thomas Newcomen invented the first steam engine. It was not very useful yet, but the idea of using steam to make machines run will be important to the Industrial Revolution.

]]> 2020-11-10 21:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910741687 4075521 https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910745066 James Hargreaves, a British carpenter and weaver, invented the spinning jenny. The machine spun more than one ball of yarn or thread at a time, making it easier and faster to make cloth.

]]> 2020-11-10 21:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910745066 4075521 https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910747146 James Watt from Scotland designed a more efficient steam engine. One of the most important inventions of the Industrial Revolution, steam engines power the first trains, steamboats, and factories.

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]]> 2020-11-10 21:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910749958 4075521 https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910755384 Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, which allowed messages to be sent quickly over a wire. By 1860, telegraph wires stretched from the east coast of the United States west of the Mississippi River.]]> 2020-11-10 21:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910755384 4075521 https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910757344 At a time when people had to make their own clothes at home or pay someone else to sew them by hand, Elias Howe invented the sewing machine. Clothes could then be made in large factories.

]]> 2020-11-10 21:59:26 UTC https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910757344 4075521 https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910760882 Elevators were already invented by 1853, but people worried about elevator cars falling. Elisha Otis invented a safety break to prevent them from falling if a cable breaks, making people feel more confident about using elevators in tall buildings.

]]> 2020-11-10 22:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910760882 4075521 https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910763368 Henry Bessemer invented a process for making steel out of iron. Having a way to make steel more quickly and more cheaply helped the production of buildings and leads to the growth of cities.

]]> 2020-11-10 22:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910763368 4075521 https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910765563 Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, which is a safer way to blast holes in mountains or the ground than simply lighting black powder. Dynamite was important in clearing paths to build things such as roads and railroad tracks.

]]> 2020-11-10 22:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910765563 4075521 https://padlet.com/4075521/zdficv9s3q6wxjrl/wish/910767161 A chemist named Louis Pasteur believed that germs caused disease. Using this information, he created vaccines that helped prevent many common diseases, which helped people live longer.

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